The Central Coast local news window was wholly local, helped by a 2 minute report from Sydney reporter Zara James on the manslaughter charge against a Central Coast tattoo artist.
Normally NBN puts Nine News reports relating to something occurring within its viewing area into the generic bulletin.
Skaie Hull did 2 reports and Sarah El-Mosehli did a 3rd.
On a somewhat unrelated side note, I’d imagine that both NBN’s Jessica Nagel and Prime7’s Samantha Crowe (who sharp observers would’ve noticed in the far right of this cap) were very happy to have made cameo appearances in a Sydney/NSW-wide bulletin this afternoon!
Jessica Nagel filed the 2nd report in the NBN wide bulletin on that Kempsey prison officer tonight. Sam Bunbury did the lead story on a roadside death in the Lake Macquarie area.
After that, major local window problems emerged again. We got
NBN News title card for 2 seconds.
Black screen for 30 seconds with NBN News watermark.
The following internal graphic for about 30 seconds.
10 seconds of the Newcastle news
Finally crashed halfway into the first local news report.
Crashed into the first ad break about halfway through what was probably the last report.
Newcastle news had a problem just before the first break. It seems like they went to break 10 seconds too early. The coming up graphics and clips were playing for quite a few seconds after the music stopped, and then the NBN News title card came up for 1 second before fading to black and starting the ads.
Oh dear, for a town in NBN’s heritage area that is only 1 hour from Newcastle, I thought NBN would have the correct spelling here. Both words are spelt wrong.