Probably just going to use the green screen studio in addition to its main news coverage and set for specials and long form stories maybe
Im still wondering if they will break away from the age old holding big stories till 6pm. Its so archaic
Well, it is and it isn’t. If they’re confident it’s an exclusive not going to break elsewhere before 6pm then leading with it at 6pm gives it the maximum exposure. There’s not much point chucking it online at 2pm and it being old news by 6pm or having to re-report your own story at 6.
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Problem is they have a loyal audience but that audience doesnt compare with 1news unfortunately. If they break it at 6pm, theres nothing stopping 1news from then picking it up in the morning and running with it throughout the day culminating in a big story that doesnt need to reference that it broke on newshub
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Is this “Real Estate speak” for web updates delivered from a broom cupboard?
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I wonder if they will use the old AM Show studio for virtual sets.
My understanding is it may be the old AM show studio space.
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So the regular set will stay the same and they will repurpose the old studio?
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Seems right, wouldnt make sense to move to a virtual set after the investment they put into the changes seen in feb this year.
Though excited to see what comes of the virtual set, and just how virtual it will be
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Tonight’s 6pm bulletin will start at approx 6:15pm due to RWC2021 semi final coverage between Canada-England.
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Happy they are keeping to two hosts for the week nights
Does the weekend sports block still have two presenters? Always found that a bit strange. Still, seems to make sense to go to one newsreader. Must be the first time a TV3 6pm has been presented solo since the days of Hilary Barry at weekends?
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SSS has been single-hosted for so long, I’d actually forgotten they used to have two!
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Ha! Shows how long it’s been since I last watched Newshub.
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@NuStraya I have some facts.
Right now the Super Sports Sunday is read by a single sports anchor instead of two. It used to have two anchors when that segment reintroduced in 2015.
From memory Super Sports Sunday was introduced in 1999 as part of Sunday’s edition of 3 News at 6pm. The Saturday edition ran for half an hour until 2001 when it was extended to a full hour and a ‘supersized’ sports segment, similar to Super Sports Sunday, was added to that edition. In 2007, the weekend bulletins were moved to a double head newsreader format to align with the weeknight bulletins and the ‘supersized’ sports segments were dropped to make way for additional coverage of national and international news, i.e. more news, less sport.
Not to mention Neil Waka before he left TV3 (now Three) by mid-1998! From memory, during the 3 National News era, the weekend anchor did all the news, sport and weather. When 3 News came along in February 1998, separate anchors for sport and weather were added to the weekend bulletin.
As I said earlier, before the introduction of Super Sport Sunday, the weekend news ran for 30 minutes (compared to a full hour on weeknights) in those days. During the Christmas and New Year holiday period, the 6pm news was reduced to a half hour bulletin for the summer.
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This is a short montage of the last 4:30pm bulletin. It was hosted by Amanda Gillies. Launched back in March 2017 at 4pm then moving to 4:30pm in 2019.
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So, I will have to watch something else at 4.30 instead
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Wait has the bulletin been cancelled?
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I know Amanda used to be the newsreader on The AM Show, but just can’t shake thinking that she had such a voice for radio, it’s almost strange seeing her present a straight up news bulletin.
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Yes Amanda said it her self
“…it is the last show of the year and the last show ever for the 4:30 bulletin.”
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