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NZ Earthquake: Tuesday amendments

Updated: Latest amendments including changes to Ben Elton, Kerri-Anne, The Morning Show and more.

Here are the latest amendments as networks cover the earthquake in Christchurch:

SEVEN (all markets):
6pm Seven News
7pm Today Tonight

Home and Away
is out but two eps will air on Thursday.

10:30pm Seven News Special

Cougar Town is now out.

Wednesday:
6am Sunrise live in all markets
11am Seven Morning News

The Morning Show is now out.

NINE:
Rolling coverage now continues until 6pm in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

6pm: Nine News
6.30pm: A Current Affair
7pm: Nine News Special: Christchurch Earthquake

Two and a Half Men is out.

9:30pm Nine News Special Presentation
10:30pm Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth

Ben Elton will be delayed but “as live” tonight. With such short notice it’s a bit much to ask the audience to wait around to run live.

Kitchen Nightmares USA is out.

Wednesday:
5am Today (4am Brisbane)
11am Nine Morning News (10am Brisbane)

Kerri-Anne is now out.

TEN:
10:40pm TEN Late News – Special Extended Bulletin

Replay of 6pm with George Negus is now out.

Wednesday:
6:00 am TEN Early News – Special Extended Bulletin

This post updates.

35 Responses

  1. do we really need rolling coverage of this on Every channel? Nine would have been pleased at this earthquake, gives them a chance to “rest” their regular rubbish Tuesday programming and act like their doing us a favour by showing the same stuff Over andover again…watch for the fake breakfast shows tommoro continuing with the Same images over and over again. PS Nine must love natural disasters, gives them a chance to maybe steal a night from 7

  2. I watched ten’s 6pm – 7:30pm block. They did an excellent job. It wasn’t all about the earthquake. I imagine Seven and Nine probably overdid the quake coverage, but didn’t watch what they were doing. George is sooooo much better than TT and ACA.

  3. With the floods and Cyclone Yasi proving that rolling news can spike ratings, I’m sure that all the commercial networks would leap at any event that gives them an excuse to do rolling coverage.

  4. Yes a sad day for NZ but I’m do tired of the extended coverage by the networks just to out do each other, thank god we have more channels as I won’t be watching, I’ll catch the updates at 6pm then in the morning.

    The stupid thing with the early coverage is they were all using the same NZ source so there was no variety and I chose ABC24. When watching it earlier today just after it happened.

  5. yes fair enough guys it is the quality not the quanity sorry abou my rant this is just such a terribile tragedy already 65 people have been confirmed to have passed away which a terribile thought i have been to christchurch a few times and have friends there i am hoping that a miricile will occur and there will be no more deaths

  6. @ Dan. Get real mate. As we all know, Ten have 5.00 – 7.30 covered. As other have already said, if the quality is there, then they only need to be on during this time. As I was home today I was able to see what the networks were doing. Most of the networks took the feed from NZ. Ten had feeds from 2 NZ networks, so in fact they had the best coverage. They also had Hugh Remington with a detailed interview. Yes they left for normal programming at 3.30pm, but to be honest, by this time it was all the same footage being rolled out. So before we start going a network for their coverage, let’s see how they report this tragic event.

  7. No, not Cougar Town!

    When the coverage on Seven and Nine first began today, they were pretty much identical with the footage they were showing…

    Also identical 2 hours later as they repeated the same footage…

  8. @Dan, I think you missed the point. Channel 10 doesn’t have to change their progamming like everyone else because they will be already covering it. They have 6pm with George Negus, then 6.30 news and then the 7pm project. I think they will have all their bases covered as a News network with this programming.

  9. Dan: I disagree. Not having rolling coverage of an overseas event doesn’t mean that they can’t be taken for news seriously. It will be the quality (and not quantity) of their 6pm – 7:30pm news block that will prove this.

    I’m not sure that the hosts of Seven or Nine’s daytime coverage offered any value than showing the raw feeds from TVNZ and/or TV3. ABC News 24 (and ABC1 earlier) simply showed TV3’s coverage all afternoon.

    Hillary Barry deserves an award for her coverage this afternoon.

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