The 5pm news in Perth is getting the live backdrop today instead of what is usually in place.
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Looks a lot better.
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That woman is the worst.
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Seems to be developing a following in Sydney
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Love the reference ‘GTV News’, I like how they still reference the historical call signs in 2021
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To me that looks like problems with the Mosart automation.
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Since The Today Show has a connected space of soft and hard set, I think the cameras were played out for the A Current Affair intro incorrectly. Either someone clicked the wrong buttons or the automation was incorrect.
You need see it switching to different camera angles, so it definitely is human error.
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Yes the TCN and GTV call signs seem to still live on within the network. Great to see and hear.
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Love Overton’s reference to the text from his 12 year old - “Where did you go?” 
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Nine has told The Australian tonight’s technical issues aren’t connected to the cyber attack.
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Brisbane receiving Sydney news this afternoon at 4pm.
Nine reporting as if the power outage is continuing when Energex says power has been restored to all by 3,500 users.
“I’d love to tell you how long this outage will last Mark, But quite simply we just don’t know.”
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It would be interesting to know what the fallback is for a power outage at 6pm. Presumably the Brisbane based stations would have generators to at the very least power an OB for 6pm. While it’s ok for an afternoon bulletin, it would be a bad look to be offline and take the Sydney news at 6 during an emergency like this.
In any case inner Brisbane (including Mt. Cootha) have had power restored now anyway.
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Going by the cap posted above it seems that the QTQ newsroom got power back on for 4pm, but that the control room might’ve still been out of action going by that sea of testcards on one monitor?
…or the Melbourne bulletin via Sydney, remembering what happened last night! 
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99% of places had power restored before 4pm. For some reason, Nine is still acting as there is an ongoing problem.
Yet at the time as the above report Energex said:
Seven News reported that most places had power restored in their 4pm report.
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Nine News QLD 6pm bulletin mentioned that the Gold Coast offices lost power during the outage and then showed the opening of the 5.30 bulletin to demonstrate that it had been restored.
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This isn’t an exclusive Nine News practice; it is typical of most news bulletins we see, even ABC - crossing live to a location well after the events that are being reported.
Tonight’s example (and there were several across networks): A widespread outage see power loss to a large number of consumers starting around 2pm. By 3:30pm the majority of users have their power restored and by 4:30 pm the number without power is just 1,995.
So sometime after 6pm we cross live with BREAKING NEWS to Kedron a Brisbane suburb apparently notable for having traffic lights. The story is that about 3 hours ago there was a traffic jam on Gympie Road as traffic lights lost power.
And the throw “How’s the traffic looking where you are?” Well Andrew “… where I am, the traffic lights are back on.”
But what purpose did the live cross serve? To jog the memory of viewers who may have forgotten what operating traffic lights look like? Perhaps a reminder of free flowing traffic? Perhaps just somewhere the reporting team stopped so they could get take away at the nearby McDonalds.
Meanwhile on Seven, here’s what a random street in Surfers looks like at 5:29 pm and later at 6:03 pm. All the better to show all that electricity being used to power the lights in the background . 
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Just saw a 9News update in Brisbane. Ffs, how can they be the number 1 service? Apart from the inappropriate and sensationalist “alert” rather than “update” we have to listen to Wally Lewis in his fake second-grader reading voice.
Then a promo for tomorrow nights bulletin with all the sensationalist language and even little graphics of megaphones to add to what they were talking about. Omg. What crap.
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Someone should tell Nine News Queensland that such a roadtest would’ve been more relevant leading up to Easter almost two months ago!
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