NBN News

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Are they ever going to get the bulletins up on 9Now (for catchup)? They’ve teased us with the listing for weeks now… surely can’t be that difficult.

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The Newcastle skyline looks great here with the new live city can. Just wish they would do something with that awkward cheap flat grey panelling. Looks so temporary. So flat annd empty. Like someone forgot to design the set

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Was gonna say, it’s a shame it doesn’t look so vibrant on air.

The gloss flooring and desk screen has helped, not a fan of the red strip bordering the screens.

What really gets me is the positioning of the screens and off centre position for the newsreaders.

So that when they have a solo presenter shot the screen behind them is fully in frame with no posts between the screens.

Product of a bad set design.

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Filmed on a mobile phone in the NBN News studio.

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An interesting choice of lead story on NBN News tonight - an assault in Coffs Harbour. Whilst the victim was found unconscious, they only needed a brief hospital visit and were released a few hours later.

I know NBN often does this with Newcastle items, but I guess they have the justification that the majority of their viewers are in the Newcastle market.

I also note the item did not appear in the 7pm ABC NSW bulletin.

Thought it was appropriate lead because it is the second attack this week and the community is worried.

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Behind the scenes of Gavin Morris switching on the “Talent Operated Weather Studio” to record all the local weather windows before the 6pm news.

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Isobella Evans with her NBN News umbrella on Nine News.

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At least she had one of the new Nine News mic socks, not the older style square plastic cube one.

And I don’t think I’ve seen Isabella used on Nine News before.

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She’s been on Nine before. But her name is Isobella lol

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Well blame that on the parents who try to be funky with the spelling of their kids name!

I feel sorry for all of the Cate and Jorja’s in this world.

Some poor kid will probably one day get their name spelt as Raydiohead.

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She’s great, very natural delivery on air.

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Lol the branding inconsistency!

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That is the 6pm bulletin to a tee.

NBN News logo on screen, Nine News mic flags in most reports. Every night.

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Why is that an issue? Us watching from a metro viewpoint it is strange but this sort of thing has happened on regional networks since well before aggregation. The viewers are used to it. I hope the NBN brand never just disappears. I did hope Seven would keep the Prime brand but sadly that did not happen. Most viewers would not have noticed as the NBN logo on the umbrella wasn’t on the screen for long most of the time it wasn’t in view.

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The brand doesn’t need to disappear, it just needs better and more consistent integration with the network product.

The current approach is just too haphazard, and isn’t confined to just the 6pm bulletin.

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I don’t see any thing wrong with what they are doing now. How do you suggest they change?

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As far as the 6pm news bulletin goes, i would call it “Nine NBN News” and leave the Nine News sign offs in the report (currently, it is overdubbed with a pre recorded “NBN News” sign off, but this doesn’t happen for some reports).

The NBN News logo can stay as it is, partly because a dual logo would look too big and the dots can be the “Nine”’ part of it.

I would also like to see presenters reference the network brand in cross promotions for later bulletins or NRL coverage, not just “coverage from 7.30” or “on this channel” or “the late news” as they do now.

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