Here you go. 21 years old in 1986.
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I seem to remember a few months ago there was an issue where one or more markets couldn’t air their local 6pm bulletins. What happens then? Did they receive the state bulletin or the live version from the Sunny Coast?
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The big change to WBQ/STW(Seven Qld) came in the early 80’s when they put a Channel 10 output translator at Dulong Lookout at the back of the Nambour Hospital. As soon as it started they began writing heaps of advertising business from the Sunshine Coast, so much so it became their main market very quickly. When Sunny Coast business became big enough they moved the studio to Maroochydore where it still is today. Playout went to Melbourne(7MBC) when digital started up then eventually moved to NPC in Sydney. Some ops staff moved to Melbourne but it would be interesting to see if any went to Sydney after that move?
Re news feed problems, they use Telstra DVN to get program to their transmitter sites now so they may have had an issue there or at the Maroochydore studio or even NPC in Sydney. TV is basically a virtualised beast now and doesn’t happen in real time (even live has a 5sec delay).
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That’s really interesting. I’d always wondered how a network seeming never based on the Sunny Coast ended up with it’s HQ there, but it certainly makes sense given the advertising revenue they’d get from the area.
I think the bulletins that didn’t air at the end of last year was the result of a covid scare shutting down one of the newsrooms, so they didn’t have staff. But airing the Sunny Coast bulletin would give the pre-recording game away, so I’d assume they’d take BTQ for the full hour.
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You would think the same thing would have happened with NRTV Gold Coast but the Local News was still piped out of Coffs Harbour and the flow on from viewers after aggregation never occured despite their competitor Prime giving it a strong crack.
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They received the Brisbane bulletin in full from 6pm - 7pm.
Townsville was the one I can think of - I believe they were out for 2 nights due to a positive COVID case in their office.
Airing Brisbane was the correct decision, it wouldn’t have made sense for viewers to see Rob Brough on screen reading a heap of hyper-local stories about the Sunshine Coast.
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You could combine the bulletin with the nearest newsroom (Mackay) labeled as 7NEWS North Queensland, and perhaps run some quick RVOs throughout the bulletin with file vision for Townsville.
Packages aren’t possible but there are ways around it whilst keeping the brand going.
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Not really a problem anymore, but I wonder what their plan was if there was an outbreak at HQ? They couldn’t produce any bulletins?
I wonder if this backup plan could work: lump the stories that they could finish into a Darwin-style ad break opt-out and have one of the reporters for that region do an on-location presenting of the stories.
Then at least 2 or 3 stories would make it on air.
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When Rosanna Natoli does the weather instead of Livio it just sounds like she is reading off an autocue . Doesn’t sound very natural. I suppose Livio is as well ?
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Probably because she is. Not easy to memorise the entire script for a 4-5 minute weather segment.
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Yeah i googled Livio is apparently a meteorologist as well as a weather presenter.
Edited to add : Not complaining about Rosanna . She does a great job .
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Given Livio’s live ad lib in explaining the weather charts, last Friday’s Sunshine Coast editon went off to an abrupt end. Since all pre-recorded feeds are timed as coordinated, it didn’t spare a second for Rob to close the live edition. 
Recording from @ScreenTower, as always:
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Another example of bad Studio Producing. Tell Livio to hurry up or drop certain features of his weather report as it’s going to air. They would have also known that pre recorded cross would push them over too.
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He could’ve fit a wink in that half second closer, easily.
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Sorry to say, but seems like your DVR had an encoding error, and scrubbed the audio faster than the video part of the clip.
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Did someone forgot to give the satellite loop and weather charts to Rosanna while Liv is on a 1-week break? Either it didn’t reach deadline, or the weather system is having another technical fault.
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