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Nine / Seven News: Queensland Floods

Updated: Nine & Seven remains with live flood coverage all day and Nine extends rolling evening coverage. Nine, Seven, TEN update evening schedules.

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UPDATED: Nine has advised it will remain with flood coverage live across the day today.

Nine News will tonight air a special one hour bulletin at 7pm to cover the continuing crisis of the Queensland floods.

UIt follows Premier Bligh calling the latest events “our darkest hour” as 10 people die and more than 78 are missing.

A Current Affair will also broadcast live from the flood scene at 7pm. Updated: Another News bulletin will air at 9:30pm hosted by Leila McKinnon and Karl Stefanovic from Brisbane.

Today show hosts Cameron Williams and Georgie Gardner remained on air until 11am today continuing rolling coverage of the unfolding drama. It will recommence at 5am on Wednesday until 10am (9am Qld).

6pm Nine News
7pm ACA (not Qld)
7:30pm Nine News (normal programming now abandoned)
9:30pm Nine News

Qld:
6pm Nine News
7pm joins rolling coverage. (No ACA)

UPDATED: Seven has also resumed rolling coverage across the day and moved its tennis coverage to 7TWO.

Seven News has announced its 4:30pm News will air for one hour. The 6pm bulletin will also extend to one hour edition with Today Tonight to air from 7pm. There will be another 30 minute bulletin at 9:30pm.

4:30pm Seven News
5:30pm Deal or No Deal
6pm Seven News
7pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Normal programming resumes
9:30pm Seven News

Sunrise remained on air until 10:30am, co-hosted from Brisbane.

TEN
5pm TEN News at Five
7pm The 7pm Project
07:30 pm Talkin’ ’bout Your Generation
08:30 pm NCIS: Los Angeles
09:30 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special (not Perth)

Wednesday
6:00 am TEN Early News – Special Extended Bulletin (5am Brisbane)

5.30pm WIN NEWS
6.00pm National News – 1hr
7.00pm WIN NEWS Flood Crisis Special
7.30pm ACA
8.00pm Top Gear
9.30pm Network News Flood Special

Meanwhile ABC News 24 was left with an awkward broadbank link of Premier Bligh’s 10:30am press conference, which was better delivered by Nine, Seven and SKY News.

Donations: www.qld.gov.au/floods
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  1. ABC24 dropped out of news at 8:30pm AEDT, went to a repeat of “7:30 Report” which they had aired an hour earlier, missed the first minutes of Anna Bligh at 8:35 then interrupted the media briefing to run promos before returning to the live item. Come on people. You’re starting to drop the ball. You were forewarned of the time of the media briefing, and, wow, you had a live link, as opposed to an Internet link. Why did you go to a recycle of “7:30”? Tea time at the ABC?

  3. I’ve had ABC News 24 and Channel 9 going all day on separate televisions and 9’s coverage has been more professional and less repetitive. This morning I flicked across to Seven and they had tennis going – fail.

  4. I think tomorrow night (Wednesday) will be a big test for Nine with the Twenty20 cricket from Adelaide between Australia and England (women’s in the afternoon, men’s in the evening). Given the flood crisis in Brisbane Nine probably won’t show either match on the main channel into Brisbane and parts of Queensland affected by the floods. I think Nine may need to ask for exemption from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to show both matches on GEM or GO!.

  5. I will say congrats to Channel 7 for switching the tennis coverage to 7Two. I know that doesn’t help those in regional areas without digital, but it was the sensible thing to do… and the reason they have three different channels is for this reason – a disaster like this needs to be covered on the main channels.
    I’d be intrigued to know what they’d do with the Aus Open if it was on this week.
    Nine’s done a very good job all day… then again, would have thought the live feed would have been used into WA, instead of the delay (which it seems to be)

  6. Sevens contempt for Brisbane and Queensland is a disgrace while Nine has had Live continuing coverage all day, in the 5-6pm hour in Brisbane Seven choose to repeat what was previously aired an hour earlier!
    This is why Seven News shouldn’t be number one in Brisbane!

  8. Agree with the comments re TCN9’s 6pm News. What a dog’s breakfast. What was to be gained by Overton standing under an awning in Brisbane reading from an autocue? As for those dreadful red and yellow graphics blocking a quarter of the picture, and the stupid yellow & black moving line, drop it. It’s very distracting, very annoying and covers important vision. And the souind effects! Very Asian. Very low-rent. Causes me to change channels to Seven or ABC24. As for the quality of the ABC broadband pics – if ever there was an arguement for the NBN broadband, I think that seals it.
    WIN produced a far superior and more comprehensive bulletin at 7pm AEST from their W’gong studio. I gather it was networked to WIN Qld.

  11. Seven News Queensland is coming back after the break to talk about sport. I’m sorry but no one in Queensland right now cares about the Medibank International or the soccer or any other sport.

  12. i have lived in qld all my life and i have never seen something like this.it’s something out of this world. luckily even though i am up the road from the brisbane river. my place won’t be flooded.

    i have a feeling TODD might be a 7 employee

  15. Someone has beaten me to the punch in the quick skim I had…. However….

    Channel 9, stop with the sound effects, seriously.

    a) Cheapens your news (which used to be good)
    b) Cheapens the stories you’re covering (as tragic as they are)

    Thank you ABC News 24

    And as an aside, I’m impressed with how much better channel 10 news has become in such a short time. They had the whole sound effects “Action News!!!” thing going no more than a year ago, but it seems they’ve finally realised that news = news and that good journalists with a bit of freedom = good news. (yes they still have some distance to go, and yes they need to get their reputation back (singlehandedly destroyed in my eyes by “journalists” like Harry Potter) (no I don’t count the 7pm project, that will forever be garbage)

    To all effected by the floods, Australia’s thoughts are with you.

  16. Well it’s 6:30pm and Ten news is still going. I’ve switched over – firstly I just wanted to see what they would do and now I just want to see what the quality is like. But Nine has been very informative all afternoon.

    On a different note – a rep from RedCross Australia was interviewed. She stated that those who feel like they want to do something, rather than food and supplies at this stage, please donate to the Premier’s appeal. Regardless of our opinions on channels and coverage, I’m sure if everyone gave just a little it would be a great help.

  19. why does Gillard speak like she is talking to 5 year olds? any ways… if you want to see all the footage the neworks are using, unedited, go to youboobtube… much more entertaining.

  20. I know this is a tv site, but abc local radio has been providing excellent flood coverage over the past three plus weeks of this disaster, not just the past day.

    And since you don’t need pictures, you aren’t going to see the same footage every four minutes.

  25. The non- rolling stoppage by Ten will hurt them for sure- all this while they prepare to present themselves as ‘leaders of news’!

    Very strange, but all that pales to the disaster unfolding of course – my thoughts are with everyone affected.

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