Too much blue. A mixture of dark blue, maroon and white would look good. Ala “The Latest” or “NBC Nighty News 2012”.
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Most hideous set I’ve laid eyes on
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Replace some of that blue with white. And a few red lines like their graphics and it’ll look great
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Tonight in the 6.55 headlines in Brisbane, they used two lines of text scrolling across like in the opener, with the second line being the place where the story too place. Both lines of text were huge. Under that the red strip just said “headlines”.
How long has it been like this? Never noticed before…
Honestly, they should just rip out all of the Seven News sets across the country and replace them with Melbourne replicas. Still the best set they have to offer.
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Or just get an American designer (like the one who designs the NBC news sets) to design all of them.
Realistically though that probably still won’t satisfy Mediaspy’s standards.
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Along with “blue overkill” I’d probably have to say that desk (which yes, I know is repurposed from “The Latest” but still…) looks like a cheap rip-off of the one Nine News uses.
…or get DD8 on the phone, who seems to be the current “flavour of the month” as far as Australian-based set/graphics designers for TV are concerned. Can’t remember if they had anything to do with the refreshed 10 News First (or the network generally) but their fingerprints are definitely all over the current looks for Nine News & SBS World News!
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Like this? It may be a coincidence that all three had a location; but otherwise that has been present since last year. For the last couple of weeks where one Seven’s main anchors has been in the Townsville area these have been dropped for a live recap of the floods.
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Yep. That’s them.
Maybe they’ve decided to use The Latest’s desk so they don’t have to set it up each night
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The aquarium reference is completely spot on, too much water coloured blue all around. It’s extremely overpowering actually. I do prefer the map to some random pictures of Sydney or a continuation of the backdrop.
I do prefer the new desk to the one they had before, it looks so much better when it’s in the configuration for The Latest though. The red for that bulletin looks so much warmer compared to the blue.
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I guess so, but still it really makes you wonder why Seven didn’t start using the new desk (as it is now, of course) for all bulletins when “The Latest” was launched.
Mind you, similar things can be said about the previous Sydney/national desk because while the set launched on 1/2/2016, the screen wasn’t added to the desk until six months and one week later.
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“LIVE from our undersea headquarters, this is Seven News with Mark Ferguson.” 
I agree, there is way too much of an overload of blue, the screen weather graphics gets lost around all of that. It needs a touch of white and a accent of red.
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I honestly think the most pressing thing for them is to get Brownie in front of a proper weather wall or screen or something… Why not just have him in front of the new projection screen they have put on the right hand side? Then have sport presented from the opposite side in front of the new projection screen? Then they can all come together at the end of the bulletin for the closer.
I think it’s stupid they still have the presenter eg Brownie in front of the small screen then move to the green screen and back and forth every night.
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Maybe it could be renamed Sea-ven News?
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Wait… they’re outsourcing to NZ now!? 
Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium in Auckland? 
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Not a fan of the changes, especially the added blue. It’s all just too much.
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Major blooper on the closing of the Perth bulletin tonight, instead of the usual “The Mission” closing theme, they played Today Tonight’s closing theme instead! 
I have a video I quickly recorded, I’ll see if I can upload it as a private link. There was also another blooper involving a blank super graphic on a Perth Wildcats story. It disappointed after the fact, but attempted to again but it was still blank.
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Was literally just coming here to say that! I thought my ears were hearing things but I checked on 7plus and it was definitely the TT theme. oops!
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