Channel Seven gives Nine a media blackout
Readers with good memories may remember how radio station 2UE blurred rival 2GB’s logo out of a picture on its website.
Well, it seems Channel Seven has taken a leaf out of Fairfax Radio’s books and done the same thing to its major rival, Channel Nine.
The media blackout happened in Melbourne during the rival network’s coverage of the Victorian Elections, when Nine’s reporter Seb Costello squeezed in front of his Seven rival to get a chat with victorious candidate and new Premier Daniel Andrews’ dad.
Now you see it: The Nine logo is clearly visible on its own coverage
Now you don’t: The Nine logo has mysteriously disappeared on the Channel Seven coverage
However, the Nine logo was then blurred out when the interview was used as the lead story on Seven’s Sunday night news bulletin.
Although if you look closely at the footage at the very end of this clip the Nine logo can still be seen on the back of the mic.
This morning a spokesman for Seven said: “A mistake was made in the production process.”
There’s nothing like manipulating news footage to build the trust of your audience.
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So what. They have both been doing this kind of thing for years, decades even. What suddenly makes it an interesting point now? It would be like Woolies masking a Coles logo on an in store image.
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Brendan. Just because somebody did or does, doesn’t mean it is okay. Sounding out the crooked results in a more transparent broadcast. On a wider viewpoint, it helps to better society. Digital footprints and social sharing and general awareness is highervthan ever before. Holding the crooks to account is spiking in broadcasting, politics and society. This should equal a far better society. Gooday.
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Good! Maybe it will stop idiot journos – radio ones in particular – getting their mics so far up the interviewee’s nose, simply to get their logo on camera for the TV news crews. I’ve seen radio guys do this when they don’t even have their recorder going…they are simply doing it to get the microphone in shot.
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JNK. Well said. Spot on. Radio journos get a pat on the back for getting the logos in and I know many an argument from the camera guys telling them to do a separate interview or move the mic as it is just to get logo on. Channel 9 and 7 are happy to do it to each other but the radio guys are children.
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While it doesn’t make it ok, it was a pool camera situation (one camera for all networks), so sticking a Nine mic in the middle of shot isn’t exactly the done thing either.
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I remember the good old days when sh*t like that was the norm!!!
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Mr TVguy, no pool camera was used in either of those shots. Nine and Seven had their own cameras to cover that particular shot.
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The “mistake in the production process” was forgetting to remove the Nine logo in the last few frames.
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The most amazing/amusing part of this is the comment “mistake in the production process”
I mean seriously, thats not even really trying is it?
#realreasonsforblackout
The nine mic has experienced an eclipse
James Packer was between the sun and the nine mic
The colour ran from the microphone shield.
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Offal,
As he’s long been gone from 9, he only way James Packer would get between the sun and the mic is if he was also standing over a cowering Gynge at that moment.
Packer v Gynge… now that was the BEST story of the year (pardon my WATERMARK)
🙂
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