Nine remains committed to finding a long-term solution for a news presence in the Northern Territory. | Nine Spokesperson
Um, are you sure about that?
You’ve almost got no one at Nine reporting for the NT anymore. Everyone’s leaving because almost none of the news is about the NT, it’s all about the Sunshine State. And all to protect the Brisbane/Gold Coast ratings. Quite simply put - no local news bulletin, no reporters. Kinda like how the current Tasmanian Devils AFL situation is at the moment - no stadium, no team.
Nine need to just give up at this point and stop trying to find replacements because quite simply put, everyone is defecting to the ABC. The viewers want and need their local news on TV. Voices and communities need to be heard. Unless Seven launches a composite one-hour long bulletin for the NT, then more and more viewers will get settled into ABC’s NT news.
I say at this rate Nine should just stop covering the NT altogether (if there’s still any minor mentions of it at all) and let the ABC (and now hopefully Seven) take care of this. NTD needs to just pack up and leave, and let a complete full-time dirty feed of QTQ-9 Brisbane take the reigns. Everything about Nine in the NT now is about Queensland, the news, the sport, and even the weather forecast. No NT news on Nine, just entirely about the Sunshine State.
I reckon Seven will be smart enough (if they have the cash to do so) to launch an hour-long news bulletin that could air nightly instead of the weekday format like what Nine had been doing until that bulletin was axed. It would be a smart move after all.