eNews Direct Weekend Broacasts From the Weather Center

So this past weekend was the first weekend of eNews Direct Weekend being broadcast. Considering how the weekday counterpart uses a new, bigger studio as well as shots from the Johannesburg newsroom, it was going to be interesting to see how the weekend edition of the shoow, which is broadcast from Cape Town, would be done.

This past weekend was Amy McIver's turn to anchor and she did the bulletin entirely from a standing screen. The screen looked familiar to me and then I realised that it is the screen used to do the weather bulletins.

Yes, the news bulletin that aims to take you to the 'heart of the newsroom' is broadcast from the weather center.

 It was going to be interesting to see what the weekend edition looks like considering the setup at the Cape Town bureau is different to that of the Johannesburg one and is not exactly accomodating to the roving the newsroom format. [This is probably why the rumour that the weekend editions would also be done from Johannesburg studio started].

This format seemed awkward as well, it seemed more like just a normal news bulletin done standing up for no reason at all. There seemed to be little movement among the anchors and really just seemed like a low budget bulletin.


It reminded me of eNCA's News Night in the earlier years when the anchors would do the headlines from the big screen then move elsewhere for the rest of the bulletin.

On a side note, the eNews Early Edition branding has also finally been retired after all these years. The weekend edition previously survived when the weekday edition was replaced by the since then cancelled Sotho bulletin. However, it is now completely replaced by a short segment referred to as eNews Direct Headlines.