7 Melbourne providing exceptional coverage.
Reporting gunman has taken wife and children hostage in the bush.
Meanwhile, ABC is on Parliament Time on both main and news channel..
The story was first mentioned on ABC NC’s air and ticker at 12:06pm AEST.
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A time when the news channel should be breaking away from Question Time and advising viewers to watch on main channel or online.
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ABC with update live from the area.
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Seven with long closer from rolling coverage into 4pm news. Continuing with Laura Turner
4pm Nine
Update on weather in the area - stretching things a bit now - Jane’s mic didn’t work to start with.
Seven and Nine finishing coverage before 5pm.
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Have other states gone local at 4pm?
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Yes - local news in other markets though the Victorian shooting was the first story in Sydney and Brisbane.
The Iranian/ASIO story was next.
Not a huge fan of Laura Turner, but I have to say she did a great job leading solo coverage from about 1:30pm-5pm in Melbourne today.
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10 identified and profiled the gunman at 5pm including a video package. Didn’t hear this on the other networks.
Police update at 6pm
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Thought Seven’s coverage was good overall but this was very awkward and unnecessary, made worse by the tech issues and Jane giggling at one stage.
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Nine News in Melbourne and Seven News in Melbourne??
Seven Melbourne revisiting the story from 6:34pm but abruptly stopped when the link to Nick McCallum was lost.
What relevance does the weather in that specific area have on the case?
Only to the extent that it was raining at some stages making search conditions unpleasant.
Yeah I think Blind Freddie could’ve told them that. No need for Jane Bunn to come in and give a full scale map of it. It’s not an earthquake site or bushfire zone Seven.
Seven Melbourne promise to cross for a Premier’s media conference at around 7:15pm