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.
All good over here so far.
I wonder if Prime has offered to the NFSA?
Four months after sacking their playout staff & outsourced to their competitors (MediaHub being owned by WIN & ABC) on the basis that not doing so was constraining Prime7, such as preventing them adding 7flix & HD for their main channel, still no sign of either of those.
SCA is adding 7HD in Tasmania today, but Prime7…nothing.
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Says a lot about how they care for us regional viewers
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I think they were just feeding us Frogshit, the sooner the reach rule is scrap the better…
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Anyone want to pump out some ads onto Prime?
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Tim Bailey might… He loves “pumping it out on Prime”, even when it’s the wrong network.
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I bet the Wollongong bunker were pleased when he said that! 
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