Seven News Brisbane won this year because they didn’t rely on those sensational ‘First on the scene’, ‘First on Health news’ and consumer reports to attract viewers. It is a classier bulletin. The fact that they have better reporters (some are just as bad as Nine though) and producers who used to report for the bulletin is just a bonus.
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Without going too far off topic, which reporters at Seven and Nine do you think is the best? And which ones are the worst? (Queensland only).
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Wasn’t there 5 years in between Lee Anderson and Amanda Paterson?
I was under the impression that QTQ’s news director prior to Amanda Patterson was Michael Dalton before he was appointed as Nine’s director for the regional bulletins.
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That’s my recollection.
Correct, I wrote that the move to younger, clearly less costly reporting talent began in Lee’s time (industry wide, not peculiar to QTQ) yet:
Read the contributions slower and understanding of them becomes clearer.
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I still don’t understand the label First on 9 News. This report tonight labelled breaking news and “these pictures just into the newsroom” had that label. Video all appeared to be from mobile phones.
Yet the same fire was shown approx one hour earlier on Ten News.
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And yet another spelling mistake from Nine.
This spelling crisis is “englufing” them.
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it’s that rush to be first.
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It aired in QLD today (with Peter Overton). It is the type of promo @blackbox used to create for the news division in 2010/11.
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I love that skyline backdrop!
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When will they learn? People don’t give a toss if it’s “First On” a certain network. All that actually matters is when it’s Live or if it’s an Exclusive (a real exclusive not a fake exclusive using pooled footage 
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Amanda clearly doesn’t understand it either, so no need to scratch your head too much in wonder.
Indeed. They are out of talent if this is the best they can put up.
Wendy bringing some much needed experience. Ebony fine on weather.
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Brisbane has resurrected the North South East West news promo. Couple of versions have aired - each has one story different.
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I don’t think it helps that Nine News Queensland doesn’t do an Opening Set Wideshot to accompany the voiceover, like Sydney, Melbourne and possibly some of the other markets.
Realistically I’m not expecting the next major On-Air Presentation changes for Nine News Sydney to happen until the move to North Sydney. Even then, I wouldn’t be overly surprised if the current sets remain in use (with possibly minor tweaks along the way) for a decade or close to it.
Although I’d personally still like to hear an update to the Nine News theme music, especially since the current version has been used for nearly 11 years and is now being used in ways it was never originally intended to (with the sound effects and as a bed for Newsbreaks, etc.).
7s been running with “news that matters” for a while…
Beats me why TCN considers a Mornington Peninsula beach box sale suitable content for the Sydney bulletin. I know they’re iconic in Victoria but they’ve never really been a thing connected to Sydney’s superior beach culture.
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