My understanding is that the local daytime updates were still being done by Sydney after the move to local presentation in Queensland, with Sharyn doing updates from the Afternoon news onwards - think this is about standard for all states.
Seems to be a recent change for the updates prior to that to be done locally, good change if that is the case.
I think i’ve maybe figured out what it is, same as adelaide it seems to mainly be for InDaily’s Queensland website (though this one appears to be from Monday).
10 should also be using this on their on local Qld social media channels, not sure why only Brendan is sharing this today.
Yeah looks too long for broadcast and very similar to what Adelaide does for InDaily. It would be good if Adelaide also shared the updates more widely on socials though not sure if it part of ‘exclusivity’ for InDaily or just a resourcing thing. Adelaide used to post them on YouTube way back before the centralization days.
I believe today marks 2 years since the Adelaide bulletin was split from Melbourne’s after the centralisation, I was going to say returned to local presentation but that’s not entirely accurate.
In any case, Melbourne really seems to have benefitted from this of late, to a slightly lesser extent Adelaide but its still doing a decent job there as are all markets.
Tonight though felt very wrong. The lead was on the flooding in North Queensland. They had reporters covering it and then, rightfully, crossed to Liz to explain the weekend forecast. But she was at the AACTA Awards and all dressed up (as you would normally expect), but the tone just felt so wrong when all she talked about for that cross was the flooding.
I often wish I could watch a straight rolling breakfast bulletin on free to air. Is there room for a no-nonsense 3 hour newscast from 5am-8am? 10 News First at 5am.
They already tried 10 News First Breakfast in 2022 as a half hour bulletin at 8am and it didn’t work.
However it was the first bulletin outside of 5pm we’d seen in years, and the format they chose for it was just not right for that timeslot.
Their growing presence on socials, especially YouTube and TikTok would help somewhat with additional source of revenues.
If they’re increasing audiences across the 5pm hour, surely that has some flow on effect for the sales team when they’re selling ad inventory you’d think.
In all seriousness, I do like tuning into Sky’s First Edition with Peter Stefanovic on Binge. Back in the day I was an avid Foxtel viewer and loved tuning into Leigh Hatcher, Sharon McKenzie, James Bracey and Brooke Corte. It was the dream team.
10’s 8am version in 2022 was way too late for me - I was off to work.
But if there was a fresh, straight forward rolling bulletin from 5am to 8am, presented in a straight forward way but without all the suits and ties, maybe with a lighter colour palette and maybe grown over a few years (like Sunrise was), I’d see it as a real alternative.