Why aren’t they utilising Mel Doyle?
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Probably because it would be a reminder to the audience that Melissa Doyle deserves a more prominent role on the network rather than mainly just presenting a relatively low rating Sunday Night and Sydney’s 6pm news on Friday & Saturday nights.
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I think it’s all a bit tongue in cheek…love it!
Last Qld election 7 and 9 both had gimmicky things as part of their graphics etc
She usually has a few weeks off to coincide with the winter school holidays (which started this week for private schools in NSW).
Personally if I were a senior presenter at Seven right now I’d be finding any excuse possible to not be involved in that coverage.
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If you look closely, Malcolm Turnbull does not say “We will vote for Seven” 
Terrible promo.
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What an incredibly shocking revelation… 
Agreed. Hopefully Seven’s coverage will be a lot better than the promos suggest, but somehow I doubt it!
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so we have 7’s coverage that looks absolutely shocking, Sky’s that will lean so far right i’ll need to choc my tv to stop it tipping over, 9’s that is generally pretty good and the ABC which will be he best (IMHO).
i think i’ll be flicking between 9 and ABC
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Mel said on twitter she is on annual leave ,booked six months ago.
You guys bag 7’s coverage but be fair, 9 is also having “the crusher” or something like it and some “mega wall” so it will be equally as tacky or gimmicky.
Exactly the same reason Seven hid Chris Bath for the last 18mths of her time at 7, to cover the fact the weekend presenter is better than the main presenter.
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How did they hide Bathie? Off the top of my head, she was involved in the last State Election night, she co-anchored major coverage of the Malaysia Airlines crashes and was sent to Gallipoli to anchor Anzac Day coverage during her last 18 months at Seven (I’m sure there are more examples).
Similarly, Mel is Seven’s first pick for major news coverage (ie Paris last November and numerous other trips over the last few years). It just happened that she wasn’t available this time because the election has fallen right in the middle of the school holidays.
Any updates on any TEN coverage tomorrow night? If they’re bothering to do anything outside of the 5pm
national bulletin, it’s all been kept very quiet at this stage.
Embarrassing for them if WIN News has more coverage than they do, I think I read somewhere they plan on having reporters in most markets to report on developments.
5pm only at this stage as 7.30pm To Be Advised is now a repeat of MasterChef Australia.
That will be for the Monday I believe for WIN. Not on the Election night.
Part of 60 Minutes on Sunday
ELECTION 2016: THE RESULTS
Charles Wooley reports the latest results from Election 2016, the winners and losers, and assesses where Australia is headed now.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Ali Smith
Wrong.
She read the 6pm news and was not involved in any other coverage.
You only have to look back on the number of occasions that Seven Sydney have hit the “Mark Alert” button on weekends in recent times and how Mark only had about 2-3 weeks of Summer holidays and a small handful of nights off during the year to know that they really want to do as much as possible to pretend that their Friday/Saturday newsreader in Sydney isn’t superior to their fairly average presenter on Sunday-Thursday. But that’s for another topic.
While I’m sure that Melissa Doyle won’t be involved in the coverage purely because it coincides with her mid-year holidays which were probably booked months ago, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Seven only allowed Mel a small role in their Federal Election coverage compared to Mark Ferguson if she was available…
A special edition of News Breakfast will be airing tomorrow . Hosted by Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland from 6am-10am.
Presenting the peak half-hour of the evening counts as being involved in my book. They would have had Mark present that half hour if they had been deliberately trying to exclude Chris as was originally suggested.