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Nine / Seven News: Queensland Floods

Updated: Nine & Seven remains with live flood coverage all day and Nine extends rolling evening coverage. Nine, Seven, TEN update evening schedules.

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UPDATED: Nine has advised it will remain with flood coverage live across the day today.

Nine News will tonight air a special one hour bulletin at 7pm to cover the continuing crisis of the Queensland floods.

UIt follows Premier Bligh calling the latest events “our darkest hour” as 10 people die and more than 78 are missing.

A Current Affair will also broadcast live from the flood scene at 7pm. Updated: Another News bulletin will air at 9:30pm hosted by Leila McKinnon and Karl Stefanovic from Brisbane.

Today show hosts Cameron Williams and Georgie Gardner remained on air until 11am today continuing rolling coverage of the unfolding drama. It will recommence at 5am on Wednesday until 10am (9am Qld).

6pm Nine News
7pm ACA (not Qld)
7:30pm Nine News (normal programming now abandoned)
9:30pm Nine News

Qld:
6pm Nine News
7pm joins rolling coverage. (No ACA)

UPDATED: Seven has also resumed rolling coverage across the day and moved its tennis coverage to 7TWO.

Seven News has announced its 4:30pm News will air for one hour. The 6pm bulletin will also extend to one hour edition with Today Tonight to air from 7pm. There will be another 30 minute bulletin at 9:30pm.

4:30pm Seven News
5:30pm Deal or No Deal
6pm Seven News
7pm Today Tonight
7:30pm Normal programming resumes
9:30pm Seven News

Sunrise remained on air until 10:30am, co-hosted from Brisbane.

TEN
5pm TEN News at Five
7pm The 7pm Project
07:30 pm Talkin’ ’bout Your Generation
08:30 pm NCIS: Los Angeles
09:30 pm Queensland Flood Crisis News Special (not Perth)

Wednesday
6:00 am TEN Early News – Special Extended Bulletin (5am Brisbane)

5.30pm WIN NEWS
6.00pm National News – 1hr
7.00pm WIN NEWS Flood Crisis Special
7.30pm ACA
8.00pm Top Gear
9.30pm Network News Flood Special

Meanwhile ABC News 24 was left with an awkward broadbank link of Premier Bligh’s 10:30am press conference, which was better delivered by Nine, Seven and SKY News.

Donations: www.qld.gov.au/floods
Hotline: 1300 993 191

100 Responses

  1. Hi, Ive been watching the news on all channels, on monday the 18th of april, and i think its rediclalus that they are trying to blam somebody, for the Januray 2011 floods, when it was a natural inccodent that tradgialy accurd.
    I believe the goverments are turning there attentions and using valueable energy, on the wrong things and acting like childern.
    They should be helping the excisting residents, and planning on how to prepair for furture events like this, and also try and help rebuild the affected lifes in these towns, that are still up untill to today, cleaning up the deferstation.
    Not pointing fingers and trying to put the blam on someone, its just rediculouse.
    Its really showing us what they have been doin for they last 3 and a half months!!

  2. Why isn’t the defence force out in large numbers to help the wide spread area that have been affected. There should be 500 or more outr there helping more. The SES is exhausted and even the volunteers are exhausted. Get the defence force out in force now and releave these people from the hard work that is ahead.

  3. Why dosen’t the water board donate free water, to help with the clean up, and the towns people to grow. It seems wrong that we have to pay for all the mess

  4. On a commercial channel today I watched two childette Arts Degree (Media) un-reporters earnestly twittering about the vital importance of twittering, in between the urgent pursuit for moving film of live grief by hyena teams searching the suburbs for shocking footage (unnamed places shown, with absolutely no other information about time, place, levels, numbers, other than “Oh dear, how will people cope? Oh they are Queenslanders and they are – um – very strong”). The children reporting are barely literate, but amazing.

    “Thank you Shazzz. That was Shazzz reporting on the greatest record since Crowded House packed the forecourt of the Opera House. Now we’ll cut to Tabatha Hyperbole who has pressing and emotional news about homeless cats.” Aaaaarghh!

    This was immediately after two other Gen Vacuouses had an earnest discussion, Australian Idol like, rating the “Did she nearly shed tears? Oh I think so, she’s soooo lovely and so good at it. She’s a great leader” performance of BLie$ on TV.

    They interviewed one of the Australian cricketers in Adelaide who used live in Ipswich who said it’s amazing because he remembers the Coles store. Then they amazed themselves later talking about his amazing contribution by being interviewed. From Adelaide. For 2 minutes. For no good reason.

    We ran a competition here on how many times we could spot Monday’s blue wheelie bin float across our screen.

    Do Mellie/Kochie run seminars on how to do this nonsense?

