Nine Melbourne have 2 the last I heard. One is used for Today/Today Extra crosses (TOSS set) and the other is used for newsroom crosses (Regional studio)
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Seven Brisbane is the lesser of the two. I’d argue it is a better bulletin and their reporting team and fill-in team is now far stronger than Nine’s, which certainly could not be said 10 years ago. Making BTQ more tabloid was only to try and make it competitive.
Saying Neil Warren, who has been in TV for 40 years, will take the Sydney bulletin in a worse direction than Jason Morrison would have is quite bizarre and misguided IMO.
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What’s TOSS stand for?
Talent-operated small space or Talent-operated studio space
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I believe they record updates here while the bulletins are recorded on the main set.
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Still going past 12.30.
Better Homes and Gardens commenced at 12.36, presumably to fill the gap until The Big Freeze at 2.00.
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Mark Ferguson to present LIVE from the Hunter Valley bus crash area.
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Wow. Did they say it on arvo news. No arvo news in Melb because of the footy.
Ann Sanders crossed Live to Mark from the scene on Sydney’s 4PM bulletin
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It’s a very common Brisbane thing to send the anchor to the site of a major news story.
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I’m not sure why they couldn’t have Mark present the full bulletin on location rather then go back to the studio with Angula Cox presenting the rest of the day’s news. Sure have her on standby if the link has issues.
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Crossing back to the studio is the standard approach - firstly because the rest of the bulletin may include stories that don’t match the tone of the location/lead story (ie today’s Kings Birthday Honours for example), secondly because it helps emphasise the magnitude of the story they are on location for, and thirdly because if you’re going to have somebody sitting in the studio anyway why not help share the load given standing by the side of the road in the cold is not particularly pleasant for any of the team who has been sent out into the field today to cover this story.
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Looks messy with him swapping between handheld mic and not. Good having Angela back in studio for other news. Looks bad when you start to intro a light story from a tragic scene.
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This also happened at least three times in the Ian Ross era: once when he presented live from Macquarie Fields where riots had unfolded in 2005, another when a boat crashed at Darling Harbour in 2008, and most prominently during the Victorian bushfires in 2009.
On the latter two occasions, he would throw back to Chris Bath (don’t remember if this was also the case in 2005 as Ann Sanders was the weekend presenter at the time).
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It’s also extra redundancy in case the sat, microwave or TVU link fails.
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Yep, Remember in 2015 when all the senior reporters/presenters were over in Gallipoli meanwhile Sydney was going through a weather emergency so they had Samantha Armytage present the bulletin for 3 days, crossing back to Mark Ferguson during the bulletin.
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