Never mind just seen an update
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Regional Qld one aired midway through Lunchtime news bulletin today, not that expected anything to have changed yet, but still looks the same as normal.
Still presumably coming from SCA Tasmania for the time being?
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Very much looks that way.
ACT & North-East VIC presenter Zeke Gaffney presenting 10 Regional updates on the Sunshine Coast today.
Quite jarring seeing these sub-par quality updates (I know they’re doing their best given the resources available to them etc) airing during 10’s rolling coverage the last day or so, the latest was just before returning from an ad break just after 12:30pm I think it was.
I know it was reported 10 have a supply agreement with SCA for the continuation of these, but the sooner the network has some more oversight of them - the better for everyone IMO.
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I assume this is just temporary?
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Am hoping this is the case, just for the continuation of the updates, while 10 figures out how to best manage and possibly integrate the updates into each respective newsroom.
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Will Boddy does the ACT updates. It was actually a nice ‘break’ from the ongoing cyclone coverage to see the local update today and they’re pretty good updates, in the ACT at least, given the limited resources.
Agree that some oversight/integration with 10 could see the quality lift further.
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I was just going by Zeke’s X (Twitter bio) but seems they all fill in for each other as required.
The updates up here in Qld are all understandably cyclone related, but reporting on events from yesterday etc in an unfolding situation does make them a bit jarring.
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Haven’t seen Zeke present before. Is he any good?
Still quite green from what I saw, will do better with more experience and guidance.
Quality of the updates is questionable, but understand why they report them as they do due to several limitations.
I would assume he’s filling in for Stacey Eldridge. All the presenters of the local 10 updates are quite good
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It’s very much a temporary thing. The updates will eventually be moved to ATV in Melbourne, since they now own the 3-agg market licenses that were previously owned by SCA.
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we don’t know that?
i think that’s only in paperwork terms, nobody has said Melbourne will be an operational/news hub for the ex-SCA channels?
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Interestingly with 10 now owning the license, you’d think they’d actually be pumping out enough local news on the network to technically not need the updates in that market at the moment.
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Every time you repeat this your phrasing becomes less “this is just my theory” and more “this is basically fact”.
The fact is that we don’t know yet. Please keep this in mind.
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As we know, even if something is announced, it doesnt make it fact until it happens. Look at what happened with the planned National Nine News Tasmania bulletins that were proposed, even announced at Nines Upfronts, but never happened. So whether speculation or announced, until they follow through with whatever the strategy is moving forward, its a wait and see thing
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has anything been announced to this effect?
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I have not heard anything personally, and even if it has been, you cannot rely on it being fact, just a proposal until it actually happens. The example something announced in television not happening was the Nine News Tasmania plan.
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Especially before editing Wikipedia.
Don’t think the staff (and we know from insiders that they do view the site) like coming on here and hearing stuff like “xxx is being moved to Melbourne” being said as a fact and adding extra stress to the future of their jobs.
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