It does look a bit cheap, doesn’t it?
I think the worst aspect of it is the glass top that has an overhang on the front of the desk.
I keep thinking “oh, I hope Bruce doesn’t knock that over…”.
It doesn’t look very safe there and looks badly misaligned with the desk itself.
from Kate Limon, new news director of Nine Darwin:
Kate Limon @KateLimon9 12h12 hours ago
Something a little different for @9NewsDarwin… @elizabethcreasy presenting 6pm bulletin live from the newsroom 
Wendy said on Twitter she was at the Gold Coast show (not sure if she did a live cross or not)?[quote=“TV.Cynic, post:690, topic:67”]
As the Gold Coast 
is the latest new studio for Nine it will no doubt for the basis of all new sets around the country…
[/quote] The only possible state that would receive a similar set would be QTQ. Nine aren’t stupid, that set is too beachy for Sydney’s or Melbourne bulletin.
I wonder whether the full bulletin was presented from the newsroom or if that was just a live cross?
I’m pretty sure that Elizabeth Creasy (who I still remember from her days reporting in Taree - Elisabeth was a great reporter back then so I’d imagine that she’s probably one of the best currently at Nine News Darwin) has been known to do presenting and reporting for Nine News Darwin, but don’t quote me on that one…
I agree. And I think that a Gold Coast-style set would look awful even on Nine News Queensland. 
They have a 3 hour election coverage program tonight, so maybe using their main studio for that.
So they’ve covered their set up with black curtains? Looks terrible.
Did a quick search on Kate Limon’s appointment to the head of news in Darwin. She sounds like she is being some great ideas to the table:
The 9 News set in Brisbane needs updating desperately. No consistent colour theme and it generally looks very 90s at best.
So I assume your also talking about the Sydney and Melbourne sets too then? 
I guess so if they’re the same. I’m in Brisbane.
As much as I think that the current Nine News Sydney set is starting to date and that I’d love to see a new set in the not too distant future, the fact that it’s been in use over seven years with only minor tweaks over that time (in comparison to the Sydney news sets of Seven and Ten, which have had at least three major set changes and numerous tweaks during the same period) has to count for something, surely? 
Personally, I’m definitely expecting Nine News to have an evolution rather than a revolution of it’s current branding when they change things next. Knowing the most recent attempt(s) at completely relaunching (2006-08 era, one I’m sure that Nine would like to forget ever happened!) the branding of Nine’s news service and indeed the whole network turned out, a evolution of the current branding would really be all for the best…
In my opinion it made the space look worse as when they did a wide shot you could see the top of the set and the lights on behind the curtains.
I think they should have just gone with the regular studio but with election branding.
She’s the weekend newsreader and main fill in presenter when Jonno is away.
Because of NRL commitments Nine News will be at 4.30 pm in Sydney and Brisbane on Saturday 10 September.
http://forums.mediaspy.org/t/nine-network-programs-and-schedules/43/400?u=tv.cynic
Another week of Perth’s " Live At Five " bulletin off air.
Possibly because Nine Perth are currently preparing for the big move to their new studios in a few weeks time!
Sorry about the double post, but this one’s worth responding to…
I believe that National Nine News started to use that “stripy globe” motif sometime in the mid-1980s. Possibly in 1985 (in Sydney at least) but I haven’t seen enough footage from that era to confirm for sure. By the time it was taken out of circulation in 2006, it had been part of Nine’s news branding for about two decades (although gradually tweaked over time, mainly with changing colour schemes).
Then in 2006, we were introduced to the now infamous “flying billboard logo” which lasted until 2008 when Nine News dropped the “National” from it’s name. During the 2008-09 era we had the rotating rings, spinning earth globes were introduced back into the branding for the Late 2009 graphics change and the “dotted globe” we have now has been the centrepiece of Nine News’ branding since 2012.
Thanks for that info @SydneyCityTV, I guess it hasn’t always been there as you say but it appears to have crept back in over time.
Would you say the “map” or “flat globe” element has always featured prominently in the backdrop behind the Nine’s news readers?
