i was just emailing with jen re: how her florida news is so unprofessional compared to nyc news. this has been a subject i’ve bitched about on the blog before. so with it in my mind and it being 6pm, i’m now going to recount the news in melb.
we’re watching ‘the national 9 news’ with
the top 3 stories which were promo’d and then each story is gone into in detail: (times are approximate, i tried to use the stopwatch on my phone but i wasn’t intensely focused on it)
(2 min ) the backpacker killer gets 28 years of no chance of parole.
(1 min ) design changes to the commonwealth games housing ups the cost of the whole thing by like $52 million
(2 min) rolling in money… the country’s treasurer announced the country has 11 1/2 billion dollars more than they expected (how in the world does that happen?!?) and he’s hinting that there will be tax cuts
( 1 min) about a pub in melbourne where last nite there was a fight outside which lead to a guy going to hospital with severe head injuries.
(1:30) court appearance of some guy who broke into this famous business guy’s house. the bad guy was caught after stabbing someone else on the street & was found to have 5 laptops in his backpack including some stolen from the biz guy’s house
( 1 min) a guy in some small town who has been charged for murdering his 3 kids. there was a car accident several months ago where the 3 kids died but the dad survived.
(30 seconds) an update on the race riots in sydney’s beach burbs
promo before a commercial of the stories to come (it’s now 18:11)
(30 sec) the mom of a convicted drug dealer who is in prison in bali tries to get copies of pix of her daughter from the police. it’s alleged there are pix of the daughter (who has always said she’s innocent) with a known drug dealer and obviously this is hurting the case which is being appealed. no one seems to have seen the pix but their existence is all over the news.
(1 min) coverage of bail application for 2 guys who were arrested last month on terrorist charges also covered some new details about the raids (when they were arrested)
(1:35) the govt is giving money to defense. new helicopters! new tanks!
(30 sec ) iraq election – including george
(30 sec if that) time for finance. on the screen they show 1 graphic which illustrates 6 aussie companies, their stock price at close and if they went up or down today. the same graphic shows the close of the ‘all ordinaries’ which is the aussie equiv of the dow jones or nasdaq.
change the slide to show the currency exchange rate (au vs usa, uk, eu and japan)
the announcer person doesn’t really talk about these. they voice the us dollar rate & said x company went up & x went down but there wasn’t any explaination
and you might notice that there is no business news at all.
(1 min) the 104 year old woman, violet, who’s pix will be on the side of melbourne trams advertising some company that does independant aged care (ie they stay in their home and she’s one of their clients). and violet is older than the tram system
promo before commercial. promo is all for sports (now 18:20)
(1:30) cricket. the ashes. the dates of games & that the stupid trophy will be brought to AU & ‘displayed to the public’
(1:30) cycling. some guy who was kicked out of the aussie team months ago has now returned to australia saying he def wants to ride for australia (when a few months back he left saying he’d go ride for another country. then that the dragons have a new uniform. i have no idea who they are but it looked like a basketball uniform. and that the melbourne guy who’s now on an NBA team met up with shaq in a game last nite.
(30 sec) men’s hockey. which is field hockey. and no, they don’t wear skirts. what a shame.
(15-30 sec) lotto results
promo for weather coming up (‘a cool change coming’) (now 18:26)
(1:30) time for weather. first a cloud map of the country. then highs in victoria (victoria is the state melbourne is in). map of rain across the country. weekly rain map for victoria. map of temps in victoria for 2nite. radar showing rain for tonite. temps for 2morrow in melb area. 7 day outlook for melb including direction fo wind, temp (high) and little icon showing sun or rain or cloud
and that’s it. it’s 18:30