You do know that there are plenty of places on the Southern Gold Coast that can also receive the Mt Nardi transmitter quite easily? Why wouldn’t you, especially to take advantage of daylight saving in the summer months?
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Perhaps proving that the Sports segments are recorded earlier than the news segments at Prime7, Liz Gwynn only presented the Sports segments on most of last night’s Prime7 Local News bulletins (except for the North West version which is probably done live) before going home sick.
Madelaine Collignon presented news in the Southern NSW regions (presumably before going off to another studio to present Prime7 News at 6.30pm), while Kurravi Piggott presented the local news for the North West/Coast + Sport for the North West.
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Makes sense to do local sport first as there’s less likely to be breaking sport news that needs to be included in that segment.
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On Wednesday night on NBN News Mid North Coast:
For comparison to the above, here’s Prime7 Local News’ rundown on the North Coast that same night, thanks to YouTube:
Segment 1
- William Tyrrell search at Kendall (Samantha Crowe) - includes cross to reporter at Port Macquarie Police Station
- A Casino woman sentenced to 2 years jail for faking cancer (Mitchell Sariovski) - includes cross to reporter from the Lismore bureau
- Man missing at Woodburn (Michael Sariovski)
- A former Taree obstetrician found guilty of professional misconduct - cross to Isabel Moussalli at Manning Hospital in Taree.
- Grafton political candidate (Skye Carle)
Segment 2
- A former SES regional controller calling for mandatory sentencing for emergency workers (Liz Penny)
- Coffs Harbour Jetty sculpture (RVO)
- Mid Coast Council to decide on whether to restrict holiday letting (RVO)
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I visited my in-laws in the Central West and saw a Prime 7 News advert with the “hosts” saying
“we care about the local region”
It appears the folks at Prime7 care about the local region as long as you aren’t in the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra or Wollongong/South Coast Regions
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Don’t forget most of Regional VIC (exc Albury/Wodonga) too.
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It should be
“We care about SOME of the local regions”
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touche’
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“We care about A SELECT FEW of the local regions”
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They care about the local region in which the promo is airing? Makes sense.
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So they don’t care about anywhere else in their viewing area??? I suppose it makes sense
Its obviously an argument for reviewing the rules on content of local significance in regional areas - I have always thought that the content rules should relate to specific programming of 10 minutes or more - eg Noodle News updates would for diddly squat. Minimum of 2 hours of local news (or 3 hours on secondary channels) or 4 hours on material of local significance (6 hours if broadcast on a secondary channel) or a mix of news and other content with main channel holding full value and secondary channels holding 2/3 of the time counted
They’re not producing a local bulletin in those areas, so obviously not.
But in the areas they are, I am sure all the reporters etc do care.
WA graphics are much the same. It’s a bummer they started using lists because the flyover animations finally look good. They glitched when fading to the next region for ages before this refresh.
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The “Local Weather” forecast is now just a single one for Prime7 Markets. Previously there were separate ones for Northern NSW, Southern NSW and Victoria:
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looks like they include Geelong in it now 
Saved some budget, perhaps.
Broken Hill is in it too, also not in Prime area
