Thankgoodness there is now headlines. Are these on the Vic bulletin too?
Sure are
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I realise there are financial, ownership and logistical reasons for it - but it seems ridiculous that Nine is building sets in the photocopy corner while full studios are laying empty in regional Victoria.
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Not sure if youāve come across it yet but hereās the Twitter account and I presume theyād have a FB too.
Ah someoneās confusedā¦
Check out the comments on post to page (sorry, canāt embed)
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Is anything left at Bendigo?
āforced to watch Win Local Newsā haha
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Sad thing isā¦ reading that, Iām pretty sure theyāre actually referring to the new 9 News bulletin incorrectly as āWin Local Newsā
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lol didnt know Jo Hall replaced Bruce Roberts lol
Not sure of the internal setup these days, but SCA are currently located in the BCV building, so they would still have the studios. Itās just a matter of what they are used for - itās quite possible that they have been repurposed for some other purpose by now.
Canāt see Nine or SCA spending the cash to upgrade these facilities to 2017 standard broadcast quality production studios.
Theyāve spent the money already on the āstudioā. It was just in Melbourne rather than Bendigo. It looks fairly simple a setup and the only thing ā2017ā about it is the camera, which is likely a leftover from GTV.
Weāve seen in NSW the camera is locked off for the bulletin, so it actually couldnāt be any lower tech. Lights and green screens havenāt changed much in the last 30 years - though LEDs are common and Iād say Bendigo has Fresnel lens lamps at a guess.
The trouble theyād have is the control room in Bendigo being analogue - and probably dating to the late 70s. You could work around this by feeding directly from the studio floor in Bendigo to Melbourne.
There is a very well produced story on You Tube showing the impressive set up Southern Cross had in Bendigo in 1994. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrLJ2hktqU
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I think there may be some studio space left at the SCA Bendigo building but it would probably be only for commercial production.
Off topic slightly, but the SCA complex in Coffs Harbour (NRN) still has a large studio, but is only used for commercial production and for large scale radio promotional events (i.e. Facebook videos). The control rooms are long gone so they cannot go live from there anymore, unless they had an OB truck outside. The smaller news studio is now just a videotape storage room.
That was always going to be a problem.
I recon what they shouldāve done is kept the metro bulletins but use the metros for local news inserts.
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Iām expecting a similar reaction in Queensland when regional viewers can no longer watch a news service that has been available to them almost since these start of television in some areas.
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Not that Nine/SCA would dream of doing it after investing so much into regional bulletins, but I canāt help but wonder if a relay of the metro bulletin on GEM would outrate the regional bulletins they produceā¦
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They should do that. People donāt like sudden changes and the comments on FB for Western Victoria shows that.
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What, all two of them?
The new bulletins have enough of an uphill battle against Prime and WIN without SC/Nine eroding their audience further by running their own two services against one another, which would also be devaluing their investment in regional news.
Hardly sudden change either. They didnāt promote it terribly well but people knew this was coming.
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Caught. Give it some love hey.
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