Ten News First Content and Appearance (2015-Sept 2020)

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Yeah, I don’t think you hear many calls for Nine to revive Nightline (even though I’d love a late night news from Nine) partly because the network is rather news-heavy as it is now. And I’m sure the ABC has late night bulletins on News 24, so no rush for them to do a late news on their main channel.

Ten on the other hand, they currently air one news bulletin a day. Of course, I’d still prefer to see Ten improve the quality of their 5pm bulletin (for a start, more resources are needed so Ten doesn’t have to go national on days that Seven and Nine stay local) but at the same time I can understand why people would like to see more bulletins from Ten.

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I’d speculate the cost-per-minute of airtime would also currently make it difficult for Ten to justify some of the improvements they should be making, but if Ten also had a late news bulletin a lot of the late news’ content would be a re-use of reports filed earlier in the day plus re-use of one of their sets, so they’d actually get more value for money from some of the improvements they should do.

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6:00 Simpsons and 6:30 Neighbours would still be going strong today. :slight_smile:

What an absolute disaster the news revolution was. What the hell were they thinking?

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I firmly believe the news revolution was a good idea, executed badly.

A “national” news (that looked like a magazine show) with stories on the war in the Middle East and Aboriginal housing problems at 6, hosted by a guy older than God himself - was never going to work on Ten. Followed by another half hour of news randomly at 630 - “the Evening News” - then into Project. It was all wrongly done.

They should have done something very simple:

5PM Ten News at 5 - kept current Ten News at 5
6PM Ten News at 6 - hosts stay for 6pm, beefed up straight news designed to take Nine and Seven head on
6.30 The Project

If they did this 5 year sago and stuck to it - I really believe Ten News at 6 would be out-rating FF today(and about 1 dozen times cheaper to run) and given Seven and Nine a good run.

And help Ten build it’s “news brand” as a “news network” and allow them to build a 7am news audience and a 10.30pm news aud too.

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Isn’t that what happened not long after launch? Negus didn’t last long and was replaced by the 90 minute bulletin.

They tried every possible combination. Even axing the 5pm bulletin for a 6pm bulletin. Whoever made that decision should’ve been hanged.

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It wasn’t even promoted or supported properly. After years of research into making the changes they needed to stick by it. The ownership changes also had a huge impact because they didn’t want ten focusing on news or sport.

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They axed the 5PM bulletin??? When did that happen??
Can someone give timeline of the events that happened over 2011?:stuck_out_tongue:

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Indeed they did. It was the weekend national 5pm bulletin that was axed in favour of a 6pm local bulletin.

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One thing I don’t think Ten ever foresaw (but probably should’ve) when they were organising the “News Revolution” a few years ago…

Seven and Nine introducing hour long 6pm bulletins. Yes I know this happened a few years after Ten tried and failed with their “News Evolution” which of course eventually became Ten’s “News Demolition” when the network had to cut costs after much of their primetime lineup bombed in the ratings, but still…

Amazingly, that bulletin was still branded as “Ten Evening News” up until it was axed in favour of a national 90 Minutes of News (Who still remembers that? And of course, the infamous “Sydney Soapbox” segments running at the time) to compliment the local weeknight 90 Minutes of News which ran for a period of time.

I don’t think that the idea to return to local news on weekends was an entirely bad idea, but rather the decision to move away from the 5pm timeslot on weekends.

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They promotly returned the 5pm national weekend billeting 1 or 2 weeks later.[quote=“Sifon, post:1481, topic:61”]
6:00 Simpsons and 6:30 Neighbours would still be going strong today
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That’s a lie. It was already failing and they had to do something.

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Have a read of Mal Walden’s book Newsman. Among many other things it covers the news revolution period and some of his own frustrations around it. He also describes his frustration in seeing the downsizing of Ten’s news division.

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Interesting… Narelda Jacobs said at the start of the Perth bulletin, “Good evening, and welcome to Ten News” instead of Ten Eyewitness News. It’s probably nothing, but I still find that interesting.

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What’s old is new again.
Let the Ten News rebranding speculation commence! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Interesting. Although Sandra still says it alot here in Sydney…

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I support a name swap to Ten News, but don’t oppose of it either. I just think they could make the “eyewitness” so much more and trick viewers into thinking it’s something different

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Like I said in the Melbourne cbd thread, it’s pointless using “eyewitness” when there is nothing eyewitness about their bulletin. If they don’t make appropriate changes to their news department they’d might as well go back to Ten News At Five.

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“eyewitness” makes it sound so 80’s.

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###New Look For TEN Eyewitness News First At Five In 2017.

Network Ten today announced that the start of the official television ratings period will herald a new, uniform look for its popular and award-winning TEN Eyewitness News First At Five bulletins around the country.

From Monday 13 February, TEN Eyewitness News First At Five will be presented by Sandra Sully in Sydney, Stephen Quartermain in Melbourne, Georgina Lewis in Brisbane, Narelda Jacobs in Perth and Rebecca Morse in Adelaide.

Network Ten Executive Director, News, John Choueifate, said the creation of a standard format across the five 5pm News bulletins was a logical move that would be welcomed by viewers.

“TEN Eyewitness News First At Five is regarded by viewers as a trusted, quality source of the latest news, plus sport and weather,” he said.

“Our viewers know that we always bring them the stories that are most important to them. We have had single presenters of our 5pm News in Adelaide and Perth for years. It makes sense to move to that model in the other cities and, at the same time, strengthen our reporting teams.”

Last year TEN Eyewitness News First At Five ranked #1 in its timeslot across the five capital cities in TEN’s core target audience of people aged 25 to 54. It also ranked #1 in Perth and Adelaide in total people.

As part of the introduction of single presenters in each market, Hugh Riminton, Candice Wyatt and Lachlan Kennedy will take on new roles as Senior Reporters in TEN’s Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane News departments respectively.

Hugh Riminton will specialise in political and foreign coverage, plus special investigations.

Mr Choueifate said: “Hugh, Candice and Lachlan are quality journalists who add years of experience to our reporting line-up. I’m thrilled to have them back on the road.”

The changes announced today cover the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane News Bulletins only.

The Perth and Adelaide bulletins have had single presenters – Narelda Jacobs and Rebecca Morse respectively – for several years. The TEN Eyewitness News Weekend News bulletin will continue to be presented by Natarsha Belling.

There will be no change to the TEN Eyewitness News First At Five sport and weather presenters in each capital city.

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Round and round in circles we go. They issue a press release for that. Fuck they’re useless.

Perhaps the only positive side is they can expand their reporting pool without more money and have more back up presenters now.

How about a new bulletin? Or a local weekend news? Idiots

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The change will bring Ten into line with the single-presenter bulletins from Seven and Nine in the two southern states, but the Brisbane has historically had two presenters on the commercial networks.

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