Oops. “Third time lucky” in Nine News technical meltdown.
Video: Frozen videos and endless commercials, as QTQ9 News wraps 24 minutes early after a string of mishaps.
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Nine News Brisbane last night suffered a massive technical meltdown which trimmed the one-hour bulletin trimmed to just 36 minutes.
In a series of painful mishaps, presenter Melissa Downes threw not once, but three times, to commercials after video kept freezing.
“Things aren’t going quite to plan so we are going to have to take another commercial break,” she admitted.
Sport, introduced by Wally Lewis, never surfaced at all.
“We are hoping for third time lucky….” she continued.
Eventually it was decided to present the weather and cut their losses.
“Thank you for your patience, we promise you we will be back with our full bulletin tomorrow night.”
At least Downes wasn’t frazzled by the disasters and remained professional throughout.
You can see an edited version here.
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16 Responses
Melissa Downes handle it brilliantly.
@Pete 7 and 9 in Brisbane persist in using ex-sporting favourites rather than journalists – big mistake, as is Matt Burke on Ten Sydney.
I am holidaying in Queensland and Melissa is really good. Unfortunately, king Wally may be queenslands favourite son, but he looks awkward and nervous reading the sport despite doing it for years.
they should have ditched it and relayed from sydney
24 minutes of news coverage being lost for 9News Brisbane.
@andrewg76 Channel 9 have 3-4 x broadcast desktop/server technician based in Brisbane. Its all insourced internally for now
lucky they are 1 hr behind to have tracy to throw to.
Assume QTQ is currently switching over to newsroom automation, hence all the technical issues.
Melissa is a champion. Cool a a cucumber.
Looks like a playout macnine freezing. When it rains it pours.
Don’t know why they didn’t just play Sydney News, given the DST time delay. It was the same, as far as one could see. But those earrings……please, no.
Memories of when the late Brian Naylor had similar technical issues for one bulletin during a TV technicians strike. Nothing went as planned.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZsqcHOjVxoI
Irony of mentioning ‘Groundhog Day’!
My oops. Corrected, thanks.
What’s wrong with nine news lately? All these tech faults, must be outsourced…
Hi David, I think you’ll find the presenter is Melissa Downes, not Melissa Mallet
Oh yes, I felt so sorry for her, every newsreaders nightmare. But she handled it like a pro, a lot better than others have in the same situation. I was on the phone for the last bit of it and next thing ACA came on, and I thought oh they must have given up.
Melissa Downes.