I had nothing to do with this - just helping out by point where the problem probably was.
Fair enough. Apologies to you.
Either way the HS article would count as “coverage” anyway..
It was not included in the 11:30pm update.
It’s somewhat understandable tonight considering the news is usually live up until 12:15AM, however with the works at Ultimo it isn’t this week. But surely they could have added something to the ticker. Could they teach the person doing the overnight radio bulletins to do it?
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Didn’t we already establish this with the Minneapolis event?
ABC, quite frankly, operates a 17-hour news channel. If you want to get details about a breaking (even Australia) story in the dark hours of the night, head to radio instead (either your local station, or if it’s of BBC’s interest, Newsradio).
There might have been a mention of this in the local bulletin. I will listen out for the next one at 12.55am.
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Do remember, too, it is Saturday into Sunday. Even if there was no outage at Ultimo this week, would there be any people in the newsroom overnight other than the radio and TV anchors and possibly producers if they still use them.
They don’t do any TV bulletins overnight?
The Report at 1, Ninefax are starting with the Sydney Shark Attack, ABC Radio have finally gotten around to reporting on the Melbourne attack, and have led their update with it, but as for the so-called ABC News Channel, you guessed it, deep into Gaza news direct from Berlin with no new ticker.
Next report… some time in the future, bulletins as they occur. Media Spy Chime Time (dong) 1:05 or so.
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Oh, yeah, forgot about that.
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Probably also because ABC LR’s nighttime strand is not designed to go “just want to bring you a quick breaking story…”.
In fact, it may have gotten the following it has because it is a place to get away from the news. (55 minutes an hour anyway.)
No overnight talkback in this country is, apart from the last hour or so of the 2GB/4BC version of Weekday Australia Overnight. ABC are doing the ‘all-mighty’ Challenge half the night, Weekend Australia Overnight is mostly Talking Lifestyle 2.0, and the SRN is the SRN.
I removed it. I’ve reinstated it now only for context because there’s been further discussion on the back of it.
No it wouldn’t. Otherwise we’d have an entire thread full of links to breaking news stories which can be serviced in other threads as previously linked to. Posting a link to a story in this case is not what the thread is for.
The threshold for this is quite high and can vary but usually means special/outside the norm broadcast coverage. I’m not arguing the validity of the news story.
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Regarding the ABC, they wouldn’t put anything to air unless they have formal verification. This might have been difficult to obtain at 10.00pm on a Saturday night.
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Topping today’s news agenda in France is one event only. The confidence vote that could remove PM Francois Bayrou.
Massive implications for this one. Schedules of these channels have been cleared out from 10.00pm to 9.00am AEST.
Update: Franceinfo is the last to bring out the sidebar at the timestamp shown below.
English-wise, France 24 and Sky UK carrying it. Sky and ABC aren’t interested.
At least the latter’s ticker is lit up every now and then with breaking news about the deadly Israel bus stop shooting. (Although that was probably because it broke before the nightly closedown.)
France 24, despite this taking place IN FRANCE, gave up a while ago and are running their regular service in both languages.
Snapshot 7.09pm local/3.09am AEST. (CNews doesn’t allow that deep of a rewind.) The result was announced 10 minutes prior, and 364 deputies vote to oust Bayrou.
The next step? He will hand over the resignation letter to pres. Macron today.
BFMTV broke out their super-red insert system. LCI already has red as their normal color (a la BBC), so when news is breaking, they had to go even more… orange?
A couple of deputies spoke at the 3am AEST hour. France 24 took none of them live.
ABC was able to deliver the story at 4am and that was only because DW was interested. And somewhat incredibly, a report package was aired on News Breakfast at 6:18am, without mentioning the 364 number.
Over on Sky, their special wrapped at 4:41am, although if you were on 604, you’d have seen another one from 6am to 7:08am.
Update: BFMTV wrapped at 1:28am local/9:28am AEST. Normally an overnight half-hour bulletin (that would loop over and over) will follow suit, but instead it’s a replay of the special evening program.
Day 2 of the continuing crisis with more developments and more schedule clearing. Only one question: will there be a new PM named tonight?
About 9am/5pm is when everything goes out the window. Only Franceinfo is willing to mix in some other stories in its coverage.
BFMTV and LCI still staying with the bright-red system as seen above.
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We have a new French prime minister. (The early indication from Elysee was that it would be named “in coming days”, but had to be rushed after an impeachment motion was filed.)
And only in BFMTV’s style did that information become overloaded in the most unnecessary way possible.
Sky broke the story one hour later.
Day 3 of the continuing crisis (even with a new PM sworn in, because we have the “Block Everything” movement!)
The latest figures from BFMTV:
- At least 105 arrests, 95 in Ile-de-France
- 80 separate protests & 3,000 protesters recorded
- 18 (revised since then) roads and roundabouts blocked; one of them is A10, a major one
And we’re just beginning. It’s going to be extremely messy.
(Quick note: All the channels have crews on the ground, or at least you would think. However, to ensure their safety, they are not identified or seen on screen. Basically just providing voiceovers.)
The “dumping” of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in the middle of the 6pm news bulletins was a challenge for the east coast at least. Seven Sydney did well to talk to Mark Riley live while Melbourne and Brisbane got a package. Nine didn’t spend much time with a brief breaking news report. Of course ABC News was able to spend time on it while 10 News+ had the most comprehensive commercial coverage!
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Exhibit #100 of why this kind of super doesn’t work as well as it should.
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What do you mean, Breaking out of shadow ministry works fine 
What else are they going to fill the hour with, Project-esqe stories
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