The biggest issue for Ten is only having one bulletin per day. Perhaps hourly updates on Studio10 would be a good place to start. Or a 30 min bulletin before Studio 10 begins. The news was Ten’s strength for years.
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And that means 8 hours a day. People dont walk into the studio at 4.50 for the 5pm news.
[/quote]Presenters, some journalists and studio staff could work both bulletins and they would still fall below working 8 hours/day.
As if Bailey needed another reason to get excited:
@TenNewsSydney: The weather wasn’t great but the new Weather Wall competition with @dailybailey10 is amazing. Details here: tenplay.com.au/news/sydney/20… #TenNews
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Quarters arrives as late as 2pm some days, I don’t think that would be an issue, have a reporter do updates during the day and then hosts arrive in the mid-afternoon to do 5 and 9.30pm. They do it on local US stations, can’t see why they can’t do it here.
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Is he a weatherman or a bouncer at a nightclub? A collared shirt too much to ask for? Tie?
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I think we all know by now that Tim Bailey doesn’t present weather the traditional way…
So having the news teams commence their work day at 3.00pm and finishing at 11.00pm can’t be done? (8.00 hours)
I would just have national updates from Sydney or Melbourne up until 3.00pm (and even re-instate a national morning edition at 11.00am)
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Found this article: http://www.iceworksdesign.com/ten-news-brisbane/
Shows how much Ten Brisbane studios have, so why just three plasmas and a desk? Wish we still had that set just updated.
Three plasmas and a desk allows all the states the same/uniform set. It cuts down costs for national stories, allowing backgrounds to all be done from one location if need be.
I think the three plasmas are great, they can completely change the look of the set with just a background change. The only updates they need to do now are borders and new desks every few years.
I agree that the 2011 Brisbane set looked nice, but there’s a very good reason why Ten decided to go for a standardised set in all markets. Cuts down costs for graphics/backgrounds on national stories.
But unlike Melbourne, QLD only has three plasmas, a desk and a green screen. What I was trying to point out was, they have the space, why not use it.
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Couldn’t agree more, Brisbanes’ new 2015 or ‘updated’ set is underwhelming at best - so much room and potential and so little effort to make it finished and more polished like Melbourne.
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It’s a great looking set and should have been kept. The nationalised GFX excuse doesn’t stick as they still had screens on there and I realise all GFX are done in Sydney now but surely they could adapt them into those OTS screens.
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That set was the next best thing after sliced bread 
Shocking revelation: All screens are the same aspect ratio. A Sydney graphic made for a 100" screen can still be displayed on a 40" screen in Brisbane, it makes absolutely no difference.
Ten’s ‘two screens floating in nothingness’ sets are just awful. Bad ratings, dying format. We’re probably more likely to see Ten News get cancelled or nationalised ahead of them getting good sets.
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Its about building not destroying it, which I don’t think is gonna happen. They need to get back to 2013 era soon when they had news from dawn to dusk
Of course you would say that. All signs suggest the exact opposite.
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you would still need two studio crews, the 5pm crew do the updates during the day… so they start at 10.
bahahaha KVZ.
Well, yes I’m aware that all the screens are the same aspect ratio but the story-specific graphics made for the Sydney/Melbourne/Queensland “two horizontal plasmas and a vertical one in the middle” sets are often spread across the plasma screens!
As I said before, the 2011 Queensland set did look nice (indeed, I do think it was a design that should’ve gone national) but clearly Ten can’t be bothered to properly format the graphics for different local bulletins anymore! Indeed, it’s quite arguable that Ten clearly can’t be bothered to properly engage with the local markets it broadcasts in anymore but that’s another story…
That I have to agree with.