So when are NBN expected to present the news from Honeysuckle?
Itâs amazing what a change in management can do, isnât it? 
Although the shirts & water bottles have the NEC corporate logo, the lanyards read âNine Networkâ and have the proper Channel Nine logo on them.
Iâm sure itâs a matter of when Nine News branding gets introduced to Northern NSW viewers at 6pm, even if the NBN News brand remains in use initially after the move to Honeysuckle.
It wouldnât even be overly surprising if the NBN News brand remains on-air in 2022 for the Newcastle stationâs 60th anniversary. Wouldnât expect them to go all out like they did for the 50th birthday of course, but another round of âlook backâ reports (perhaps revised versions the 2012 â50 Yearsâ reports âto include some notable content from the last decade, etc.) and special promos would still be good.
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What year did NBN News air in place of Nine News Sydney and Nine News Brisbane?
NBN News has been an hour long bulletin sinceâŚwait for itâŚApril 1972!
Not sure whether Newcastleâs commercial station ever relayed a Sydney TV news bulletin during its first decade on-air, but I highly doubt it.
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Here is my opinion:
First, rebrand to Nine News either now or on the 60th anniversary.
Then, launch 9Rush and move to the 9LCN.
Then, start treating it like what 9 Sydney, 9 Melbourne are etc.
The bulletin is going to be controlled via QTQ (in conjunction with Darwin) when the new studio launches shortly - that would be a more ideal time to do it.
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Let me show you a magic trickâŚ
If you scroll up the page, you will find the answer you seek 
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Canât & likely wonât happen, NBN broadcasts right across the NSW Central Coast (& partially into the Sydney Northern Beaches), as does Nine Sydney.
Nine Sydney is also receivable in parts of Newcastle/Lake Macquarie, you canât have 2 seperate stations using the same LCNâs, & because of the overlap, thereâs some minor differences between NBN & Nine Sydney, being News & advertisements, Nine will want to keep it this way, extra revenue & viewers, youâre not going to have 2 identical channels in the same market.
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As far as the LCN situation is concerned, itâs pretty obvious what Nine should do.
Continue to use the 8x range on the Central & Gold Coasts, with the 9x range being used in all other markets.
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Sorry I mean weeknight, the main anchor.
Yes. Like 7 Sunshine Coast.
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I like how everyoneâs answer is ignore the established and agreed operational practice issued by Free TV Australia for the allocation of LCNs
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Didnât stop Seven QLD.
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The Channel 7 exception for Regional Qld implies the acceptance of the idea that O&O regional stations can use the metro numbers, just the document was set out when the only other example of that in practice was NTD Darwin, which uses the 9 LCN, despite Darwin usually being categorised as regional for TV purposes.
Thereâs no point or chance that they would change - but I donât think a Free TV code of practice would be in their way for a second if they wanted to.
Does NBN reference âChannel 8/80â on air/social nearly as much as WIN do?
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Only in overlap markets.
On Central Coast Radio, they have run ads âHead Straight To Channel 8 - NBN - for all your local newsâ, even after Nine branding had been introduced.
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Nov 7th special broadcast.
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Will be interesting to see this, and whether it airs across all of Nth NSW.
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Yep. Nov 8 Honeysuckle.
Had my first look at a non Newcastle NBN News fbulletin tonight for a while whilst up in Nelson Bay tonight ( thanks to a favourable location and a pair of rabbit ears).
The local news window was 4 minutes long pleasingly all content was relevant to the Mid North Coast.
Though the window was cut short and we didnât see the âComing upâ items - Jane had started to read the first one. Presumably Newcastle had already finished their window - itâs a shame they canât time all windows a bit better.
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