Yep, no sound in the introduction of the first story either. As you said, NSW is getting ACT feed.
Gemma Veness was presenting ABC News NSW tonight too.
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Yes, unusual for neither Jeremy or Nicole to not be presenting tonight’s bulletin.
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Some of tonight’s bulletins.
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NSW with technical problems, skip through wherever
Craig welcomes viewers at 8:20
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Quick! Get him in a suit, he looks like he’s off to a formal! 
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Guy Stayner is filling in for Ian in Victoria tonight.
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That new opening sweeping shot is such an improvement on the old static camera angles they were using.
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There was very annoying audio interference with the weather report from Graham Creed on ABC News NSW tonight. It happened every few seconds.
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Here’s the bulletin
Weather starts at 27:20
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Faulty lapel if you ask me. God dammit Audio!
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Guy Stayner presenting in Victoria from Monday - Thursday this week.
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Why they continue to do this is beyond me. He is a terrible presenter.
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Personally l think Paul Higgins is the better option than Guy.
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I don’t love Paul on news either but you’re right. Stayner is on a Steve Quartermain level of beige, bland and boring.
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I like Paul. Takes me back to watching BTN in the film room at school.
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The Australian reports today that ABC journalists are being sent to writing classes to improve their storytelling, to arrest the decline in the ratings for the 7pm news. I watch the 7pm news on weeknights after coming home from work and I think their storytelling is just fine. Waste of money really.
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So do I. I’m a big fan of the ABC, but even I can acknowledge that some of their junior reporters can be a little… green. I give commercial television a lot of shit on this forum but they can tell a compelling story, whereas some reporters on ABC News tend to stick to a very strict and arguably dull script, as if they’re just ticking off the required boxes for each story.
I’ve noticed this in particular is a problem for studio scripts for the newsreaders; scripts in Queensland are written to conform to a “style-guide”, but the problem is that some presenters have different talents and thus struggle when the script isn’t written to suit their presenting style. It shows that whoever writes the scripts doesn’t particularly pay attention to who is presenting, and that makes certain presenters appear more wooden and/or boring, when they could be doing a much better job if they had the freedom to customise the autocue scripts to suit their style a little more.
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