People are also capable of changing the channel if they want to watch the news right on 6pm.
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No. The Cricket is more important.
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Do you have to keep going on about it? We get it and most of us disagree anyway.
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Sport in general is never more important then the news of the day.
Seven News started at 6.20pm AEDT in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.
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I’m not a fan of sport in general but I still have to disagree. Major sport events in Australia like Test Match Cricket or Australian Open Tennis take priority over a news bulletin.
If a cricket match runs 15 or 30 mins over for whatever reason, it’s no big deal. More viewers would want to see the end. Anyway, you have that massive captive audience who will then watch the news bulletin that follows so no loss there.
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I’m guessing the bulletins in VIC/NSW/TAS will run 20 minutes overtime?
Hopefully but as it’s Saturday they may just cut the news short by 20 minutes as to not to mess up the schedule for the whole night.
oh christ, this discussion again. 
god forbid the news is delayed by 20 minutes - its the weekend, the news can wait. and if you want to watch the news, go to another network, or go to their website
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With multi channels people should not have to wait. That’s my whole point.
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and with the Seven News website, they don’t have to wait.
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Simple solution. Put the news live on 7mate and put it on a 20 minute delay on 7 when the cricket ends. Everyone wins- cricket viewers aren’t interrupted and people who want to watch the news at 6pm and either can’t wait 20 minutes or switch to Nine get to watch the news as well.
I can’t see too many people being upset at missing out on an episode of ‘Last Stop Garage’.
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Plenty of times the sport is the news of the day
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It shouldn’t be in vast majority of situations.
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News going past 7pm.
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is there even a big audience for news on a saturday night? also, you have to remember - Seven is a COMMERCIAL entity, they’re not a public service broadcaster. they have no obligation to even have provided the news tonight - they could’ve cancelled it in favour of the cricket. Seven is simply delaying the news to keep viewers, and to hopefully get MORE viewers for said news product and their primetime schedules. I’d bet you that if they moved the cricket to a multichannel, it would’ve harmed their primetime schedules, and the news in terms of amount of viewers.
there’s PLENTY of choice for the news these days, rolling news channels, websites, news on the radio, or from other broadcasters.
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25 replies later and I thought we had some developments on the new Eveleigh studio or something 
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There’s no uproar on the Seven Network - Programs and Schedules topic that the movie “A Dog’s Journey” started 20 minutes late in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart? Yet there’s outrage in here that the news started late 
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Don’t think showing delayed news on main channel is a good idea.
You’ve got to think about ratings too. News would maintain a bigger audience considering 7 only had a movie on tonight.
I was wondering why A Dog’s Way Home was going past 9:15pm on 7Plus, then checked the TV EPG and it said “9:37pm” finish. I initially thought programming/scheduling mistake, then realised the cricket must’ve gone over and news wasn’t shortened (seeing that it said the movie didn’t commence until “7:21pm”).
Nice to see though their EPG wasn’t just updated live for the start, but also for the indicative end.
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