Aside from the title cards, how have they cheaped out on the 7 Local Updates compared to the 10 Local Updates?
Reminds me a bit when the Perth news being produced out of Pyrmont before the move to Dianella in 2008, occasionally causing some suburb names being pronounced incorrectly. 
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That’s what I’m talking about.
These presenters for SC news for Ten look young like they’ve just graduated uni.
So I googled Makenna Baily and says was an intern at 9 and graduated in Dec 2020.
I don’t know if it’s the way they read it or just that there is no picture behind them and/or no footage, the update sort of seems dull.
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Rockhampton and Yeppoon get cut off the map.
Yet I know of people with lots of radio experience, produced News Updates for Prime7 and know how to say “Kiama” correctly who were turned away for these jobs. Go figure.
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Must be near “No-ra.” 
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Seriously? They could’ve at least hired those who had years of experience on the radio and producing/presenting news updates
generally want to be paid above minimum wage.
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He rally good looking updates. Boring “news” and clearly these kids are just out of uni and doing their best but their delivery needs polish as do their scripts. They look a little like deer in headlights.
Clearly they opted for these rookies to pay them really cheaply.
I find it really weird that SCA cannot source footage as overlay to make these a little bit authentic.
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I can’t wait to hear how they pronounce Woonona, Bulli, Towradgi and Warrawong.
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Graphics for these new updates are great (albeit lacking in localism for local updates).
Content, however is tokenistic, outdated and woeful and the updates (I know they’re doing their best) look like they are being presented by the work experience kid.
Assume SCA employed the cheapest/youngest possible people they could…
Hoping these updates get better but I doubt it - SCA putting minimum possible amount of money into them.
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For Day One, the SCA team in Tasmania have delivered a polished product of equal quality to the updates for 7 Darwin and 7 Central. Sure, file footage (or second best thing would be network-standard OTS) is the only thing missing (there’s rarely file footage in Darwin and Central, and it varies on TDT despite having access to 7 Tasmania’s resources) but compared to what was pumped out during the Canberra days, this is leagues ahead in quality.
Sure, these journalists might be fresh but simple updates like these would be a great starter for them to improve their skills, just take Alex Sykes or Ruby Commane who’ve definitely become stronger presenters in their time doing SCA updates. I doubt SCA would have journalists with years of experience lining up at the door to present only noodle updates.
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Yeah, I’m not sure these noodle updates are doing the 10 News brand any favours…
Well they did. Grant Wilson didn’t want them. There are Journalists out there who are keen to work for less pay so they can get different types of experiences (like more TV or more Radio experience). Anyway it is what it is.
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10 News has a brand??? News to me. 
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I’m home sick today and just watching the first of the new TDT updates. Same as the others however it does have some footage on the first story about David O’Byrne and the last story with some coronavirus testing footage.
Alex Sykes back doing the updates again.
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Just saw a Canberra specific local update. The content was todays news which is at least an improvement over the morning updates…
Presenter can’t pronounce Temora though and they could localise the weather graphic a bit more instead of using a NSW wide map.
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