and while they’re at it, they should bring back the five-minute warning!
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The sad thing about it is, Seven even approached 10 to do a joint deal in the last Cricket and AFL rights, but Paramount knocked them back, as they wanted the lot. 10 currently don’t have the people to negotiate sporting rights, where Seven does. This is just another example of 10s current ownership holding them back.
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Nine under Eddie wasn’t exactly a stellar success, not sure 10 wouldn’t want to bone the current owners to implement that idea.
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At the end of the day, linear television is dying pretty rapidly.
Whilst further investment is still needed and would still be helpful in the short term, long-term huge investments aren’t really gonna help the network in this age.
10 obviously pulled away and made cuts (not that they particularly had a choice) in a lot of areas too early, when TV wasn’t completely dead, but now I don’t see a point in ramping up again.
You need local news and sports going forward without it you won’t have an audience
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Ten has the A-League and the NBL. But they are clearly not in the same league as the NRL, AFL and the Big Bash League (cricket).
Would inserting actual sport segments into the Midday, Afternoon and Late News help though? Rather than neglecting sports all together?
They should try and build the NBL into something, it’s becoming increasingly popular especially with the Aussies in the NBA.
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I just watched back 10’s Queensland bulletin from last night and compared to last Tuesday, it looks like they’ve updated some of the Brisbane scenery images in the opener / break bumpers.
Last night’s opener
Last Tuesdays opener
Sorry about the poor quality caps from 10 Play.
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About 5:21 during Qld’s bulletin at the return from traffic there was a black screen with watermark for about 10 seconds, and even Sandra looked a bit frazzled when the bulletin returned.
Edit:
Interestingly Peter Ford seen on 10’s report by Candice Wyatt tonight on the passing of John Blackman, of note the version that was seen in Qld didn’t have any footage of Peter but a super with his name still incorrectly appeared over some footage.
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Sydney
Brisbane
State of Origin officially starts tonight, but our reporters just couldn't wait.
— 10 News First (@10NewsFirst) June 5, 2024
Veronica Eggleton (@10NewsFirstQLD) and Trent Simpson (@10NewsFirstSyd) have had enough of playing nice with one another, and finally wanted to get to the bottom of which state is better - on, and… pic.twitter.com/Vz8iiHiUcC
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Too much blue for Brisbane there 10
I must say, 10 Adelaide has a very decent bulletin.
Lots of live content throughout the bulletin, plus Kate/Max/Tiff are a great team.
It’s still bewildering that their smallest market has a such a focused hyper-local bulletin and Brisbane/Sydney cannot. Shows in the ratings.
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I always think that 10 reinstating a truly local Brisbane bulletin is dependent on ratings improving in that market, which isn’t happening, and viewers have switched off in droves in the past four years as a result. But there’s also the matter of the costs associated with upgrading the infrastructure at TVQ, and as I mentioned earlier in the week this was why the Adelaide and Perth bulletins were produced from Melbourne and Sydney respectively in the noughties.
Assuming things remain as they are now, Sandra Sully would find herself potentially having to present reports relating to the upcoming Queensland election (due for October 26) from Sydney for a second straight time, remembering the 2020 election (which Labor, led by then-premier Annastacia Palaszczuk won in a landslide) took place only weeks after the 10 News centralization.
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The Adelaide team has always seemed to produce a pretty decent hyper-local product on a shoestring under
very difficult resourcing conditions. Current bulletin is very watchable compared to a few years ago sharing Melbourne presentation and I think they’re getting rewarded with some ok ratings as of late…?
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The ratings have basically doubled from the Melbourne/Adelaide bulletin days.
Not sure how they compare to the pre-2020 Rebecca Morse days though (@TV.Cynic any insight?).
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Maybe they’ll get money off of it, then?
Not 100% sure what answer you’re after but the average rating for 10 News Adelaide in the survey 2019 was approx 43,000.
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I’d take double as a win. Not sure they’ll ever get back to pre covid ratings and it’s a bit of apples and oranges to compare.
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Not a bad bounce back then considering its achieving 30k+ some days, plus considering all network bulletin numbers have dropped in these last 5 years.
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I know it’s staffing but surely long term the solution is to open more control rooms in Sydney and/or Melbourne to operate bulletins remotely, knowing they’re automated and only call for 2-3 staff in each, they could control all the bulletins outside Syd/Mel remotely. That at least cuts down on one issue and operating control rooms in each state.
The next thing would be how to operate a studio space very cheapy, obviously the shotoku cameras and some sort of flash set/small set.
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