A very tired and sunburnt Beretts reporting from Sandstone Point.
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Eddy is reporting on the start of the 2023 Coastrek in Sydney.
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The first cross to CommSec didn’t work. Nathan Currie managed to find league fans at 4:43 am in the morning at the “McDonald’s around the corner from Suncorp stadium”.
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Sam Mac will be at Disneyland, California next week for the weather.
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Ahh 
I was literally thinking damn this looks good. Thought it might have been like a sneak peak of a new sunrise studio 
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As foxy said. The Commsec studio has been around for a few years now.
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This argument doesn’t really hold up.
Locally, markets of around 500,000 and up have live breakfast news in Canada and the US for anywhere from 1 to 5 hours.
Additionally US stations get much lower viewership than in Australia due to a multitude of options across cable like fox n friends cnn and morning Joe. Plus dozens more.
For example, Sydney (market population around 5 million) gets far more people watching broadcast tv at 6am then say Washington. Miami or Philly also with Market pops of 5 million or so.
In Canada and the Us Markets down to around Newcastle/NNSW and Tasmania would have local news at breakfast time. Complete with 2 anchors, weather and traffic reporters.
Global Peterborough is the 32nd largest market In Canada. Around 150,000 in the entire market. What is that the same as Townsville or Darwin? They have local news 6-9am
It’s the same story in the US
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Yeah they have local news from 4am-7am (before going to Today or GMA, but still have local news and weather windows), then usually 5,6,7pm, then 10 or 11pm local news.
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I love the way Eddy, Beretts and JT are involved in these community events/fundraisers.
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The way local stations make money is a lot different to Australi though, but I still can’t figure out how they can’t make local news on 10 work, it’s bizarre.
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By selling ads?
O&O stations make money exactly the same way in both countries
You well know that local stations there only really make money when they’re airing local programming and can take all the ad revenue. The networks here take it all anyway whether it’s local or national.
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When you say local stations do you mean affiliates?
Because many local stations and affiliates are owned by the parent company / network in the US, just as in Australia
I think the key difference is in Australia networks give much less ad revenue over to local stations news divisions as a % of ad revenue in that market collected compared to the US
US stations whether they are o&O or affiliated - spend a large % of their ad revenue on local news and programming. Because they competitors do and they have to to survive and remain competitive
(I think) in Australia almost all ad revenue collected on the local level (be it Sydney or Canberra) goes to network programming: sports, reality, drama, Us content. They send very little to local Stations for local programming
A station in the US needs to invest in local news around the clock to be competitive.
In Australia that’s not the case.
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Correct, which is why we don’t have hyper local news outside of the metro capitals.
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I have to say, that looks very ABC circa 2010.
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Actually not that many. only a handful in some major networks. The rest are affiliates but part of large networks of affiliates.
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27/3/2022 Monique is reading the news this week, with Eddy off. Beretts is back in the studio.
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Sorry I know this is the wrong thread, but does anyone know where I may find a gallery for the set used for this?