Desperate indeed. Holding on to a previous content provider’s brand after swapping to a new content provider isn’t something we see too often. In my opinion, it’s a different kind of copying when compared to Seven and Nine’s news rivalry. I think as time goes on and Nine starts eroding even more of WIN’s local news audience, it will just smell of a cheap knock-off more than an authoritative, legitimate alternative.
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Now that was entertaining to see unfold but nice I’m a v.eteran of this site. Tbf they did have a point and were persistent at it - imagine if they could see WIN’s tanty now.
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I believe he/she/it ragequit after everyone bailed he/she/it up about uploading montages of SD news bulletins in 1080i and wasting everyone’s bandwidth.
Those were the days.
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Now that was entertaining to see unfold but nice I’m a v.eteran of this site.
[/quote]Maybe I meant 'long-time posters. Compared to the old farts on the modding team I’m still a spring chicken.
As am I! 
I discovered the old website through Caps and Random Mockups through Google Images, though pop-ups on the old group stopped me from visiting. When the pop-ups disappeared, I would always check the website frequently, even reading pages from way back. Best Community for all things TV, News & Current Affairs and other stuff in between. 
Do we think Venessa and “9 News Canberra” (9 News SNSW) will do live crosses from the studios in Sydney to a reporter standing in the newsroom in Canberra to have local reporters introduce the story?
Do we think they will also have access to network reporters also?
For example - if Nine had a reporter in Bourke St Mall covering the Melbourne hit & run incident, do we think at say 6.01pm 9 Melbourne crosses to that reporter, than at 6.04 Nine Sydney crosses to them then at 6.09 Nine Canberra crosses to them?
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Why I oughta…
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I’m guessing these bulletins will be pre-recorded in their entirity in the main city studios rather than them having a second studio from which they can broadcast (the non-local bits) live.
What I think? In all seriousness:
I think the culture in our nation’s capital city is exactly that - national!
People over the decades have moved there from all over Australia and heaps still fly there from Sydney and Melbourne. Only a certain percentage would really either have been born there or consider themselves Canberra through and through. Therefore I don’t see why ‘local news’ in Canberra will be that popular at all.
Prime7 & Seven News Sydney will still dominate.
So far this year, SCA Nine is coming 3rd in Sth NSW anyway & was significantly begind Prime7 at the end of RegTam’s survey in 2016.
Vanessa O’Hanlon is hardly known anyway, let alone NSW (she was a Melbourne traffic reporter & in recent years ABC News weather peesenter).
Like I have said before, the gap between SCA Nine and Seven’s regional affiliate is even greater in QLD and again VIC.
I think now, SCA Nine will have its best chances in Tasmania or regional WA tbh.
I think in 2017 era it’s a waste of time, money and resources. But we’ll see. Maybe I’ll be wrong. But I base it of clear as day data and perception.
Remember though this bulletin is going to all of the SNSW market - that is 1.5 million people. Within the market the Wollongong sub-market has 536k and the Canberra sub-market has 533k. 415k for the Dubbo/Wagga/Orange submarket.
Tasmania and Regional WA (500k each) are too smaller markets to warrant this type of investment from Nine.
The markets Nine/SCA are going into are all 1.2m plus:
QLD 1.8m
SNSW 1.5m
VIC 1.2m
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I must have missed the post where somebody asked that question.
As one of the “certain percentage” that “considers themselves Canberra through and through”, you’ll forgive me for disagreeing with your “perception”
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I’ve learnt something new…
There’s a MediaSpy user (in fact my FAVOURITE admin) from the ACT!
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Love the town, was there for a week last year. Loved the gardens at the bottom of Telstra Tower and the National Film & Sound Museum or whatever it’s called near the University.
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It has been noted here on MS that the local ABC News Canberra wins the ratings at 7:00pm, and comprehensively beats the ratings of WIN News. There is a market for a quality mix of local and national news. WIN News is sub-standard. Hopefully Nine will put out a news bulletin that people will watch. But I still have my doubts about the long-term viability of all this.
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I’ve got a great meme for that line, but it would be highly inappropriate for this forum.
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My understanding is that the nature of the agreement between SCA and Nine makes this a lot more viable.
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SCA pay a high affiliation fee of 50% on the basis that Nine WILL provide local news bulletins. This is higher than the 30-45% paid in all other regional affiliation agreements, and will only be paid if that local news is provided.
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SCA are happy with only receiving 50% of TV sales - it is a higher dollar amount than the 55-60% of sales they were receiving under Ten affiliation, so they have no need to reduce the percentage they pay to Nine.
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As a result, Nine are basically being paid directly to produce these bulletins. The extra 5-10% of sales that they are now receiving basically covers the cost of news, and if they cancel any of these bulletins, they risk losing some of that income by way of the percentage of sales reducing.
So basically, while SCA and Nine should be trying to make these as popular and therefore as profitable as possible, for both companies it works out to be close to a cost neutral operation.
Out of all of this, the only real loser financially is WIN - they are now receiving less money as a result of lower advertising sales with TEN, and a similar percentage of sales being paid to TEN as they were paying to Nine. It’s my understanding that even TEN are receiving more money from WIN than they were from SCA.
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I’ll be the judge of that
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It was also published on a Canberra newspaper website, that Seven News Sydney was clearly winning at one stage last year…
Yes, beating WIN and Nine/SCA. ABC News beat them all.
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@LukeMovieMan I remember reading the story too. It looked at one weeks of ratings. Hard to conclude anything from 1 article that looked at one random week
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I think 9News Canberra will rate well; as has been said people want a combined news (a reason ABC News Canberra rates well) but people also want news at 18:00 (which along with Seven"s popular evening programming would be why 7News Sydney has rated well in Canberra), so Nine should have a winner with the new bulletins.
PS: I’m one of those long-time Canberras.
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