I am also genuinely shocked.
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Still using the same supers and graphics package they made back in 2014 even though Hobart has the updated graphics available. 
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Was it Belka-nen again?
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Yeah, something like that.
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how can you muck that up? I’ve never lived in Canberra but I know how to pronounce Belconnen 
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I know people who have called it Bel-co-nen which just sounds weird but apart from that I thought it was pretty standard but I’d like to see some samples of things and see if it’s just an accent thing or people just surprised that this is what happens when news gets produced out of regions - something many regions have already dealt with for years.
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Reign it in please, constructive criticism can be made without personally attacking presenters.
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Proper nouns should be displayed in CAPS on autocue for this reason. Phonetically if needs be.
This has been said before, but telephones do operate in Hobart for fact checking. Proper nouns aren’t subject to accent variations - they are either wrong or right. Sure the same place name can be pronounced differently when used in different places, Launceston here in the UK is ‘Lawn-ston’ for example not Lon-sess-ton. But Melbourne is never Mel-born. Possibly “Malbin” if you have a strong Vic twang.
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Almost right, for example we still pronounce Paris differently than the French do, but those are language- not accent-variations.
Within the same language however, I think you’re right; we should pronounce a place name as the locals do.
It’s trickier when the same name is used in different locations, such as Melbourne, Florida, USA, or Albany & Albany in Aus.
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Unless you’re from overseas 
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Never knew that Amanda Abate presented Southern Cross Ten News updates for Southern NSW before she joined Seven
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Maybe we’d have better luck if the SC10 news updates were made in New Zealand.
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Yep. Pretty sure they speak Australian English in Tasmania, not French.
They’re listening to us. Just saw the latest Canberra update and they pronounced Manuka correctly.
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It’s not the responsibility of the 10 network to do those noodle updates, that’s SCA responsibility
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Why would channel 10 spend money producing new content for someone else’s TV station
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Didn’t Nine do it for SCA for five years in exchange for a bigger slice of the revenue pie?
If you look at news production as a commodity to sell (either to advertisers or to TV stations), it doesn’t matter where the money comes from.
ITN in the UK sells news production to ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
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It seems that was the exception to the rule and was specifically written into their affiliation agreement. Nine were the only metro network producing news content for their affiliate and they seemed pretty keen to back out of that obligation by signing a deal with WIN
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Indeed. But if the changes in broadcast television have taught us anything over the past 7 years it’s that nothing is impossible.
SC could easily have asked Ten to make their noodle updates (indeed they may have) in exchange for money. Or SC spends their own money and make their own ‘news’. SC would certainly have looked for the cheapest possible solution to their obligations.
However, it does seem that SC is now prepping for a possible offload to Seven in two years, which may be a contributing factor.
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