I could understand putting the Gold Coast as part of the North Coast’s “Today’s/Tomorrow’s Temperatures” section (since it’s probably a popular business or pleasure destination for NSW North Coast residents), but I agree that it’s an odd choice for it to be the main/only location used for the seven day forecast!
Since most of the full bulletin areas cover more than one main town, I personally think the weather segments of Prime7 Local News would benefit from including seven day forecasts for three key locations just like the weather segments on Nine/NBN - probably a more efficient use of airtime than going through the next three days across the viewing area as well.
And if you’re on the Gold Coast and wanted to watch news from a Seven affiliate multiplex, you have no choice but to go home early at 5.30 for local news on 7 or just settle for either the Sydney (for Prime) or Brisbane (for 7GC) news at 6.
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?
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.
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