TEN has no other choice, I’m not sure how many of you work in Business, but sometimes tough decisions have to be made. COVID has severly reduced the world’s economy, everyone’s struggling, from airlines to restaurants to our news outlets who are suffering from reduced ad venue as a result. This by no means like Nine News Local is an ideal situation, however atleast they are still providing a service, however reduced it is and the majority of staff will keep a job. Hopefully they will be compensated when we find out who was behind COVID.
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I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that Seven and Nine are immune to cutbacks, however I’d expect them to do it in a more subtle way (ergo redundancies and re-hirings of new talent at significantly lower wages) than the slash and burn on display at 10.
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https://twitter.com/couriermail/status/1293045731545059328?s=20
The Courier-Mail understands an internal national news meeting was held at 12.30pm today, where 10 News First staff were told of incoming changes to a centralised news program.
The Brisbane and Perth bulletins will now be streamed out of Sydney, while Adelaide will be streamed from Melbourne.
The Courier-Mail understands several Brisbane newsreaders were told prior to today’s meeting their current positions had been made redundant.
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To be honest, I can see 7 News Brisbane (Afternoon Edition) coming out of Sydney soon. Its only a matter of time.
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Yes, but, for instance. If this Centralised News Service is temporary. Then why dump all your News Presenters? It just wouldn’t add up, for example if they were to come back to their staff and say “Ah yeah, sorry about dumping yall, wanna come back?” They would probably have either little to no chance of having their News Presenters coming back (Apart from Tim Bailey, no-one would want him (I don’t think)).
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Bit hard to compare to 7 and 9.
Nine News Melbourne bulletin alone rates higher than the entire Ten News First bulletin nationally.
The budgets and ad spend around these bulletins are in different worlds.
You are dealing with two different beasts. Like comparing Qantas to Tiger Airways.
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On many occasions, 10 News First Perth even outrates Nine News Perth. (given that Channel 7 dominates in Perth for many years now).
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At least for 10, most of the news bulletin is outside prime time. Seven and Nine’s whole nights are anchored on getting big 6pm numbers so they can much less afford to made noticeable cutbacks in their news at least at 6pm.
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To save money. Don’t get me wrong its a big loss, but the Network is currently running at a major loss. Presenters etc can be re-hired again in the future if the market picks up. The only reason I think its temporary is the fact they have kept the Melbourne market going.
Sydney (5.2m) and Melbourne (5.1m) are most likely still making money for the network. The other three smaller markets are likely to be running at lose.
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i wouldnt be suprised with all this that bruce decides to go back to nine
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I’m no business expert by any means, neither do I work in a business field. But it would make sense to have ‘smaller’ to ‘no’ News, for instance, I’m an owner of a coffee shop in Glenelg, Adelaide. I make a comfortable living off selling coffee, and other things (i.e. biscuits and such). A global pandemic comes and wipes out ALL my customers (they have to stay inside), leaving me with no business, resulting in me having to shut down temporarily.
Now, tell me if I’m wrong, but that sounds like a smart idea for the time being, though compared to an Australia Network, I’m not sure.
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Dont think that will be an issue while ViacomCBS own them - they seem keen on replicating the Channel 5 model at Ten
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I suppose on some days of the week 10’s main channel ratings aren’t far from the 3-4% that Channel 5 manages on average!
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No idea about Seven, but I’m pretty sure Nine wouldn’t want a bar of Tim Bailey after some of his past Twitter commentary in relation to their programs & Sydney news service. This includes…
December 2013: Asked whether a reporter covering the Sydney to Hobart was drunk.
October 2014: “This is low rent, c***p” commentary about NRL Footy Show Grand Finale. While I didn’t entirely disagree, you couldn’t help but wonder about the irony of this coming from Sydney’s worst weather presenter!
June 2016: Slammed Mike Dalton (someone who I’d argue is someone Tim Bailey should be comparable to - but really isn’t) for mispronouncing “Narrabeen” during Wild Weather coverage.
November 2018: Called Tom Steinfort a “fraud” after he and others slammed Tim Bailey for his inappropriate conduct during a wild weather event. Someone died during these storms and over on Ten was Tim looking ridiculous in the wind with an umbrella on the roof of Ten’s Pyrmont studios!
Wouldn’t overly surprise me if there’s been other incidents over the years.
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Try low to mid 300s at the most
They are indeed. And the ratings are very average, particularly in the biggest market Sydney.
But suspect they’re paid by Roving Enterprises not directly by Ten.
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Guess the saying is true. Your choices will have consequences, and if I’m correct, I’m not sure that ABC or SBS will want him either. I doubt Seven would, considering they love their current Weather Presenter: David Brown.
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The Project’s ratings are very competitive in the key demo groups. Total people numbers should be ignored from a revenue point of view.
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