Tonight would be the perfect opportunity to get Fergo out of the studio…
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Seven Morning News - special bulletin with Ann Sanders for Sydney viewers on the Sydney weather, with at least three reporters standing by live. (Very relevant here in northern NSW where the sun is shining!)
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And Mike Amor is anchoring the semi-national Morning News from HSV.
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Makes perfect sense being a half hour bulletin, couldn’t possibly cover all the Sydney weather news and have time for everything else, otherwise it’d look a half baked effort and alienate audiences wanting extensive info about the weather.
I wonder if the special Sydney bulletin will go an hour? Though BCM would have to adjust the networked schedule for that market, with the midday movie, etc.
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This is strange:
https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1067555145062305792
David Brown sitting down and presenting the weather from the newsroom. Did this go to air? If so, are you sure ATN didn’t have news during TMS. Maybe this was just for online purposes?
Wouldn’t doubt it. Seven have put an incredible effort into their coverage today.
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Didn’t go to air here - Brownie’s weather was like presented like it usually is. NSW bulletin now going over half an hour - sport has just finished and will be coming back after the break with more on the weather (it’s now 12 noon).
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The latest TV Blackbox podcast was pertinent to this, with a question from a listener asked about ‘breaking news’.
Rob McKnight said it all depends on the day, time and if a news production is already on air or not. Also saying they have to liaise with broadcast or programming to see how long they can extend or not.
So maybe whoever is in charge on duty at the moment (in terms of supervising programming play-out for day time) didn’t think it warranted longer than midday or wasn’t able to change the line-up in time?
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Mike Amor gave a pathetic one graphic, 10sec weather overview and bulletin quickly ended here. Midday movie commenced as per EPG.
What’s happening in Sydney as at 12:05?
Seven Morning News has just finished in NSW at 12:05. Came back after 12 with another check of the headlines and then a Sydney weather report (not statewide or national) from David Brown.
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So a few minutes behind Melbourne now (AEDT network schedule).
Because TDE is live (produced in Sydney no less) BCM will have to edit a few ad breaks (probably remove some promos)?
@ByronBay As I live in QLD, the Morning News is only airing now. This pre-recorded segment was recorded (during TMS) for the semi-national bulletin.
I would say it is easier for Melbourne to add 5 mins of Sunrise/TMS/TDE Best bits and take The Daily Edition live (but late) with Sydney.
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Actually, true.
If someone in Melbourne could observe the next hour and especially bang on 2pm carefully and see what happens, that’d be fab! Am unavailable now, but would’ve otherwise.
They’ll extend 5 breaks by 60 seconds each to make up the five minutes… it’s pretty simple really. No need for extra program content or “best bits”
Or Sydney will reduce 5 breaks by 60 seconds.
It doesn’t happen all the time but often enough for there to be a fairly straight forward procedure to bring the network back into sync.
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Brownie does these often. They’re streamed live to Twitter (via Periscope, I believe). Usually it’s a pretty casual affair - he’ll sometimes talk to the people behind the camera or tell the newsroom to “keep the noise down over there”.
(Cap from a previous date)
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Fergo wasn’t on location for coverage of the bushfires around Holsworthy/Menai back in April (which unlike Tathra in March, were bushfires which actually affected their main viewing area), so I don’t see why he’d be out and about tonight.
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FMD first story on Seven News Melbourne is James Hird being in hospital after being knocked off his bike. Live cross and all…
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Biggest breaking important “exclusive” Of the day!
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Forget bushfires raging through Queensland or a superstorm smashing NSW, this is the story of the year! 
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