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It still baffles me that Nine thinks it is a worthwhile exercise to duplicate the city bulletin with the inclusion of eight to ten minutes of local content. Surely there is a better way to meet their local content obligations?
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All they need to do is coordinate with the SYD bulletin producers to lock in a local window each night and get Pete to pre-record a âand hereâs the local news for where you areâ before cutting to Vanessa looking like a stunned mullet.
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Please tell me that at the very least, Nine News Sydney is mentioning on-air the situation which is resulting in their bulletin airing in Southern NSW/ACT tonight!
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No they havenât mentioned anything about that at all.
Thatâs shocking. Surely TCN wouldâve been made aware of the major technical problems with the Southern NSW/ACT bulletins, especially when those are also produced (albeit in a different studio) at Willoughby?!
Peter Overton would almost certainly be told give a shout out to viewers watching via GTV if the Sydney bulletin had to air in Melbourne (probably a same deal with QTQ at the right time of year), so surely it wouldnât be that much of an ask for Southern NSW/ACT bulletins to receive a similar message? Every viewer deserves to be treated as if theyâre important, Nine!
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I guess the difference is that GTV and TCN are co owned and operated, CTC (Nine Southern NSW) isnât.
CTC could / should have run their own ticker message to advise viewers of the issue.
It seems to me that neither Nine or Southern Cross REALLY cares about the Nine News regionals, as Nine are paying 100% of the costs of the bulletin but get only 50% of Southern Crossâs revenue. And similarly SC only gets the other half.
From the outside looking in, itâs an arrangement that doesnât seem to be working, and this seems to reflected in the ratings, where I believe Nine regionals is running 3rd in a number of markets.
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they could do what win does and do a 30 min local bulletin and then do a 30 min metro
âŚexcept WIN actually airs a 60 minute metro bulletin followed by their âlocalâ (well, thatâs probably how it feels to everyone outside Wollongong anyway) news services running for 30 minutes.
Maybe youâre referring to what Seven Network affiliates do in regions where they have local news.
Either way, itâs very hard to comment about how well or otherwise Nineâs bulletins are going when weâve seen so little ratings data (and are unlikely to in the foreseeable future, unless someone gets an OzTAM-like deal with RegionalTAM) for regional Australia compared to our daily servings of numbers from metropolitan markets.
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At least, They get an apology of no news. Win News would not even acknoledge that they stuffed up
And that they got a news bulletin at all⌠NBN has in the past aired a black screen when they couldnât get their bulletin to air rather than show Nine News Sydney.
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and win does include non local news in there news i have watched win news on occasion and sometimes they include stories from all over victoria to make up there 30 mins lol
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Nah thatâs incorrect. They will acknowledge each other if theyâre made aware.
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Itâs a full Nine production, so they should really have done a shout-out/apology to regional viewers regardless.
I guess SCA couldâve possibly done some sort of ticker or Classifieds-esque breaker to make viewers aware before the metro bulletin starts.
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How long do you have to stare at it before it appears 3D?
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Depends. How drunk or baked are you? 
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Sam Squiers is presenting sport tonight for NSW/ACT.
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Tonightâs Illawarra bulletin started off without headlines:
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Oh dear, itâs a revisit of the launch days!
Could they bring back the launch backdrops too? 
