[quote=“ando9185, post:862, topic:214, full:true”]I was out of the room when the dead air happened and I thought my 2 year old had turned down the volume on the remote but the shot with her holding the paper in the air was a classic.[/quote]Haha! Yes, I reckon Community TV would give them a run for their money at the moment! So damn embarrassing. Talk about amateur-hour…too bad it actually wasn’t an hour.
[quote=“ando9185, post:862, topic:214, full:true”]I was hoping we might catch something from the microphones through the closer if they were a bit slow turning those off. Would have been interesting in there straight after I reckon! I don’t remember this many issues prior to the changeover so why the sudden increase? I would have thought a few changed graphics and different people filing different reports (ie now Channel Ten rather than Nine) and that would be it.[/quote]That would’ve been a classic if that had occurred! No, there were rarely any errors prior to the switchover. No idea why we’re seeing so many all of a sudden (going 30 minutes earlier playing some havoc? ).
Surprisingly, Southern Cross weekends is usually the one for technical issues or my pet hate, spelling/grammar errors. They’ve also done the late switch off of the microphones a few times.
Personally, I’d like to see Ten’s brilliant promo makers produce some promos for their own news service before they even think of doing promos for WIN News!
[quote=“nationalnews, post:874, topic:214, full:true”]Meteorologist Hannah McEwan will be back from maternity leave as of Monday August 1.[/quote]Interesting to see if her weather segment returns to the Tassie bulletin or they continue to be read by the main presenter - which has been the case since she went on leave.
Speaking of the Tassie bulletin, I can’t believe WIN still hasn’t fixed the positioning of their giant ‘block’. You can still see Ten’s “First at 5 and tenplay.com.au” graphic animating back and forth (as it does) under WIN’s “First at 5.30” part of the graphic. Surely that’s not a hard thing to adjust the bug a little.
The Illawarra Mercury is reporting Prime7 won the 6pm news battle in Wollongong last week.
It’ll be interesting to see if this success motivates Prime to take advantage of the fallout from the affiliation swap by increasing local news output. Surely it would be in their interest to at least emulate Southern Cross’s plan to beef up local news in broadcast areas where they traditionally haven’t had success now that WIN has a less desirable affiliation partner.
Andrew Lancaster, CEO of WIN has his head In the sand.
In Wollongong - WIN’s hometown and traditionally strongest market - Prime7 is now winning the 6pm slot with a relay of Sydney news with ratings much much higher - while WIN’s local news falls behind.
He says he is “unfazed”
This is WiN. Arrogant and stubborn to a point of stupidity. Andrew listen to what the viewers want - they want a slick live news at 6 with state and national news - not the hokey small town format you’re dishing up from the 80s
WIN needs to evolve the format of their 6pm news or it will die.
As much as I’d prefer to defend the “traditional” 22 minute (excluding ads) local news bulletins, it’s getting harder and harder for regional networks to continue running local news in that format especially when the content of a typical local news bulletin on Australian regional TV in 2016 usually consists of 10 minutes of important, relevant local content with local newspaper-level news and fillers from other regions generally making up the rest.
Others will probably disagree, but WIN News (and the news services of other regional networks for that matter) need to adopt a composite format with local/state/national/international content if they’re to survive in the long run IMO. If Seven and Nine can fill an hour long bulletin such content, if NBN can, if the Tasmanian networks (including WIN!) can, then surely it wouldn’t be hard for WIN to produce an hour long bulletin for regional QLD, Southern NSW/ACT and Victoria? If the production standards were right and the content consisted of the most relevant local/state/national/international news of the day, then I’m sure that viewers would support and enjoy such a service!
[quote=“nationalnews, post:874, topic:214, full:true”]Meteorologist Hannah McEwan will be back from maternity leave as of Monday August 1.[/quote]Interesting to see if her weather segment returns to the Tassie bulletin or they continue to be read by the main presenter - which has been the case since she went on leave.[/quote]And the answer to this question is a no (I really love quoting myself!).
Looks like Hannah will no longer be seen on the Tasmanian bulletin again. RIP “WIN’s Weather Centre” as Pete Hughes used to say when crossing to her.
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