Viewers don’t like change, that’s an established fact. We’ll see in three months what happens.
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I have to agree with you. Although it looks nice and was a nice idea, very few viewers will be able to read/even notice it. They could keep the same premise but just make the text on screen for longer or have the text bolder.
Or just not do it all.
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Poor Natasha. ABC has totally overreacted.
This stuff up was nothing compared to the night she couldn’t stop laughing on Ten Late News while reading a story about the death of children.
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Found this gem on facebook
You had a good logo. A visual icon that people easily connected to; companies spend millions trying to create that. Now you have a tiny twisty mess on top of the the word NEWS, which is pretty useless and generic. Way to go marketing experts of the new ABC… unless your brief is to kill the brand of course.
I don’t recommend going through any comments on the ABC News Facebook page.
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It was such an overreaction that I feel like that story might just be bullshit. I don’t see why on earth she should be taken off air.
Will be interested to see what you think about the relaunch
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I find it hilarious that some are getting a bit annoyed about being unable to clearly see the date… it’s 7pm, what exactly have you been doing to not take note of the date earlier?
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It’s the same for the Victorian bulletin.
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So far the only thing that is annoying me is the new theme tune… Finally heard it when I got home and tuned into ABC News. Yeah… So far i’m not impressed with it. Hopefulyl it will take a getting used to though, but yeah that’s the only thing that I don’t like.
Everything else is good though - would hope the ticker will be back tomorrow though.
That commenter seems to forget that the “tiny twisty mess” (a little something known as the ABC logo) was also part of the ABC News logo yesterday as well…
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Guys, we’re forgetting that Facebook is where every man and his dog is an expert on something. Heck I’d categorise myself as a “music expert” of course Delusionally .
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I hope we export you too
Edit: oi
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5:26 and already sunken a few too many exports, me thinks.
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Uh oh, the Queensland weather map has less locations than previous. ABC’s Facebook staff would be best advised to prepare for possible death threats from angry regional viewers…
Edit: nvm, changes only in effect for today’s weather. Tomorrow forecast has the same amount of locations as previous.
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The new Opener style is an OK improvement for the 7pm bulletin, but I think it could’ve benefited from having local/state imagery in the titles (because it is a local/state bulletin - can’t we have at least something to distinguish it from the national versions?) and perhaps a meatier, punchier version of the theme music.
Don’t get me wrong, the updated news theme isn’t that bad but I don’t really get the same feeling of “This is the 7 O’Clock news on the ABC: Pay attention because it’s starting now!” that I did with the Openers of ABC News NSW in the past.
And I’d be willing to predict that people will complain about the weather graphics being too small/hard to read within an hour! 
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Canberra weather graphics awful, particularly the sunrise/sunset times and 7 day forecast which has been crammed into the top left hand quarter of the screen… Woeful…
Also using the old theme tune in their closer? What a mess!!! I’m so disappointed in my ABC!
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