Certainly true. Interestingly though, in the Twitter photos they posted yesterday, the lighting was quite brighter, so it’s odd that it wasn’t reflected that way on camera…
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Everyone keeps saying that NBN have received the old Sydney set…
But wouldn’t it make more sense if this was actually the old Brisbane set?
I mean, last time I checked the manager/director of NBN is the same lady in charge of Nine Brisbane.
Also, convenient timing that Brisbane just started using a new set and suddenly NBN have one of the old metro sets.
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I think it’s a pity that NBN News didn’t get one of those giant plasmas for weather because the chroma key set-up they have now looks shocking! Although to be fair, it’s quite possible that those giant screens are still being used on the new Nine News sets.
Possibly a greater missed opportunity though is not using that vertical plasma to the right of the set for the OTS graphics!
I agree.
When you look at what NBN has been doing over the last 18 months or so, I think it’s pretty clear that Kylie Blutcher is trying to turn NBN into a mini version of QTQ (of sorts). The rebrand of the general channel branding to Nine, the further Nine News-ification of NBN News’ graphics, the “We Love It” campaign (which surely has to be inspired by the "Love This City campaign for QTQ) and now the repurposed Nine News set are all examples of this.
Something I definitely hope will never make it to NBN News are those rather sensationalist and ACA-esque “Special Reports” that Nine News Queensland are now infamous for! Although since both QTQ and NBN still have separate news directors (as far as I’m aware anyway), I think we can remain cautiously optimistic that the content of NBN News isn’t going in the same direction as Nine News Queensland…yet.
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Yes, it’s the Brisbane set.
Yep, you’re actually right.
The lighting on the set looks awful. I wonder why they’ve opted to not light up the desk and a lot of other lighting features that were built into the set.
I was under the impression NBN had received Sydney’s old plasma (that sat behind Pete) for the weather on the Nine Local News bulletins in NSW and Canberra. Gavin Morris has always presented weather for Nine’s local bulletins in front of a large plasma.
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NBN News makes a podcast??
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Yes. I came across that last year.
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Let’s hope someone from NNSW uploads a montage of the “new” set.
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Amazing what some good lighting can do, only looks about 100 x times better.
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Where are those flashing dots on the backdrop pointing to? At a brief first glance I thought it started out as the six regional centres NBN News covers (Newcastle, Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Tamoworth, Central Coast, Gold Coast), but in reality it’s jumping all around NSW.
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Whatever they were, they are now gone.
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I saw a lot of FB complaints last night about those dots.
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Hows about the stupid TV behind Samuel Djodan screening the 4 split screen feeds for NNSW/GC?
That has to go… far too distracting.
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Another thing I’ve noticed tonight (also evident in your caps above) is that the main presenters now move around a bit.
In one shot, Natasha and Paul are seated close together, but in another shot from a similar angle and zoom, only Natasha is seen and Paul has moved well out of shot.
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What’s the difference between that and the real life news exchanges that were all the range in the 1990s/early 2000s? Nine’s national bulletins only stopped using theirs this year, Seven used their recorded backdrop for national bulletins until 2010, Ten stations had either real life news exchanges, or had recorded backdrops up until 2013.
NBN have likely done it to try and make the backdrop less static, but the screen is too big compared to those printed on the backdrop.
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