Queensland Today on Nine

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1. Where can you buy the Mud Army t-shirts?

2. I think Channel 9 have done a great job covering the Brisbane Floods, the combination of their hosts just seem to sync right…..Sunrise hosts always seem awkward with each other since they’ve made the big time …..Good on you Channel 9 I have been happy to watch your Qld Today show every morning, however, we also need a little enlightment amongst the dread and sadness and although I am interested in all things Queensland, throw some other things into the mix ……..

3. To be honest it seems like weekend Today with Leila dn Cam hosting. Heather and Garry add the local news and weather spots.

   It is similar to the National Today show where segments and images are repeated. They are not at fault, there is only so much new material and content they can produce.

   Kudos to their wide ranging coverage last week with all the reporters at various locations.

4. Mud Army t-shirt – brilliant idea!!
   Can we do a secional one???
   Bundy Mud Army / Brissy Mud Army/ Rocky Mud Army ?????
   Proud to be a Queenslander.

5. It actually aired from 5.30-10am. It just seemed very awkward to me. Cameron Williams is a terrible interviewer. Also David Sunrise aired live into QLD this morning starting at 5am and ran til 9am. Any word on whether this will be the case all week?

6. ACA was a QLD edition tonight too.

   1. Might explain the messy studio hosting we got from Howard Gipps in the middle of Leila hosting live from Qld. He just doesn’t fit that part.

7. “Australia may be a big country but to fill 3 hours with state issues etc would be ludicrous.”
   Yeah, I guess what we used to do back in the 50’s & 60′ & 70’s with local programming was “ludicrous”. It’s local-production using local & national material. Guess you weren’t around then to see real television.

8. Ive notice sunrise are running for 4 hours. It was actually nice to see them get back to normal sunrise this morning. Mel & Kochie were back at Brekky Central and they still did a lot of reporting for the floods and Grant was still in brisbane.

   Last week I was glued to the coverage but I found that the networks just kept repeating images and stories.

9. This might be whilst they recover. With Victoria going up in parts, it might be hard for them to see this on the national airing. And it’s going to get very hard to have QLD news go through every state almost every minute!

   I do see this as a good idea. Perhaps they could air a local edition between 6-7:30am, and then 7:30-9am air the national edition.

10. They should all have a local hour between 7am and 8am I reckon.

    For example on 7.
    6am-7am. Mel and Kochie
    7am-8am. Local presenters (Sydney- Mel and Kochie)
    8am-9am. Mel and Kochie

11. i think 9 made 7 look like a high school production of Pinocchio last week with the floods coverage. by the end all 7 wanted to do was try and get 1 up on today.

12. pfft, it wont be long until Today follows Sunrise again in the ratings!..

13. Making state editions of today/sunrise/today-tonight/aca would be a complete waste of money, Australia may be a big country but to fill 3 hours with state issues etc would be ludicrous.

    WHat would be better to have stories selected for the various states and broadcast them to the appropriate state, I’m an ABC News Breakfast watcher but I imagine that the latest promotion for botox, cooking and celebrity gossip is transferable across Australia.

14. It went from 5:30am until 10am.

    Overall, it was good. A few “technical” glitches.

    For the 6am (or 6:30) news break, the auto-cue Heather Ford was using stopped working in the middle, and she floundered a bit until it started up again.

    An earlier news break, they showed the wrong images for a story, and then bounced around to other lots before settling into the right lot.

    A few pre-recorded packages didn’t work correctly, either. They also repeated a number of the pre-recorded packages also, which got old after a while.

    Wish they had more reporters out on the streets and they did live crosses more often; would make it seem better. Also wish they didn’t stick around Kangaroo Point all the time! Only so many times you can count the buildings behind them. 😉

    Was glad to see the weather guy over at Goodna, actually, rather than inner-city Brisbane.

    Over all, though, as I said it was good. Glad to see that it was all local news and kept people up-to-date on things. Would have liked more live-crosses in areas that aren’t getting the love. Would help in showing the volunteers where they should go, also. As well as to areas outside the SE.

    Was thinking, too. This would all be going through the Brisbane studios wouldn’t it? They probably aren’t used to such early starts on “rolling” live coverage. 😉 Which explains some technical difficulties! But overall was impressed with how it was handled.

    Will continue watching for the rest of the week, though, for sure. But please, don’t repeat things so much! New content, and live-crosses. 4 and a half hours is a long slog to get through. 😛

    Was also glad to see that the national news at 11am was live, also, rather than delayed. Thanks to Wendy and the crew down there for sitting through two live news shows; one for the rest of Australia, and one for us. Makes us feel remembered. 🙂

    Though I was watching tennis by then; sorry! Still very much appreciated, though. The love from Nine that we have been getting since last week has been surprising, but welcome.

15. Ah yes, like the good old days, with local programs, local issues, local presenters. If only it were to continue with some giant steps back into the real television world of good years past.

16. Yeah Nine & the Today show have seemed to cover the QLD floods better than Seven & Sunrise, but when things are back to normal some what I will be going back to watch Sunrise.

17. excellent idea, nine should consider producing local versions across the 5 capital cities, even if they were just 1-2 hrs each day. living in perth, id certainly be more inclined to watch a local service rather than something thats delayed by 3 hrs.

18. Both GEM and Nine were showing the Queensland edition in Brisbane. Watched a little bit of it (between 7am-8am), and wasn’t overly impressed. But then I’m an ABC News 24 breakfast viewer usually, so probably wasn’t the best judge. Was good to get information about what’s happening though. Like other media, focus is on Brisbane, Ipswitch and LV, not the whole of Queensland.

    @russell It replaces the national edition for this week for the whole show (and obviously will be shown live rather than the one hour delay). It is produced in Brisbane.

    @andy It would never be shown on 7two considering it is a nine show. I imagine Optus viewers in Brisbane would get the national feed on their handset, but not the other way round.

19. Um.. just wondering if any of you are on the computer watching the Queensland Edition of Today.. if so.. whats the website?

20. Do some people think before commenting here? Andy, why the hell would Nine let their shows be seen “nationally on 7TWO?”

    Geez…..

21. They should broadcast the Qld version nationally on 7TWO.

22. The QLD edition is actually quite good. They’re both good presenters and to have more local news is great, and because all the presenters and reporters are Queenslanders themselves, they have great local knowledge.

23. I’m in QLD and while I think at times Nine/Today has done a better job covering the floods it doesn’t mean I’ll be switching from Sunrise full time. I don’t really care if we get a local version of the Today show.

24. I wish they would make this a permanent fixture on Queensland TV. It would be good if Nine could produce local editions of Today for each state permanently. I feel it would be a great way of beating Sevens Sunrise.

25. Interesting.
    Will it completely replace the national edition in Queensland from 5.30am-9am?
    Or will it just be half an hour or so?

    Also produced and broadcast from Queensland?

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