Also the technical difficulties at TCN and GTV usually occur early in the bulletin which is when the local news windows are played out. Airing Wollongong or Ballarat local news would be even less palatable than airing Syd/Melb news on each other’s market.
Also keep in mind when their are technical issues NPC will take the GTV or QTQ feed for TCN. Because SCA is in Canberra and NBN in Newcastle their isn’t a way for NPC to even play out SR or NBN. Likewise for MR and BR. So your idea is basically technically impossible anyway. Unless NCR re-rout the studio feeds… if they did that it still would not work if MOSART is down and had to be re-mossed which usually is the cause of technical issues.
Imagine that, fault at TCN/GTV news so they show ATN/HSV news in their respective markets.
Wouldn’t be too bad though as I’m sure the other night many people in Melbourne who saw Peter Overton and the Harbour Bridge back drop may well have just switched to Seven News Melbourne with Peter Mitchell anyway and then not switched back. At least if they showed the Seven News on Nine viewers wouldn’t switch and when the fault was restored they would still be on Nine for the duration of the bulletin.
Can’t see it happening though, at least not on purpose…
Although I certainly wouldn’t rule it out as a possibility (remembering that the ABC was accidentally shown on WIN during the early days of MediaHub), surely the Seven Network channels would most likely be played out in a different area to the Nine Network channels?
They might be about to share playout facilities but I’m still reasonably confident that both Seven & Nine would try and do whatever possible to ensure they don’t accidentally broadcast content from their rival!