I jumped between 7 and 9 for the wedding arrivals and stayed with 7 for everything after. I found 9 spent too much time with reporters and presenters on screen. I want to see who has been invited to this wedding, not watch the same old reporters rehash the same content for hours. Graphics on 7 and 9 were both horrible.7 also started coverage way earlier than 9 what would have helped them keep up numbers throughout the night.
love the gold logo from 7 for both the news and sunrise, looks better than the regular one
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Weekend Today looks so much better in the main studio.
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CBS would not be happy with local management choosing not to air the wedding.
If the wedding was shown on TEN last night, the figures would have at least doubled the network shares. They should have had the Project team on last night.
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Thanks for taking the time to have a pointless dig at me.
Ten didn’t have any royal wedding coverage, so why would I or anyone even bother talking about that, apart from those who just want to troll Ten for all they’re worth.
I’m sorry you and some others precious Nine News failed to win, a great example how they’re not Number 1 in everything when it comes to news, as other members said here, viewers in EVERY city voted with their remotes.
Btw, I thought Melissa Doyle was excellent, severely underutilised at Sunday Night IMO.
Do you work for Ten or something? If constructive criticism is considered ‘trolling’ by your definition then I wonder if you will have a heart attack when real trollers ‘troll’ your precious Ten.
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Apologies if this one has already been mentioned but for those wanting a good laugh, apparently that “quality journalism” outlet The Daily Mail has written articles bagging the Royal Wedding coverage of both Seven and Nine! 
OK, so Seven’s Royal Wedding Coverage was somehow more popular than Nine’s Royal Wedding Coverage in Sydney last night. As someone who isn’t employed by either network and didn’t care much for the event in general (partly because most of the actual ceremony pictures were probably from some pooled feed which all broadcasters could access), I’m not going to be too emotionally invested in this.
From a presenter perspective, I personally think Seven got it right by having the coverage hosted by Usher & Doyle. Nine did OK by having Georgie Gardner as part of their coverage, but Peter Overton or another senior male figure from Nine News that isn’t Karl Stefanovic should’ve been her co-presenter.
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Although Seven had the better team, I mostly watched on Nine because their coverage was in full HD and mostly relied on BBC commentary.
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It just highlights that Seven does have potential to draw the ratings in for some capital city news services, they may just need to remove a couple of presenters…
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I also noticed Seven didn’t have their usual “HD” add-on.
But there was no watermark anyway, just a 7 News special bug pasted on by the production.
Whereas Nine even coloured their “HD” add-on gold.
I’m not a Nine fan. I watched Seven and ABC when I got home from the movies last night.
My point was that even if the ABC were behind the pack, it was still doing far better than the nearest non-wedding alternative and they managed a 14% share. Ten cracked a meagre 6% and you omit that, despite crowing on about how important demos are to Ten every other day when the ratings come in.
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In the day to day mill of things, key demos are the important. Hence why I say don’t look at Ten’s total people share too much.
But a one off event (Royal Wedding, Olympics/Comm Games opening/closing ceremony, etc) of course total people is what we look at.
Context.
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Article on last night’s TV coverage:
Ten could have covered this event easily. It could all be done from Melbourne.
You don’t though. That’s just how Seven and Nine do it. You can easily do it from home on the cheap and still make it good.
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Only watched a little bit as I was at an engagement party and it was on a mobile phone. But I was disappointed not to see any of this:
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They had three reporters there I believe.
Ten daily was amateur. Just a raw BBC One feed with no local presenters or TV broadcast
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That cap displays one of quite a few stuff ups which occurred during the ABC’s coverage last night. The package with that prude etiquette expert started playing almost at the exact same time that we caught our first glimpse of Harry and William walking to Windsor Castle. Any self-respecting director would’ve cut away immediately, but the ABC stuck through the 3+ minute package whilst the action was clearly happening in that tiny box.
Their ratings suffered as a result. Have a look at one of Trevor Long’s tweets from last night - which I suspect I can’t link to because of ratings copyright issues.
It happened again later in the coverage when they were live at some dinner party in Sydney, instead of focusing on arrivals to the Castle.
I was actually quite disappointed with the ABC’s coverage. Although admittedly it was the only one I watched, so I don’t really have anything to compare it to.