I don’t think that would happen, Seven News seems to be holding up better in regional areas
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Given WIN has been doing it for years now, i think its inevitable
Why do you think they would do that?
5.30 is a graveyard for local news. Seven is extremely strong at 6PM in RQLD and NSW. They wouldn’t move them.
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In 1996 when the then Prime stations tried Local News at 5:30, Prime had a Seven News bulletin at 5pm. Both bombed and Local News resumed at 6pm.
We now have afternoon news bulletins on all 3 main commercial channels, this is another reason why i think there will be a time where the cost might outweigh the benefit with traditional television viewership declining.
The execs will use the reasoning that the bulletins will be made available on 7Plus
Exactly - they command a very high share in some markets at 6pm in QLD - if it ain’t broke…
Fair point, but I dont think that time is now.
If anything, the 6.30 NSW bulletin would be the first to go and follow a similar slimmed down metro bulletin like RQLD.
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I wouldn’t go messing with what is the number one program in the majority of regional markets almost every night.
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Although i agree with the ideology of it, long term i doubt that they will keep the 6pm local news unless they revert back to a half hour bulletin with a Today Tonight style program filling the second half hour in metro and non-local news regions with an encore late (like Ten does with The Project).
Changes to the 6pm til 7pm schedule in metro markets isnt beyond the realms of possibility especially if Seven launches a morning show style program sometime after the midday news each day.
I’d think you have Seven Local News as it currently is, or they axe in markets down to the updates only.
I don’t think there’s a single market that Seven are in for local news that they don’t win, maybe aside from close run contests against NBN in places - which almost certainly justifies producing the bespoke 6:30 news rather than delayed cut down 7 News Sydney.
If for some reason they were dumb enough to change, Home and Away at 5:30 and local news at 7pm would make more sense. Local News needs to be where there’s the biggest possible audience.
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Night and day difference between the real backdrop and green screen.
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two different styles of the logo too, which is a bit strange.
Why haven’t they every brought this in for Qld too? Have a 6.30 bulletin produced from the Sunshine Coast for the state/national news.
Two likely reasons:
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Was mentioned here that apparently (and not sure if this is still the case), that despite being owned by Seven for many years, STQ only have access to whatever is on the BTQ server, so for national stuff (i.e. federal politics, etc) BTQ have to upload it onto their server for STQ to get it.
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Since the switch off is minimal, and given their very high ratings share, might be viewed as a “if it ain’t broke, why mess with the winning formula” type thing by both Seven and the local newsroom
it’s 2025, I am sure they could sort that out. Plus BTQ would have any national/world stories relevant to Qld. So that’d be either a non issue or easy to solve.
True… Obviously I don’t live in North Queensland just would imagine people would rather something live and relevant over something delayed and Brisbane focused.
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I stand corrected 
Got to see the 30 min edited Melbourne bulletin whilst in Albury tonight.
At around 6.45pm, the first block is aborted at the end of a report, there is no “coming up” outro, an animated 7 logo appears at the end of that report, then it’s ads, and then Bec Maddern appeared on screen with the sport news with no handover/intro from Peter.
From there it looks to be the Melbourne bulletin unaltered.
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Because the regional Queensland stations were not owned by prime television before hand. Those stations were branded sunshine television before the seven network bought those stations. Different ownership back then. Now both sunshine and prime tv and some SCA stations are now owned by the seven network.