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[cartman]

Seven
Seven News Special Presentation - Live from Washington DC presented by Natalie Barr, Mike Amour and Rahni Sadler.
[3am NSW/VIC, 2:30am SA, 2am QLD, 1am WA] **Excludes PRIME / GWN**

Nine
Nine News Special - Hosted by Karl Stefanovic and Robert Penfold.
[10.55pm NSW/VIC/QLD/SA, 10:45pm WA]

Ten
Ten News Special - The Inauguration of Barack Obama.
[1.30am NSW/VIC/QLD/SA/WA]

ABC
ABC News Special - The Inauguration Of President Obama.
[3.25am NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS, 2.55am SA, 2.25am QLD, 1.55am NT, 1.25am WA]

Sky News
Good Morning America Live
[12am NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS, 11.30pm SA, 11pm QLD, 10.30pm NT, 10pm WA]

[TimC]

And of course C-SPAN on A-PAC.

[cartman]

TimC, on Jan 20 2009, 7:53pm, said:

And of course C-SPAN on A-PAC.

Well that goes without saying... It's a political public affairs channel.

[sam]

On the weather on ABC GMA nine stuck there own national forecast at the end of GMA's

[Kevin]

As usual the American networks are going over the top with this. The coverage for this goes for 10 hours on quite a few channels

[cartman]

Kevin, on Jan 20 2009, 8:45pm, said:

As usual the American networks are going over the top with this. The coverage for this goes for 10 hours on quite a few channels

Nine's coverage here goes for 10 hours...

[Kevin]

cartman, on Jan 20 2009, 7:48am, said:

Nine's coverage here goes for 10 hours...

Makes sense... no one will be watching them so this was an easy way of filling time

Seriously though, what a waste of time. No one is going to watch 10 hours of this stuff. I want to see his speech just as much as anyone else, but he's not going to be there for 10 hours - most likely he'll only be there for 30 minutes (I have no idea how this stuff works) so why the television channels are running this stuff for so long is beyond me

[cartman]

sam, on Jan 20 2009, 8:43pm, said:

On the weather on ABC GMA nine stuck there own national forecast at the end of GMA's

TCN are having issues with covering the breaks too. They just came out of commercials into American commercials and then crashed back to local commercials.

[Kevin]

cartman, on Jan 20 2009, 7:51am, said:

TCN are having issues with covering the breaks too. They just came out of commercials into American commercials and then crashed back to local commercials.

Interesting... I thought Nine had a clean feed of ABC available to them? If not now then they have in the past, so why not now?

[cartman]

Kevin, on Jan 20 2009, 8:52pm, said:

Interesting... I thought Nine had a clean feed of ABC available to them? If not now then they have in the past, so why not now?

They're probably taking off-air via a PacTV to Globecast fiber. For the Election coverage last year they at least had a 16:9 feed. Tonight they're airing GMA in 4:3.

[Kevin]

cartman, on Jan 20 2009, 7:54am, said:

For the Election coverage last year they at least had a 16:9 feed. Tonight they're airing GMA in 4:3.

[cartman]

Nine are airing GMA on a 60 second turn-around. It's not actually completely live!

[sam]

cartman, on Jan 20 2009, 10:51pm, said:

TCN are having issues with covering the breaks too. They just came out of commercials into American commercials and then crashed back to local commercials.

Lol it's happend three times ive seen

[Kevin]

sam, on Jan 20 2009, 8:05am, said:

Lol it's happend three times ive seen

If they're running it on delay then they have no excuse for screwing up something as simple as commercial breaks. This is Nine we are talking about though, but I expected better of TCN.

[sam]

Eww someone vomited on the corner of win with the time and logo

Edited by sam, 20 January 2009 - 09:12 PM.

[cartman]

Kevin, on Jan 20 2009, 9:07pm, said:

If they're running it on delay then they have no excuse for screwing up something as simple as commercial breaks.

Exactly!!! The whole point of the 60 second turn-around would be so that the pres co-ord can monitor the live feed coming in for break outcues giving them 60 seconds prior warning to go to the break cleanly. It would also give them the ability to time the break and adjust their break duration on the fly to cover the full break.

[button pusher]

Kevin, on Jan 20 2009, 10:07pm, said:

If they're running it on delay then they have no excuse for screwing up something as simple as commercial breaks. This is Nine we are talking about though, but I expected better of TCN.

That's about the standard of WIN with their pres of STW.

[Kevin]

button pusher, on Jan 20 2009, 8:46am, said:

That's about the standard of WIN with their pres of STW.

Exactly - that kind of thing I would expect from STW and WIN, but TCN are usually a lot better than that.

[cartman]

Niceeee..... STW just came out of the movie, played a station ID and then crashed straight into GMA live. They're also covering up the ABC News logo with a solid dottless Nine in a blue box.

[phileasmann]

You betcha it's gonna be historic... that's why I have a...

Checklist for Obama's Inauguration
1. Computer with TV Tuner. [Check.]
2. 100GB free space to record the whole 4 hours. [Check.]
3. A good DVB-T attenna connecton. [Clear enough.]
4. A YouTube account to upload those 4 hours of coverage. [Check.]
5. Baileys Irish Cremé. [I made a pass on the Champaigne. Check.]

I was gonna get Foxtel installed in time for CNN & BBCWN coverage, but, alas, I was not able to organise something in, what, 24 hours?

[trisreed]

OMG STW is so terrible
First the shitmark covers the GMA logo
Now they went to an adbreak so late you saw half an ABC America network ad.

[cartman]

trisreed, on Jan 20 2009, 9:56pm, said:

Now they went to an adbreak so late you saw half an ABC America network ad.

Yeah I saw that too!

I dunno what was worse, the fact they missed the start of the break or the fact that when they finally did go to the break they ran an STW news promo!

[button pusher]

cartman, on Jan 20 2009, 10:57pm, said:

Yeah I saw that too!

I dunno what was worse, the fact they missed the start of the break or the fact that when they finally did go to the break they ran an STW news promo!

This is WIN might I rhetorically remind you.
Pres op was probably out of the room on a toilet break or something.

Edited by button pusher, 20 January 2009 - 10:03 PM.

[phileasmann]

That said tris, ABC America isn't the pierre de resistance of television news, so I was expecting from the start it would be crap.
AJE's coverage looks promising, we shall see.....

[trisreed]

Some people only have FTA Digital...

I would prefer NBC or CBS but they dont start until the real business.
Boy did that adbreak go on forever and a rough intro back.