@Radio_TVGuy your posts always use a lot of words to say absolutely nothing of value.
Your tone screams “I have no idea what I’m talking about, but actually I know better than every one else here and I know the only way things should be fixed!” Your misguided know-it-all attitude is incredibly obnoxious and off-putting, not to mention mostly incorrect.
I’m only saying what others are already trying to tell you. But if multiple users across different topic threads are saying the exact same thing, it might be time to take a break from positing and focus on some long inner reflection to learn from this.
I wonder if the motivation here is just making Nine look a bit better with Seven soon to have a requirement of local content in Darwin, getting in first with something, just to prevent that as a sales tactic for them.
Regardless of what they show now, I’m sure Nine have incumbency factors which mean they probably do better for ad sales share than their audience figures probably suggest, so blocking Seven using their mandated noodles as a sales pitch feels like a logical motivation.
Exactly. Nine have handled their Darwin station quite poorly and no one will be tuning into this, so it’s best for them to focus this to online as much as possible if they want this to work.
The timeline of constant axings and reinstatements since 2017 is a great example of bad workplace culture. They axe it, they get pressure internally and externally to reverse, so they come back but with a cheaper product everytime.
I’m surprised they’re presenting these out of Honeysuckle versus the regional studio at Mount Coot-tha or the TOSS in the Darwin offices? Unless both were stripped out?
I remember for the Sydney/Darwin bulletins on weekends, Pete would “end” the Sydney portion just before sport with Leah Hannon (or whoever presented the weekend bulletins then) taking over for sport and weather.
A similar thing happened on Prime Gold Coast from 1998-2000 when Prime/Seven collaborated on “Gold Coast News”. Prime screened it at 6.30 after Seven Nightly News.
The Seven News presenter (usually Ross Symonds or Ann Sanders) would do a separate closer after the Sydney weather with something like “And that’s Seven Nightly News for (date). Join us now for Prime Gold Coast News with Melissa Downes”.
