Thanks for refinding this - you can certainly see the loyalty towards their former employees at Telecasters - who after all were the local station for so long, even as they held a decent chunk of Ten itself by then - and certainly a middle finger to the blow-ins “from the south”. Don’t underestimate NQ pride in that anger one bit!
Of course, far from any guarantee that Telecasters wouldn’t have gone down the same path in short order, with the expansion of their satellite service and whatnot.
It’s interesting how, with this already having been cut down from an integrated bulletin to a separate local news, they were cutting costs for the titles by reusing the same template for GTS/BKN - if the background behind the Ten logo looks ripe for the Central “C”, that was probably not unintentional.
Sort of. The then sunshine local news was axed in 1995 but the same service was reinstated in 2004 as 7 local news due to an outcry from the North Queensland public over the axing of ten local news from SCA in 2001
I don’t count that as SCA didn’t produce that, 9 did it for them.
My point is SCA cuts a bulletin, there’s local outcry, but then that’s it. People just accept that’s how it is.
and as soon as somebody else wasn’t doing it for them, it was gone.
SCA have axed plenty of their own local bulletins before and they’ve never been reinstated, so any calls for them to bring GTS News back aren’t going to result in anything.
Looks like regional SA and broken hill will be in the same boat as Alice Springs and the central remote TV market, left with no local news bulletin except noodle news updates If they are lucky
According to Mediaweek, Southern Cross 10 has welcomed the appointment of Daniel Pizarro as presenter/producer. In the role, he will cover regional Queensland for 10 News First.
