There’s more than a 3 day old story going on eg a GC seat hanging in the balance, a woman being run over by a car driven by her husband resulting in serious head injuries, an assault, chaos at Pac Fair.
The Polair story shouldn’t have lead the bulletin.
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There’s more than a 3 day old story going on eg a GC seat hanging in the balance, a woman being run over by a car driven by her husband resulting in serious head injuries, an assault, chaos at Pac Fair. The Polair story shouldn’t have lead the bulletin.
[/quote] Of course but there is no way a local bulletin won’t have enough time for those type of stories. The further you zoom the scale on a region the less news and more sport and fluff you get, I am afraid. I have also heard Nine’s bulletin isn’t polished either on content.
I had a look at Nine’s bulletin tonight . It lead with the “breaking news” that at 2.30pm a woman had been accidentally hit by her husband reversing the car with a cross to a reporter standing on their favoured outside balcony. The rest of the line-up also mirrored Seven’s with emphasis on criminal activity including a very similar segment from Polair. They also seemed to agree that the election results needed to be well down the story order for some reason. About the only stories that Seven had, missed by Nine were the interview with the Lord Mayor and the story about Seven’s new bulletin!
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I am very aware of the make up of regional news bulletins - I’ve lived in regional areas most of my life. But I was referring to the lead story. There were other stories that should have lead the bulletin. The Polair story was more a promo for tonight’s ‘behind the scenes’ special.
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Melbourne now has the alternating Olympic Rings “watermark” like Sydney.
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and Brisbane
And it all started in Perth
I’m pretty sure that Sydney/national bulletins were the first to get the Olympic Rings rotating animated “watermark”!
Looking back to June 2 when it was first used on national morning bulletin
But perth follow that night so you where 1/2 right
Tonight’s Seven GC news was disappointing. There were at least 4 stories that were later repeated or expanded in the 6pm bulletin including the first 2 items on the Brisbane news. There was another report on Polair - this time the technical aspects, and another sit down interview with the Gold Coast mayor and another pointless story about the bulletin launching the previous night.
Both 7 and 9 Gold Coast editions were full of “First on…” supers tonight! Seven’s posted below - I’ll put the Nine ones in the 9 News topic.
Gold Coast
Brisbane
“First on” - none of the stories were recent breaking news so another pointless super.
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The premiere of “7 News Gold Coast” beat “9 Gold Coast News” Monday - with Seven’s newscast scoring 49,000 viewers to Nine’s 34,000 - according to TV Tonight.
To put that in ROUGH context - out of a market of about 600,000 people - that is akin to “7 News Sydney” scoring about 400k in a market of about 4.5 m
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Great start. 
Reminder - do not post ratings data that is not in the top 20 as listed by OzTAM even if it mentioned on sites outdie Media Spy. In those cases, post a link to the numbers only.
On this occasion, I have added the information to yesterday’s ratings article to allow for it to be mentioned here .
Must’ve been a prediction! Lol
After yet another consecutive nightly win in Brisbane, 7News must be close to being able to lay claim to be “Brisbane’s Number 1” as well as “Qld’s Number 1”.
@TV.Cynic ah ok sorry!
In two weeks time, once the (re)launches have worn off, then we should receive the ratings.
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Yep, I would wait until about September/October before coming to any real conclusions about the ratings of either Gold Coast bulletin.
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Do we have any idea how much Nine used to rate on its own? I’d be interested if that’s largely growing the news pie rather than splitting it.
Still - pretty much all of the other regional TV news bulletins would rate about the same or lower than that Nine figure - so I’d expect it to be sustainable.
Incorrect, there is nowhere that the TVQ GC signal does not reach yet the NRN GC signal does. They are all from the same sites with the main site, Tamborine with a greater radiation pattern for TVQ.
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Yes, the map for region 5 is quite interesting.
Alex Hills and the wider Redlands and northern GC council area beyond Coomera point their antennas towards Mt Coot-tha or the B Block translators, not the GC signals.
The spike for 5:30 shows how concentrated the GC result is to influence the region 5 and overall result.