Surely some baking paper and heat from an iron should get that glue to re-stick?
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$2950 an hour to run several local newsrooms and broadcast an hour of live local news 5 days a week 52 weeks a year.
Seems peanuts to me.
That figure could have been reduced by around 25 percent if they do what WIN television does now and produce a half hour local news and paired it with the 1 hour Ten Eyewitness News bulletin in both the old NRTV viewing region and the old TNQ/FNQ viewing regions, noting that they retained the Townsville and Cairns local productions until the SCA buyout - all it would have meant was that in QLD could of had local News at 5:30pm and a delayed feed of Ten Eyewitness News at 6 (delayed feeds of the evening news was common in most markets back then) and in NSW Ten Eyewitness News could have led at 5pm and Local News at 6pm. Also a one news reader format could have been used (instead of 2) and be hosted from TNQ headquarters
My rationale for the news ordering is simple
- Prior to aggregation QTV Local News aired at 5:30pm followed by National Nine News
- Even during daylight savings, the local news bulletins could have been mostly live
I guess the economics wasn’t more about money but more about viewers.
They would have been running dead in Newcastle, Tamworth and Taree/Port Macquarie. They would have had a better chance in Coffs Harbour and Lismore and a small and loyal audience on the Gold Coast/Tweed due to incumbency but the economics of being a Ten affiliate weren’t in their favour.
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Lauren Kempe doing some anchoring over Summer.
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I believe it was only a single newsroom - I don’t recall the inland market getting the news bulletin either
All of NNSW had NRTV Evening News for most of 1992, was axed in early December of that year in heritage NEN and NBN markets and replaced with the 10 Sydney schedule. That’s how i recall it anyway.
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You could be right on that one - it certainly never made any impact here, possibly why I worked on the belief it never aired here
It didn’t here in Newcastle either, I recall reading that it got a 3% audience share here. Rebecca Skinner was their sole Newcastle reporter, who had also worked at NBN. Unlike NBN News, there were no localised windows.
NRTV News was scaled back to its incumbent markets in late 1992 with the others taking Ten Eyewitness News from Sydney. I remember seeing on the Gold Coast in December 1994 that NRTV Evening News had been rebranded as Ten News using their own graphics. It was axed the following month.
I remember seeing the end of the last NRTV Evening News bulletin here in Newcastle, on Friday 4 December 1992 it was, I think.
There was no farewell or anything for the NEN/NBN markets, it was like ‘Goodnight’ and that was it.
Tyson Cottrill presenting the NBN News on Christmas night.
With Jane Goldsmith presenting the Sydney bulletin tonight, I did wonder whether they would just take that (as she is a well known local face), given the high cost of presenting a local bulletin on a major public holiday for the sake of maybe 1 local story.
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2 Newcastle stories before the first break and a few North Coast stories and a Central Coast story. Still pretty “Local” 16 mins in.
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Especially since from my understanding is that in the past NBN only had one Newcastle story on Christmas Day, and a combined market wide weather report.
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I agree, I find it good yet odd that NBN don’t take a network bulletin on Christmas.
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6pm news in the other capital cities doesn’t stop for Christmas neither does news so NBN should never stop their news over Christmas neither should WIN or Seven Queensland’s local news.
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There’s no such thing as a network bulletin on Nine at 6.
And NBN News rates higher than the local Adelaide or Perth bulletin and costs less to make.
It makes economic sense both short and long term to broadcast 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
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How do you know it costs less? NBN has more offices, facilities right across Nth NSW when ADL and PER only each have one.
And metro markets make more $$$ than regionals do.
I think that @KICK-IT means in the sense of the news production not actual operational costs. “More offices” do not attribute to the cost of news production - yes the sales for the 6pm news does play a small factor, but the sales offices are not there strictly to sell the 6pm til 7pm slot, the staff will have a brief as to which advertising slots were available factoring in national advertisers for companies such as Telstra, Woolworths, Coles, Coca Cola etc
Unfortunately information relating to the cost benefit ratio is not available due to inside information laws, but we can presume that by providing the continuity of service makes business sense with the fact that they continue to screen NBN News. It can probably be concluded that it would cost more to present a separate local news bulletin for NBN as opposed to NBN News as a composite bulletin. The only exception re the local news bulletins would be to present a multi-region news bulletin which would lead to viewers changing the channel - also in Newcastle you couldnt use this strategy as Seven and NBN are both strong and using a format like WIN does in Southern NSW, QLD and Victoria would mean NBN loses it competitive advantage by providing local news in the 6pm bulletin.
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