ABC and SBS air it that late. Ten News used to air it past 10.30 back in its hey day too. Since ratings is 6pm - midnight, then at least it might boost Ten’s ratings share in that 11pm slot. Anything better than repeats in that slot (like The Project and old drama repeats too).
Too late for critical mass. Ten doesn’t have the luxury of either public funding or a large audience between 7:30 and 11pm to justify News that late. It’d sink without a trace.
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Yes, because both have little to no interest in how those bulletins perform commercially.
The fact that free-to-air commercial networks have vacated late night news is quite telling. There isn’t a big enough audience post-10pm for any sort of sustainable news program.
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Nah, her anecdotes are long winded and are mainly about people I’ve never met
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Close the station.
This isn’t like the past when the only channels were ABC, 7, 9, 10 and SBS, when SVOD services were non-existent and there were fewer ways to view content overall.
We don’t “need” a third commercial free to air network anymore.
All commercial networks, not just Ten, have killed off any chance of anything post 9.30 getting an audience. Even 8.30 is becoming a stretch for them now all because of reality shows screwing up timeslots. People tune out once the reality shows are done
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What a stupid thing to say. Why can’t we have more choices? Ten doesn’t have to be the same as Seven and Nine. Ten does well in demographics which attract advertisers. As long as they can attract advertisers, they stay in business.
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My idea would include:
- 9:30 news bulletin
- Saturday Project
- Programs to start on the half hour and finish on the half hour (unless a 30 minute program).
- No program to run past advertised scheduling time
- 2 more damas to be commissioned - not to be drama/comedy based around a family.
- A Chat Show to anchor the week on Sundays.
- Ten to continue with reality acquisitions, but as noted before to only air for 1 hour each night (even if that means Bach in Paradise becomes 3 nights a week).
- 48 Hours Australia hosted by Waleed Aly and Hugh Rimington to air Wednesdays 8:30 and replayed at some point on ONE.
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But there isn’t 3 commercial networks anymore. There’s 11 channels. That is the big difference and has cannibalised Ten’s audience more than anyone else (also through their own ineptitude).
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Network Ten closing down wouldn’t benefit anyone.
Think about it for a moment. A free to air TV landscape with only Seven and Nine would probably be the TV equivalent of what Coles & Woolworths is in retail: Dangerously uncompetitive.
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Mystery Diners Australia.
Soft core pornography.
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So I’ll just repeat some ideas I’m sure I’ve said a bunch of times.
Get a decent website with a full online news service and reliable HD streaming/catch up on par with 9Now.
Have a fixed schedule. If the show starts at 9:30 - it starts at 9:30 on the dot. Add a +1 or +2 channel for people who missed stuff (and again, have a good catch up service).
Everyone always talks about Ten News expanding so I’ll keep it short - but to me it makes so much sense. I’ve always found Ten to be the best of the commercial news services - but their entire day’s output is done by the time I get home from work - and I can’t imagine I’m alone in that.
Mid-evening local news - 8:30pm for half an hour. Early enough there’s still an audience - late enough that people who missed the main news services have an option. Local so it’s a point of difference over 24 hour news.
Then lead out of that with a suite of complementary programming -
Monday - Have you been paying attention
Tuesday - Sensationalist current affairs
Wednesday - NRL/AFL footy shows - with a generic sports panel show in the off season
Thursday - Panel Comedy Show
And because it’s what I’d want - fill the daytime (even if it’s just on a multichannel) with game shows. Get the rights to the US and NZ Family Feud, Jeopardy, Price is Right, Wheel, etc. TV that can be fresh every day unlike the endless repeats of older programming - but easy to just have on in the background.
I really like this idea. My favourite thing to do when I’m at home sick or on holidays is watch American game shows. I noticed the other day that Prime NZ airs two of my favourites, Wheel and Jeopardy, in mid afternoon slots. Eleven aired Jeopardy for a brief period but it quickly disappeared. Foxtel has the rights for both now but last time I checked the eps were a couple of years old.
Not sure about 8.30pm for news. Would prefer to see entertainment until at least 9.30pm. I do believe a mid evening bulletin at that time could work if it were left in the slot long enough to allow people to get into the habit of catching the bulletin before retiring for the night.
Probably because it rated very poorly.
No doubt but if they’d stumped up the cash for more than a handful of episodes that were repeated within months of their first airing, perhaps they may have had more success with it.
Plus being part of a wider block they could promote would help - just throwing something into the middle of the schedule won’t work.
I’d have watched it (or recorded it) but this is the first I’d heard of it.
I thought it was on ONE at 6pm weeknights
The problem is I think Nine and Seven shouldn’t have been allowed to have a fourth general station given the size of the advertising pie.
All these ideas seem ok on the surface, but they all cost money and it depends on whether or not CBS will want to spend money. At this point my guess would be no at this point.
there needs to be “big event” TV - 10 used to be good at this with Idol and Big Brother. the sorts of shows where if you didn’t watch you were missing out at the watercooler conversation at work.
first, i’d look at something like the big reunion - theres a ton of bands and groups you could get back together, with the added bonus of a tour afterwards to help pay for the thing.
next, news. i won’t go on, everyone has covered this. but i will say news every night at a consistant time - i don’t care if it’s 9:30, 10:00 or 10:30 just give it to me every night, at the same time. i should be able to turn on the TV and see news at the same time.
Sport is a must. the only major sport they have now is the Big Bash having lost F1 to fox. the cricket is up for bid now and i think AFL is coming up soon.
I’d look at a topical comedy show (different to the panel) for one night a week - possibly sundays. i’d even see if the guys from collective noun could do it. they are funny and the stuff they do on youtube is great.
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What about the A League that is currently screening on One???