Seven and Nine have both began their coverage (their one-hour preview).
As mentioned already:
Seven has Michael Usher is hosting, with Chris Reason reporting from St Peters.
Nine has Deborah Knight hosting
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Great to see Deb on the news service
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Nine lost their signal a went back to the studio
First ad break on Seven after 10 mins; Nine after 15 mins.
Apparently the majority of the service is in Latin and Italian - so the networks will have translators
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What’s with the ugly and useless gold strap at the bottom of Seven’s coverage?
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They haven’t even managed to line it up properly.
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Couldn’t possibly make it attached to the rest of the graphics Seven?
It’s Seven, what did you expect?
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Channel change advice
Deb Knight recording into for 9Go coverage
7Two cut into coverage just before 6pm
News
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What’s this coverage on 9go? It’s not being facilitated by 9’s panel anymore.
ABC will be taking feed from AP with English translation - will also have local commentary to help explain parts of the ceremony
Yeah, pre-recorded opener, now into boring sounding world feed?
Apparently commercial free from now until the end, hence the multichannel I’d say.
This abc commentary is terrible as well. Clearly the wire services world feed is just some sort of generic thing being provided.
No news branding either, just generic main channel watermark.
Same feed on YouTube:
It’s the AP feed - ABC are also taking it
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I recall the same issue from 7’s coverage of the King’s coronation. For example:
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They had a similar type graphic for the Queen’s death and funeral coverage - likely using the same template and just changing the colour and text for each occasion
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