An inappropriate sign off tag was used tonight …. A report on the war in Ukraine ended with… “In the United States, Alison Piotrowski, NBN News”….
She might well have filed it from the US, but you don’t want your viewers to know it was filed from half a world away!
I think some of the signoffs are pre-recorded (correct me if I’m wrong). This may have been the only "NBN news’ sign off they had on file for Alison.
Yes, I’m not sure how/where they are inserted at, possibly done in Sydney as I recall Melbourne aired an “NBN News” sign off once or twice. Still, the “In the United States” bit could have been edited out….
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A peculiar sports segment, they used TWO sports presenters, Kate Haberfield presented items on the NRL, AFL and English Premier League from Hunter Stadium for the NRL game tonight and then handed back to Mitchell Hughes in the studio for the rest of the sports news (which included the IPL) presumably because of the pre-recorded local sports news, In that case, I think they would have been better off using Kate just for the NRL Live cross and Mitchell introducing all the sports items.
No station branding used for the NRL 7.30pm match coverage, just “coverage from 7.30 after “A Current Affair”’.
The interview with the pensioner was the lead story on last night’s bulletin.
Still using the NBN News tagout by that Nine News manager. NNSW is still a complicated market for Nine, I guess. 
Would’ve been easy to just copy the QTQ script for national news stories and never name Nine reporters as “network reporter” or similar to that.
After seeing the stunning work Seven have done with polishing up the STQ news set over recent years, we can only imagine what could’ve been if Nine did the same with NBN…
Cap is from 2013 to show a wider view of the set. Imagine if they’d kept 80% of it, repainted it, replaced the screenprinted backdrop with a proper video wall, reprinted the front of the desk (and removed the 2016-era screen they tacked on) and added strip lighting and set accents from the metro sets. NBN could’ve had a future-proofed metro-lite set to move with them to a larger Honeysuckle studio.
@MarkHD Has anyone at NBN recognized / acknowledged just how bad this looks?
Any plans to fix all the dead black unfinished areas?
It shouldn’t be that hard. Put the desk in front of the middle screen and have the two presenters in the middle next to each other and the graphics either side of them. That shot above is disgusting and makes Gavin look like the secondary reader.
It’s not hard nor expensive to design and fill the black areas and finish this set off.
I’m wondering if no one at NBN cares / or they think it looks good
What’s sad is they had so long to get it right. They were in the for months before it went to air.
NBN News still doesn’t understand social media news either.
The shift in management has clearly had an effect on the operation, right down to the set and the want or need to improve it.
What’s funny is that’s the exact same shot they used for a double header on the old set. It’s like they don’t know how to do other shots.
Who has final say on set? It would be News Director, yes?
I have no idea but whoever it is shouldn’t be in the role if that’s the best they can do with that set.
I don’t understand why they had the new desk built for a single-presenter configuration with the presenter cutout in the glass top rather than doing a straight edge along the back (like QLD and SA) or even following the curve all the way around.
The desk is where it is so that the presenters are centred with the screens behind them for close-ups.
I realise that but it looks shit. There must be another way.
