“remote controlled from Perth routed through Sydney, read in Newcastle.”
Which city was that backdrop, or is it generic?
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Shh!! It’s the magic of tv
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Interesting. Surely it would make more sense to use someone else from Perth rather than having a constant rotating set of presenters?
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It would probably cost them money to have a dedicated person in Perth vs rostering it in as “reasonable overtime” across the country.
I like the look and feel of it moving around, I think they should make a feature of it.
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This makes me wonder, where is it normally controlled from? Is it the city that it’s coming from, or always from Perth? I know Newcastle doesn’t have it’s own control room so had to controlled from elsewhere, but Perth and not Brisbane or Sydney?
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Tracy Vo should do Sunday to Wednesday and Monica Kos on Thursdays
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I guess that’s one way of really making it the All Australian News… 
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NBN News is normally controlled from QTQ Brisbane last time I heard.
But with tech it can probably be controlled from anywhere
They probably controlled it from Perth because it is earlier in the evening.
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On a side note… I believe NBN News uses “Wavelengths” provided by TPG Telecom to transport video. It allows them to transport raw HD SDI video… (NOT TCP/IP based)… so latency is incredibly low for remote switching.
They use Packetlight equipment on prem to achieve this… they just insert the HD-SDI SFP modules into the packetlight equipment and that connects to TPG’s network via OTN
Links to see what they use
https://www.tpgtelecom.com.au/business-solutions/data/wavelength
AND
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Sounds like an extension/evolution of what they started with SPT/Soul
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This is interesting. I wonder if there will be further movements around the presenting of 9 News Perth. Still rating quite poor. Monika would be a better choice.
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It’s probably not going to matter what they do.
Just have to wait for Rick and Sue to retire or for Seven to stuff it up.
Knowing the Perth audience and its long-standing loyalty to Seven, they’ll still stick around for at least a year or two after both Rick and Sue are gone, but they surely would need to learn a lesson or two from TCN, whereby their audiences dived south after Brian Henderson’s retirement (shortly after which ATN poached Ian Ross and the audiences quickly followed him there) and it wouldn’t be until after Roscoe retired that TCN enjoyed a resurgence in its news ratings.
So far in Adelaide, SAS has been able to maintain its ratings dominance in the post-Riddell/Doyle era.
More cost-cutting?
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I can’t see how this is cost cutting… they still have to find someone else to present it.
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I’m sure it was his decision. They would probably rotate hosts around the country?
Less likely to be cost cutting, more likely to be a formality or something to do with negotiating pay.