10 News First is 60 minutes from Christmas Day til the 27th at least.
Weekends continue at 60 minutes.
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So Ten destroys any momentum. Why bother going to 90 mins then drop it for a couple of days a few weeks later. It’s the same with not having The Sunday Project for a couple of weeks.
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Wonder if we’ll see national or local.
Who the hell is sitting there on Christmas Day counting the number of minutes in a bulletin?
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I’ll take that as a non comment.
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I’m genuinely curious…
I think a 60 minute bulletin is enough for Christmas Day as there are generally other things going on but I’m not sure why the rest of the week is not 90 minutes.
For the people who have left 7 and 9 for 10 at 6 (and we have seen 7 and 9 drop 10-15% at 6 and 10 up 30%)
This will just be confusing to them and they’ll go be to the rivals
Any savings they make $$ wise will be wiped out in other ways .giving people they won over from rivals A reason to go back and sample to rival
Stupid move
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That’s not the point 10PR and you know it, the point is consistency, you can’t trial something over summer, then dump it for a week then bring it back. It’s confusing, if anything news viewers want consistent schedules, that they can rely on. Even if it’s national, it should have remained in the timeslot. The Project (even pre-recs) continue, so the news should remain as is too.
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Victoria/Tasmania exit of 10 News, very similar to NSW:
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THEY NOT NEED TO CUT OFF “you 7 day weather preview” - when Jenn says “for win viewers we leave you now” that explains the broadcast is ending early, and its self explinitory viewers would miss stuff some.
Just cut to Jenn when the headline sting cuts
anyway - no big deal. This is 1000% better than when US affiliates cut out of network.
Probably has something to do with the fact that the weather/ headlines go past 6pm so for scheduling purposes I’m assuming win was the news to start on time.
I assume Ten is cutting it to 60 minutes because it’ll effectively be a weekend national edition. 60 minutes on Christmas Day is ridiculous - here in the UK they’re all cut to about 10 minutes, if indeed they air. This year BBC1 only has bulletins at lunchtime and about 11.30pm at night on Christmas Day.
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The UK is probably the most litigious of the English-language markets in how it treats Christmas broadcasting, though.
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I might be wrong, but doesn’t seven cut their bulletin back to 30 mins on Xmas day, or use too?
The did it in Melbourne one year.
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No, no, no… you’re confused. 7 (and 9) cant do anything that heinous.
@lexington calm down
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Oh please. I’m calmer than most folks in here screaming from the hilltops because 10 isnt doing a 90 minute bulletin on Christmas Day…
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You’re all dreaming if you think there’s 90 mins of news that’s worthy of bulletins on Christmas Day lol. There’s consistency and then there’s wasting money.
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