4pm Sydney News:
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Risa Utama in Bali this week with the first flight from Newcastle to Denpasar.
Doing business reports and how locals can make the most of the new flight route.
acknowledging that Newcastle Airport etc helped with the arrangement to broadcast etc to keep away from Media Watch.
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Its not the first time theyâve done this. When Newcastle first got fights to Lord Howe Island, an NBN News reporter flew there and they covered that inaugural flight too. The next night on their news they had a âspecial reportâ on the history of the island.
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Jack Howard has left NBN News and please (at this stage) donât read too much into it, but Gavin Morris was absent from the bulletin last night.
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Reports Gavin is GONE!!!
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Any further updates on this?
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One thing Iâve just realised⌠with Gavin gone, it will be the end of an era⌠whereby NBN News have always had their own meterologist presenting the weather dating back to (at least) the Des Hart days in the early 19i80s.
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From SMH
Nine Newsâ Sydney weather presenter Amber Sherlock is among a number of on-air talent expected to leave the broadcaster as part of a round of redundancies announced on Monday.
The broadcasterâs Adelaide newsreader Kate Collins, Brisbane sports presenter Jonathan Uptin and Newcastle newsreader Gavin Morris make up the list of senior on-air talent told their roles are being made redundant.
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Appears it has been confirmed.
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Media Watch will be having a field day at the moment, come Monday theyâll probably have a whole episode dedicated to these redundancies.
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I wonder will they have Tyson fill in more. He has a good style.
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The question is will NBN News continue in its current format or will it end up like WIN News. I know the arguments will be they wonât/shouldnât but Bean counters in the Sydney office might not agree. It would be the end of an era in the most complete sense if the Local and National bulletins separate
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I hope it doesnât close news bulletins for the mid north coast, northern rivers or New England / north west area of NSW
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Iâd say Newcastle will remain fully local. However, the remainder of their footprint may not be so lucky. The Gold Coast are already receiving the Lismore opt-outs now for their NBN News service as someone here pointed out a while ago, so the GC means nothing to NBN, except for the advertising. Some Central Coast stories are already popping up into the Newcastle bulletin so it wouldnât really matter I suppose.
Iâd say given Seven already has local 1/2 hour bulletins on weekdays for their local news services, Nine may just follow what WIN News has done and go statewide in nearly all of Northern NSW.
The following NBN News bulletins that would be affected would beâŚ
- NBN News Central Coast
- NBN News Mid North Coast
- NBN News New England
- NBN News Far North Coast
The following NBN News bulletins that would remain local would beâŚ
- NBN News Newcastle
Combine the Central Coast into the Newcastle bulletin. Around 80% of the local opt-outs on there should be for Newcastle and the Hunter, while the remaining 20% being for the Central Coast.
Something for Nine to consider I guess given their ongoing cost-cutting measures thus far.
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Does heritage branding mean that much to Nine and could NBN News becoming renamed Nine News?
If NBN Gold Coast, NBN Newcastle/Central Coast and NBN Northern Rivers/New England/Mid North Coast are to be separated, could it be possible that Newcastle/Central Coast be merged with Nine Sydney and have a regional opt out, Gold Coast similarly treated but merged with Nine Brisbane/Gold Coast and the remainder of the region be a Northern NSW bulletin?
With Nine cost cutting anything could happen, but i am thinking the first casualty will be NBN Weekend News bulletins with Nine News Sydney likely to replace it
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I think itâs highly unlikely that thereâll be any merging of the NBN News bulletin info the Sydney or Brisbane one.
As for rebranding, Iâm a bit surprised they havenât done this yet, but still surely happen at some point in the future, if they are serious about âavoiding duplicationâ as they claim to eg. sending NBN News a different version of the network report with different bugs, sign offs etc. They can just air the Nine one.
In relation to cost cutting, most likely scenarios I see happening that affect the on air product are:
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Merging of windows - maybe a ânorthâ feed and a âsouthâ feed (which would be Newcastle and Central Coast, everywhere else would be ânorthâ). Weekends might be a single bulletin.
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Axing of maybe the Tamworth and Taree/Port bulletins as the (most likely) lowest ratings ones.
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Christmas and Good Friday bulletins might be at risk.
At least like Sydney and Melbourne, theyâll now utilise a reporter for weather, if Tash etc donât read it themselves.
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No. It would make zero financial sense to split off the two largest population centres into existing bulletins, but keep the rest separate. They will either go all in with keeping it or all out and merge with state bulletins. I would suspect the next move would probably be to go live across the whole region and remove opt-outs.
Lauren Kempe has been doing the weekend weather for a while now, so she might be the logical choice to put on weeknights if they want to continue down that road. Then just have Jane/whoever presents read it on weekends.
Iâm kind of surprised they arenât already, given you would imagine the amount of local stories (outside of sport) probably wouldnât necessitate full opt-outs across all regions. There is already a lot of sharing happening across windows anyway, so they may as well go all out with it.
Probably not the whole episode, but definitely a segment.
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We noticed that they were running a solo anchor more often than not so it seemed like it was on the way at some point.
Unfortunately news.
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