And this would be copied and pasted to all regions with the weather map being the only real difference.
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Makenna Baily presented sport for 7 Tasmania News last night, and Victoria Eastoe presented the weather. There’s also a new reporter for the team - Annie Greene
YT credit: Nightly News 7 Tasmania
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Canberra has more than 460,000 residents so it shouldn’t be too hard for SCA reporters to find local stories. Just look at The Canberra Times newspaper, Canberra Weekly or CityNews.
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Yeah, shouldn’t be hard - there are plenty of press releases floating around to draw content from.
I do feel for the people putting these updates together though - probably don’t have the time to do much more than they do which indicates Southern Cross probably need to resource the updates better - which they won’t - unless the Government forces them to do so - which they probably won’t - even though I’d argue updates with so little local content don’t meet local content obligations. So nothing will change unfortunately.
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That’s going to be some big shoes to fill but I think a well deserved retirement.
SCA is recruiting to find a suitable replacement news director for the Tasmanian market.
This will be interesting though, with the thing Seven said the other day that started the speculation about whether the SCA7 stations were up for grabs or changes to the 7Tas News, now would be a good time and with the Nine Tas bulletin coming next year there could be a bit of a shake up happening.
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Yep. I have a feeling Seven wants a similar arrangement as Nine/WIN in Tasmania. Director retiring is a huge indication.
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Grant must be proud to leave the Nightly News as the product it is with what’s happened during at ‘Southern Cross’ over his 23 years as news director and 42 years at TNT.
The mergers, acquisitions, divestment and centralisation of assets within SCA - and its disinterest in its television assets - along with his direct competitor doing much the same but with greater impact on the local market.
It’s often forgotten that TNT wasn’t the incumbent during aggregation, or dominant station and wasn’t for many years. It was built and earned.
It must be nice to be able to tie a bow around an hour long, composite nightly television news bulletin produced from a regional centre for a company focused in audio. Also a training ground for many young journalists who move to metro bulletins.
Not overselling one man, it’s always a team effort but I’m assuming he’s been in a lot of tough corporate meetings over all this time and has somehow successfully navigated the changes in the industry.
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She’s been doing it quite regularly the last few weeks… I think all the weekend shifts for the past few weeks.
I wasn’t sure about her with the noodle updates she was presenting before when she first came on TV but with her reporting and her presenting of the sports I think she’s really improved in a short time and could end up being one of those heading for big things on the mainland in the future.
The other thing I’ve noticed for a while is the lack of Peter Murphy for the weather, it’s even less than part time now and he’s more of a casual weather presenter. Not surprised, he’s been doing it for a very long time and has other jobs and has certainly earned a break but I’m fearing his on-air retirement might be coming soon.
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“I’ve just been offered a presenting role with Network 7 in Tasmania. We’re very sad to be leaving because it has become our home and we do really love it here, but it’s just too good a career opportunity to pass up.”
Curious…
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Maybe…
- She is becoming the new presenter of Nightly News 7 Spencer Gulf.
- She is replacing Louise Hedger as weekend presenter, who might go to WIN/9 for Nine News Tasmania.
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Nope on both counts.
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Who is this random woman? Has anybody every heard of her?
Maybe she’ll be another weather presenter, as has been said, Murph is winding down.
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Found her profiles on Facebook and Linkedin, no listed history in the media industry or relevant education.
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Legit have never heard of her either, and I’m in the Port Augusta area every few weeks and do watch the local news service when I’m up there.
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Guys, please remember that us SCA people do read this forums. Some of the recent comments about us have been very hurtful and unkind.
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For the record, these aren’t personal attacks. They are critiques and criticisms of media and presentation. No personal harm or insult is intended (I’m sure).
(also for the record I didn’t post anything, just read the posts before they were censored)
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well that’s not how the people like @DJPizarro and others take it. so maybe think before posting? as to what you may think isnt a personal attack is in fact to the other person they fell like it is
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Some of the removed posts were straight up mocking the competence and in some cases the physical appearance of the presenter.
We have mentioned previously on this thread that we have zero tolerance for this kind of behaviour.
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