If these local bulletins are only going to be 10-15 mins long, surely local sport and weather presenters aren’t necessary and these inserts could be pre-recorded by Tony and Livinia (like what 7 News Regional do for the weather).
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^ What I mean is, with an experienced line-up for the regional bulletin, Nine is hoping it can replicate the ratings success of the Melbourne bulletin with Peter Hitchener and Livinia Nixon.
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They aren’t going to be 10-15 minutes long. My understanding is they’ll go for an entire hour, but with 6-10 minutes of local content.
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Still no word on sports presenter,
I’m still tipping Googie (Mark Macgoogan)
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So, people in regional Victoria will not see Peter Hitchener instead Jo Hall at 6 for 1 hour?
yeah the metro bulletins are being replaced.
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Thanks. But that is stupid, and a bad move IMO.
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I hope WIN gets the contract back now 
That is correct. Victorian viewers can say goodbye to Peter Hitchener.
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And they expect this will rate better than what is currently on. No. This might be OK for Victoria as Jo is popular and known but for NSW and QLD these new faces aren’t simply going to rate. The local insert into the current metro bulletin would have been smarter.
He’s right, guys. Someone call SCA and Nine, and tell them they don’t need those 110 staff and can save the millions they’re pumping into all this.
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I have a feeling that when the new bulletins don’t rate they will do exactly that, within six months I reckon.
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Disagree
All of the country in all markets time and time again we see local news be top rating content
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75% of the content will be a second string bulletin that for breaking news will rank below the existing metro bulletins.
Neither of these presenters are “new faces”.
The presenter for NSW is well known from ABC News Breakfast.
The presenter for QLD used to present WIN News QLD in all of the regions she will once again be presenting 9 News.
Nothing new about them
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I actually think a local insert into the capital city news bulletins, possibly wrecking the flow of Nine’s successful East Coast capital city news bulletins that currently aren’t designed to have opt out/in points would be even more dangerous than what’s being planned. People in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane are going to want to see the most important local, national and international news at the top of the bulletin in 2017 and beyond…if they can’t get that from Nine, they’re going to watch Seven instead.
Even though that regional audiences will soon be seeing different faces on their screens, you’d imagine that there will be some major promotion to familiarise viewers with their new presenters. Perhaps there could even be a special segment for regional viewers at the end of Nine News on the night before the first regional bulletin(s) launch where the metro presenters hand over to the regional presenters or something like that.
Maybe these new services won’t be an instant hit from Day 1, but I’m sure (or at least hope) Nine and SCA realise that they need to be in it for the long run with this initiative. Afterall, Nine News Sydney with Peter Overton certainly was not a instant ratings success - it took about 2-3 years for them to go from being a ratings basketcase to a very clear #1 in the ratings.
So yeah, I would personally wait and see what these new regional editions of Nine News are actually like on TV before making a final prediction on their success or otherwise.
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Team I think you are all severely underestimating the significant work that has gone into this project and the extensive market research Nine has undertaken. Don’t get me wrong, there will be growing pains, but this is no 6 month war, Nine is in this for the long haul and will come out on top. Watch this space.
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It sounds good until you actually have to watch the local news. As I have said prior, local news bulletins are so irrelevant and so out-dated that it is not worth it. These local news bulletins are pre-recorded earlier in the day. You usually hear about a story from radio, newspapers, social media, word-of-mouth before you see it on the local news, for some stories days later. Obviously, here I am not talking about Nine/Seven’s local Afternoon News, which I hate too, but the nightly local news for regional centres.
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Neither of these presenters are “new faces”. The presenter for NSW is well known from ABC News Breakfast.The presenter for QLD used to present WIN News QLD in all of the regions she will once again be presenting 9 News.
[/quote] But who’s to say those who were able to watch 9 News Sydney at 6, watched ABC News Breakfast? I know who they are and I use to watch Heathwood on Win News with Paul Taylor but I don’t see these people being recognised. You have to remember these regional presenters are replacing iconic newsreaders (maybe not from QTQ) who are widely popular and I guarantee there will be other people who will be upset that Peter Hitchener won’t be reading their 6pm News EVER AGAIN.
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I actually think a local insert into the capital city news bulletins, possibly wrecking the flow of Nine’s successful East Coast capital city news bulletins that currently aren’t designed to have opt out/in points would be even more dangerous than what’s being planned
[/quote] I am not suggesting at all that the metro bulletins would have to change at the slightest. If anyone was to receive chopping and changes, it would be regional viewers. It can be done. Win News Queensland use to start at 6.15 when the cricket was on for example at 6.30 so at 6.12, Melissa Downes would have pre-recorded a special closer saying " Your local Win News is next" before any of the coming up previews were shown. What I am saying is the block after the first break could be the local insert, replacing the content of what is shown in the metro markets. Then do the same for sport and weather. Pre-record the local news and sport stories and the local weather and seamlessly place them into the metro bulletin. If SCA wanted to be really good, the metro anchor would have to pre-record a cross to and from the local news.
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That’s hardly a local news problem - that occurs with metro bulletins too. Of course you’re going to hear about stories during the day before the nightly TV news, simply because it has to cover everything that happened over the past 24 hours, whereas radio, social media etc are able to share the news much quicker.
Which would ultimately result in a sub standard product for regional viewers. All the chopping and changing to fit everything together while yes, it is possible, would create a reasonably disjointed bulletin with a lot of places for mistakes to occur. It would also limit what the metro presenters can say at times because it might be someone else reading sport, or weather for the regionals, and a follow up report might be scheduled for the block that regionals won’t get etc.
By having a dedicated one hour bulletin for the regionals, it allows a lot more flexibility with the format without becoming disjointed. Metro-centric items are easily left out, if there’s a major item only specific to regionals (eg. farming) then it can be put in without having to fit it in a local block. It also avoid having a multiple stories about something of both state and local significance - for example a major car accident in a regional area would traditionally feature on both metro and local bulletins.
These new bulletins aren’t about creating a product to replace 9News metro - even though it does bump it out of a schedule. It’s about creating a bulletin to compete against WIN, Prime and 7QLD local news, and a composite bulletin that reduces viewing time to see all the relevant news and flows logically without looking like a cut and paste project is giving it a bit advantage to begin with.
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True, it is probably too advanced for Australia. And let’s be honest SCA is certainly not capable of that when they struggle to change between a program and the commercial breaks. [quote=“webguy, post:139, topic:2086”]
It would also limit what the metro presenters can say at times because it might be someone else reading sport, or weather for the regionals,
[/quote] What I am suggesting is there would only be one presenter for the regional news with the current metro sport and weather presenters pre-recording the segments for the respective fields.
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These new bulletins aren’t about creating a product to replace 9News metro - even though it does bump it out of a schedule
[/quote] I wouldn’t say another word if Nine News metro was either aired on another channel or move to a different timeslot.