That was the scuttlebutt at the time. Stories from various neighbouring markets, with probably obligatory avalanche of QTQ stories to boot, across the hour.
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In that case why not air the bulletins all over SNSW and QLD?
Iâve been wondering if the biggest issue [was] due to how Nine shoved these (then new) regional bulletins into broom closet sized studios, which they now (again) want to use for their metro bulletins to keep guests/reporters/whoever away from the main studio.
Hopefully better regional news studios are planned for Nineâs new Sydney location (but doubtless not as good as the studio for the Sydney bulletin), but even if that happens it doesnât help the Vic, Qld & NT bulletins.
This situation shows that while consolidating into Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane can provide some efficiencies, it is also Nine putting all their eggs in one basket; untenable during times like now or if some sort of disaster happened to the centralised studios/facilities.
Regardless, completely ditching regional news, instead of temporarily converting their Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane bulletins into NSW & ACT, Vic, Qld & NT statewide bulletins shows contempt for anyone outside those 3 major cities.
Couldnât Nine have kept on at least some of their locally-based reporters and aired a few of their stories in the combined state-wide bulletins, even if it was a bit later in the bulletin?
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They just donât give a shit. Either does sca. Itâs disappointing
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So what do you make of this?
Knowing how cash strapped the ABC is, I actually wouldnât put it past them to press pause on state/territory 7pm bulletins in favour of a national edition before overly long! I could also see 10 News First doing something similar.
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In regard of the BBC, the London and South East (Kent/Sussex/Surrey) used to be combined anyway until they were split in 2001. It seems to be only the morning bulletins (breakfast and maybe 1pm) that are combined, not all bulletins so bit different to what 9/SCA have done.
I believe CBC isnât funded as well as some other public broadcasters so perhaps thatâs why theyâve cut down to just a National bulletin, but probably isnât as ideal for Canadians.
I donât think weâll see the 7pm State bulletins cur from ABC anytime, thereâd be a huge uproar that theyâd be wanting to avoid.
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Because then they can still use the other regional staff for the split shift that theyâre doing but by keeping Darwin and Canberra going as-is, each state/territory has a live capital bulletin.
As I mentioned in International News, I believe almost all of their local newscasts are switched out of Toronto - it would be removing a technical staff crunch. CBC North is still running local news.
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Journo numbers have remained the same in Darwin working across rotating shifts but some camera operators and producers have been redeployed. Please note Darwin is receiving multiple locally produced updates/bulletins a day totalling about 12-15 minutes of local content per day.
They are now opting out during NNQ.
If memory serves wasnât this due to how the BBCâs regions were drawn up, essentially leaving South East as a sustaining service for the network and London had no ability to opt-out?
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Makes no sense
What staff would produce these bulletins? Theyâve all been moved to the parent station newscast. And Why would you keep staff to produce a bulletin just for Canberra (560k) when a statewide NSW/Act bulletin could provide news for 1.3 million
Correct, London/South East and the southern part of the Midlands were considered the same region until 2001 and werenât considered as being the same status as the other regions seeing that most National programming was made in London. Since the split theyâve obviously had their own local opts which will resume once the pandemic is over Iâd imagine.
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Yes a rapidly spreading disease twice as infectious as the flu and 30 times as deadly isnât a big deal. Nor is the bigger-than-GFC recession and mass job losses occurring right across the country and around the world. International air travel no longer exists and NSW is going into lockdown on Tuesday, but I guess thatâs just all standard âbetween sport and weatherâ news to some out-of-touch commenters on here.
Wake the fuck up.
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It appears some crews are back to covering some local stories, and uploading them their relevant social pages instead.
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If you ask me, Nineâs metropolitan bulletins should be running some of these regional stories if the local editions arenât quite ready to return yet. Itâd probably be a better use of airtime than having a Sports segment when there wonât really be any sport to report on in the foreseeable future!
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Exactly. If TCN, QTQ and GTV do not have the staff to produce the full 60 minute live bulletins for NSW/ACT, QLD and ViC now, they should be producing a 7 minute news and weather window that can overlay one of the sport segments
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I would say a lot of the money Nine had budgeted for the regional bulletins at this time is funding the extra national content.
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Unfortunately when you record VLC now it tends to throw the audio out of line, he may have not noticed.
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