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ABC has video content producers in 55 cities. They should be producing 15 minute local news for all 55 markets to drop on iView every day at 5pm, searchable by setting iView to your local postcode
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… the ABC used to produce local/regional news bulletins … they stopped doing so around the mid-seventies …
Yes. They were 5 mins bulletins, except for Townsville and Rockhampton that had their own integrated 30 mins news. A bit more here: History of the ABC in North Queensland
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… which we used to record at 1820 edited on the end of Bellbird … here’s one being recorded in 1972 …
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what are these teams actually doing?
I would assume radio and online content.
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… well … it started out as a silly idea from Mark Scott and was called “ABC Open” … millions of dollars were spent buying television production equipment, vehicles and hiring staff (who were paid a good deal more than the local radio staff) … once Scott was prised out the whole thing was quietly closed down, but all the gear still sat out there … so someone had the bright idea that regional ABC was no longer about providing a service for local listeners, but a means of providing content for that other Mark Scott extravagance - the 24-hour news channel … so that’s what they do …
so they are already covering local news or items of local interest for TV/online content?
Off-topic, but I would not call the news channel an “extravagance”. I think it’s been absolutely essential.
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… oh I would not disagree with you on that count … but it was an “extravagance” because it was rushed, poorly planned, unbudgeted and unfunded and resulted in tens of millions of dollars being pillaged from every other ABC department to pay for its establishment and ongoing costs …
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So nothing out of the ordinary then
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The ABC regional pages on Facebook all have local video, some more than others, and it is sporadic.
Every local news station in America has either a dedicated news website and/or app that features local news, sport and weather along with full bulletin replays. They seem to understand television is moving digital.
IMO if regional news providers in Australia want to stay alive and relevant they need to move with the times instead of relying on old formats that are becoming outdated.
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fully agree 10o%
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Technically, television has been fully digital for almost a decade now.
But I certainly get where you’re coming from. The regional networks need to have half decent websites and/or apps (the national/metro networks - with the exception of Ten - seem to understand this) in addition to their existing social media and on-air presences if they’re to survive in the long run.
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WIN is totally dead in the water then.
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they have been esp in the news area since they got rid of Dennis Walter and stoped win news being live in Ballarat and moved everything to Wollongong
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Here seems to be as good a place as any:
Dubbo Regional Council have launched their own news service - via YouTube. From what I’ve heard, they’ve struggled to get the local TV news to come to media calls so they’ve started live streaming and now this
Looking forward to the inevitable cries of upset from the local media
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Interesting. Seems like a professional and well resourced product. How often will it be produced? weekly?
My only concern is that it’s quite long - while it’s only the length of a 30 minute bulletin, that’s a long time to watch something online, especially when you may not be interest in every item.
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i wonder if this is something other councils or local coumminty papers could do as well
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… welcome to the future of localism in regional Oz …
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