Looking at those shots from Sydney… they could move the video wall behind Sandra and just keep the open news room look for the rest of those long shots. Would look way better and less cluttered.
Anyway hopefully rumors of new sets next year will be more than welcome
Unmistakably Jennifer Byrne.
Audio glitch in Sydney when Sandra crossed to Tim Bailey. His microphone wasn’t working. Made the weather update that much more enjoyable.
I’ll try and get a mega montage from last night up as soon as I can, but was the incredibly odd Opener style kept for Night Two?
Of course we’ll just have to wait and see what happens for sure. But presuming that the inevitable tweaks are made drip by drip, I’m going to predict that the very first one made will be to revert back to the more traditional “Titles > Headlines > Sting > Set Wideshot > Presenter Introduction” style because I can’t see Ten going to the effort of producing them in that new style every night for overly long.
Also prior to last night, the last time we saw any major changes to the structure to the Opener of a commercial TV news bulletin probably would’ve been back in 2014-15 when Seven News Sydney was not irregularly getting smashed by 100k in the ratings when they trialled that tacky style of “On Seven News Tonight…/Seven News Starts Now/Welcome To Seven News” Opener with the presenters seen on screen for the entire headline sequence. Thankfully it only lasted a year or so and Seven have since having reverted back to proper Openers with “Tonight…(Headlines)” before rolling into the titlecard & “Good Evening”!
The voiceover needs to be changed as well. Ten has female newsreaders in all five markets & on weekends so a female voiceover artist for predominantly female-led news bulletins makes a lot of sense. Jennifer Byrne is a strong representation of female journalism in Australia, I get that. But SBS World News has a female voiceover at the start of their news bulletins which commands professionalism and authoritativeness - exactly what you need for the start of a news bulletin. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t quite say the same about Byrne’s VOs for the rebadged 10 News First.
As I suggested before, how about Jo Van Es? Yes, we all know her as the increasingly personality filled voice of Gogglebox Australia (although that alone makes it a smart branding idea from a network promotional perspective, people will be familiar with her work) but from what I’ve heard of Van Es’ work outside that program, a straight read of lines such as “This is Ten News First with Sandra Sully” doesn’t sound like something that would be completely out of her range.
After the Opener has been tweaked and fine tuned, I’d probably expect to see changes to the backdrop because there really needs to be an image of Sydney behind Sandra (for example) because whether live or pre-produced, these are typically nowhere near as distracting as that CGI spinning globe.
Then it wouldn’t overly surprise me to see the graphics being “inverted” somewhat, so the corner logo is on the traditional right hand side of the screen, etc. Finally (and perhaps most importantly) in the medium-long term future, I think “First” will be removed from the brand name.
As per usual, I’d be interested to hear what others think! 
A little late replying (sorry), but yes the middle screen was definitely a television at least for the original wooden looking Eyewitness News set. You can see certain test images and text displayed on it in this video:
Re the opener… that’s the way it’s being done now. Nothing about going to the trouble. It is what it is.
Going from camera to overlay is no different to going from sting to overlay.
What’s odd about the opener style? Incredibly odd? The American evening newscasts do that.
The desk is a little too bright.
The set is terrible. It looks so cheap.
Yes, but it’s incredibly odd for Australian TV.
I wouldn’t call it incredibly odd. Ten did it in 1990.
It was built during the budget era, so you’d be right in saying that 
10 are so useless with some things, fancy using these openers and closers to top and tail a serious news piece posted online.
…and there’s the moment I’m sure you’ve all been patiently waiting for, a montage of last night’s relaunched 10 News First Sydney:
Unfortunately I couldn’t include the Weather Preview before Break #2 due to how the Set Top Box I used to record this splits the files (after 1GB and it just so happened, a file split happened during the Weather Preview) but since the video is over 13 minutes long as it is and there’ll likely be other montages of the bulletin posted in the future which does include that segment, no major loss.
Pass on all of the above. The opener flows brilliantly and Byrne’s VO’s are great. Change is good mate, embrace it.
We’ll have to agree to disagree.
There are elements that are really “Seven News 2014 Theme Music” bad about this look in my personal opinion, so I say bring on the tweaking and refining!
I also like starting the opener with a presenter shot, makes Ten different from Seven and Nine. I like the graphics but not a huge fan of the new theme; IMO the key is too high and the synth spoils it.
I think they made the key high so that it could be similar-ish to the CBS Evening News theme (notice the first note at the start is similar to on CBS) but it brings the theme too high IMO.
Come on… you can compare it to that piece of junk 
I’m with @Snoozenooze. Sorry @SydneyCityTV your in the minority with this one. It all flows perfectly and i’d be very surprised to see any changes made.
