ABC/ABC News 24 and Sky News are covering the vigil live from Federation Square.
Nine is streaming it via Facebook/website, whilst Seven had a chopper live stream from above for a few minutes.
All seem to be using the same camera feed from Fed Square.
Sad news: a sixth person has died in the attacks
State Memorial posts start here.
Nine
Meanwhile on Seven…
No wonder why Seven’s ratings are rubbish.
To be fair, the Australian Open tennis is a pretty important sporting event at this time of year.
ABC News also dipping in and out.
Given the number of empty seats at the service it would appear the level of interest from commercial media about right.
With all respect to the families of those lost I don’t think all programming on a primary channel needs to be dropped for a memorial service.
I think if it was a Breaking News event then the news can take precedent and sport be reffered to the Multichannels.
Nine ended at 1:15 with a ‘The One’ promo.
That was what I was thinking, drop whatever is on 7Two and put the news coverage on there.
Edit: Nine has gone straight to Ellen.
I assume this went out onto Southern Cross Victoria and TDT?
Seven are not going to drop a grand slam quarter final to cover a memorial service.
No matter how bad that sounds, no disrespect to those affected.
This morning, James Gargasoulas was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria to life in prison with a minimum term of 46 years.
4 Corners report Time Bomb “The making of the Bourke Street murderer.”
