The Great Debate…
Sunday October 21st was the day where John Howard and Kevin Rudd went head to head in the first and most likely last election debate. The debate was shown live on the ABC, Nine Network and Sky News on Foxtel. In an exceptional situation, Nine’s feed was cut by the National Press Club and then there back-up feed was also disconnected as the press club did not want Nine to show ‘the worm’ during the telecast.
Nine’s coverage was hosted by Ray Martin who explained later on that the network then had to resort to taking the live feed from Sky News to continue the telecast. Below is a video I put on YouTube showing when the feed was cut and switched to Sky News, also notice the delayed reaction of the 60 Minutes watermark to return.
Also you will see below that the Sky News graphics were visible at times…
Now back to the debate… It was hosted by David Speers from Sky News who was also joined by a panel of five journalists to ask the questions, which included the Nine Networks Laurie Oaks.
At the end of Nine’s telecast Ray invited viewers to participate in a phone poll, and when this was shown it just reminded me of people voting on Big Brother and I wasn’t the only one who thought this. On Triple M’s Get This with Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee they had Ray reading out the numbers with the Big Brother theme playing in the background which I thought was hilarious.
Results were shown on A Current Affair…
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