Until now, Australia's big dinner hour newscasts (the 5-7:30 p.m. time slot
pulls in bigger audiences than the rest of prime time) were regional, not
national across the board, except for the pubcaster SBS, whose 6:30 p.m.
newscasts are national. Seven and Nine's newscasts are at 6 p.m., Network
Ten's are at 5 p.m. against the local versions of the British game show
"The Chase" on Seven and "Millionaire Hot Seat" (as in "Who Wants to
Be...") on Nine. Ten's counterprogramming to Seven and Nine's newcasts
are--another half-hour of news ("Grant (Dreyer)'s Celebrity Name Game," a
version of the show SCG used to host, got moved to flanker channel 10
Peach) and the one-hour "The Project," a sort of cross between "The View"
and "The Daily Show." At 7 p.m., Seven runs the soaper "Home and Away" and
Nine runs the tabloid "A Current Affair" (the inspiration for the U.S.
tabloid of the 90s), while the ABC pubcaster's regional newscasts play.
The primary national newscasts in Australia are in the morning, where
Seven's "Sunrise" and Nine's "Today" follow the mostly fluff format of the
U.S. morning shows, while the ABC's "Breakfast," as you would expect from a
pubcaster, is mostly hard news. The one national cable news channel, Sky
News, is still run by the Murdochs, not Comcast, and has become more like
an Australian Fox News Channel in prime time in recent years.
Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
[email protected]
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:15 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Brad Beam
>
> *>*All well and good, but the CBC has temporarily replaced local
> newscasts (save for the territories covered by CBC North) with CBCNN's
> Covid coverage.
>
> >https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-tvnews-changes-coronavirus-1.5501512
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>
>
> Elsewhere in the Commonwealth:
>
> Nine News has replaced its outlying 6pm news bulletins in NSW, Victoria,
> and Queensland with a statewide broadcast from the state capital (Sydney,
> Melbourne, and Brisbane, respectively).
>
> https://tvtonight.com.au/2020/03/nine-news-suspends-regional-bulletins.html
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