Facebook wide issue.
33 degrees here today.
During the intro to the weather preview.
Sam: âItâs really starting to feel like Autumn as temperatures dip right up the QLD coast, and Nicole are we seeing below average temperaturesâ.
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Ironically, Vanessa said this during tonightâs intro to the weather report on Nine News Illawarra:
Vanessa OâHanlon - âSo Gav, looks like the start of summer is off to a scorcherâ. 
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Who writes these weather intros.
Tonight in QLD,
Paul: (something about rain and storms) âAnd Nicole where will we see the heaviest rain?â
Nicole: âWell we wonât see any heavy rain Paulâ
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Why are these bulletins such a mess after two years. How
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Does anyone at the ABCâs Media Watch program have access to Nine Newsâ regional bulletins and if so, have they been monitored at all?
Because going by the observations in this thread alone (let alone those from average viewers), Iâm sure you could make up an entire edition of Media Watch covering the problems with Nine Newsâ regional bulletins during a slow week! 
As an outsider it seems like the intros to the Weather Previews are primarily aimed at regional markets in the Southern half of Queensland (with a similar content philosophy applying to the overall content?), while the previews themselves are a bit more localised. Is that correct?
Youâd think by now, theyâd properly incorporate the Weather Previews into the local windows⌠
Iâm guessing probably because the producers are lazy and/or have lifestyles so centred around that metropolitan/South East Queensland bubble they donât quite understand what viewers up North want from their âlocalâ news bulletins.
Mind you, the situation is probably even worse here in NSW with TCN notorious for their âSydney-ficationâ of news coverage for regional (particularly Northern NSW/NBN-land) areas of the state and primary school-level fails in geography for said areasâŚbut letâs not get started on that one again!
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I definitely agree that the intros are aimed at Southern QLD, but the previews themselves are also very centric on Southern QLD as well as Darwin, thereâs nearly always a specific mention of âthe Top Endâ on every weather preview, which comes across as very weird from a local viewer perspective.
Agreed, the local windows should end with a 30-second localised weather preview instead of the rushed and weirdly placed average fuel price check.
I donât necessarily agree about that for the overall bulletin though. I find that it seems as though the bulletin is more focused on different areas each night. Some nights can come across very SQ centric, but others can be quite NQ centric as well. Some nights thereâs heaps from around the Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast, others thereâs heaps from around Cairns and Townsville. The Rockhampton region never seems to get too much coverage IMO.
Tonight for example was definitely quite NQ focused.
After the local window, the next 3 stories were all based in the Townsville viewing area as well, one of which was breaking news which was revisited again later in the bulletin.
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Iâm sure they would be monitoring all news services to some extent but with only 15 minutes of airtime each week theyâve probably got bigger fish to fry with the limited time theyâve got.
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When I mentioned to them about issues with TDT9âs updates last year they didnât have access to them so I tipped them off and then provided the footage, people can do that if they like and it could go through.
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Some technical issues tonight on 9 News Regional. Story stalled at start of bulletin, apology at 6:19pm.
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Good to see they made an apology. Win news would not have acknowledge it and treat the viewers with no respect
Bit hard when youâre not live.
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What about the following day?
Youâre joking, right? Iâm sure viewers will get over it and move on.
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Off topic however Territory Local News is back. The new presenter is questionable lol. https://www.facebook.com/1778465358849018/posts/2525787470783466/
What is that? Does it go to air in Darwin?
Itâs more of a Facebook thing as they believe NT needs more âlocally produced newsâ⌠Kyrrie Blenkinsop used to do it when Nine first changed, now itâs some random chick.
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Nine in Southern NSW/ACT has relayed the Sydney bulletin tonight due to the Christchurch terrorist attacks before going back to local bulletins at around 6:14pm in time for its first ad break.
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Goes to show how amateur the regional team is when they have to rely on the big brother to deliver news they should be able to deliver in the same manner (- flashy sets ofc).
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Will be interesting to see what happens in QLD tonight.
Just now during the end of Hot Seat, SCA aired a âNine.com.auâ promo tonight in place of the news preview, which is very unusual.