I guess National News is to distinguish from the state bulletins at 7pm. But yes, seems unnecessary…
9pm ABC Nightly News
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It’s just for the way ratings are coded. The different names help
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ABC National Nightly Network News.
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This branding is never really used on air - probably only seen on the EPG and in the ratings. Nevertheless, you’re right that it does seem odd to have a variety of names for what are ostensibly identical news bulletins. Each program except National News is an hour, so calling the 5 a ‘News Hour’ seems like a strange distinction.
Just call the 5, 6 and 8pm bulletins ABC Evening News, and maybe revert the 5 back to just ABC News during summer months/DST. Keep the 7pm bulletin as National News. If ratings are the reason, just code them ABC Evening News at 5 or just ABC News at 5.
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He can do Adelaide’s too… or any city without a weather presenter!
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The following change will commence from 23rd October.
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So the last remnants of ABC’s state-based current affairs shows will be gone in three weeks.
(The Sunday bulletin was extended to 40 minutes to cater for 1-2 long topical reports in each state or territory)
They need to bring back a weekly state based version of 7.30.
Sorta - It was also used to show programs that were designed for FTA, hence the 40 min run time without ads. It was a bit of a win-win.
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Or Stateline prior to it being called 7.30. But this is a costly exercise.
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October Budget
Tuesday 25 October 7.30pm
The Federal Budget of 2022/23 will be handed down on Tuesday, 25th October. With the rising cost of living affecting Australians across the board and as the country deals with record debt, Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ inaugural budget, and Labor’s first in almost a decade will be challenging and highly scrutinised.
Join the ABC expert team including Sarah Ferguson, David Speers, Andrew Probyn, Laura Tingle, Stan Grant and Jeremy Fernandez for the most extensive coverage, analysis and updates throughout the evening.
The ABC will also broadcast Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s Budget Reply speech at 7:30pm (AEDT) on Thursday, 27th October.
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The ABC can consider axing Q+A and use the money and resources on Stateline. But that’s for another topic.
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That wouldn’t be enough to run 8 individual locally made current affairs shows.
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Please, the Sunday night bulletin was full of pointless filler.
No loss. The space wasn’t used for anything agenda setting.
Statement on the ABC’s reporting of Hawthorn FC racism allegations
The ABC would like to address misleading public commentary regarding Russell Jackson’s reporting on allegations of racism that have been made against Hawthorn Football Club.
It has been stated or implied that the three former Hawthorn employees named in the story were denied a fair opportunity to properly respond to the ABC’s reporting.
This is incorrect.
On Monday 19 September and into the following day all three were contacted multiple times by the ABC, via email, phone call and text message. Also contacted were the media teams at Hawthorn and the Brisbane Lions and the personal management of one of the individuals.
They were provided with all relevant information about the allegations. They were asked detailed and open-ended questions that gave them the opportunity to fully respond to all the allegations.
After initially receiving no response, the ABC contacted all the parties again and offered them more time in which to respond. We again received no response to the questions.
Statements provided by Hawthorn and the AFL were included in the story and the ABC has reported comments that have subsequently been made.
While Russell Jackson’s story reports on the existence of the external review commissioned by Hawthorn, and some allegations made within it, his story was not based on that review and does not quote its contents. His reporting was based entirely on original interviews conducted with primary sources after he was alerted to this difficult and important story.
His reporting has been accurate, fair and ethical.
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Does ABC Late News usually come out of Perth or just Fridays?
Most days it does, just like Nine.
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Monday to Friday Perth, and Saturday and Sunday Sydney.
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