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Queensland floods: Wednesday amendments

Scheduling changes for Wednesday, updating across the day: Nine, Seven, TEN, ABC.

This post updates.

NINE:
11am Nine’s Morning News
12pm Nine News: Flood Disaster
6pm Nine News
7pm A Current Affair
7:30pm Twenty/20 Cricket (Syd / Melb)
10:30pm Nine News: Flood Disaster (1 hr)

Brisbane:
Nine News: Flood Disaster (contd)
6pm Nine News
7pm A Current Affair
7:30pm Nine News: Flood disaster
10:30pm Twenty/20 Cricket

GEM:
2:30pm Womens T20 match Australia vs England (SA viewers on a 30 min delay at 2:30pm ACDT).

TV Tonight understands at this stage Men’s match will remain on Nine but GEM is on standby by live from 7:30pm AEDT. In SA on delay from 10pm ACDT.

On Thursday morning the Today show will air at 5am AEDT (4am Brisbane).

TEN:
12:00 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special
01:00 pm The Oprah Winfrey Show
02:00 pm Ready Steady Cook
03:00 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special (30 min)
5:00pm TEN News (2 hrs)
7:00pm The 7PM Project

10:30 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special
11:30 pm Overtime
12:30 am The Late Show With David Letterman

Brisbane:
11:00 am Queensland Flood Crisis News Special
12:00 pm Dr Phil
01:00 pm The Oprah Winfrey Show
02:00 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special
02:30 pm Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals
5:00pm TEN News (2 hrs)

Perth:
12:00 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special
12:30 pm Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals
5:00pm TEN News (90 mins)

On Thursday TEN will have rolling coverage:

6am TEN News
9am TEN News
1pm TEN News
3pm TEN News
5pm TEN News at Five
6pm TEN News
7pm The 7PM Project
7:30pm Normal programming resumes
10:30pm TEN Late News
11:30pm The Late Show with David Letterman
12:30am Burn Notice rpt

6pm News is 1 hr in all cities except Perth (30 mins).

SEVEN:
11am Seven News Flood Coverage (Sunrise continues)
4:30pm Seven News at 4:30
6pm Seven News
7pm Today Tonight
7:30pm – 12am Seven News

7TWO:
AAMI Kooyong Classic continues.
10pm Medibank International

ABC1 / ABC News 24: (simulcast)
12:00pm ABC provides rolling coverage
7:00pm ABC News
8:00pm Queensland News (Networked nationally)
8:30 – 9:30pm News Special with Leigh Sales

The ABC Network will provide “off delay” coverage so all states will see coverage as it happens.

44 Responses

  1. Yes CK, I agree.

    She was definitely on the nose up in QLD but I reckon the past few weeks with the flood crisis she has really shone as a leader. Compassionate, effecitve and honest with the people. And very active in the efforts to cooridnate the response.

    These are times when Australia can really get it right. We are a first world country so we absolutely have to respond in that way.

  2. @armchair analyst – no one could have seen this coming – just like the vic bushfires.
    Im a victorian but am so impressed by the way Anna Bligh is presenting herself and appealing to the people – so natural, heartfelt and un-scripted. I think qld are lucky to have a leader like this.

  3. This is the biggest TV coverage I’ve ever seen since 9/11, when all TV channels abandoned regular programming for one day to relay the coverage, from memory! Seven must be copying the format from Nine’s coverage last night for tonight in order to gain higher ratings!

  4. @Armchair Analyst: you might like to Google for the SEQ Water website and have a look at the dam levels for Somerset and Wivenhoe (basically, the whole Brisbane River catchment water storage) – after being below 20% full a few years ago, and only at 60% 2 years ago, they didn’t fill up ’til Jan 2010. Currently, Wivenhoe (downstream from Somerset, and closest to Brisbane) is at ~190% full.

    How much reserve capacity would you like? Or are you one of those idiots who last year were shouting loudly that Wivenhoe should be kept at 140% full so we wouldn’t suffer water shortages again?

  5. I do not want to say anything negative about this terrible disaster but part of the blame lies with the Queensland state government. They could have invested a decent amount of money into water catchments and other water storage schemes/ facilities, but they didn’t so in that way it is their fault. This will be a final nail in Anna Bligh’s political coffin. You didn’t have to be a genius to work out that the drought was going to break and break in a big way. Just look at how long the drought hung around for. The longer the drought stayed around the sooner it was going to break nothing lasts forever no even a crippling drought. The only benefit of this flood is going to be is that for the most part our water worries a over ( as far as not having enough of it). Someone will pay for this and i dont mean monetory wise. Just like victoria’s former police chief Cristine Nixon after the Victorian bush fires somone will have to accept responsibilities because this sadness and shock will turn into anger and it will be pointed at the Qld Govt.

  6. im looking for hi ground at chambers flat qld to put sume horses as my morthers house is about to be washed out as the logan is ring faster then we cam move
    so call me on 0400640071

  7. Just to clarify a couple of things that I heard during the Cricket
    The KFC 20/20 between Australia and England will air at 7:30pm AEDST Live into Sydney and Melbourne (check local guides).
    In Brisbane, it will also air Live but, on GEM at 6:30pm Queensland Time with a replay on Nine at 10:30pm!

  8. Why don’t the banks suspend mortgage and credit card payments for those affected by the floods to avoid anymore hardship for these people until they can return to normal if thats possible?

  9. So if Women’s cricket is on GEM will they swich back to regular programs on Gem tonight ? or will Perth be left with a Nine simulcast (as they had issues a couple of months back).

    Home and Away (old episodes) and the soaps are not on now because of the tennis.

    Why couldn’t the sport be made to be shown on 7 mate ? then leave 7 two with the soaps and 7 with the news ?

  10. Thanks for that David and Steve!
    I must’ve posed the question just as David was updating this page! It’s the wonderful thing in the age of Digital TV that, when News take precedence, Sport can still air as it was suppose to!
    That being said, I’ll have one TV on NBN and the other on GEM! This flood crisis is devastating stuff that is holding people’s attention right around the country from first till last!!

  11. What about Seven’s coverage? Will they show round-the-clock coverage? And will Nine abandon all of tonight’s shows like last night to cover the floods?

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