Wait until Monday then we will know for sure.
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Could probably go under the main Nine News threads but see what next week brings
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They need to pre-record them as-live with another control room putting graphics over the top. The team could easily achieve a half hour bulletin with single presenter if filmed that way. Itās only 30 minutes of an afternoon.
If itās 6-6:30pm, they would be able to show ACA and other programs live (in NT time) or simply slot in a cut-down Sydney bulletin or something.
Iām expecting that Nine News Local presenters will present these opt-outs or some sort of news for the Darwin region though. If the RQLD bulletins are coming from the metro set as of next week, they could just send the old regional set to Darwin for these opt-outs too.
Something I will point out is the previous locally produced weekend bulletins only had 3 journalists working who also presented the bulletin. It shows how little people can actually achieve a good product.
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Still no promosā¦
Not even a post on the social pagesā¦
1.5 days out
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Iām pretty sure that the launch promos for Version 1 of these bulletins were all filmed on the main set and then everyone was disappointed once the bulletins were actually being done in broom cupboards. Iām not expecting anything different this time around.
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For a market with around 130-140k residents and being what is likely the most isolated of our state/territory capitals, Darwin television news certainly gets a lot of discussion on these forums compared to a relative lack of commentary for many larger regional centres!
Not saying thatās a bad thing by any means, just very interesting.
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The images posted yesterday would suggest they were doing rehearsals on the metro set and had customised local branding to suit that set. Not sure theyād be wanting to use the ābroom cupboardā in Covid times.
With the weather already pre recorded it would be easy enough for them to pre record the close also. Theyād have enough time to transition for the metro bulletin and still do the metro news preview at the end of Hot Seat.
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Probably because its the only state/territory in Australia (except ACT?) where the capital no longer has a full commercial news bulletin/service, only what ABC is offering up
Even TAS has commerical news service via WIN and Southern Cross
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I think a great solution for Darwin would be to air Nine News Brisbane live from 5:30pm-6:30pm, then have āNine News Localā at 6:30pm-7:00pm as a full live half-hour dedicated Darwin bulletin, presented from Darwin.
That way, Darwin could get a full half-hour bulletin (which they clearly could programme easily) and still stick to the network schedule reasonably wellā¦ with the same scheduling as SCA will be doing across the regional markets.
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With a dedicated NT ABC news bulletin 7 nights a week plus a good 10 minutes of unique local content weeknights on 9 Iād say Darwin relative to market size is already really well catered for compared to other much larger cities and markets.
This is a market with 200,000 people.
However they do need to put the news inserts at a consistent time each night And market that rather then moving them round commercial breaks
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Itās only the presenter/s in there though, right? Fixed camera and they control their own autocue.
Would be easier to manage than having to sterilise the metro set between all of these different uses.
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WIN News retains their Canberra Region bulletin.
The area which Nine Darwin broadcasts in has about 210,000 people as it includes Palmerston and surrounding rural centers close to Darwin. Itās a unique market that has been changing constantly over the past few years - itās the only bulletin which has no announcement on how it will continue further.
The bulletin was broadcast on Imparja as-well - which is apart of the affiliation agreement I believe.
NT election is under 2 weeks away, they could be waiting till after the election before reinstating a bulletin (produced from QLD or not) for Darwin too.
And itās just as well we have a strong advocate for the territory in @TV-QLD bringing up the point.
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Its just a matter of time before Nine Newcastle (NBNTV) does the same thing to cut costs.
This is a cost cutting exercise by SCA and Nine. I wonder if they will have the sense to air an encore on say 9Gem at 7pm for those markets that receive Nine Local News. It wouldnt be hard to insert it, just push the 3:30pm to 7:30pm forward half an hour. Nine could even insert classic British comedies in at 7pm weekdays and repeat them at 11:30am the next morning like they used to. Nine regional could screen a National Nine Newsbreak to fill in any time needed after the local news to allow a smooth transition back to Nine metro programming
Here are a list that would almost insert perfectly as a half hour slot (obviously this would depend on being able to secure the rights for the listed shows
Man About The House
George and Mildred
Robins Nest
Bless This House
On The Buses
Yes Minister
The Good Life
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Truly extraordinary thinking there but not happening.
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Still no sign of any promos, yet multiple times a day SC Nine viewers get a promo for the Brisbane weather presenter
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I think itās fair to say that SCA has absolutely no one that works in marketing & promo at this point.
Itās the only explanation
WIN & Prime concept, write produce and strategically schedule and promote their news productions with many promos on high rotation
SCA is so thin staffed they obviously have not a soul working I. Marketing or promo scheduling / strategy. And certainly not a single promo producer to make promos
Social pages are completely void of the news of the 530 bulletins
1 day out
How are people meant to know they exist
SCA is a joke.
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Is it shown in Darwin as well?
A combined Nine News Local/Nine News Sydney promo just aired here in the Illawarra about ten minutes ago.
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