Since GTV and RVIC news come out of different control rooms I’d presume so, especially since there wasn’t a mention of technical difficulties with the regional Victorian bulletins in the relevant thread.
Umm, about that…
Although since Dougal Beatty is a reporter for Nine News Melbourne, viewers of that bulletin should be infinitely more familiar with him than Peter Overton.
For the sake of a back-up, would it really matter just as long as the problems are acknowledged on-air at the first available opportunity like what happened tonight? At least one of the regional bulletins would still likely still contain Victorian-centric content at the top.
Although the sad thing is, knowing their attitude to Regional NSW I genuinely would not be overly surprised if TCN were to still flick over to the Melbourne bulletin rather than using a Nine News Southern NSW/ACT bulletin (which I personally think should be Plan B, with NBN at Plan C before going interstate) as a back-up if such an error were to happen here in Sydney again!