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Oops.
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It was the same deal on 9 Melbourne tonight too.
I flicked over to Jane for the weather and noticed they finally removed the image of Bill McDonald and Sharyn Ghidella from their website graphic at the end of the bulletin. Apologies if itâs been mentioned before - but it had the former QLD team in the image for a very long time after Bill departed the network.
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It is a Melbourne bulletin; much more relevant than interstate weather.
Even Brisbane replaced it before them!
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As first story and live cross? Possibly the opposition leader resigning should have been ahead. Iâm big AFL fan, but Melbourneâs commercial media assuming a former player (decent one) and coach (not so decent) with baggage being knocked off his bike and being checked out at hospital is the lead story on the 6pm news is disgraceful.
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Agreed.
Sure, politics isnât always a popular commercial TV news lead story. But the resignation of an opposition leader (be it federal or one for the relevant state) should always be item #1 on all networks unless something extremely significant overtakes it in importance IMO.
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Sydneyâs 6pm news covering the âsuper stormâ in Sydney.
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I donât have the Melbourne bulletin to compare the rundown. I was saying that an AFL story should be ahead of either the Sydney storm or Brisbaneâs bushfires; which I think was suggested. I know the matter of the story is trivial though.
Sydney weather yes, Queensland bushfire maybe not, thatâs a story of national significance. The Hird story deserved a brief mention later in the bulletin.
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From August 8, 2016 - only lasted a very short period of time before they were tweaked to the considerably more legible (and smaller) ones we have now:
Just taking a look at that one with Brownie, you can imagine how it mightâve clashed on lighter backgrounds and be hard to read in compressed SD.
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Ah I thought you were referring to the reporter supers. But yeah, those graphics are gross. Glad they didnât last long (personally I would scrap the presenter supers altogether).
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Morning News this morning started with âLive from our Sydney Headquarters, this is Sevenâs Morning News with Sally Bowreyâ - havenât heard the Sydney Headquarters on the morning news before
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They used it on the 5pm News on Sat when Rob Ovadia anchored.
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No mention of late breaking news regarding Michael Kroger stepping down after the Libâs election debacle on the 8:30 update (made it onto the very end of ABC news), looks like Mike had an early night.
Over winter, they have the 4pm news presenter stay back on Friday nights. I suppose when the AFL isnât on, itâs not worth it?
I recall a few years ago Mitchell got caught out prerecording, look like nothingâs changed.
Yes, I remember that well, Rebecca Maddern started producing live updates soon after.
Peter Mitchell then (started) staying back an extra hour during the evenings. Friday and Saturday seem to be the exception.
Nine Melbourne usually close up around 9pm. Donât get me started on 10 Melbourne.
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Seven just had a (near) live update from Perth with the latest news. This is becoming more common and makes sense having late night updates presented from the west.
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I see, I missed it, flicked over after Blake. But yes, makes sense to use Perth.