Nightlife/Overnights on LR would have mentioned it, and probably the World Service on Newsradio.
Rolling coverage from FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
Self-correction: Yes, it was first mentioned on the ABCLR’s 12:55am bulletin. Fine because neither of those programs strike me as capable of switching to rolling news format.
Over on ABCNR/BBCWS, the story led off Outside Source at 12:05am. It then became No.2 on the rundown of the subsequent 1am bulletin.
So all passing mentions, but still more effort than TV.
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Coverage of the shootings on commercial breakfast TV was about the 3rd or 4th story of the morning in Australia. No coverage seen on ABC News Breakfast so far.
Maybe ABC doesn’t think it’s editorially justified as a story compared to what else is going on at home. Not saying that’s right. But maybe that’s a decision they’ve made.
It is editorially justified as a story, actually.
The radio side has at least mentioned in news bulletins. The website has it. Both within about an hour after it broke.
It’s only the TV side which sees dozen monitors going off in their control room and think “this is a nothingburger, we will not cover it. Not even write it as a ticker item, actually.”
Are you telling me this is the same organization?
Update: ABCNC has finally realized it and included in the 3rd item of the 9am headline rundown.
Just saw that ABC broke the Qantas earnings results. I Googled and indeed it was released at about that same minute.
I looked at the ticker and it was there as a “normal” news item.
This led me to believe that something is up with the ticker system. It cannot recognize a story as breaking, and that there might genuinely have been an attempt to insert the U.S. shooting story overnight.
The story came up as breaking news on the ticker about 5 seconds later - main channel and News channel.
What? Someone would be entering the words onto the ticker and triggering which graphic it would be. The reason the US shooting wasn’t on it was probably due to no staff overnight to do it. They’d set and forget it overnight.
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Just to be clear, the red-white part is called a “lower third” or “chyron”. The dark-blue part is the ticker.
My earlier screenshot shows that the particular news item is not displayed as breaking on the ticker, even though it is one of the breaking story’s details.
Therefore, it is a lack of coordination at best, and a system failure at worst.
UPDATE: It definitely is a system failure as another breaking news has shown.
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I’m not sure what point you’re making.
it’s not really, sorry.
When they enter words in for a graphic, be it the ticker or the supers, they’d have a breaking news version, and obviously someone didn’t click it on, or didn’t think it worthy of the red breaking news alert.
I think this can be a message against too much rolling coverage. While Seven’s afternoon rolling coverage did well on day one with their 4pm Melbourne News beating Nine’s, trying to do it again a day later failed to deliver.
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Here is my best attempt at explanation, without knowledge of how ABC’s software actually works.
For the ticker, there are two “rundowns” of stories in use: One for routine/normal, and one for breaking. The “breaking” rundown can be set to exclude everything in the other rundown.
So what might have happened was during the night, there was a genuine attempt to insert the U.S. shooting (and maybe a couple details) as an item in the “breaking” rundown. Over the course of the night through morning, that did not show up as such. An internal check later found that there was an error with that rundown, and so it was determined that all stories - even breaking - will be inserted onto the normal rundown.
Either that or the ABC is just fine with the inconsistency and no one else besides me cares.
I think you’re overthinking it. I think it just wasn’t updated through the night as @SA_TV suggested.
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Over on the 24-hour news side, ABC streamed the presser live on YT channel and put up a “breaking” ticker to namecheck it.
Additional items were added to the ticker following the presser’s conclusion. One of them is “Stay with us for further details on Victoria manhunt after Question Time”, which is fine. They did get to it following the Sydney stabbing report.
Sky did none of that and only got to the manhunt after more analysis of QT.
10 & 9 took the presser about the Dezi Freeman hunt update - 9 breaking programming here in Brisbane.
Not sure about ABC, would assume they did.
Would assume all networks took it in Victoria
Nine followed it with the Matt Wright trial outcome