Finally got to watch the video -
- They should pull out the shot a bit - I did a mock from an edit to the sport handover. Having some form of set in the shot just looks nicer.
- Sport really should put GIO Stadium in the background, there looks like there’s some stadium shot in there, but it doesn’t look like GIO.
- I don’t know if it’s just the video quality, but audio seemed really bad - the volume levels seemed all over the place.
They failed on localism a bit
- ‘crossing live to Canberra’, not mentioning Queanbean specifically, that just makes it feel like they are in another city.
- The weather report was even worse for that - it’s not “the nation’s capital” and “Canberra’s” weather - it’s the weather in “the city” and the region around it.
Oddities like the lack of proper opener - no real introduction and lack of interaction between presenters are weird. I can see viewers being turned off by having this suddenly replace the Sydney news.
I think this will be the best long term, the investment in local news is great, and the format is I think the correct one - there’s just not a half hour’s worth of fully local news each night, making those bulletins largely filler - but there’s so many little things they could have done better.