With the recent announcement of cost cutting (Made by Seven West Media )over the next two years, I can see both Editions fading out soon.
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Good!! Bye bye Today Tonight, we won’t miss you 
Personally I think the Daily Edition will go before Today Tonight
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Nope. TDE has avertorials.
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There would be no real cost savings to be made if they do cancel them. The shows would need to be replaced with something else, presumably another 30 minutes of news to match up with other states. Remember that both editions are big ratings winners in there respective markets, which is why they were not cancelled with the other states. Why risk losing viewers.
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Have you ever seen the Adelaide edition? In the last few years it has been able to successfully shed the sensationalist crap and provide mostly quality journalism about serious issues. Yes, there are a small few stories that aren’t, but they’re yards ahead in quality of equivalent ACA or old TT.
If Perth should do anything with TT, it should be to take the example of Adelaide and transform TT. Could one day lead the way for a revival in the other states under the new format.
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I was actually referring more to the Perth one when I made this remark. Of course I’ve seen the Adelaide one before and I think it is 1000 times better than Perth’s one. I actually would miss Adelaide’s TT but not Perth’s, well in its current format anyway.
Seven Adelaide breaches accuracy requirements
Channel Seven Adelaide breached the accuracy and fairness provisions of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice (the Code) during a report aired in March 2017 on Today Tonight. The report was about an online flower delivery business, Bloomex.
An Australian Communications and Media Authority investigation found Today Tonight misrepresented comments made by the then NSW Fair Trading Commissioner. Today Tonight incorrectly reported that the Commissioner had issued a public warning not to use the company, during an interview recorded for the segment. Instead, in pre-recorded comments not put to air, the Commissioner had only spoken about online flower sellers generally and noted complaints about Bloomex.
The ACMA’s investigation found the report failed to present factual material accurately, breaching clause 3.3.1 of the code. ‘The Code requires that licensees present factual material accurately in broadcasting news and current affairs programs. They must also ensure viewpoints included in the program are not misrepresented,’ said ACMA Chair, Nerida O’Loughlin.
‘This breach is an important reminder to broadcasters of their responsibilities to not distort statements made by third parties.’
Several other allegations of inaccuracy were found not to be in breach of the Code.
The ACMA and Seven Adelaide have agreed on actions to be taken by the licensee to avoid future breaches, including using the decision in future Code training for staff. Seven Adelaide also made appropriate corrections to the statements on the Today Tonight website.
More information about ACMA broadcasting investigations is available here. A copy of the investigation report is available on the website version of this release
Yeah so Today Tonight is getting a bit out of hand… as interesting as this is and as most know the content is downhill at points. But I think having to come up with there own content is what is making hard especially when all the resources were lost from eastern states.
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Something different, instead of the usual weather report as the last TT item, the 7 News ticker was put up instead. Adelaide doesn’t normally put up a ticker in the 4pm or 6pm news bulletins.
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Looks like a new segment in Adelaide: Around the World in 90 Seconds
This week’s current affairs-worthy content:
- Wild hogs
- Pandas playing in a Chinese zoo
- Opening of the Gevora Hotel in Dubai
- Battle of the Oranges in Italy
IMO this kind of content does not belong on a current affairs program. Content is meant to be locally/nationally orientated. This new segment is just filler content, nothing actually valuable. TT Adelaide has been a great example of serious current affairs, this is not what the program needs.
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Noticed this a couple of weeks ago. When I saw it basically just bunch of YouTube videos.
Not a lot has changed since last year that I can see.
I found this while going through some old recordings…
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This evening Today Tonight Adelaide farewells its producer of 23 years Graham Archer, almost a year to the day after Frank Pangallo’s retirement.
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Original TT Adelaide presenter Leigh McClusky and retired producer Frank Pangallo, just to name a few, were part of tonight’s special programme:
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Nice to have Tina Alteria back hosting tt Perth this week
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Today Tonight in Perth has a new story transition graphic during the preview for tonight’s show in the Perth 4.00 News.
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