But, there were more than a few people keeping an eagle eye on the launch of Nine's Canberra news bulletin on Monday night.

Canberra ABC-TV journo Siobhan Heanue was among those who pointed out that Nine news had a graphic which referred to the "Marxist" brothers rather than the "Marist" brothers in a story about child sex abuse.

And some pendants were also happy to point out that Sydney-based Nine newsreader Vanessa O'Hanlon crossed to reporter Harry Frost "in Canberra" when he was in Queanbeyan. Quelle horreur!

Perhaps more sobering for Nine was that it's first Canberra bulletin was trounced in the ratings by the incumbent WIN-TV news.

WIN-TV happily crowed that 22,910 viewers tuned into the all-local WIN News on Monday from 6pm to 6.30pm. By comparison, the Nine "Canberra" bulletin debuted with 11,355 viewers with its mix of local, national and international news, now fronted by O'Hanlon.

Nine actually lost viewers, with an average of 14,809 viewers tuning in between 6pm and 6.30pm in the previous two weeks.

The second half of Nine's hour-long bulletin had a commercial share of 22.9 per cent and a reached 15,270 viewers – 4529 fewer viewers than The Project on WIN.

But it wasn't all bad news.

We can thank the Nine bulletin on Monday night for a Sydney story that confirmed there is a Detective Chief Inspector Frank Gilroy working for the NSW Police, and no, it wasn't a typo.

Anyone who watched A Country Practice will recall Sergeant Frank Gilroy. We can only imagine the real-life Frank Gilroy is heartily sick of the Fatso the wombat jokes.