…and incase you were wondering, Nine News Sydney actually opted to cover this story as a short RVO (presumably using footage from NBN) and didn’t appear to have a reporter from the TCN newsroom in Kempsey. So it appears that Taree is close enough for TCN reporters to travel up North, but Kempsey is too far.
Either way, I definitely still think Nine News Sydney should be letting the locally based NBN or Nine regional reporters cover anything (outside of major national news where external help may be needed, of course) that isn’t in their viewing area so the TCN reporters can concentrate on stories happening here in Sydney. Thoughts?