Hehe around 200,000 + viewers (around 50,000 more than Seven) in SEQ begs to differ. Although I’m worried Seven is doing the same.
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What the heck? That’s not even a legit news story.
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Despite Nine’s “exclusive” and “first on” tags on the Ekka story - this virtually identical story was on Seven News tonight where their sponsorship of the RNA show allowed access to every show bag on offer. It was also important enough to rank as a headline story 
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I’m sure everyone on Media Spy is more than aware that here in Sydney, our local media is incredibly fascinated…no, extremely obsessive about our Royal Agricultural Show every year (often right to the point of national coverage, such is the Sydney-centricness of Australia’s national media), something that’s probably amplified by the fact that it’s held at Easter.
But from what I’ve seen, the Sydney stations have typically taken a fairly unserious and often light-hearted approach to coverage of the showbag launch (let alone the main event itself) with said reports usually buried deep in the bulletin…maybe shown just before the cross to sport at the earliest. That is probably how it should be done, instead of…
I really don’t know what to say about this.
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Have made a bit of an interesting discovery overnight -
This is the old Brisbane set:
And this is the set that Brisbane was using while they were in the temporary studio:
Just for fun, let’s compare to some shots of the old Sydney set:
(cheers to the various uploaders btw)
Clearly there has been a game of musical sets going on this year.
The timing works very nicely as well. Sydney launched its new set at the end of January and then there was a month in which they trucked the Sydney set up to Brisbane and got it set up in the temporary studio before its late-February launch (it appears that the only things moved across were the plasmas and the piece of glass on top of the desk).
The old Brisbane set was then carefully dismantled and trucked to Newcastle to be set up at NBN. Once the new Brisbane set launched a week ago they were able to truck the final pieces down to Newcastle (the desk top and the backdrop plasma) and launch the ‘new’ NBN set.
And they almost got away with it!
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What a fantastic discovery.
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Nine Sydney have done news items on Showbags at the Royal Easter Show pretty much every year in recent times too.
Mike Dalton normally covers it.
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This year’s Sydney showbags from Dalton.
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I’m pretty sure Melbourne also gets these showbag reports during the Royal Melbourne Show which isn’t that far way.
They are usually presented by the Melbourne version of Mike Dalton… Allan Raskall.
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Mike Dalton is basically the successor to the late Peter Harvey (who did these sorts of reports for the last decade or so of his career) as the fluff/puff piece correspondent for Nine News Sydney. Before Harves passed away, Dalton did similar “quirky colour” pieces for Today.
I have no idea who Seven Sydney’s main fluff/puff piece correspondent is these days, but it was Damien Smith prior to his departure from the network after 20 years at the start of this year.
Oh yes, I seem to recall seeing a ridiculous “gold panner” report PTC from him on the former semi-national edition of the Afternoon News a while back.
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The main newsreader?
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And the main sports presenter. Both are a joke when it comes to ‘leading’ Seven’s Sydney bulletin.
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Seven does it as well.
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Adelaide getting their own edition of the Morning News.
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Sources? If it’s true, then Nine are really putting in the effort to beat Seven in Adelaide.
Hopefully they’ll keep “Nine’s Morning News” branding, not confuse it like the afternoon news (Nine News at 4pm/Nine Live at 4pm). Not a huge fan of the different openers that the afternoon news uses.
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Pretty sure it had the Nine Live branding this morning.
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It had the regular Nine News watermark but accidentally used the Nine live corner super at the end of the bulletin. I managed to capture it. - I’m still wondering if they started at the begining of the week or just today as Davina addressed it at the end of the National Morning News.
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Wow, I thought you were only referring to an upcoming local morning bulletin. Interesting that they’ve gone for a silent launch.
Edit: @SEQTelevision did you manage to capture the rest of the bulletin?
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No sorry as the time Davina mentioned it - was to late to change streams also i have poor internet connection apart from that I’ve messaged Will via twitter to see if it’s here to stay, if not i’m guessing they were giving it ago to see if Adelaidians would notice.
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