Was the bulletin presented from there, or was it only sport & weather? Would have been a great opportunity to do it live from the middle of the ground, possibly having sport on the hill, and weather from the South Plaza.
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Just sport and weather presented from the Oval.
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10âs Late News getting a big boost last night to is best ever rating and making the top 30 average audience rankings.
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Qld have gone maroon for SOO, but have taken it one step further by changing the wording to âQueenslanderâ.
NSW has gone a lighter shade of blue with the tagline âGo You Bluesâ
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Ambiguous syntax, much?
Not really in a local context, no
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Might just be me and/or my displays but it seems almost red rather than maroon. The maroon logo they used several years ago when they still had local presentation was maroon.
Still, good to see an effort being made.
Looks red to me.
Itâs got a slight gradient like the blue one, top LHS is lighter and getâs darker to bottom RHS.
Looks more maroon than red to me, but obviously there are different shades of Maroon.
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10 cited at the time it needed to âtransform our business for the futureâ, but what it did was cut back on local content, which was a reverse of what they did in 2010-11 when they introduced a local evening bulletin as well as reinstated local weekend bulletins (neither bulletin made it to the end of 2011, neither did 6PM (later 6:30) with George Negus, the Late News (since reinstated twice) and Sports Tonight).
To be fair, 10 News was never the same after Ron Wilson, Bill Woods, Helen Kapalos and Bill McDonald among others were cut at the end of 2012. With Natarsha Belling departing in mid-2020, this leaves Sandra Sully as one of the only identifiable faces from the noughties, even earlier.
I think the costs of reinstating a truly local Queensland bulletin is holding them back, but as I said in the Presenters thread, I hope itâs restored by the 2032 Olympics at the latest. Costs associated with upgrading the ADS and NEW studios to digital standards were also cited as the reason the Adelaide and Perth bulletins were produced from Melbourne and Sydney, respectively, in the noughties.
I think itâs just the downside of being owned by a foreign overseas company that has little interest in broadcast television.
Basically ,10 News needs a massive cash investment to help boost its numbers, but we all know thatâs never going to happen.
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I donât understand how this happened though. How did Seven and Nine manage keep afloat, stay in business, have money to spend on news and sport etc?
What did they do differently? How did 10 get to where they are now?
Two words, poor management.
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Imagine the uproar if what happened at 10 in 2020, happened at either Seven or Nine? Their ratings wouldâve gone bust.
10 has always suffered from bad ownership, bad management and bad decision making. It did however have some stability in the mid 80s, late 90s and through the 2000s. But the network really hasnât gotten back on track since 2011.
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Itâs sad thatâs all cause I genuinely believe they have the best post 7:30pm offerings from all the networks.
HYBPA, The Cheap Seats, Taskmaster, TGYH, MasterChef
All quality shows and formats that just arenât seen on other networks.
If only they had a real news service and the AFL, they would be near number one.
Last night proved it again. People know 10 exist so why donât they stay the rest of the week? I canât work it out.
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I think you already answered your question.
And this comes back to the current ownership 10 finds itself in. Paramount. 
It needs an Aussie owner with $$ who gives a damn. Willing to spend money, invest and give TIME for shows and presenters to bed in.
Make hires from 7 and 9 to have some familiarity.
One hire from each city to join the news in a double header:
Have Mia Glover and a male from Seven do 10 News Brisbane.
Get Usher to join Sully
Dougal to join Jen
Will McDonald to join Kate
Tim McMillan to join Natalie
Familiar faces from popular networks to help build familiarity at 10.
Spend money to make money.
And get the bloody AFL back!
AFL journalist Damian Barrett suggested on his media podcast The Sounding Board a few weeks ago that his co-host Craig Hutchison should join forces with Eddie McGuire to purchase Channel 10.
Now maybe Hutchison isnât the best choice given SENâs financial troubles, but I certainly think you can do much worse than Eddie McGuire, one of the smartest people in the media, with another Australian co-owner.
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