I get the figures daily, NBN sometimes wins up there too. It’s changeable, especially the Northern Rivers. Last night, Nine won all regions.
That’s interesting, and I wonder why so much variation from night to night?
Mind you they have grown there audience across the parts of the footprint where Prime has Local News & this is Due to the fact Prime now make it in Canberra & there’s more & more stories leaking into Prime Local News from Dubbo, Orange & Wagga making NBN’s Newcastle content a tad more local than some of the Southern NSW stuff.
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One could also imagine NBN News’ relatively stable presenter lineup helping their ratings. Now while I personally think weekend/fill-ins Jane Goldsmith, Sam Djodan and Kate Haberfield are more “weeknight quality” presenters than Paul, Tash & Mitch, I will give credit to NBN News’ lead presenters where it’s due: Natasha has been co-reading the news for over a decade, Gavin Morris on weather for almost 10 years, Paul Lobb having been in his current position since succeeding Ray Dinneen and the same deal with Mitchell Hughes who’s been the main sports presenter since Mike Rabbitt retired.
Now compare that to Prime7 Local News who’ve seemed to chop and change at least every six months or thereabouts it seems since production of the Northern NSW bulletins moved to Canberra. Including notable fill-in presenters I think the North West/Coast editions of Prime7 Local News have had something like six newsreaders and up to seven weather presenters at various points over in the last three and a half years.
And yes there are various reasons why Prime7’s news bulletins have been something of a revolving door presenter wise, but still that isn’t great for viewer continuity. If a capital city news service had that level of presenter turnover we’d probably have gossip columnists speculating about what’s going in on the newsroom! 
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It seems like the early afternoon updates no longer have news headlines in the super:
Used to be like this:
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Tash and Paul in Tamworth and will be manning the phones for the Hay Mate telethon tonight.
They had a couple of crosses during the news where they were ad-libbing and were really, really good and not wooden and dull like they are behind the desk.
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How long have NBN had a TV wall behind the main backdrop perspex? I don’t seem to remember the eastern states having this previously. And why bother spending money to put screens way back there?
Since the current set was launched…I think.
If I’m not mistaken that TV wall behind the main backdrop was part of NBN News’ previous set, so it probably didn’t cost that much to incorporate it.
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Looked back, you are correct.
Still a shame that they didn’t give the old set a lick of paint to try and make it work with the current national set, it was already curved. Some red paint on the top and side skirting, a new lightbox print of the First at Five newsroom backdrop, and a new globe print on the desk. Done!
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The local news windows were abruptly aborted about 90 seconds in tonight by an unscheduled ad break. This looked to be an network wide issue as both Newcastle and Central Coast were affected. This is not the first time this has happened.
When the news returned, an unprepared Natasha Beyersdorf started reading the network news items.
The way I understand how NBN News works is that it won’t be possible for them to return to local news, so they will need to quickly find a few extra items to fill up the bulletin.
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Saw it in Coffs too. They did fill the gaps with stories and it was a long time between ad breaks as a result.
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Peter Overton voiced a promo for tonight’s NBN News.
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that’s been happening for over a month now, some days we get those promos, some days not.
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Tyson Cottrill is presenting NBN News tonight:
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Apologies for the double post, but…
I didn’t really get the context of these posts at the time, but I think I do now: NBN News now seems to be carrying (at least some) Nine News Sydney Special Reports!
The promo I saw tonight was in HD (unlike NBN News’ actual bulletins which almost look like a washed up VHS tape for the pre-recorded windows) and even included Peter Overton’s voiceover for the “NBN News, Monday at Six” Endtag but since there’s been obviously in-house promos for NBN News in HD before, I’m not sure whether the “Special Report” Promos are being edited in Sydney or Newcastle.
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Nine News special programming live from Sydney (Peter Overton) and then Bangli to cover Renae Lawrence walking free was scheduled to last for half an hour until 8:30 on NBN, but finished a bit before 8:10 as she had already left. Interestingly, the programme guide called it A Current Affair (links in with the end of the NBN News bulletin - Natasha Beyersdorf said A Current Affair would have live information).
News updates also coming out of Sydney with Peter Overton - although exclusively dedicated to Renae.
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I suspect there may have been some issues with their EPG in some regions tonight, as on the Central Coast it showed as Millionaire Hot Seat during the 6pm news, but here in Newcastle it was correctly shown as NBN News at the same time.
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NBN News have an obvious dislike for making any reference to the Nine News brand, its just referred to as “the network” at best. Quite odd, when their own primary channel brand is known as Nine.
At least the EPGs now correctly title the daytime bulletins as Nine News.
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