It’s arguable that having even these sorts of consumer stories during the 6pm bulletins is unprofessional and awkward.
But given there are likely commercial reasons for these stories going to air (one would also have to imagine they’re also packages that may be produced days, perhaps even a week or more before airtime) and there are probably viewers who will tune in specifically for them, it’s probably for the best that “Unfortunately we didn’t have time…” was said.
Who tunes in specifically for consumer stories?
Unless you mean a story in general?
Oh I don’t know, perhaps viewers who are interested in them?
As much as I’d definitely prefer consumer reports to not be part of news bulletins under any circumstances (especially on Nine where they’ve got a half hour program after the news for this stuff on weeknights and now Saturdays), they’re obviously aimed a demographic which is different and likely far more attractive to commercial TV advertisers than your typical Media Spy poster.
Unfortunately, what most of us don’t understand is that producers consider this a value-add, an anchor for the second half-hour, 3:00 of content that would otherwise be filled with another franchise piece. Or, if they’re desperate, a toaster fire, a fender bender, see if Mel can stretch sport and have David ad-lib a whole minute of extra weather stats.
In the US, if a rundown isn’t stacking up correctly 15 minutes in, sports get shortened… or weather gets lengthened.
These stories are absolute garbage and unfortunately they often don’t have any commercial payoff as people seem to think… that would at least make sense on some level - the conception and execution of these stories makes little sense to me - I don’t think people want them on the 6pm news
I’m not here to defend the stories (would be very hard to) but its obvious that when they axed TT they were going to bring these stories into the 6PM news making it a hybrid bulletin.
There must be an appetite for these stories or the ratings would dramatically decrease even further at the 6.30 portion when they are most common.
I thought 7 took a lead a few years ago on the GC…
It looked like they won but they deliberately forgot to factor in that The Chase airs on the HD channel in the Gold Coast at 5:30pm. GC news was (and still is) only on the SD channel so it would’ve been The Chase skewing the results for Seven.
Is the slash with the “Tonight” the only time, across the whole network’s new package, that it’s facing that direction? It looks wrong - Especially as the rest of the promo has the same angles as the logo.
Bad colour choices too.
Just bad.
Local afternoon news for each market has always a waste of time. Its only beneficial for WA due to the
2/3 hour delay.
It wouldn’t cost many resources though, existing presenters, reporters just filing a preview cross, good promotion for 6pm bulletin.
Agree, but when the network starts making cuts in each newsroom, the resources used to creat the afternoon news just isn’t there.
For example, they cut back 5 staff in each newsroom, the limited resources would be deployed only to cater for the 6pm news.
I personally wouldn’t be surprised if WA introduces a local morning bulletin in the not-too-distant as the national bulletin would then be outdated by two hours (three in daylight saving time).
Nine did dip their feet into doing that in 2014 but it didn’t last long. They also had a local morning news bulletin in Queensland but it was axed in October 2017.
Not in this economic environment
You do realise… it’s out of their hands. It’s not like they want to do cut backs.
Looks like the 5pm News was controlled from Brisbane today, but still presented in Sydney (as it was not in HD):
16/6 - Seven News Sydney:
It appears Mark says “Computer numbers to double…”
as opposed to “Commuter numbers to double…” ?
Start from 0:32
Also Seven News Melbourne:
The camera angle for the intro seemed to stay still instead of a moving shot?
If this is breaking news, the banner wasn’t utilised well:
