“Nailed it!”: Viewers praise ABC presenter after autocue fail
After a major autocue fail at 6:52pm, Victoria's Tamara Oudyn shows what she is made of.
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Melbourne ABC News presenter Tamara Oudyn was widely praised by viewers last night after a sterling job despite the failure of the autocue.
According to her Twitter post she was given the news with just minutes remaining.
Director at 6.52pm: "So.. umm.. Tam. We're having some major issues with the autocue right now. You're gonna have to free-style it."
*Tune in to @abcmelbourne at 7pm to see what the actual heck happens*@abcnews #ABC
— Tamara Oudyn (@TamaraOudyn) January 5, 2018
But according to viewers, she didn’t miss a beat!
@TamaraOudyn Sensational job, Tamara. When we weren't watching the screen, we couldn't detect any difference from when you have the autocue. Well done!
— Peter N (@reichman73) January 5, 2018
@abcmelbourne @TamaraOudyn is now my favourite newsreader after doing tonight's bulletin without autocue. Sorry @LeeLinChinSBS you're second now. Unless you freestyle like the Queen 👸#nailedit #queentamara #freestyle #news pic.twitter.com/mdVBmPTFa8
— Sarah Mennie (@sarmennie) January 5, 2018
Killing it sans autocue
— Mark G (@msg621) January 5, 2018
@TamaraOudyn Well done Tamara, reading the whole bulletin flawlessly without auto cue. You're a true professional
— Helen Ballard (@helen_ballard) January 5, 2018
Didn't miss a beat – great job
— 3/4 Time (@PeterB127) January 5, 2018
@TamaraOudyn no prompter yet didn't miss a beat. Very professional!
— Stephen L. Nowland (@stephennowland) January 5, 2018
Tamara Oudyn, @tamaraoudyn is now trending in #Melbournehttps://t.co/yxORFlvg8E pic.twitter.com/77NLw7K9NM
— Trendsmap Melbourne (@TrendsMelbourne) January 5, 2018
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11 Responses
Best News reader on TV by far. Reads the News with personality, understanding and credibility. Much better than Hitchener or any of the other robot newsreaders. Far too good for any commercial TV. Should be reading 5 nights a week.
Tam is exactly who you’d want in that chair when anything goes wrong. Always as cool as a cucumber…and a lovely person as well 🙂 Go Tam!
Always cool under pressure, classy and a superb newsreader with loads of experience. Jonno: Tamara has been filling in for main anchor Ian Henderson on ABC News for several years. She’s also the ABC News Victoria weekend anchor.
Wow. A news reader reads the news from pieces of paper. Just like they do all the time on the radio. Incredible! What pressure is there in that?? None.
Technical glitches happen all the time. And those who are good at their job never show it. And especially never draw attention to it.
uh… radio presenters don’t have to look sincerely and calmly into a camera for the whole show while reading off the paper script.
Love ABC News and their news readers….keeping it real…
Tamara was so cool under pressure. Not one um or err. Very professional. Well done.
Is doing what was considered the norm only few decades ago really worth this level of praise and awe inspired gaping? What’s next? “Wow! Did you see the way that news presenter sat on a chair behind the desk. Amazing!”
Yes it is worth this level of praise. In the old days they did it every day, day in and day out and would of prepared for a few hours. Tamara had 8 minutes before she went on air. I don’t know much about her but assume she is a fill in over the holidays so probably inexperienced. She was awesome. So cool and i bet most of the really experienced newsreaders would not of done better.
Sorry, but no. Before teleprompters became common often presenters would be handed scripts, or summaries that they would fill in the structure of the sentences on the fly, only minutes before going to air. In small regional broadcast outfits the presenters would often write the script too, so they had more of an idea of what was to be said.
Really she didn’t do anything that is worthy of the sort of praise that is being spread, unless of course you are a member of the Gold Star generation where everyone’s a winner by simply turning up.
You are comparing apples with oranges. Yeah lets go back to the good old days when there was no Facebook or Twitter instant scrutiny, when all newsreaders were men, when there was no HD showing up all the wrinkles on a big screen, when you never had to worry about teleprompters crashing. Ahh the good old days, an era which you seem stuck in.