Thursday 18 April -
Nate Byrne presenting weather in Victoria tonight.
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Not really surprised at this given some of her reporting critical (but essential) of the Modi regime.
Sheâll be a fantastic addition to 4 Corners.
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Monday 29 April -
Bridget Rollason presenting in Victoria tonight.
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David Speers being introduced as âPolitical Leadâ. What does it actually mean? He is the quasi political editor and any attempt to avoid the title is laughable.
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You are right, by all counts he is the Political Editor. Legally, he canât be called the Political Editor because the role was made redundant.
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Watch them re-establish that post a few years down the lineâŠ
Basically they sacked Andrew Probyn to cut costs and promoted Speers to give him bigger profile, but canât give him the title at risk of legal issues.
Personally I think they should use Sarah Ferguson on some political reports. She instils fear into every politician
I am well across why they do it. Itâs a joke. BS about no longer needing a political editor, but they need a political lead instead. Makes sense 
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Redundancy and being sacked are quite different processes. The role of political editor was created for Chris Ullman and was carried over to Probyn, the bureau can operate effectively without a position with this title. Speersâ role as âpolitical leadâ appears quite different to those who held the editor title previously. He doesnât report, but presents a brief studio based analysis of another journos report.
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Jim Middleton was known as the ABC Chief Political Reporter, the job was renamed Political Editor for Uhlmannâs planet sized ego. Melissa Clarke is now being introduced as national affairs editor I think.
Probyn is a fine journalist and his loss is felt at 7pm - the high quality daily political wrap is no more. Anything from Canberra now seems to focus on a side issue rather than the main story of the day. Not quite sure how theyâll go through a federal election campaign with all the live events, campaign launches, etc where Probyn would normally handle an unpredictable OB very, very well.
Speersâ analysis never actually said anything, he always hedges his bets whereas Probyn would call it as it is and risk it by making a prediction, etc.
The BBC still sees value in the political editor role - they are front and centre on big news days and election coverage. And they have a formalised team of deputy political editors and also political editors for Scotland, Wales, etc.
Anyway, no wonder people are switching off or never switching on at 7pm. Theyâve killed a very fine product for dull and irrelevant shite on abc news online.
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Yep, bingo. Used to watch 7pm religiously.
Havenât bothered in about 18 months. Was sick of irrelevant traveller filler pieces and the terrible story selection values - state news of actual significance devalued or ignored.
Donât get me started on their business coverage either. Shocking.
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Feels like they sometimes pick the top local story to do a report, then just send a few cameras out to film a few RVOS.
Increasingly there arenât any local stories. Even AFL in sport is heavily condensed to span multiple states.
Friday 3 May -
Bridget Rollason presenting in Victoria tonight.
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Jessica Rendall presenting the bulletins on the News channel today & tomorrow.
Is this her first time?
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Sheâs a great addition.
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Monday 13 May -
Stephanie Ferrier presenting weather in Victoria tonight. She posted on Instagram earlier:
Doing a complete 180 on the body clock and joining âŠâȘ@TamaraOudynâŹâ© for the next few weeks on Victoriaâs 7pm News, while Paul Higgins takes a well-earned break. Send in your lovely autumnal pics to #abcvicweather and Iâll try to wrangle the weather conputer to get them on!
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The EPG says that Ruby Cornish is presenting the 11pm ABC Late News on the news channel and also ABC Late News on the main channel at 11:10pm.
Iâm assuming the main channel broadcast will be prerecorded as Ruby canât read two different scheduled and timed bulletins at the same time?
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Could just air the NC bulletin on a 10 minute delay on ABC TV.
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Yeah but itâs shorter.
Itâs 30 minutes on the news channel and 18 minutes on ABC TV.
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