Out of all the sets Channel 9 in Sydney has they decide to have a green screen… what a waste
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Hold your horses everyone, it’s a bit early to bag their presentation yet. Just because they’re testing green screen elements hardly means that the whole bulletin will be (or it might).
If indeed they are using it to provide local backdrops for each region throughout the whole bulletin (which is far preferable to different backdrop for local windows etc since most viewers won’t understand what’s happening) then this cannot be done effectively any other way (and would create a effect that would usually be praised on here).
It’s also highly likely that the graphics shown aren’t final, or they could even be just one frame of a transition.
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I hope you’re right, and you’re definitely right about too much being read into a single frame.
Perhaps Nine will do a combo; I’m imagining another like the awesome 9News Sydney & Perth sets could be used with appropriate background imagery for particular stories, while the shared opener/break intro bits could use green on the big screen with each city/location pic swapped in, but you’re right we won’t know for sure until it goes to air (there could be last minute changes, and tweaks after the 1st, 2nd, night, etc.).
Jesus, talk about jumping to conclusions…
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Good info!
Very NBN-ish.
By the way, where was CTC on 9? (judging by your Username it was used somewhere?).
It is possible Nine News Regional in NSW will get the old Nine News Sydney set?
(If I’m understanding your question…) CTC is the callsign for the Canberra-based commercial TV station Southern Cross Austereo bought, now calling itself Nine, formerly SC Ten, formerly Ten Capital, etc.
Originally it went to air on VHF 7 (and 10 in Tuggeranong, but with digital none of that matters), was owned by the owners of Seven a long time ago, and I think it’s still the only station in Australia to have been affiliated (at different times) with each of the three networks.
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Not quite, I was wondering where CTC used VHF 9?
ie, on analogue, it was on VHF Channel 0 in Goulburn, 2 in Bombala, 7 in Canberra and 10 in Woden Valley and also Cooma.
But I’ve never heard of it being on VHF 9 anywhere… Jindabyne or somewhere in the Snowy Mts maybe?
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OT but they were also on CTC-2 in Bombala, as I used to live there.
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Ah, I don’t think it did; ABC Canberra was on VHF 3 (Black Mtn) and 9 (Tuggeranong). I assumed the 7-9-10 reference was to the 3 networks.
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You may be right.
I highly doubt Nine has a second identical set to the one introduced in Sydney this week.
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Personally I think they’re just going to use the same studio as 9 News Now. If it is good enough for a national bulletin surely they wouldn’t put a first attempt at regional news on a better set.
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That’s what I was thinking as well (and Victoria has that little studio upstairs that they could use) but if you’re just using a plasma then you might as well use a green screen and do the local backdrops.
Jo Hall has previously stated that they will use the “next door” studio at GTV-9 - the studio previously used for Kids WB amongst other shows.
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For NBN, the headlines package is pre-recorded too - so local stories can be mentioned. I’d say it’s likely the Nine News Canberra/Illawarra/Riverina/Central West logos would be used for each market.
Technically live crosses would be possible, but only the Canberra bulletin will be live for the full 60 minutes - the other three markets will have their local content pre-recorded.
If the story is big enough to warrant going to all four markets, there is no reason they wouldn’t cross live to a reporter in Dubbo or Wagga in one of the “altogether” portions of the news.
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Ah okay, I didn’t realise that there was literally a studio next door to the main one.
Haha! I’ve taken some poetic licence. CTC is obviously Channel 9 Canberra. It was known at CTC-7, then “CTC-7-10” (due to major repeaters in Canberra on VHF 10) then CTC-10 now it’s on VHF 6, but for all intents and purposes, it’s CTC-Nine
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Would make sense to me!
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Nearly right. It was owned by Kerry Stokes from 1980-1987, but never linked formally with Seven. The Ten Network bought the station in 1987 and sold it to Charles Curran in 1989. Southern Cross bought CTC in 1994.
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