This is the plan, from what I’ve heard from sources. I’m also hearing a couple of Gold Coast reporters will be making the move to BTQ to replace a couple of outgoing reporters, who have been snapped up by the new LNP Government.
A skeleton crew will remain on the GC, with several reporters and camera crews finishing up with 7 tomorrow.
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Who from Brisbane is leaving and who from the gc is moving to Brisbane?
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He’s had plenty of presenting gigs before and none have stuck.
Out in the field is his place.
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I can expect viewers on the GC won’t be too happy with this and will be making the move to Nine Gold Coast News once 7NEWS shuts up shop.
From 22nd November 2024, 7NEWS will cover Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Rockhampton, Mackay, Toowoomba and Wide Bay.
you’re making it sound like they won’t cover the GC even though they’re literally keeping a bureau there.
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NBN had a fully staffed newsroom at Bilinga (around the corner from GC Airport) in around 2005-2006 that was shutdown eventually. I presume he’s talking about this.
It TV terms it leaves the GC with Nine full local newsroom and bureaus for Seven, Ten, ABC and Sky News so still pretty well covered.
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Look at Lester, he’s best anchoring in the field. That sort of on the scene anchoring that very few are good at.
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Betrayal, shock: How 7’s secret weapon crumbled before our eyes
It was meant to be Channel 7’s secret weapon in Queensland’s ratings war. Now staff have been axed on three-days’ notice as insiders claim Gold Coast was destined to fail from the outset.
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Several cuts in Brisbane this year, starting with Kendall Gilding in January. Has any other newsroom faced as many under De Ceglie?
I don’t think that is fair. They had high-profile presenters Rod Young and Paul Burt and offered a point of difference with local weekend news. No doubt they were up against it, but I think they were putting to air a decent product.
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IIRC Melbourne also had a fair few cuts - Brisbane would’ve had more jobs to cut since it is a larger operation with the Gold Coast.
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Speaking exclusively to The Courier-Mail, insiders have told of a “domino effect” where a series of ripples eventually gave way to a flood which brought the whole thing crashing down.
“If you win 5.30pm (Gold Coast News) you win 6pm”, was the battle cry of one former station exec who long viewed the Glitter Strip bulletin as an important stepping stone to lure viewers who would (in theory) stay with the station through to the all-important statewide bulletin.
However, over almost a decade of rivalry with Nine, Seven’s Gold Coast bulletin rarely came out on top.
But with the curtain falling on the careers of several high-profile Seven executives – some of them passionate supporters of the Gold Coast news bulletin, there were no longer any influential figures to advocate for the GC in the corridors of power at network HQ.
“In the end there was no one left at head office to support the Gold Coast news,” said one insider familiar with Seven’s management.
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Adelaide has had a few too, cameramen and at least one reporter and I think some producers too.
I do remember they won the 2019 ratings season (as did 7NEWS Brisbane as a whole), but they were always going to be on the back foot from the get-go with Nine’s GC bulletin having had a two-decade head start on them.
Seven News Brisbane won 2019 ratings survey by about 7,000. They also won the calendar year.
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Sally says farewell. Thanks co-anchors and viewers. “Hopefully I continue my TV career”.
With time counting down looks like there won’t be a farewell montage.
Farewells only, no flowers - Steve says he will see everyone next week from the " the coast and our SEQ studios From all of us - bye for now."
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How disappointing
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So this is the 2nd time Seven have axed their Gold Coast bulletin (the first time was in 1999 I think, and that lasted just 18 months). At least it lasted longer this time!.
I suspect given a declining free to air sector, there won’t be a 3rd coming.
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