The thing that would set a late commercial need bulletin apart from ABC News, etc is local news. They should condense the 1 hour 6pm bulletin into 30 minutes. Good opportunity for reporters to get presentation experience too.
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Really if Nine want a similar magazine type late news program probably move Nine News Now to a later schedule… and scrap some of the segments that wouldn’t work for a late night bulletin.
Does anybody else find it quite outrageous that 9 Sydney used vision from a fire that destroyed three buildings in Tathra back in January in its opener tonight and during the live cross at the top of the bulletin on today’s bushfire emergency?!
Here is the link to the Youtube clip, I assume they took the vision from and a snap of the headlines and the vision they used in tonight’s bulletin, not only in the opener, but then in the live cross.
It is incredibly misleading and to think they used it as the first pictures at the top of their bulletin is quite astonishing.
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Geez, that’s pretty bad.
Hopefully the ABC’s Media Watch program will take a look at this!
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I’m pretty sure Nine was using a SD link-up for Peter Overton’s shot. Personally I was more distracted by the fact that Pete had a partially unbuttoned shirt (I know not to expect studio-levels of presentation at the scene of a bushfire disaster, but still slightly unprofessional looking IMO)!
Although interestingly enough, there was a live cross to Bega in native HD:
For what it’s worth, only the first 15 minutes or so of the bulletin + a couple of crosses back were presented by Peter Overton from Tathra with Deborah Knight doing “the rest of the days news” from Studio 1 at Willoughby as per usual.
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You’re concerned about a ‘partially unbuttoned shirt’? I hope you’re not being serious man 
As you can probably see by the sweat patches on his shirt, I can’t imagine it was a very comfortable place to be. Bushfire zones aren’t a very glamorous location, so IMO Pete was very appropriately dressed.
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I agree, Pete was appropriately attired for the occasion.
Politicans also don’t usually put on suits for these occasions either.
Malcolm Turnbull and Andrew Constance (NSW Transport Minister and Bega MP) were both in Tathra today and had open necked business shirts on too.
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Nine run HD as far as they can from what I know.
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They did at the end of tonight’s episode: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4819037.htm
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Last nights Nine News presented by Pete & Deb:
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Not sure if this was just a one off (due to our much needed rain/cool down) or it’s going to be a regular thing, but Sydney’s weather preview was presented a bit differently tonight. You could say the presentation style wasn’t overly dissimilar to what Gary Youngberry has been doing in South East Queensland lately, although the actual forecast was still presented from the usual position.
Unfortunately I only caught the end of this, but I think you get the general idea:
Also, Kelly Fedor tonight used an umbrella during her live cross (a different one to the 2006-08 era “National Nine News” umbrella which was also seen on a fairly recent live cross in Sydney) that had to be over a decade old:
I know what you’re thinking…it doesn’t really matter how old the umbrella is as long as it keeps the reporter dry and fair enough. But surely Nine has a few more umbrellas with the current Channel Nine or Nine News logo? 
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Did you notice Amber nearly fell over on her heels as she was walking towards the end of that segment?
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They sounded heavy judging by the " click clack " which was being picked up by the microphone.
The set is quite a danger zone for falls and while i’m sure it’s all OH&S triple-approved, Peter Hitchener still warns all of his guests to “watch their step” when he takes them on a studio tour 
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I highly doubt it would meet OH&S, the edge of the steps should have something like orange stripes to be more visible and be non slip rubber.
Of course that wouldn’t look very good on TV.
Morning News automation stuff ups:
Surely, since the Morning/Afternoon News bulletin has moved to Studio 21 there has been more automation stuff ups… here’s a few from Studio 23… Even though that Livinia one is more when she missed the cue!
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Problems with the opener in Perth tonight. Thommo at the desk on screen the whole time whilst his voiceover played the headlines. The images were there but Thommo was over the top most prominent.
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Here it is:
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