7Tas had their own tribute for Nathan and threw straight to the break with no preview.
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Wow, that’s a very different feel going into the adbreak. Watching the YouTube version of tonight’s bulletin just now and it was straight into the location thing at the end of the ad break.
Was thinking about how many staff there would have still been around when Nathan was there and it was a young looking Kim Millar there as well as Nathan.
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Tough night to return with the breaking news happening in Sydney but welcome back Lou.
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Gee… says a lot about the ABC !
Once upon a time you wouldnt dream leaving the gravy train called the ABC
Or it just says that SCA had an opportunity for career advancement that wasn’t currently open at the ABC?
SCA… career advancement? … thats funny
Way more security at the ABC as well as better conditions and pay/superannuation
Maybe not career advancement within SCA itself but 7 Tas seems to be a successful stepping stone to a mainland gig.
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thats a valid point!
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Maybe she was a casual producer, working Friday to Tuesday, constantly overlooked for a full time on air job.
Sees an opening at 7Tas, for a full time reporter and a chance to chase her dreams?
No brainer.
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It’s a shame they don’t use OTS and alternate angles more often. Even the different coloured lighting looks sharp 
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Her face looks poorly lit, but looks pretty decent for 7 Tas.
I am on the Sunshine Coast at the moment and have seen a couple of Local updates during Midday, the presenter Phillipa Christian (who I haven’t seen before) is quite good.
Though the script seems poorly written. An example was reading out Mooloolaba SLSC, which is fine in written form but saying that (twice no less) is really quite the mouthful.
Likewise with specific local names, she seemed to stumble on a local street name and another example that I can’t recall now.
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Have seen her before, she does read pretty well, one of the better ones, but the writing on these updates is usually pretty clunky.
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Bizarre. Why don’t they use what the 7 Network use? Essentially all they need to do is place the script from the reports, autocue and even live cross scripts into the subtitles and that is 99% of the bulletin all down for them nearly word for word. Works perfectly for 7 Network every night for years. Having the subtitles down live is opening themselves up for error. Shows their disrespect for the hearing impaired.
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My understanding was that the company performing the capturing would receive at least some of the scripts before it airs which is useful but the line up can change with breaking news and other things happening which could cause the delays.
This is what they were doing… the software they were using was very old, not updated anymore and uses RS-232 to send the subtitles
was a manual process that involved a person sitting in front 2 monitors and hitting enter after every sentence.
The new services are all speech recognition.
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