Prime seem to be the winner with regional viewers who wanted to see a professionally presented familiar bulletin from Sydney having little choice at 6pm now. Anyone who wanted local news was already watching WIN.
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Arrived, yay 
Each TV channel says “South Coast” (Prime7, Nine & WIN).
So the regional networks have seperate transmissions for both Wollongong (Illawarra) & South Coast?
Yeah, there are separate Wollongong/Illawarra and South Coast feeds of the commercial channels primarily for advertising purposes.
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Prime7’s network PRG & in-program graphics look really amateur 
During “Bride and Prejudice”:
•Seven (metro) PRG aired overlapping of the Prime7 watermark (was that a technical error or the norm?)
•Bride and Prejudice ‘special night’ watermark promo aired with the “>” pointing to nothing, also overlapping the Prime7 watermark
•Generic pop-up in-program graphics (you know, the coloured ones with a photo in the bottom left) aired, with a terrible font & in capitals (e.g.) Kochie & Sam / Sunrise.
Aside from local program variations and those “Promo/Ident” things, I’m pretty sure that Prime7 and GWN7 mainly just use Seven Network promos for the most part.
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According to their Twitter page, Seven News Sydney on Prime7 wins the 6pm ratings in Wollongong/South Coast ahead of WIN News & Nine News Illawarra for the 2nd week, with an increase of their audience from the previous week.
Source: https://twitter.com/prime7tv/status/835358274090196993
any more news on getting prime7hd or gwn7 hd?
Probably when we get 7Flix, so I wont hold my breath?
Are we safe to say Prime7’s logo is now completely red, and have dropped the orange gradient?
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In case you may be interested, today is GWN’s 50th birthday. It began as South Western Telecasters operating a single station BTW-3 in Bunbury in south west WA, before expanding to other parts of the state incorporating VEW-8 Kalgoorlie, GTW-11 Geraldton and relays GSW-9 Mount Barker, GSW-10 Albany and VEW-3 Kambalda. Jack Bendat purchased South West Telecasters in 1979 and renamed it as GWN.
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Here are some caps from GWN7 News last night. They had a report on the 50th, but not before a Save Our Voices report. Looking at the YouTube uploads, it appears they’ve had a few special reports throughout the week on earlier bulletins as well.
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One week after Prime7 Tamworth celebrated their 50th birthday in April 2015, the network gave the station and the local community a very special birthday present: Moving the production/presentation of the local news to Canberra.
Hopefully something similar (or worse, the axing of the local news) doesn’t happen to GWN7.
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God damn. What is that set! We have a new winner!
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Their reports throughout the week have been great. They even used caps from @Bergoine , Tntnbltnn and myself! They mustn’t have archived much of their work since presentation moved to Canberra.
I was at the GWN studios in Bunbury a couple of years ago and weather presenter Shauna Willis was saying that they have a fair bit in the archives but it would be expensive to digitize it all. I spoke to her again during the week and she said former weatherman Chris Mills kept a lot of stuff on VHS which they used on air.
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Ah, Chris Mills. I was at a Queen’s Cup school eisteddfod in Collie when I was in primary school and he was the MC. At the end, my mum went up to him and said, “why do you always get the weather wrong?”
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Prime has copped a caning on social media tonight. It seems they’re having issues with ad playout. Anyone know if this is restricted to one market or across several?
Seems to have been during MKR. No issues in Canberra that I noticed.