Nine managed to annoy a section of the audience tonight.
Presumably when Donald speaks, they are going to break back in.
The speech was scheduled for 7.15pm (that’s with my Turner Time adjustment!) but the delay seems much longer than a normal presser/speech.
Is the mango still in the makeup room? Is that the holdup?
The speech will start at the top of the hour. Nine probably getting ready to break in.
Seven went home for the night at 7 so will not.
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Seven does not have a late newscast, and this isn’t the type of story they’ve deemed worth interrupting normal programming.
So there’s that.
Nine is currently showing Trump’s speech, as well as ABC News.
For 9, is this across the network or just AEDT?
Sorry, i am not sure - but I am assuming just AEDT at this stage (?)
NSW/VIC only. Everyone else continuing with normal schedule, which means WA is, oddly, showing the ACA that was promising to show this exact speech live.
Edit 10:30: Nine have left the speech.
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SA appeared to play back the bulletin from the start, which is fine any other day.
Probably WA will do that too, even though by the time 9News Late begins there, Trump will have left Israel.
NBC is the first to drop out among American broadcast networks at 10.55pm AEDT. CBS and ABC continue.
Keep in mind, these morning shows conclude at midnight.
Meanwhile ABC AU’s news channel had a host handover at 11pm but did not bring the Live bug with it. (Update: the bug returned 11.09, six minutes before the speech’s conclusion.)
And ABCNC wrapped up at 11.25. More updates will come throughout the night.
Right call considering the story hasn’t stalled.
Nine serves up a now-outdated Late repeat for Perth, despite Trump to land in Egypt at around the halfway mark of this hour.
If viewers there join in (without consulting other news services), they’ll be blissfully unaware.
Confusing straps. Trump clearly at the lectern, yet the higher strap references Netanyahu speaking, while the lower one says the opposition leader is speaking ahead of Trump.
Not confusing whatsoever.
The timestamp was 10.09pm AEDT when Trump began the speech.
After Netanyahu was done, there was the opposition leader, and then Trump.
Just timing, really.
ABC correspondent Matthew Doran was harassed by far right commentator Avi Yemeni in Israel. Yemeni accused Doran of telling lies to Australian viewers.
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The Australian’s columnist Chris Kenny could not resist elevating serial troublemaker Avi Yemini when the rightwing provocateur harassed the ABC’s Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran last week. In a Rebel News video, embedded in Kenny’s online story, Yemini is seen chasing Doran through Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, interfering with his attempt to file his report for ABC TV news.
Kenny later accused the ABC news director, Justin Stevens, of “bullying” him after Stevens sent a letter of complaint about Kenny’s report to Gunn, News Corp’s executive chair, Michael Miller, and the chief executive of Sky News, Paul Whittaker.
Stevens said in the letter for Kenny to “publicly support seeing a dedicated, ethical journalist such as Matthew Doran being persistently harassed and abused in this way, and for News Corporation to embed the video in its content to amplify it to a wider audience and promote its content, is a low point”.
The latest coordinated attempt to bombard the ABC with complaints about its coverage, this time about the recent Hamas executions, has failed. Despite more than 100 complaints, the ABC ombudsman found the article did not breach the ABC’s editorial standards for impartiality.
On this occasion, the ABC ombudsman received 108 complaints about an ABC News Verify article about Hamas carrying out executions in Gaza.