All comes down to cost i suppose. regional and news now apparently share the same control room. Staff are there
Lucky WIN arenât affiliated with Nine anymore, otherwise Iâm sure theyâd have some strong opinions about this 
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Are Nine moving away from âFirst on Nineâ?
Iâve noticed they have been using âEXCLUSIVEâ a lot more latelyâŚ
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I wonder if Nine will update their first at five background to become similar to either early or morning news in the near futureâŚ
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Maybe they are starting to get more content they know that Seven doesnât have.
I think having unique content has more clout than just being first with it.
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The âfirst onâ is a different term to âexclusiveâ, so more of a mix of both I would say.
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And the weird thing is they do have a 9 EXCLUSIVE watermark that we have seen before on other stories though for this story out of Columbia they have been using this cobbled together 9 NEWS EXCLUSIVE watermark.
Tonightâs Cassie Sainsbury story on Nine News Adelaide featured footage capped from ABC News. Canât remember if they used a âCourtesy of ABC Newsâ bug, but they had cropped the image to try and remove the ABCâs lower-thirds, covering the rest with their lower-third.
The footage was only there for a few seconds, but still makes me laugh over all the hypocrisy of stolen footage.
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I think that story you are thinking of might be the Lindt Cafe story. An excerpt from an ABC News story on tonightâs Four Corners was shown. The ABC News logo was seen very briefly and the ABC News graphic âFour Cornersâ could be seen.
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My bad, it was the Lindt Cafe story.
Pretty rough with them not properly crediting ABC, especially after they chucked such a tantrum over Seven stealing footage. How hard is it to put a âCourtesy: [news service]â tag in the top corner?
The use of Seven and Nineâs âFirst Onâ and âExclusiveâ tags are also stupid. No one could care less if youâre the first one (by minutes) out of all networksâ 6pm bulletin to broadcast a story that is being covered by everyone. Exclusive tags maybe, but only when youâre the only one with an interview of someone.
I feel both 7 and 9 use first on to indicate exclusive vision, rather than having it on air before the other.
9 has only really started to heavily use exclusive in the last few weeks. There is no way over the last 6 years they havenât had an exclusive. Maybe the change is a way to try and distance themselves from 7 who also use first on?
9 are doing rolling coverage from the national news set. Does it look a bit odd to anyone? Almost like the studio isnât HD?
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At the rate theyâre going, Nine will start promoting first at 3PM given Nine News Now is on at 3pm, and Seven will retaliate by launching a 3pm bulletin filled with more repeats of repeats of repeat news stories. 
And then Nine will push Nine News Now back to 2pm, to be first at 2pm, and then Seven will move theirs back to 2pm until eventually all they show is news!
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Reminds me of the 4 Yorkshire Men skit of Monty Python where they each try to outdo each other with how bad life used to be. It ends with
I had to get up in the morning at ten oâclock at night, half an hour before I went to bedâŚ
What exactly does âFirst at 4â mean in the case of Nine? It certainly isnât the ratings and it canât be the start time.
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