TEN have sent Joe Hill to Rome and he is reporting live tonight from the Vatican for Cardinal George Pell’s testimony.
Joe Hill filed a report last night on the news from Rome. Good to see Ten have sent a reporter over there
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Any sign of changes to accompany the HD switch?
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Lexington has said there are none that he has heard of in the Ten HD discussion, but we’ll know for sure tommorow.
Not that I’m aware of. News will remain in SD for the time being too.
Maybe when they update the equipment to HD we might see changes? 
Half in HD here in Sydney. Graphics and studio are HD but the title card wasn’t and reports don’t seem to be.
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…and you can definitely tell that the set wideshot in the Opener was a pre-recorded one because that was SD while the live footage of Sandra was native HD! 
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the title card wasn’t
[/quote]Title card looks HD to me.
It seems that Sydneysiders are the lucky ones (well, until the next weekend bulletin rolls around anyway) as far as Ten Eyewitness News: First At Five in HD is concerned.
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Basically, it’s just live studio shots and graphics that are in HD with the rest being in SD better than nothing I suppose.
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Suppose the one benefit of not using a live shot is that the background there looks alright, unlike Nine’s HD bulletins that look really bad behind the presenter.
Who’s the co-anchor?
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There wasn’t one tonight, that’s Matt Burke the sports presenter.
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Sports presenter Matt Burke. Usual co-presenter Hugh Riminton was absent due to being a guest on The Project tonight, if I’m not mistaken.
You Sydney-siders now get to see Bailey in crystal clear HD
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I’m convinced ten are doing everything they can to destroy their news brandin a ploy to close down all the newsrooms and out source the news in order to create the cheapest free to air network possible so they can easily be acquired by someone like news Corp.
They destroyed the sports department and now the news department. Last nights ratings for ten news are a case in point. I’ve never seen the weekday edition so low. They’re still not promoting the news and still not investing in bolstering the news output.
Doubt it. Why would they add double headers to Brisbane and Melbourne’s news if there were an active plot to destroy Ten News?
News rooms are costly. Australia actually does pretty well in comparison to other countries in terms of the number of outlets that are offered. We have Sky, ABC, Seven, Nine and Ten all staffing and producing bulletins, whilst the UK only has Sky and the BBC, and three free-to-air stations get their news from one agency (ITN). Think about that: only three news agencies are producing television news in a country with a population of 60 million.
I wouldn’t mind if Ten lost their news if it meant being able to reinvest that money into better primetime programming, but I doubt it will happen anyway, because news provides stability in the afternoon/early evenings.
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I think following the news revolution they realised some home truths about their network… Ten was always a fighting #3, not usually better and but more often than not, not worse than that. By putting a tonne of money into the newsroom they left nothing else for the crisis that was to come – primetime programming, competition with streaming services etc.
So they hacked, hard, and culled a lot of people. They targetted the most experienced people first because they’re the ones that have high overheads attached to them (long service leave, accrued leave etc.)
Now that all that is behind them after four long years and two failures at breakfast time… they can see a direction, it may not be clear to us, or what some MS’ers want… but they have a direction. And by slowly adding staff they’re bolstering the news very quietly.
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