Channel 9 News Sydney hit with technical difficulties at 6pm, goes live to Melbourne bulletin
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/channel-9-news-sydney-hit-with-technical-difficulties-at-6pm-goes-live-to-melbourne-bulletin/news-story/6bae03eb3efdb51a78310e0b4b5c3437
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So no one remembers last year when ATN7 news took HSV7 news with Rebecca Maddern? The whole bulletin came from Melbourne.
These stuff ups are becoming increasingly more common between the Sydney and Melbourne stations.
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cause automation takes time to get right
I still remember that. Thankfully Seven at least had some time to turn on the ānationalā look, although this Saturday night bulletin was shortened to 30 minutes (due to AFL coverage in Melbourne, Sydney got a Border Security repeat at 6.30pm) and barely had any content from Sydney at all from what I remember.
That was a slightly different situation - a fire somewhere in the control room during the day made it impossible for Sydney to get a bulletin out so a national-style bulletin was produced out of Melbourne instead (complete with national backdrop, a few Sydney stories and a presenter who would be recognisable to most regular Seven News viewers up here).
I donāt recall Seven Sydney having any spontaneous technical issues recently.
Nine has these issues multiple times a week by comparison. Is there any chance that the new set might help rectify some of them (ie purpose-built for automation rather than being a retrofit?).
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Automation will NEVER be right!
Just as a side note, if this happened in the US - there is NO WAY for example if NBC4 New York suffered tech issues that they would take neighbouring NBC Boston, NBC Philly or NBC DC local news at 6. They would figure it out and get news to air at 6 somehow. Iāve never heard of this happening in the US.
Usually this decision after it happens is ridiculed within the network and frowned upon. I say whoever decided to hit that switch last night, will have a few meetings this morning.
and yet, TEN has not had one major failure of itās automation - and it uses the same system.
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true, do they all use mozart now?
Is this the case for all of TENās state bulletins?
A good question for our Perth viewers, perhaps. How many major technical difficulties has Nine News Perth had since moving to their new studios and automation?
I donāt know whether or not this was automation related, but didnāt Ten have to run part of the Melbourne bulletin into Sydney one day in November last year because of major technical difficulties at Pyrmont?
Even the ABC has had to run the Canberra bulletin into NSW (or visa versa) on occasions in the past. The point is that these sorts of errors can happen to everyone!
I donāt recall any. There was a few teething issues the first morning Today Perth News was on air. But nothing from the main bulletin.
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Yes. I canāt remember which way around it was but, the Brisbane bulletin was shown in Sydney or vice versa for a few minutes at one stage too.
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Yeah, part of Nineās Sydney bulletin was shown in Brisbane in July last year (ironically, the day after Seven had those technical difficulties) although I think there may have been an occasion where Ten also did something similar.
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Next to none.
More of a coincidence
How many of these outages have been confirmed as resulting from automation.
Iād be blaming yesterdayās on the latest forced Windows 10 update* 
*that has been causing major problems.
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Well for me the update is fine.
For now.
I spoke too soon and jinxed themā¦ Perth failed now on ads
Edit: seems to be fine now, just had blank screens during the first story then feed was cut and they played an aca ad and half way through the next ad it was back with Emmy.
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