With all due respect I think you are over analyzing things a bit.
Things like the newsreader being used to a certain sized set or Sydney not liking video walls - I mean - come on.
Bring on the set and GFX nationally I say. Things like this don’t affect ratings.
What affects ratings is content, marketing, overall brand awareness/trust, quality coverage, lead in,etc
It certainly hasn’t affected Nine Perth’s ratings
Exactly. And GTV9 and TCN9 forever had a blue screen chroma key sets that were in broom closest and were still dominant #1s
I don’t recall TCN ever having a chromakey set but in all honesty the Perth set is still just a desk with a few plasmas as the background. I can’t imaging anyone having a fit over having to present in front of something so simple. For anyone who has watched the clips from Nine Perth, the set is similar in size to the current east coast versions anyways.
Lol they had it for years in Sydney. - desk and a chroma keyed live shot.
If anything, Pete here in Melbourne would love a high tech looking set. He’s a very tech savvy man and is very passionate about innovation I feel these comments of him being uncomfortable are rubbish. It’s a set full of screens. No different to what’s there now except majority of it at the moment is wood, plastic and some lights.
Oh how embarrassing… I totally blanked that from my mind! I stand corrected.
If 9News.com.au is now using a newer look “Breaking News” image, then surely the On-Air debut can’t be that far off?
They’ll probably only use it if the two Peters like the look.
Now featuring Lisa & Tvo:
I think Nine News Perth need to shift their focus to their anchors’ experience (including the weekend anchors) and gaining the trust of viewers. Liam Bartlett’s time on 60 Minutes speaks it for itself, and Emmy is commonly known in Perth for her stints on Seven News Perth.
IT’S ON!!! Technical issues resolved and it is all systems go. New opener, transitions and supers*(subject to market*). Sets are a work in progress.
Apologies for the confusion. Reasons for though are stated above. Theme will remain. Gold Coast is in on this as well.
Next weekend? 
IMO, the national news set in Studio 3 will probably work OK-ish with the new look apart from a few minor changes. In particular, updating the plasma graphics and changing the globe panels to ones that match the newer graphics. With that in mind, I’m now starting to think that the 6pm news in Sydney and Melbourne would work better with the new look if the bulletins adopted a simpler national news/ACA-style set (but obviously slightly larger and without the news exchange bit, etc.) rather than a rather visually busy Nine News Perth-style set.
For the most part, the current theme music and associated transitional sound effects work well enough with the graphics package which on a completely national basis will probably be considered to be “the previous look” of Nine News on Sunday night. But from what I’ve seen of Nine News Perth since their refresh, the current theme music and sound effects sound rather jarring with the new graphics. Personally I think Nine News could do a lot worse than a refreshed version of the music and some better sound effects to go with the new graphics sometime down the track, especially when most other major TV news services in this country have had major refreshes to their sound since the start of the current decade. Keep the “Cool Hand Luke” signature of course, but give it a contemporary sound. We might be in 2016 going on 2017, but Nine News’ current theme distinctively sounds more like something from 1986 going on 1987 to my ears.
Admittedly I think that the white/blue/red tones of the “Nine News Breaking” graphic (perhaps something we’ll see with the generic look of national bulletins?) I posted earlier looks a little better than the vile “sunset” colour scheme seen in the version of the titlecard graphics Perth currently use. Still far too Ten Eyewitness News-esque IMO, but better nonetheless.
Those 3 weeks of Perth being for once ahead of the rest of the nation was nice while it lasted.
Nine News Perth will probably still be ahead of the East Coast as far as sets are concerned for a little while longer though.
STW’s news set is one of the best looking sets in the country.
I’d go one step further and say that it is the best set in the country.
@Read_It_First told me that Nine News Sydney are getting the new set with the new graphics package. The new graphics package is planned to be rolled out nationally by Monday evening.
Wait so Sydney is getting a new set tomorrow?