    I’ve given up watching last Monday’s footage interspersed with re-runs of that thing from Altona turning up to do what Bruce Pollster tells her to do – half circle hand movements and loooong sloooow vowels – to take this excellent opportunity to get its ratings up.

    Praise be for unshaven blokes in stubbies with wet legs and little old ladies making tea at doss down centres who actually do stuff and have no time for the cameras.

  5. Could we have more coverage on Grafton etc; as the news hasn’t really cover this too much and we have seen picture that it is going under at Nine o’ Clock we would like to see more on this on TV to know what is happening as we live in Sydney have relatives up in South Grafton just want to know because they do’n’t know either so could you give more coverage and updates on what is happening.
    regards
    Mrs C Yuile

  6. Extraordinary! Fantastic photo’s, videos, and reporting on the Flooding up in Queensland. I have been watching in ore of this event.
    Am wondering where all that debris is heading. Does it get caught up on the edges of the rivers, or does it float out to sea? How will all this water effect the coast line, and the Great Barrier Reef?

  7. To my dear Queenslands friends,
    I feel so sorry for you all, we love you guys and admire your strength, your NSW mates are with you and are shedding many tears and feeling your hurt. This is Australia and we will always stick by our mates! Just remember you are not alone at your hour of need!
    Love you all!
    Andy :(((((XXXX

  8. i have been watching the news today the pictures are good but is it possible to put names to pictures as my mum lives in avcoa st yeronga and i have been told that it was under in the 74 floods.She is home with no power and has a storm water drain near her place is it possible for the water to come up out of that drain?.If any one knows can they get back to me please. thank you tracey

  9. To Carl, and Georgie,nine network,, It would be good to hear something from the 4 big banks all the billions profit they make from Australians daily, they should be giving help and support to people,, everyone is pitching in , only hear from them when its a rise in interest rates shame on the banks ! Wonderful heartfelt coverage by all at the network, it makes me so sad whats happening, i love Australia dearly, came here 4 years ago ,, i am proud to apply for my Australian passport in May .

    kindest regards Terese K err Rutherford NSW

  10. Two longish comments, sorry:
    Firstly, while there have been a mass of observations about the various defects of saturation live broadcasting (pardon the pun) of this event, I doubt TV stations really mean for anyone to sit and watch the same stories repeated all day long. I suspect that most people, like me, tuned in from time to time to catch the latest updates and warnings. I heard the Premiers warning that the floods would peak above the ’74 levels on radio but saw other informative bits on all the TV channels during the day. They can hardly ignore this disaster and they all hit the ground running.

    Butthere has been much sensationalist behaviour (music, sound effects and histrionics) that cheapen the overall effect and serve to scare the bejesus out of the locals. I live in Brisbane and will be ok (other than an apartment I own probably being half-submerged tomorrow) but am aggravated to see runs on supermarkets and general idiocy dozens of miles from the river in a panic that is media-inspired. Find a flood map of Brisbane on the net and you’ll see only a comparatively tiny slice of the city will be affected (obviously tragic for those of us in that slot) but for pete’s sake stop making it sound like the sky is falling in.
    We need solid, factual reporting, not American-style Fox News bulls**t.
    I should say that Qld very much appreciates the genuine sympathy of other Aussies – good on you guys, thanks!

  11. Seven up here went away to local news @ 5:30 FWIW.

    Personally, the one thing I hate about rolling coverage is the repetitiveness. Seemed like the same people talking about what they talked about 5 minutes before they talked about it 5 minutes ago. Some people are also sick of hearing Anna Bligh/random mayor/random emergency services person/weather guru being over analysed to the point of “who cares”.

    To me, Update everything for 10 minutes every half hour, and go from there. Some people do need a diversion from just information being regurgitated and recycled. Especially those that just got out of flood like us up here yet didn’t get any sort of blanket coverage (ABC Local Radio excluded).

  12. Hats off to Channel 9 for managing to make a tacky montage of the floating cars in Toowoomba even tackier by playing ‘Chasing Cars’ in the background

  13. Seven did the right thing in Brisbane, dropping Deal. If they get 150k for local news highlights leading-in to 6pm it is much better than getting 60k or even less for DoNd, and lots of angry QLD viewers to boot.

    Brisbane will need all the help they can get not just in the weeks, but in the months to come. This major event will live in the psyche of a new generation, much like ’74 did.

  14. The most important interview of the day was Campbell Newman’s and it looked like only Seven had that live. Nine were almost acceptable today other than the tacky tag lines and sound effects. The main bulletin BTQ7 looked to have covered the situation better than QTQ9. ABC24 didn’t look as professional as the commercial stations…disappointing. I’d suggest Seven to let BTQ run the show tomorrow instead of ATN, I don’t think Brisbane viewers appreciated the coverage around 5-6pm and Nine to ditch the cheesiness.

