7 News Darwin confirmed?
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Curious
Not this forum getting excited over Darwin again
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10 Darwin speculation all over again! 
There is no chance of any return of 7 news Darwin. It’s only for updates for SCA.
IIRC those mic flags have been around for a while and have popped up in Buzz in the Top End occasionally.
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I’m kidding. It’s a joke referring to 10 News First Darwin rumours which went into overdrive in 2019
Those updates seem fairly good.
Putting a weather super on screen cycling local temps throughout would help liven up on screen, and make the statewide map at the end make more sense.
Miles better than last time SCA tried.
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The updates for the Southern NSW/ACT and Regional QLD have different backgrounds, I’ve just noticed 
Continuing the music bed / beat for the ENTIRE News update like they do on radio and shorter News updates would improve these 10000% instantly. Keeps the energy there - would
Make a world of difference. As soon as the music fades out - they become unwatchable
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Also easy instant improvements:
- on screen constant branding bug: 10 News First Local
- a headline bar with the story in súper headline
2 COVID CASES IN CAIRNS
PM IN BALLARAT TODAY
40° FORECAST FOR ACT TODAY
Etc
Also a ticker, and a weather bug flipper
They need some extra info and graphical schtick to jazz them up: literally - they are visually and audio wise dull and lifeless. They need to be brought to life
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As long as they run a spell check first.
Typos on SC Ten News Updates was one hell of a drinking game pre 2016 
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A ticker is pretty unecessary for noodle updates, plus it’s not an element that Ten uses really ever, especially in their own news updates. If they try adding too many things just to try and “jazz them up” they’ll end up back in the Canberra days with a big unattractive mess on screen. Unless it’s a weather-only ticker I’d have to say no.
I think part of the problem is that these updates are so long. The surface-level content of the noodle updates is in line with the shorter news updates that you see on the metro channels. Typical metro updates run anywhere from 30 seconds to little over a minute, and the Carwin/Central updates usually find themselves around a minute as well. Anything over a minute for an “update” you’re just going to lose the viewers attention.
The content of the noodle updates are already short-and-sharp summaries of local news (each “story” is around 20 seconds), so why not make the updates themselves short-and-sharp? Trimming the updates down into a minute maximum and running music throughout would make the noodle updates much more digestible. File vision would be a great improvement too, but even if they don’t have it, watching 1 minute of a presenter piece-to-camera is slightly more bearable than a 2 minute piece-to-camera.
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Probably just framed differently, down to the size of the presenter. Or maybe some are in Hobart and others in Launcston?
Why is it awkward? It’s a fairly established reality, these are entry level jobs where people start their careers. Journos with decent experience/skills aren’t gonna lob into them.
But it works… Grace Fitzgibbon, Jared Coote, Tim Hatfield, Emma Larouche, Julie Snook, Joel Crean… plenty do it and good on them for it.
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It certainly does. Tassie would often run the bed up until the first story with file footage, fade out the bed, then fade in the bed as Alex starts the weather segment. Great flow, felt urgent, gave the illusion of a bulletin coming up later.
Here’s the best example of exactly that:
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There was a post somewhere else in this thread I think with the breakdown of which studio was doing which and I think they had the Queensland ones being done by Launceston or North Queensland at least. So it’s quite likely that is the difference. It would be good to compare the two to see how they both look.
With the usual 7 Tas news, you can tell by some of the effects like the opening zoom as to whether they’re in the Hobart or Launceston studios.
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Currently you can tell when Tasmania news is coming from Hobart because they won’t do the opening wide shot and will keep the camera centred on the presenter through the whole bulletin (no OTS), probably because that’s the only shot Spencer Gulf ever uses and they’re just doing what they normally do in that studio. Whenever Loiuse Houbaer is guest presenting it’s always coming from Hobart since she’s based there.
But before the Spencer Gulf news moved to Hobart, when the Tasmania news was coming from Hobart they used to use the same opening shots and zooms. One of the wall panels is slightly different between the two sets IIRC.
Here’s Launceston. Look at the perspex wall with horizontal lines, IIRC the Hobart set doesn’t have the two vertical lines, only the horizontals.
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Should look at some previous Southern across Ten presenters. I remember one was equally awkward and fresh faced and ended up presenting on Fox Sports news. Everyone starts somewhere.
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I’ve probably missed this somewhere but why do SCA have two studios in Tasmania? Seems weird for such a small state they have studios in both launceston and Hobart. Obviously they produce news for SC7 Tasmania but what else?