What’s with the fonts?
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Perth?
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4pm Queensland news is from the Gold Coast studio again this afternoon.
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Media Watch verdict on Murder in the Outback
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National updates tonight in the absence of The Latest:
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Why would Sydney and Melbourne not be on the weather flipper but Darwin and Canberra are?
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Terrible
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too many words in that ots - looks way too crammed
Tonight Melbourne used the left hand side of the set for a report presentation (where weather is presented from). In the past they’d use the video screen on right hand side (where sport is presented from and previously weather).
I think tonight is the first time they’ve done something like this on the left hand side.
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Why is it that Mush can sit at the desk but Mel can’t?
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Perhaps Mel prefers doing a standing presentation for sport and will just do that permanently from now on? Whereas Usher decided he’d rather sit at the desk?
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At 6pm they also have Mel/Matt sitting at the desk for the end of the bulletin despite both presenting the sports segment standing over at the screen.
My guess is that they are trying to limit the length of time they have two people at the desk for. A few minutes is fine whereas 20-30 minutes to get ready, present a segment then sit around through ads/weather would be considered close contact.
Either that or the standing sport is a stylistic decision but it seems pointless since they still do the whole segment as a close up head shot anyway.
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It wouldn’t overly surprise me if the Sports presenters duck out after their segment only to return briefly for the set wideshot(s) at the end though, remembering how Ken Sutcliffe was caught walking back to his position at the Nine News Sydney desk a few years back! 
Prior to the relatively recent (last 10-15 years or so) trend of multiple set wideshots a bulletin being the in-thing, it’s likely that Sports presenters went home pretty much straight away after their segment finished. Put it this way, I doubt they would’ve hanged around for the ads/weather if they weren’t going to be seen on-camera again afterwards!
Note that the Melbourne bulletin had a higher audience than last year, but Nine News had even more viewers.
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Indeed. The ratings of Seven News in Sydney & Melbourne are major elephants in the room that in Craig McPherson’s own words, he seemingly would prefer to ignore! 
One can probably understand why they dominate Adelaide & Perth (despite the TT axings and longtime talent also being shown the door in those markets), but Seven is really only better than Nine in South East Queensland by default.
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