I think the coverage of the demise of 10 and it’s popular presenter has been greater than a 4pm bulletin.
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Would it just be easier to just pre-record the Brisbane and Adelaide editions? It’s not ideal I know… but it avoids the mess of trying to cater for two markets in a combined bulletin.
If you’re from Adelaide what would you prefer?
A live combined bulletin with Melbourne stories, or a pre recorded full local edition?
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I think even Sydney & Melbourne viewers will eventually realise that 10 News First isn’t as local as it once was. The average person might not know the bulletin they’re seeing is also being shown interstate but they will notice how there’s fewer local stories and live crosses, more generic sports generic sport/weather coverage, no more local imagery with the On-Air Presentation.
When that happens, most of the few viewers 10 News First still has are going to turn to news services on the other networks (whether that be Seven, Nine or the ABC) who are willing to meet the individual local coverage needs for news, sport and weather in our five main metropolitan markets.
Even despite recent cutbacks, I think Seven has a slightly better reputation amongst local viewers in Adelaide (and to some extent, Perth) than Ten does in any of the five metro markets!
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Unless people just watch 10 news as they want news at 5-6
Then they won’t necessarily leave despite the changes, as it’s the only option
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You mean they have a far better reputation in those areas compared to Ten?
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News Corp running the anti project campaign again by point to low Friday night figures and not remarking on demos. No really idea and the fact that it isn’t part of the news department. These tv writers have no clue. 90% of media spy members know more about tv than alleged news Corp media writers.
Again it’s an ideological reason why they would want the project axed.
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It’s a different scenario in this case though. Seven has the only commercial news on at 4pm in Adelaide, and as awful as the bulletin has become, we will still have it on in the background, purely because we’re used to having news on at 4pm. If Nine or Ten had local news at 4pm, I would move to them in a heartbeat.
This is not the case with Ten abandoning 5pm local news in Adelaide, Nine have their local bulletin on at this time. You’d have to be a pretty hard core Ten fan, or not have access to a remote to watch an interstate bulletin over a local one, and I think the ratings will reflect this.
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That makes sense yes. I’m still
Not sure ratings drop will be substantial or significant
It will be tolerable
I think 10 will work much harder to make a combined bulletin relative to interstate audiences than 7, as others have said 5pm 10 news is very high profile.
No different to Mediaspy I guess! But I share your sentiment.
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I reckon a lot of this is playing to the narrative that Laul Anderson resigned because he didn’t want to go down this path under the new viacomCBS directives. They’ve dismantled the sports department and are gutting the news.
In Australia in a general sense your bread and butter is sport and news to be a credible network. 10 will just be a generic nothing type channel with very little identity into the future. Paul Anderson understood this and decided to go rather than ruining the place.
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Yes, shut it all down (every station) and start from the start like it’s 1956 with all new technology! It would bring more jobs, more people, more locality and more choices I would think.
Also, ban the internet and mobile phones because they didn’t exist in 1956. 
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Either way, Adelaide can’t be live right?
As 5-6.30 in Adelaide is 5.30 - 7 in Melbourne
And talent crew and studio will be in use
Or if it’s combined it will be 30 minute delay
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And from October - April, Brisbane can’t be live as it will either be a combined bulletin on delay
Or
5pm-630pm in Brisbane is 6pm - 730pm in Sydney and crew talent and Studio will be in use 5pm-530 Queensland
Or am I wrong?
well played.
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It’s very upsetting to see these announcements. I’m afraid that this will become common across most networks as the economic hardship continues. With 7’s financial position, maybe 10 are going to be the example on how these combined state bulletins work.
The negatives are obviously the job losses and the lack of local news to EACH state by itself, but I believe that there is room for 10 to take the news to a new level and the team rise up from this bad trough.
Perhaps the Sydney/Melbourne newsrooms will just present more news a night…
EG: Adelaide will get a pre record (starting at 4pm Melbourne time) and then a live half hour at 6pm (6:30-7pm Melbourne time).
and, for Brisbane, perhaps they’ll get pre-record (or combined Sydney) 5-5:30 (6pm Sydney time) and then live from 5:30 to 6:30 (6:30-7:30 Sydney time). Then straight into the Perth news… will be interesting.
No way any of that is practical.
I know one practical solution…
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if it wasn’t for the fact there was time zones, i reckon they should adopt the BBC/ITV model of news, 30 min national bulletin followed by a 30 min local bulletin
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