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TEN cuts in Perth may mean weekend bulletin from Sydney

Speculation that viewers in Perth will be getting a national, delayed bulletin on weekends under network cuts.

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2014-06-13_0109TEN viewers in the West may be set to lose the ‘Perth edition’ weekend bulletin of in favour of a delayed national TEN Eyewitness News.

Fairfax reports the weekend bulletin, which had been specially packaged and broadcast by Mike Munro on the East Coast, is set to go as part of the network’s news cuts.

In its place will be the national bulletin, delayed for viewers in Perth by two hours. This would contrast with locally-prepared bulletins Live on Seven, Nine and ABC.

TEN declined to confirm details, but said in a statement it wanted viewers to be “assured that TEN will continue to deliver a quality news service to Perth viewers, covering local, national and international news, sport and weather”.

Meanwhile local journos Caty Price and Michael Tetlow have taken redundancies, with speculation there will be just four journalists and three camera-editors working each weekday, reduced to a single crew on a weekend.

TEN Perth has also been without a news director since December and Fairfax notes the news helicopter was reportedly “let go a few weeks ago”.

No word if it got a redundancy package too.

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  3. Would Eastern States folks enjoy watching news predominantly about WA??

    So why do they think WA folks want news thats predominantly about the East??!

  4. TEN have no idea what they’re doing. TEN has always managed to put together a very comprehensive hour-long bulletin in Perth, and they’re rewarded for it, they rate pretty well here.
    At least Michael Schultz is still there, best weatherman in the business

  5. Current management at TEN have no clue or care it appears, being so Sydney, or as they say in WA, so ‘easterner’ centric. Anyone who knows Perth, knows how people in Perth detest Sydney based news, and moreso the fact that it is delayed by 2 hours, and 3 hours during summer. As a result, Perth do not watch delayed Sydney News services sometimes rating ‘0’ in Perth. Even ABC24 News which is live into Perth will rate better than delayed Ten Eyewitness News. TEN may as well surrender the NEW Perth licence and be done with it.

  6. Most major WIN regional newsrooms would have more reporters and camera crew than TEN Perth. Perhaps the TEN Network should hand back their broadcast licence.

  7. Ten tried this once before, and on the weekends all we got were news stories from Sydney & Melbourne. – House fires, crime stories and local NSW & VIC stories, that didn’t matter to Perth or WA.

    Note to TEN we in the West don’t really give a damn about Sydney & Melbourne.

  8. Wow. Ten must be really broken, to make this type of decision. Old news funnelled to Perth, from the other side of the country.

    Other networks: Best. Decision. Ever.

  9. With Hamish and Meakin no doubt being paid more than 10 times the salary of a journo.. could do 10 times the workload to replace 10 journalists each at 10?

    I find it almost criminal that many senior executives in Australia think that they deserve to be paid so many times more than that of their workers. Especially when their ‘miracle’ work leads to more job losses and less profits.

  10. I’ve watched Ten news for years here in Perth and always been impressed with the service. If Ten think that a delayed broadcast of Sydney news into Perth will succeed, then they know less about the television industry than I do.

  11. Really sad to see Caty Price go. She is a great sports reporter and had some great sports stories.

    I really hope we don’t get a delayed news bulletin on weekends. Its bad enough as it is. I don’t think I’ll bother watching if it is delayed, its not worth it.

  12. Ten would want to hope there isn’t a big topic to report on because they will have no journalists to report it. More good reporters going including Caty price! I guess I will have to watch 9 or 7 on wknds now to get my local news.

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