The new 9 News Adelaide set is imminent due to Will McDonald doing the news tonight from the flash set which is noticeable due to different audio quality and sport being done from the balcony.
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Something looks a bit different heh?
Hint - The backdrop behind Justine.
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That side of the set has always been like that in Melbourne. Itās because they have to slide those panels out to film Footy Classified.
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With discussion in the Presenters & Reporters thread about a local Melbourne edition of the Afternoon News (presumably branded as āNine Liveā) with Alicia Loxley launching tomorrow, Iām wondering what the situation will be here in Sydney during the 4pm hour tomorrow.
Presumably the main bulletin presenters will largely remain the same, but with sport permanently being presented from Sydney (up until now, it wasnāt uncommon to see Nine Melbourne sports presenters on the semi-national Afternoon News from time to time) and probably Amber/Belinda presenting the weather instead of Livinia?
Should we expect to see the āNine Liveā branding here in Sydney or will it just be Nineās Afternoon News as the case is now? Regardless of the name, presumably thereāll be a slightly different (or more national, for the want of a better term) look to distinguish it from the 6pm bulletin?
Content wise, are we expecting to see the bulletin positioned more towards at a local Sydney/NSW audience or are we to expect a watered down ānationalā version to cater for the likes of Nine Darwin?
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Good questions.
My thoughts are that it will be pretty much unchanged in NSW tomorrow, so they can promote and launch a ā9 Liveā for Sydney when they are ready.
Why itās not being launched at the same time as Melbourneās is anyoneās guess.
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Updated billboard out of the front of 9 Queensland at Mt Coot-tha, this obviously features the new graphics but the previous version had Darren & Allison on it.
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It looks to me like Nine (in Sydney) seems to have gotten most of the kinks in its 6pm news automation ironed out ??
I havenāt seen anywhere near the number of glitches lately that we were seeing earlier this year.
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New adelaide set is official and probably will be on air tomorrow. I screenshotted this the other day but I forogot about it 
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Awesome as, canāt wait to see 
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Surprised that Adelaide will be getting their set before Brisbane as they moved their current set several weeks ago. But this Adelaidian isnāt complaining!
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Agreed lol
Brisbane needed all new HD compatible equipment installed which could take weeks.
Adelaide just needs the set as they got an all new studio when they moved.
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from what I understand, Nine Brisbane also had construction difficulties while implementing the new HD studio. All three stations on Mt Coot-tha, being as old as they are, have some form of asbestos somewhere in the building.
I understand that the studio was originally supposed to begin fit out in January.
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Could Brisbane follow other capital cities and relocate channel 9 to a city site in Brisbane CBD? That way they could have a brand new HD studio from day one similar to Perth?
Probably unlikely as unlike the other cities the land in Mt Coot-tha isnāt suitable for development so incentive to sell and move elsewhere isnāt there.
Iād say that Nineās current investment reconfiguring the studios and implementing HD supports that they have no plans to move elsewhere anytime soon.
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Donāt the Brisbane commercial stations have something like a 99 year lease on their Mt Coot-tha studios? If so, they might be stuck there for another 40 years or so.
Iām pretty sure the three commercial stations have freehold title over their land as it was sold to them by the city council. The ABC tower is on leased land.
##nine News Budget Special
Tuesday 9 May at 10:30 pm
Budget 2017 with Peter Overton and Nineās Finance Editor Ross Greenwood as well as analysis from Laurie Oakes.
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from what I understand, only the council can buy the land back - and they have a standing $1m offer. Thereās also a rumour that the land has to be returned to itās pre leased state (ie, no building and bush)
since Nine are investing heavily in the building - one would assume itās here to stay for a while.