See it first, a month later on Nine.

By David Knox on December 1, 2009 / Filed Under Programming 19

nnews2If you had been watching Channel Nine last night you could be mistaken for thinking Shocking had just won the Melbourne Cup.

Nine played a News promo from last month in the middle of late night dramedy Burying Brian.

“Celebrations are in full swing for connections of the Mark Kavanagh-trained Shocking, after the 4 year old victory in the Melbourne Cup,” Wendy Kingston said.

“Sydney punters battle through 37 degree heat at Randwick.

“And St. George and the big four banks have moved swiftly to pass on today’s quarter of a percent rate rise.”

Umm, no the rate rise yesterday when last we checked…

nnewsIt was followed by Peter Overton spruiking a story in “tomorrow night’s” Nine News. The Sydney News.

And it was played in Melbourne.

Now if only we could get Nine to be “first” with the news of the Melbourne Cup winner before it had actually run. That would really be something.

19 Comments »

  1. Tepee December 1, 2009 at 8:45 pm -

    LOL wish I saw it.

  2. Jerome December 1, 2009 at 4:50 pm -

    peter overton is a scary looking guy.

  3. Daniel December 1, 2009 at 2:13 pm -

    Nine did this with the late news, when it had returned in May. The news headlines had been a day behind the actual bulletin. They had eventually got to telling us stories from Thursday on the next Monday! They must be first in making news look sound better when it’s said later.

  4. Craig December 1, 2009 at 12:35 pm -

    @Jim – yes 88 came back for Vampire Diaries, 80 was there all along. Last week 50 ONE HD vanished, maybe it’s my LG HDTV?

  5. Trent December 1, 2009 at 11:39 am -

    What is it with Nine and all these technical difficulties. The person/people responsible should be easy to spot and be fired just like that. I am sure that Seven would not put up with any problems like Nine are having.

    It’s weird how these technical difficulties are continuing after they have been present in their news and ident ads for a long time. Don’t you think whoever was in charge would get better at their job over time?

  6. sam December 1, 2009 at 11:26 am -

    they should hit the eject button under overton………………………..

  7. Jim December 1, 2009 at 11:00 am -

    @ Craig – did WIN HD return in your area last night by any chance? When it returned in my region last week I was watching 88 at the time and had to do a re-scan because the sound on both it and 8 dropped out totally.

  8. David December 1, 2009 at 10:34 am -

    @ bloggo – it is 88 in regional areas and 99 in most cities…

  9. Benno December 1, 2009 at 10:25 am -

    LOL, it would be even funnier if they played the ‘still the one’ promo as well.

  10. Kenny December 1, 2009 at 10:07 am -

    And they wonder why Chris Bath (ATN7) beat TCN9 so soundly last night. Why on earth would Nine archive old news “updates”? Strange.

  11. Kenny December 1, 2009 at 10:04 am -

    GO! is 99 in capital cities, 88 in WIN regionals (at least it is in NSW south)

  12. Belinda December 1, 2009 at 10:02 am -

    Ha! Ha! I saw this too. It was a bit of a time warp.

    Also amused by the “first on Nine” and “only on 7″ promos for stories I have seen covered weeks ago on ABC.

  13. Jed December 1, 2009 at 9:48 am -

    And that’s why they are losing in the ratings.

  14. bloggo December 1, 2009 at 8:46 am -

    Craig, I’m not 100%, but isn’t GO! 99? It is in my region.

  15. Woody December 1, 2009 at 7:24 am -

    I know it’s non ratings time but to show repeats of the news?

    LOL ;)

  16. tom tom December 1, 2009 at 7:23 am -

    why can’t they accidentally put porn to air?

  17. Craig December 1, 2009 at 7:09 am -

    LMAO

    Now they are not even fast tracking the news!

    BTW Last night for a time GO!88 vanished from my TV, the channel was wiped from the list and I had to re-scan for it. And no i had not deleted it. I just went to 88 and it was gone! Go baby GO!

  18. cjschrissouth December 1, 2009 at 5:40 am -

    lol…..video?

  19. Zambora December 1, 2009 at 4:58 am -

    Saw it and thought I must be dreaming, then realised it was Channel 9 just being helpful or just stuffing up again.

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