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Oops. Nine News skips the weather.

“Unfortunately we’ve had some major technical problems, so Amber won’t be able to bring you the weather tonight.”

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Nine News Sydney last night went without a weather report after presenter Peter Overton told viewers they were having “major technical problems.”

But weather presenter Amber Sherlock was seen ready and waiting in a closing wide shot.

A spokesperson told Mumbrella, “Last night’s bulletin experienced technical difficulties which meant we were unable to present the weather”.

Last year Nine News experienced several technical problems with its playout, which have been attributed to automated studio control system mosart.

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  1. No, no “major technical problems”. Overheard in the TCN9 studio someone saying “but Peter, I told you two hours ago to change your tie. We’re both wearing purple. There’s another one hanging on the Control Room door. We can’t both be wearing purple. Yes it is an issue, and I told you two hours ago”. Guess purple tie won.

  2. Surely they could’ve at least presented some weather details for tomorrow without all those fancy graphics and all. What ever happened to when they used to presenters actually drawing the weather on a map with a clear piece of glass or reading the forecast out today’s newspaper?. At last resort, just stick you head out the window of the studios and determine if it’ll rain tomorrow. Any one can do that.

  5. Don’t see Overton in regional NSW anymore. Been replaced by a 1970s style fixed backdrop “regional” Nine News, much of which is ‘parish pump’ items purporting to be “local” albiet imported from 500km away. Is the playout of this junk from Sydney to the regions causing Nine Sydney to burst at the seams? Relying on autocue and robots alone is ridiculous. Whatever happened to a hard copy of everything for when (not “if” but “when”) everything dies…again? Too hard to read the weather from a piece of paper?

  6. Surely Amber could have basically ad libbed a short and sharp synopsis of tomorrow’s weather without all the fancy graphics ? She would have been able to do that wouldn’t she…That’s really all 99 per cent of bods want to know…and not to have done this is pretty stupid Nine. I’ll bet Peter Overton has a single page typed weather outlook at the end of his script from now on.

  7. @poida and secret. Do you have a smart phone ? Look it up… the weather segment for a large part of the viewing audience is redundant.. I’m sure you will cope.

    1. Of course I can find out what the weather was/will be. I’ve got widgets. I can also look up the news too so according to you that’s redundant as well. Lots of people rely on the the nightly weather report otherwise all the networks wouldn’t bother with it and would just use the time for more fluff news or promos.

      You’ve either missed or deliberately misunderstood the point of my comment. This isn’t about me personally. This is about Nine failing to provide a simple service due to over-reliance on automation, obviously with no back-up plan. It’s unprofessional.

  8. got to love all these comments. If you wanted to know the weather you could look outside? check the internet or your phone apps? How many times has this happened now wit that self run studio? This is what happens when you choose machines over actual people to crew a program. Its a sad state of affairs.

  14. We thought when watching that there was no reason Peter could not have read out something… surely 100% reliance is not on the automated systems and they have a back up in case of failure? No different to making a presentation in front of clients or suppliers – you have a back up not limited to printouts should your computer, phone or any other electronic device containing your work fails…

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