Make of this what you can, but at the end of this (very old) National Nine News Queensland bulletin from September 19, 2000 (Day 4 of the Sydney Olympics), Heather Foord says “I’ll be back for our Olympic special bulletin at 6, goodnight”.
This suggests to me that their flagship bulletin was televised at 5:00pm (or thereabouts) instead of the usual 6:00pm; it’s also worth noting daylight saving kicked in at the end of August that year to accommodate the Olympics.
Apparently it was for viewers convivence - as presumably some of the major events at 7pm Sydney would’ve been at 6pm Queensland.
Here’s a promo for WIN (Nine News would’ve been at 5 in Brisbane, with a second edition at 6pm):
They should have had the original version of “Tar Sequence” playing in that compilation.
That is correct. For the record, “Brayden’s Weather” ripped the bulletin from my You Tube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOaGCUk0u1s
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tell that to the supers
although I do love the rest of the look, I just feel the supers are still the weakest part of the relaunch
It’s probably better than those “Pre Shows” Seven would do for Olympics (with time zones where AM here had no live events yet) and Australian Opens, usually a pre record with someone like Jim Wilson seen for 1min and sleepwalking through V/O replays and highlights for an hour…
Nine Brisbane promos notably different to Seven’s that do not include any reporter or reader images including in the end board.
Good point. Can you imagine another such incident during the Olympics! 
Why would they need to move the set to do that? The image above shows the desk and the screen behind Davina is definitely not the usual set. Way too close to her.
If 4pm and especially 6pm is like this then I’d say a new set is on its way.
If it is coming from Melbourne, it must be for an extended period, otherwise would they fly Davina down for a day or two?
I highly doubt its a new set. I think people are on the money that the Olympics is tying up Sydney’s control rooms so they have decamped News to Melbourne while it is on. Or maybe its somehow easier/cheaper to power up Melbourne and leave sydney offline? IDK but I would be very surprised if Pete Overton isn’t in his normal set tonight.
Oh Davina was on the set after all.
Looks like Nine News will only run for 30min in Adelaide and Perth during the Olympics. Possibly due to time zones, avoiding too many channel changes and most of all to limit missed Paris 2024 action for viewers. Could also be because those bulletins don’t rate that well vs Seven News and Nine’s east coast bulletins (where you’d be unlikely to see those truncated).
Swimming Heats start at 6:30pm ACST (7pm AEST) each night - SA viewers would have to miss the 2nd half of news if it was an hour long.
Hopefully Nine will still have comprehensive coverage of the rest of the days news.
Definitely timeslot related, not ratings. Wonder what they will do at 5.30 though.
Air the Olympics coverage that East Coast viewers will get on 9GO when the news is on there. Like how the 6:30pm-7pm AEST portion will air on 9GO during 6pm-6:30pm here in SA.
