Nine News appointments as network commits to regional news
Mike Dalton appointed Head of Nine News Regional with Amanda Paterson becoming Queensland News Director.
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Darren Wick, Nine Network Director of News and Current Affairs, has appointed Queensland News Director Mike Dalton to the newly-established role of the Head of Nine News Regional after 5 years as Queensland News Director.
A Current Affair Queensland Bureau Chief Amanda Paterson becomes Queensland News Director.
The announcement follows recent speculation Nine was revamping its regional news infrastructure.
Having overseen the relaunch of Nine News Gold Coast, Dalton will now establish news bulletins and newsrooms in all major East Coast regional markets with affiliate partners, Southern Cross Austereo.
Brissy-born Amanda Paterson has been ACA‘s Queensland Bureau Chief for 8 years, following her work as an investigative reporter on the show. She has been a three-time Walkley Award finalist and a Queensland Media Awards winner.
Both appointments take effect from Monday August 29.
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So how does this exempt SCA from producing local news themselves, or are they able to farm that off to Nine? A costly exercise for that extra affiliation fee from SCA, Nine losing the WIN regional news facilities, gaining SCA with none. SCA’s rip-and-read “local news” continues trying to look like Nine News, but is actually damaging the Nine News brand, being compiled from yesterday’s local newspapers and ABC online. To provide any video means building whole new premises, new newsrooms, hiring journalists, camera crews, editors, etc.
The southerncrossaustereo website has actually been updated with Nine TV Guides, below a quarter page pic of MasterChef.
Nine got nothing from WIN when it came to using their facilities. You will find that over the years, Nine used local Southern Cross facilities instead when it came to doing remote studio news crosses in QLD and TAS. I hear that the NBN studios in Newcastle could be utilized to help produce new hour long bulletins or local windows for SCA markets thus sparing SCA and Nine the cost of building new studios. Much like the centralised production capacity of WIN News in Wollongong now.
Mosbri Crescent is up for sale so Nine Newcastle will be moving. New purpose built studios would be smart. They have nearly 25 years experience in doing localised windows too.
I’m assuming the Sunshine Coast then will get a Nine local news to join Seven and WIN, a 6.00 pm choice of three?
I just can’t see this happening. Maybe a regional news eg Northern Qld, Central Qld, etc. The cost would not make it sustainable.
Good bye SCA.