Some caps I got today …
I thought Perth may be continuing to get their own local 9:30 news updates after the Commonwealth Games after seeing one on Monday night, the night of the birth of the royal baby. But it turns out it was just for a live update on the royal baby since last night, Perth went back to receiving a national news update at 9:30. Surprisingly, it was presented by Mark Ferguson, doesn’t he normally leave after the 8:30 news update in Sydney like all the other main news presenters around Australia?
I think they should just let Sunrise keep the set to themselves and chuck their news set into the newsroom. Throw in a plasma wall and some vertical plasmas (for national news, use newsroom as backdrop and Martin Place for Sydney backdrop) and there’s your good looking set on the cheap.
Morning News is coming out of Melbourne today, with Jacqueline Felgate presenting.
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They must be trying to build Jacqueline Felgates profile up - to a national audience?
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Bit of a rant and I don’t like demeaning presenters but she needs to get some better presenting skills before she goes national. In fact I think the whole pool of Melbourne presenters need better presenting skills because they read the stories as if the viewers are stupid.
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Agreed, someone had to say it. Rebecca Maddern was probably the best presenter at Seven News Melbourne before leaving as a result of Seven not taking her (proper talent) seriously.
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Would you put Jennifer Keyte and Blake Johnson in this category ?
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Now that I think about it maybe not Blake Johnson, forgot he was there. And Jenifer is definitely better than the the others.
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Interesting that this topic has come up because I’ve been noticing more and more that the reporters in Melbourne seem to be dramatising their stories with inappropriate pauses, rather than just telling the story. These pauses happen far too often, in particular when it’s late in the story prior to the last few words. For example, last week one of the reporters was talking about how the public were ‘using the opportunity to take a photo (pause) with their phones’ (or words similar).The pause was unnecessary and came off as melodramatic. Unfortunately Jacqueline Felgate has a bad habit of doing this while she’s reading the news.
I agree that Rebecca Maddern was probably the best they had. I recall her working something like 13 days straight a few years ago, then not long after she left.
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Must be something going on at 7 as the Perth reporters (as we’ve mentioned many times) also speak with ridiculous pacing and announciation.
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Sydney arvo bulletin from Queensland?
Melbourne is getting its local news.
& Queensland is getting this bulletin too. Doubt it but something might be happening to Sydney’s set or just technical problems.
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That is correct.
There have been several national bulletins coming out of Melbourne lately and now this afternoon news from Queensland?
What’s going on?
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Along with the ones you mentioned, another possibility is that they might be in the process of filming bits for new Sydney news promos.
IIRC, there was one day in March 2016 that the Afternoon News moved to Melbourne so Seven could film bits for the “Mel McLaughlin joins Seven News Promos” from the Sydney set.
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Although Perth has a horrible “set” it would be great for them to take over the Sydney afternoon news if there was difficulties. It could be a chance for Seven to further familiarise viewers with Basil Zempilas. Would be also interesting to see how they would configure the virtual set.
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Please tell me how that can logically happen if Perth is always 2-3 hours behind Sydney and so Perth’s afternoon news would be airing when it is 6:00/7:00 in Sydney?
Well if you use some logic, you would know that if its 4PM in Sydney its 2PM in Perth where they can simulcast a specialised broadcast live to Sydney which is what I was referring to in the first place. And Perth continues to do there normal afternoon news.
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Interesting move. In all my time following Seven News I don’t believe I’ve seen a combined NSW/QLD bulletin presented from Brisbane!! But it sure is a nice change for once. At least Tony recognised this was an NSW/QLD bulletin including city and statewide forecasts for both QLD and NSW. And how long has this social media segment at the end of the news been going on for? It’s a bit ridiculous, I don’t believe it really needs to be there…
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