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While Sunrise lands in London, Today heads to Canberra.

The leadership spill could not have come at a worse time for Sunrise.

The timing of the Liberal Leadership spill could not come at a worse time for Sunrise.

This morning the show is in London, 17,000km away from all the action in Canberra.

Meanwhile the Today show will be broadcasting from outside Parliament House from 5am. As Fairfax reports, producers have been working through the night to liaise its guests. Sunrise will doubtless be covering the story too, but will have been forced to drop previous London guests to allow for adequate coverage via satellite.

The leadership spill was also awkward timing for Seven’s launch of new shows, including The Chase.

While Seven was trumpeting “The Chase is on!” Nine kept broadcasting the Live leadership challenge with Peter Overton and Laurie Oakes. But it did offer coverage on 7TWO, while Nine was neither swayed to drop an episode of Hot Seat where $250,000 was won. 6pm news bulletins benefitted from Tony Abbott’s Live media announcement confirming the vote.

ABC devoted the most Free to Air coverage to the evening drama, dropping Australian Story and Four Corners, and bumping Media Watch and Q & A to ABC2. It simulcast ABC News 24 coverage on the primary channel. TEN had a special News bulletin at 9:40pm.

SKY News also provided thorough coverage with David Speers, Kieran Gilbert, Paul Murray and
Peter van Onselen, all in receipt of insider tips on their phones across the night.

Finally, for those who read yesterday’s blast from Darren McMullen over Tony Abbott, ironically while Nine was airing House Husbands‘ same sex proposal, the Liberal party was voting out its leader at the very same time….

19 Responses

  1. Poor coverage on Seven, where were their reporters? Quite news flash to announce new PM, then return to programming. Later, quick broadcast of Turnbull announcement.

  2. Did a lot of channel flicking and thought the ABC coverage was far superior than the rest. As a Victorian was not keen on Peter Overtons performance. Was surprised at how little 7 paid attention to it and thought Hugh Riminton to be the best of the commercial channels. He should still be on 9.

  3. As a massive Abbott supporter there was no way I was going to support the corrupt ABC lead juggernaut that has lead to the spill in government!! Shame how many people were already prepared by this and swayed to soak in this de javu in Australia’s pathetic excuse of a government system that is lead by the sick corrupt lefties/media/ABC!!

    1. I had the misfortune of watching Sky News on Sunday evening, and they were talking about the spill for at least 15 minutes before I changed the channel. You definitely can’t blame the ABC for the #libspill last night. This has been brewing for months.

      Regarding your comment about not voting, Australian law requires you to vote (and prevent me from doing so, as a NZ citizen). You can always cast a donkey vote 🙂

  4. I did see in the TV guides ABC will be airing AUstory and 4 Corners in it’s usual rerun time slots or was this a mistake they are yet to update the ABC online guides?

    I agree, SkyNews had the best coverage all day, followed but ABC24 but that’s to be expected being 24 hour news channels. I was surprised Ten had late night coverage and not just a new break to give us the latest.

  5. Could not believe in a historic night like this Channel Seven ran an episode of “Home and Away” and stayed with their reality programme. Shame. Short sighted. Will be interesting to see the ratings today, ABC coverage brilliant but I agree why 2 andf 24 the same?

  6. For me, Sky News won the night. Not just because of it’s rolling coverage, but it’s panel of great guests, interesting discussion and countless interviews. Far superior than just crossing to a ‘political editor’

    1. I don’t have Foxtel or anything, but was able to stream Sky News since it was embedded in the Herald Sun website.
      Cast it to my Google Cast and it worked perfectly all night.

    1. Just look at last nights ratings for the reason. 17.1% watched the coverage on ABC TV, while only 6.1% watched it on News 24. People turn to ABC TV when the big news breaks. (In WA, Mediawatch and Q&A screened on ABC TV), so that slighty adjusts the prime time figures.

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