I still don’t understand why they don’t do openers.
This crash open is so abbrupt and uncomfortable to watch.
Surely teasing a story from each region in the opener would give viewers a reason to stay tuned and feel included
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That’s surprising, you’d think it would be the other way. I know there were quite a few northern stories this week that made metro bulletins this week (and last), so it could be reflecting the news cycle. Unless it’s a ratings thing?
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Must say this bulletin is even shitter than the previous one. The first one basically copied Nine News Melbourne, and I missed having Peter Hitchener on our screens (I’m based in the Western Victorian region by the way) Glad that they did a half hour bulletin for Regional Victoria, but it’s a shit bulletin, it’s need to be like WIN and should be on at 7:00 and A Current Affair gets moved across to 9Gem at that time too.
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glad im not the only one who thinks the same:D (based in ballarat:D)
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I’d say ACÁ has wider appeal and would rate higher at 7, so I’m not sure I’d want to decrease ratings in the all important 7pm slot leading into 7.30
Also not smart programming a very popular news show - ACA against another news show. 2 news shows at 7 just canabliaze each other
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That’s an interesting change from when I last watched a few weeks ago.
I watched two different bulletins a few weeks ago and the entire bulletin felt like it was a Wide Bay/Sunshine Coast bulletin on both occasions. Barely any mention of CQ, NQ or FNQ.
One of those nights there was only 1 NQ story in the entire bulletin and it was a fluff piece.
Personally (and yes, I know that I’m bias here), I think it’s a good thing if the bulletin focusses mostly on NQ/FNQ area. The Sunshine Coast is so close to Brisbane that anything major that happens there could be covered on the Brisbane bulletin easily.
NQ/FNQ are so far away from Brisbane, most of those stories aren’t going to rate a mention. So focussing on them more on the “local” bulletin makes more sense to me.
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People will no doubt disagree but I personally think Sunshine Coast should have their own bulletin like the Gold Coast configuration or have 2 separate bulletins covering North and South Regional QLD.
The news balance will never be right in this bulletin at the way it’s going.
A combined Cairns and Townsville works well but not so much with the rest of the regions.
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trust me , if WIN could get away with dropping the 30 min local bulletin in your area they would. None of the networks want to have a 30 min local news. Not PRIME , not WIN , not NINE. its only because of government legislation that the requirement is there is the ONLY reason any of them have local NEWS. Bag this comment all you like but its a fact. So saying its a (NINE LOCAL) sh*t bulletin, they dont really care!
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If that were true, they’d be running noodle updates in all their markets.
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Not a fact, just rubbish. There is no requirement to have 30 minute local news bulletins. All these regional stations could get away with only airing updates. It is their choice to produce a 30 minute local bulletin.
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@Affable. Any chance of openers being added?
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They actually don’t have to produce news at all. They could get away with local travel, fishing or sports programmes if they wanted. Just that news earns them more points per minute and can be done from a desk in the case of noodle updates.
No reason Prime couldn’t cut down to 15mins of local and extend Daniel Gibson to 45 mins, reading out stories from 7.
But, as I’ve said before, take out the intros and two weather crosses and Prime is only producing about 16 mins per day of news. And it works well.
Interestingly, 7Tas regularly has just 14mins of local content per bulletin. Obviously they are local seven days so they smash their content minutes easily.
One hour composite bulletins give you a lot of flexibility. Slow news days happen, even in Sydney. And as John Bock who was one of the first news presenters at Prime Canberra (and very vocal) said “I only need one more staff member and I could turn the local news segments (in those days 10mins or so before 7 Nightly News) into a proper composite bulletin”
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I’d rather not extend Daniel Gibson in any way, shape or form. 
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Daniel is better than Karl “make a mistake each intro” Linders
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Could’ve sworn I just heard Natassia Soper say: “That’s National Nine News Local for this Monday” at the end of the regional bulletin just now.
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reeeelaunch! 
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Paul Taylor presented Nine News Local today.
I’m assuming Sam has taken a week off for the school holidays
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Well here’s something I think Seven and Nine should do. Seven should reintroduce Today Tonight at 7:00 and then have Home And Away at 7:30 and then whatever show like My Kitchen Rules at 8:00. For Nine in Regional VIC, Southern NSW and Regional QLD, Nine News Local at 7:00, A Current Affair at 7:30 and whatever show like The Block at 8:00. In the 7:00 timeslot for Metro viewers something like Postcards or Getaway. But why the hell is Nine so terrible at coming up with ideas for Regional news? They didn’t do a good job with the Regional News in February 2017 to March 2020 and now the bulletins are far more terrible. Why can’t they be like Win and make a seperate bulletin for each region like Western Victoria? I can’t watch Win News these days since I watch Nine News every night.
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