She seems perfectly happy to be at work this week.
Three days ago Smith announced on Instagram that she is pregnant. She is probably having very happy thoughts.
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What? She’s still presenting her usual bulletins and is having more exposure.
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then you dont presenters all that well, most of the ones i know are happy to present news bulletins, she is also doing morning news and the 4pm bulletin…
Hopefully she’s not a snob then and is just happy to a) have a job, and b) help out where needed. No I in Team.
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I assume Nine News Local doesn’t air in Toowoomba or Mackay? Or does it air with no local stories from these areas?
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It airs in Mackay with no local stories.
Previously the hour-long bulletin would air with the “local windows” showing random stories from other markets with maybe one local V/O thrown in showing file footage. The only thing local about “9 News Mackay” was the 5-second fuel check at the end of the window, and the weather report at the very end of the bulletin
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Just watched the NSW/ACT local bulletin for the first time since moving to the area.
The bulletin seems “more local” to me than the QLD bulletin ever did. Helped by the fact it’s covering only 4 markets that are all generally geographically in the same area, rather than 7 spread out markets in QLD.
Across the bulletin there were 2 ACT stories and 2 ACT V/O stories that aired.
The bulletin wasn’t bad, but it certainly felt weird to have capital city stories jammed in with stories about small regional towns.
Story breakdown was:
| Time | Market | Type | Topic |
| 5:29 | Generic | V/O | Victoria border opening |
| 5:30 | ACT | Story | Quarantine |
| 5:32 | Non-local | V/O | UK COVID Update |
| 5:33 | Illawarra | V/O | Armed Robbery |
| 5:34 | ACT | Story | Car Burnouts |
| 5:35 | Albury | Live Cross | NSW/VIC Border Opening |
| 5:36 | Wagga | Live Cross | Street Fight |
| 5:38 | ACT | V/O | Carjacking |
| 5:38 | Illawarra | V/O | Court Case |
| 5:39 | Central West | Story | Donation Scam |
| 5:40 | ACT | V/O | Man Charged with Vandalism |
| 5:41 | - | - | Ad Break |
| 5:44 | Central West | Story | Grave Vandalism |
| 5:45 | Central West | V/O | New Roundabout |
| 5:46 | Illawarra | Story | New Hotel Development |
| 5:48 | Generic | V/O | National Emergency Medal |
| 5:48 | - | - | Ad Break |
| 5:51 | - | - | Sport |
| 5:55 | - | - | Ad Break |
| 5:58 | - | - | Weather |
| 5:59 | - | - | Closer |
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Sounds like a better rundown than QLD.
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How is that a local story? Was there any connection to NSW?
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I don’t see the issue of having a quick V/O with a COVID update - regardless of being a local story or not.
WIN News and Seven RQLD frequently mention interstate or major international stories before heading into full details in the national network bulletins.
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They do? Not aware of that, but then again, I don’t live in Regional Australia lol
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Yeah it’s usually nothing more than V/O.
If Nine Local was just regional packs slapped together without mention of anything else it would be like the terrible product of WIN All Australian News -
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Great timing on all of those caps! 
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Nine News Local in Southern NSW is beginning to climb its way up the ratings finishing in the daily Top 10 programs.
Last night’s bulletin made it into the Top 10 for the Central West, Riverina and Illawarra markets.
Mod: RegionalTAM data may not be posted.
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SNSW? As in Southern NSW? They need to fix up the station…7 Queensland and NBN don’t reach that far down. 
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I think whatever measuring service are just being lazy wankers… and that’s wankers with a heavy London accent.
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I’m surprised it’s in the top 10, the bulletins for Regional Victoria, Southern New South Wales and Canberra and Regional Queensland are all terrible.
You’ve told us 1000 times that it is terrible. We get it.
But clearly they have hit some niche if it is rating not too badly.
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