  15. So does this mean everything WA got all day was delayed by three hours except for nightly bulletins and ABC24?
    If so that’s Very poor, in a major event like this everyone should be live around the country, otherwise it’s just too out of date, 3 hours is a long time when people are worried about friends and family on the other side of the country

  16. Look Nine’s coverage has been good all day however they did miss a few live interviews, one with the Mayor of Brisbane and a couple of others. At that time they were talking to one of their reporters in Ipswich so whats more important? A reporters view or the Brisbane Mayor outlining exactly whats going on. Seven were the only FTA network to cover that live. The one thing that pi**es me off most about Nine’s coverage is this “First on Nine” crap. Get over your ego. They even plastered it across pictures. Its not bloody needed!

    Seriously it doesn’t matter which network is doing what etc but the fact that they couldn’t show one of the most important press conferences of the day is ridiculous. Seven have stopped the coverage at the moment which is fine because sure its a huge event but if you actually sat down to watch Nine’s coverage in the past couple of hours its recap after recap after recap of events that started at the beginning of the day and Karl and Leila are so annoying and really there isn’t that much that is New.

    Oh and don’t get me started on the use of soppy pop music with the pictures. Absolute disgrace i recon. My friends seem to think so too. I have family in areas affected at the moment and they are telling me that the coverage means nothing to them because a lot of them have lost power. Either way the media has handled this very well today.

  17. I think we need to remember, its the quality of the information being given, rather than how often pictures are repeated or how long the news is on the air.

  19. I have some differing views on the coverage so far.

    I find it interesting at the lack of coverage after the Towoomba event yesterday – no extended coverage then. Meanwhile rolling coverage has started for the Brisbane flood which isn’t expected for another 2 days. Does this mean we will have wall-to-wall coverage until the end of the week? I’m happy for the main channels to give blanket coverage on Thursday but what about giving us a break and leave it to Abc24 and Sky News. I appreciated Ten having some standard programming this evening before returning to news.

    I didn’t see the coverage on the main channels today but thought Abc24 did a good job. When I picked up their coverage they had the floods as the main story, growing into the only story. At 6pm AEST they switched to their Emergency service and included Abc1 Qld in the broadcast. The best aspect was being able to watch on my iPhone whilst at work (and not blocked by a firewall). Too bad the other networks cannot do the same, and Sky/Foxtel want me to pay again for something I already pay to get at home.

    It was also nice to see the 7pm news on Abc1 as a national bulleting from Qld, and without glitches.

    It is an interesting time for networks and Tv junkies. After having several months to bed in, a real test for Abc24. And you can bet Ten was wishing they had their news lineup already in place. Seven and Nine will scramble to be “the best”. And Sky will do what they were designed to do.

  20. I am a channel 7 viewer from way back, but today 9 has preformed above and beyond. Their coverage of this crisis has simply been amazing. Surprisingly at times even better than ABC News 24. I don’t think I’ve watched 9 so much in my entire life. Also what a trooper Karl Stevenovic (pardon the spelling) is, he must have been in the studio all day, not to mention some of the other reporters and anchors on 9 which have done some incredible shifts today. Good on ya guys!!!

  21. even though I would prefer not to watch rolling news, Seven should have stuck with News for it’s reputation, as playing “I shouldnt be alive” prob isn’t the best choice…

  22. Nathan: I don’t know about your podcast listeners but I don’t consider my readers to be a**holes at all. I consider myself quite fortunate to have devoted readers who engage in a range of topics. On an emotional day they are passionate, as they are across Twitter, news sites and other online forums. It is not unique to this site.

    While it is reasonable to be discussing television coverage on a television site, I also think it’s easy to forget the bigger picture -pardon the pun. Communication in a crisis of this nature is paramount and some are rising to the cause. But the safety of individuals is of much more concern than which network had a shot before another, or which live to air moment was better worded than another. This is incidental. There is time to analyse later. It’s certainly not a time to champion one network over another. Context is everything. Context to passion, whether misdirected or not, is also important, so on that point we shall have to disagree today.

  23. in reference to the 20/20 Cricket tomorrow… The women’s match Can be moved without request as Women’s 20/20 is not on the Anti-Siphoning list. Expect GO to pick that up (unless Nine want to finally deliever on their promise of High-Def Sport on GEM)!
    As for the Men’s game, at this point, it would be easier to move coverage of the News to GO as I would think it’d be too late to request a change with Mr Conroy and in the Innings Break, go to News instead of having Mark Nicholas crapping on!

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