Also, I’m not sure if this is another new thing for the bulletin but just before the final ad break, there was a cross to Peter Overton in the news exchange (was called “the newsroom” on-air but I think that’s in a different area of TCN. Anyway…) previewing tonight’s 6pm bulletin:
One wonders what the 2.5 million or so viewers in Regional NSW/ACT who’ll be seeing Vanessa or Paul/Tash at 6pm made of that preview for a bulletin they won’t get to watch…
What the bleep is going on with that backdrop. It’s ugly enough as it is but you don’t need to include fake curved screen effects when it’s being shown on a curved screen ffs!!!
No different to many viewers on Prime7 who gets a Fergo update during the arvo news when those in NNSW and SNSW gets Madelaine Collignon, Kenny Heatley and Daniel Gibson for their 6pm/6:30 news.
They could always air their local newsbreak in place of it (just cut to it as soon as Amelia mentions Pete’s name or just air it at the beginning of the next ad break).
A few more things, while the set looks better, why so much white??? Seems like Nine is trying to emulate Sunrise, who are already bad enough as they are with the whites, and does this mean that studio 23 is only used for Today Extra and ACA?
However, I wouldn’t mind Nine News regional adopting some of the rings for their local news rather than their current ‘virtual’ stuff. Would look 10000x better.
Yes, I think there’s far too much going on with that backdrop as well.
Hmm, fair point.
While I can perfectly understand why Seven and Nine want to promote their Sydney 6pm bulletins during the 4pm bulletin, at the same time they need to be mindful that the 4pm bulletin does air in places which won’t be seeing the 6pm bulletin! Personally I think both networks should include clear opt-out points in their 4pm bulletin so the regionals can seamlessly cut away from the irrelevant Sydney 6pm news preview to promote their own 6pm news offerings.
The left-hand side of the main Sydney liveshot (showing mostly the Opera House) would look soo much better than that current still image! (Like what Seven’s 4pm News do in Sydney)
I agree with that. Maybe they could increase the previews to around 90 seconds or two minutes (with the remainder of the opt-out time for a short regional weather update), because the live Sydney presenter crossover might last as long as that. The procedure can be like this from @Tom_TV7:
…which is really needed for regional viewers. If they prefer the first option, maybe the 4pm presenter can pause for about two seconds before crossing to Peter or Georgie for Nine Sydney, then pause again for a few before switching back…
that would make sense, as most parts of the supers have the curve corners, which matches the Now logo, which IS different from the rest of channel nine
Having a Peter Overton voiceover this is obviously the Sydney version (so I presume that each capital city has their own version with a local newsreader VO) but from what I saw just before an ad break during Nine News Now yesterday afternoon, there’s also a national version of the promo with a Matthew O’Sullivan voiceover.
Personally I find these errors hilarious (and it’s more material for the TCN Christmas Tape I suppose) but as usual, it’s rather concerning how often they happen these days!
This attempt to use the new Brisbane studio happened on the weekend. For some reason the political reported was placed right of screen rather than in the sports chair. There were numerous awkward paused and wrong camera shots.
