ACMA and the Federal Government don’t actually care about any of this, as evident by their actions, or lack of, since aggregation. I’d say maybe noodle updates for the GTS/BKN region.
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Considering Seven are now paying for the journalist to cover Mildura, I’d expect the same for regional SA and BKN - noodle updates.
Possibly a silly question, but I’m presuming the Mildura journalist is actually on the ground and not a remote worker based in Melbourne or Watson?
Except, if it’s only noodle updates, then I dare Seven to produce the updates from Canberra. Present the updates from Canberra like the ex-Prime stations, we stop asking for a full bulletin.
Given they moved all the local journalists they had for updates to Canberra about a decade ago, I’d say it’s highly likely that they are based at Watson
Everything still exactly the same. Rescanned and all the same channels as last night including SBN and the shopping channels and the news is exactly the same including the ticker during the Chase giving the Melbourne headlines. On 7plus it’s also the Melbourne feed and news only available. With everything still being as it was I’d expect the bulletin will probably go on YouTube tonight as well as before.
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Surely sometime this month the bulletin will be rebranded to Seven News Tasmania?
I suppose Seven calling them out in their quote helps, they can’t pretend they didn’t know like they did with Mildura.
Seven will be continuing Tasmania’s one-hour, locally produced bulletin seven nights a week after the SXL acquisition. Seven will soon provide news updates in Spencer Gulf (Whyalla and Port Pirie, South Australia), Darwin and Broken Hill, alongside our updates in Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland and Mildura.
I was under the impression that for Darwin SCA used to make local updates anyway even though they weren’t required? I know with Spencer Gulf they just dropped it all when they dropped the 30 minute news (after strangling it by putting it on 7two). Did they stop the 7 Darwin stuff at the same time?
I do note again, with fear of the rabbit holes of the past, given Seven called out the Mt Isa license separate from the remote central one, Mt Isa TV1 is listed as a “non-aggregated regional” license area, not a remote one - https://www.acma.gov.au/local-content-regional-commercial-tv
So I suppose we can find out in 16 months time if that is true…
It took them nearly 6 months from the completion of the purchase of Prime to rebrand those to 7 News.
7 Central news updates were still airing last month and appeared to be full of news from Darwin so seems likely they still exist.
Can they get away with just continuing to air the 7 Central updates into Mount Isa? With an occasional reference to Mount Isa to keep ACMA happy?
Central and Mt Isa do not have local content requirements, even after a change of ownership.
Seemingly out of the goodness of their heart (?), SCA chose to make noodle updates for Central North (NT/QLD) AND Central South (NSW/VIC/TAS/SA/NI).
The map below was made when the current laws were originally being proposed, but it’s still accurate.
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What exactly is meant by WA Non-Remote? Does that mean the SSW, VEW and GTW areas which (I think) are still legally classed as separate stations despite all being part of the Regional WA market. I assume the same local content is shown across regional WA (no local news windows etc) so if this is what’s meant by non-remote, it’s a bit of an irrelevant suffix?
Of course, I’m likely totally wrong in my understanding of what non-remote means in this context. By the way, are there any split ad-breaks on the former GWN, or are the sane commercials shown across the licence area?
EDIT: I’ve just seen the map above and the areas i mentioned are coloured orange, so I guess I’m correct about the non-remote thing. I still don’t see how they can be separated from the licence areas as a whole though, if the same content goes goes out everywhere.
That’s correct. Seven WA (and 10 WA) is made up of separate station licence areas for the “Regional” areas covered by SSW, VEW and GTW, plus the “Remote” WA licence area for WAW (Western Zone TV1). Today, this is little more than a remnant of WA’s television expansion over the years.
WIN WA has a slightly separate licence area (Remote and Regional Western Australia TV1) which covers the entire state outside of Perth, with no distinction for the smaller “Regional” areas.
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It will happen, but expecting it to happen the day Seven took charge is stupid thinking.
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How about a relaunch and full 7News style coverage of the state election in a couple of weeks!
The relaunch we were meant to have for the election we weren’t meant to have.
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With more eyes on all of the networks, that would actually be a great opportunity for exposure.
But it might come down to the integration of Tasmania’s news into the wider 7News platform. Rebranding to 7News, but not having all of the election updates available on the 7News website or app, or a Tasmanian feed on 7Plus, would defeat the purpose rebranding around election time.
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The nature of the Tasmanian electoral system makes election night coverage not all that useful, you’ll have a “probably this” about 2 hours into the count, then we won’t know the final count until a few weeks later.
So while it feels like a big event, I think you’re really stalling for content if you do coverage other than just extended news updates.
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Yep, good old Hare-Clark so it’s all speculation on the night and with this one going to be particularly interesting it could very well be a few days before we even know who is likely to hold enough seats to try and form government first.
I’m wondering how long it will take 7 to change the advertisement at the the bottom of the daily TV listings in The Mercury now that Louise has left.
Lou’s final bulletin was three weeks ago and she continues to be featured in the ad. (Screenshot from Friday’s digital edition of the paper).
Possible they might be waiting for someone else to be appointed first?