Throng

ONE News:

1. Armed robbery at Westgate (Breaking news, Kim Vinnell by phone)
2. Child support system overhaul (Live cross, Jessica Mutch)
3. Legal aid costs (Heather du Plessis-Allan)
4. Westin Hotel problems (Garth Bray)
5. Middle East peace deal (Tim Wilson)

3 News:

1. Rugby World Cup promotion in Australia (Exclusive, Amanda Gillies)
2. Rugby World Cup - motel response (Simon Shepherd)
3. Warren Jenkins drink driving conviction (Melissa Davies)
4. Chlld support system overhaul (Dan Parker)
5. New dog law

Commentary:

ONE News had the breaking news (with an update at about 6:30pm) but it wasn't mentioned on 3 News (as of posting this at 6:40pm).

ONE News:

1. South Canterbury Finance fallout (Garth Bray)
2. Hubbard statement (Live cross, Lisa Davies)
3. Plane crash in Papua New Guinea
4. Qantas jet fire (Krissy Moreau)
5. Drugs bust in Wellington

3 News:

1. Drugs bust in Wellington (Emma Joliff)
2. Westin Hotel shuts rooms, cuts jobs (Live cross, Adam Ray)
3. Boat on fire in Cook Strait
4. Plane crash in Papua New Guinea (Amanda Gillies)
5. Asylum seeker protest

Commentary:

ONE News:

1. Government bailout of South Canterbury Finance (Live cross, Guyon Espiner)
2. Collapse fallout (Live cross, Lisa Davies)
3. Economy reaction (Nadine Chalmers-Ross)
4. 20,000 construction jobs at risk
5. James Webster - parent interviews/John Banks' son (Exclusive, Mark Crysell)

3 News:

1. Government bailout of South Canterbury Finance (Live cross, Duncan Garner)
2. Collapse fallout (Live cross, Jeff Hampton)
3. Farewelling Lucas (Ingrid Hipkiss)
4. Top five stolen cars
5. Truck with beehives crashes

Commentary:

Lisa Davies was quite emotive in her description: "overwhelming sense of sadness in Timaru here today... tonight, this is a town in mourning".

ONE News:

1. South Canterbury Finance - John Key's comments (Live cross, Guyon Espiner)
2. South Canterbury Finance's future (Live cross, Lisa Davies)
3. Sentencing of Don Wilkinson's killers (Amy Kelley)
4. Secondary school teachers to strike (Renee Graham)
5. Radiographers' strike

3 News:

1. South Canterbury Finance - John Key's comments (Live cross, Duncan Garner)
2. South Canterbury Finance's future (Live cross, Jeff Hampton)
3. Sentencing of Don Wilkinson's killers (Jane Luscombe)
4. Cricket match-fixing scandal update (Kim Chisnell)
5. Cricket match-fixing scandal - Australia (Live cross, Amanda Gillies)

Commentary:

ONE News:

1. Bill English on the economy (Guyon Espiner/Q+A)
2. South Canterbury Finance deal (Tom McRae/Q+A)
3. Suspicious campervan fire
4. Lucas Ward confirmed as drowned
5. Anorexia treatment (Exclusive, Kim Vinnell)

3 News:

1. Cricket match-fixing scandal (ITV/News of the World)
2. Cricket match-fixing scandal - NZ response (Ingrid Hipkiss)
3. South Canterbury Finance deal (Simon Shepherd/Q+A)
4. Police pursuit witness interviews (Exclusive, Juliet Speedy)
5. Newmarket viaduct (Jane Luscombe)

Commentary:

For me, the two cricket stories should fall in the sports section of the bulletin. ONE News also covered the story, but not in the first segment.

ONE News:

1. Pharmacy owner Grant Gillard interview (Live cross, Kim Vinnell)
2. Hubbard's company South Canterbury Finance in trouble (Heather du Plessis-Allan)
3. Police pursuits (Tom McRae)
4. Manukau extension opened (Jemma Taylor)
5. Hospital strikes

3 News:

1. Pharmacy owner Grant Gillard interview (Jane Luscombe)
2. Parole hearings - Simon Power (Simon Shepherd via The Nation)
3. Police pursuits (Juliet Speedy)
4. Tauranga march against cuts to early childhood education funding (Emma Joliff)
5. Hospital strikes (Tim Lamborne)

Commentary:

"The pharmacist involved in a fatal struggle with an intruder has given 3 News his first television interview since the incident..."

ONE News:

1. Couple killed by speeding driver (Live cross, Tom McRae)
2. Police pursuits (Heather du Plessis-Allan)
3. Hubbard management funds (Live in studio, Nadine Chalmers-Ross)
4. Hubbard investors' responses (Lisa Davies)
5. Pharmacist sentenced for supplying pills for P (Donna Marie-Lever)

3 News:

1. Couple killed by speeding driver (Live cross, Jeff Hampton)
2. Police pursuits (Live cross, Michael Morrah)
3. Feilding service (Live cross, Janika Ter Ellen)
4. Lisa Dolan - injured passenger (Exclusive, Adam Ray)
5. Hubbard management funds

Commentary:

Very similar coverage in the first two stories tonight.  ONE News had a lot more on Hubbard - I guess because their audience is made up of more investors than those of 3 News. 

ONE News:

1. War medal thief James Kapa - sentencing (Live cross, Jack Tame)
2. Marie Jamieson link - James Kapa (Exclusive, Melissa Stokes)
3. Lucas Ward's body found (Michael Parkin)
4. Swine flu deaths up to 15
5. Heather Roy and Rodney Hide make up (Jessica Mutch)

3 News:

1. Lucas Ward's body found (Ingrid Hipkiss)
2. James Kapa sentenced (Michael Morrah)
3. Heather Roy and Ridney Hide make up (Live cross, Rebecca Wright)
4. Air NZ profit (Simon Shepherd)
5. British spy found dead (Live cross, Kim Chisnell)

Commentary: