100%. SCA would still have camera operators making TV ads no? It would obviously be much better if the news gathering was done locally. I’m guessing though that the x2 staff per market means you’re covering all of Southern NSW for example? (Not just Riverina)
While I can’t imagine the CEO of SCA in North Sydney really cares about the product, the news director who overseas this output in Launceston should indeed care VERY much.
‘Belka-nen’ is an interesting way to pronounce Belconnen (Bell - con - en). ‘Gool-bin’ for Goulburn is unforgivable though - it’s a well known city. Has this poor journalist done any geography?
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Name mispronunciations is not just an SCA thing - Launceston vs Lawwnceston has been going on since the beginning of time, Dynnyrne in Hobart has had some interesting goes at it over time (Din-urn not, dinnerinnie as has been on TV in the past) and Strahan (Strawn, not stra-han). My big hate though - Davenport which are makers of boxer shorts, not the city I live and Devon not Deven. All extremely common mistakes from people not around the region - even Tasmanian presenters get some of the places wrong.
That’s just the Tasmanian ones - there’s Albany where they hate when you get it wrong and so many others around the place that happen all the time. Yes, they should get it correct and yes, it’s obvious and grating when it happens but I think some are being quite hard on the presenters for it. Hopefully they improve with them but making it sound like these are the only people in Australia who can’t say the names correctly isn’t right.
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SCA survived pre-2016 change, don’t see what’s different now.
Netflix.
What does that have to do with their noodle updates?
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My point was much broader than that. TV needs to sell air to advertisers with a product that is appealing. Streaming services have decimated broadcast TV audiences, so terrestrial providers need to work harder to appeal in different ways. The huge increase in live and event TV over the past decade is one way. Another is the increase in airtime main channels devote to live news.
Crap noodle updates give your platform a bad reputation, which in turn makes it that much harder to sell.
When I worked at 2GN, complaints about the local news bulletins was the number one thing the sales reps brought up each month.
It’s an ecosystem. You can’t divorce the noodles from the station offer - because audiences don’t.
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They had a few photos on their Facebook page farewelling Michelle too. Looks like this was from the Hobart studio as it was the Hobart reporters there including Alex Sykes who I don’t think has done the 7 news but has done both the 9 and 10 ones.
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Ah yes, forgot about those ones. She’s one who can say she’s worked for all the networks!
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Hobart studio = grey carpet
Launceston = black carpet
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Well that makes it easier! lol thanks for that!
Unless I’m thinking of a different presenter (which is quite possible), wasn’t Alexandra Sykes also a presenter of SC10 Updates back in the days they were still Canberra-produced?
IIRC Alex Sykes joined SCA after/during the relocation to Hobart.
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You’re thinking of Alexandra Bryant, who is now a newsreader for Triple M in Melbourne 
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Don’t think I was. I’m a journalist and I learn how to pronounce place names before going on air, rather than guessing. I am just suggesting people who are paid money to read news do the same.
News is not guesswork. Newsreaders are paid to present facts, not just ‘have a go until you get it right one day’
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Yes I’m a Journalist too and this is right. You’re paid to get place, people’s names and titles (ie- Senator or Sir) correctly. There’s are tonnes of free resources at your disposal to make this happen. You can also use a telephone to call people living in the affected towns, suburbs and people too.
I’d say there’s no or limited checks and balances here to make this happen. Not sure why someone is allowed to make constant mistakes day in day out without anyone pulling them aside and correcting them.
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Former Nine News Darwin reporter Ainsley Koch has returned to Hobart to be a reporter for Seven News Tasmania.