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Nine tower dismantled in Darwin

While Canberra debates media's future, Darwin is already getting real.

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On the day Canberra was debating the best way forward for media organisations and consumers across Australia, Nine’s broadcast tower in Darwin was being dismantled.

It follows news Nine was relocating its Darwin bulletin to Brisbane studios.

A Nine spokesperson previously told TV Tonight, “The people of Darwin will continue to get the best local news service from Nine, with reporters on the ground in Darwin covering all the breaking local news, sport and weather, mixed with the important national and international stories from the Nine team of reporters around the country and the world.

It follows a roll-out of regional bulletins in Canberra, NSW, Victoria and Queensland, produced in conjunction with Southern Cross Austereo, from Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane bases.

Photo: News Corp

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  1. The Nine News regional model is a generic bulletin of national and foreign news with a window containing regional news for each market and another window in the sports section for local sport. Nine’s Darwin bulletin from Brisbane seems to be following this model.

  2. That’s the old Blake St tower. Hasn’t been used for TV since at least the digital switchover in 2013. Nine (& the rest) now cover Darwin City from the shared Optus site on the other side of the golf course.

    1. Yeah, I was wondering what Nine choosing to do remote “local” news had to do with dismantling an already decommissioned tower. Wherever the programs really come from, they still need to be broadcast to TV antennas in Darwin.

  3. The new news has been on almost a week now and we still don’t even know the name of the female newsreader.

    Lead story most nights is from Brisbane and then Darwin news is an afterthought.

    Weekends we get no Darwin content at all.

    Poor decision by Nine.

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