Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced for 5 years over 2007 campaign financing.
All domestic channels are rolling and are as red in graphics as they possibly can.
France 24’s French service rolling since start of last hour. The English service joins in at start of this hour.
Quick note: US government will shut down tomorrow at 2pm AEST.
All the US newsers should start rolling around 9am, although it’s basically all filler given how there will be no deal whatsoever to be made.
Expect a couple check-ins on 7/9 tomorrow (don’t expect a lengthy report on this), followed by further updates every now and then on the two news channels.
Then there’s the 2pm WA flash on 7. Wonder how this will be summarized.
I don’t think any Australian networks are going to break into normal programming for that.
Of course not. Note the use of “summarized” and not “covered”/“rolled”.
This doesn’t deserve a break in programming. 4pm will have a complete report.
ABC did several live crosses to the Hill this morning. This was the first of them.
The 9.19am cross was interrupted by Albo speech. That caused a bit of gremlin for the super.
The imminent shutdown did not make news on Today and Sunrise, although at least Nine had a report up on its website a couple hours ago.
Here comes the permanent presence of the countdown clocks.
Although if you tuned into Fox’s primetime zone, you’d have seen something slightly different.
US government has shut down, to no one’s surprise.
Thank God for Fox because they don’t have a stupid count-up clock.
Further coverage from other newsers at the top of the hour (kinda gives you a look at which one is in daytime, isn’t it?):
CBS apparently looks as though they broke into network’s air. Same with NBC.
U.S. Senate reconvenes tonight at midnight, so for the duration of afternoon and primetime, nothing will change.
Reports from the FTA evening news.
…and that was it. Seven has an article up from NBC.
UK newsers have been rolling since 7.30pm on the breaking news story of an attack at a Manchester synagogue.
ABC had a brief report at 9.22pm and promised more updates.
Nine will have an update in the 10pm broadcast.
Does Seven have anything like this for a “major breaking story but not major enough to cut in”?
Because they don’t have a newscast until 5am.
an unpleasant story of course, but worth a crawler on a non-news program? Two dead in an incident on the other side of the world?
It’s the leading story on 7News website right now, as well as ABC’s 10pm bulletin.
Let me just say, if Seven has a way to visually communicate on air, they would also do that, too.
First full reports from Australian networks.
A news website and a news bulletin would be the appropriate place to feature a news story, I was questioning the need for this story to be flashed across regular programming.
Why would they cut into programs for this story? They’re not a news network, they’ll cover it in scheduled news programs. Again, it’s the other side of the world and a small number of people killed. Horrible? Yes. Major story for Australia? No.
I think it can only mean Nine (and apparently Australian broadcasters in general) has settled on giving this story more prominence than a casual viewer like you and I would expect.
The problem with doing that, being a double-edged sword, is that it has set a precedence for “level 2” stories. That’s what will be judged from this point onward.
Another point, it does not necessarily have to be an Australia-impacted story to require a cut in/crawler.
Nine has decided the threshold is appropriate for that and it is understandable. Unlike the ABC, it was covered 20 minutes into the late bulletin and for about two minutes.
Viewers would be okay with that.
To be frank, I’m not advocating sending anchors there at all.
How does 10 have more coverage than 7
Because 7 has no late bulletin. Simple as that.
And…
Manchester opened all morning shows. Everyone has an on-scene correspondent who will file report(s) throughout the day.
You can tell the weather is currently very good in the place.
Could have been a Nine News Alert at the start of an ad break, much easier to get the information across than with scrolling text.
It’s the full Nine News graphics so it makes it look like the vision behind it is somehow related to it.
My point wasn’t that the graphics were interrupting the show, rather than for those flicking through channels it would look like Nine was showing news. 
If it was an important enough story fine, but for something that could easily just be covered in the next news bulletin then it’d be overkill.
