Not as ridiculous as yesterday. Yesterday nothing had happened. Today there was actually damage.
Just goes to show how silly yesterday’s coverage was.
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This?
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How do you propose networks financially support the 15 extra reports and cameramen (not to mention the other behind staff) in every single locality for the other 360 days of the year when only 2 minutes of local news and 30 seconds of sport is happening each day?
Malcolm Turnbull (and many others) describing the cyclone-affected area as being in North Queensland - I imagine that won’t go down well in the area.
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Mackay is the southern boundary of North Queensland…
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Yeah, there’s a difference between ‘North Queensland’ and ‘Far North Queensland’ (which I’ve always thought as starting from around Cairns?).
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He’s correct though. North Queensland is south of Far North Queensland, as far as I know there is a difference between the two terms.
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For those interested:
Nine had Nine News Now live into QLD from 2pm. Then Melissa Downes and Shane Doherty co-hosted coverage from 3pm - 5pm.
Seven had Afternoon coverage with Sharyn Ghidella from 3pm - 5pm.
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Becasue of the severe weather now being experienced, ABC Radio Brisbane is not broadcasting AM but is staying with the breakfast show until 8.30pm. Very late notice that all schools are closed in SEQ.
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A local station does not need 15 reporters and cameraman to cover a huge local story like this. Perhaps 5. A local station should have the ability to go on the air live in their own local market when something like this happens. Staff can be flown in from other locations - freelancers can be hired. Staff can be re-assigned from other areas. Just like Nine did.
Do regionals have the money for that? Having to shell out copious amounts of revenue for access to network programming and to pay for the upkeep of a huge network of transmitters probably hinder a lot of initiatives that could improve news coverage.
Channel 9 would probably barely break out the petty cash for such a thing but regionals are another story.
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A quick look at the stories on my snapchat feed tells me South East Queenslanders are far more panicky about rain and flooding than most Northerners were about the cyclone.
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No, it’s just that there are 3.4 million of them!
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I think they do. We are talking perhaps staffing up once or twice a year for 2-03 days whilst a story like this happens. 6 days a year out of 365. Not a lot.
I don’t think regional networks fork out copious amounts of revenue for programming at all.
Essentially they get 24 hours a day of programming and it only costs them half their revenue.
I’m certain the national networks spend more than half their revenue on programming such as reality that costs $1m an ep and sprouting rights in the billions.
And it SCA’s case - they also get all their news done for them as part of the deal. They almost dont have to lift a finger. No marketing, no programming, no news, no social media, nada!
Nine News Brisbane are asking for people to send in videos - and they are trying to explain that holding the phone in landscape mode is best 
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I remember one of the COS here in Melbourne put a poster like tweet on how to record in landscape.
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