The WA bulletin is already controlled from Canberra since they moved to the new studios, and would already be staffed to film late noodle updates anyway. Only costs would be from presenters, and make-up.
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Why couldn’t the WA bulletin be done through Perth, like how the Gold Coast bulletin is done through Brisbane?
Perth control room would be a little bit busy setting up for Perth news given 7 Regional WA finishes moments before Perth starts. Not to mention all of the updates and promos which need to be recorded from both news services. Canberra has the spare capacity at that hour to handle the Regional WA bulletin.
That said, I’m sure that if Seven had owned Prime/GWN at the time GWN moved out of the the old Bunbury studio, they would have considered centralising to Perth rather than Canberra, even if it meant putting an extra control room in Perth.
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Nine Brisbane seems to manage it just fine with the Gold Coast bulletin.
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Different circumstances but would it be much different to when Nine Perth and Adelaide had the 5pm news lead straight into the 6pm news? Or Prime7 News followed by the 6:30pm national news?
You’d of course have separate feeds for Perth and WA but could the WA News be read live from the Perth studio immediately before the 6pm news?
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Did they lose a light?
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Must’ve - lighting is much different from when the backdrop was introduced in 2022.
(They both look terrible)
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is it a screen or just a still image?
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Still image
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Thought it was BTQ that did back to back Gold Coast/Brisbane, not QTQ with its separate control rooms?
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Not sure. I always thought Bris/Gold Coast news were done from the same control room (hence how occassionally you’d see a split second of the Gold Coast news ending before the Brisbane news began).
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Both QTQ & BTQ do back to back bulletins for Gold Coast & Brisbane. QTQ’s second control room is used for Darwin news and NBN news (during daylight saving).
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QTQ had separate control rooms prior to the introduction of HD and the new set in 2017. Afterwards, the second control room was used for the regional bulletins, and is now used for NBN, and Darwin during summer.
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Wednesday (must’ve found the original backdrop image to use on the greenscreen, weather from WA):
Backdrop honestly looks even worse like this. So bright.
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I just wanted to clarify - aside from WA doing regional news at 5.30pm, is all other markets (QLD, NSW and VIC) doing the regional news at 6pm with that Seven News at 6.30?
I just wanted to know if any of those East Coast markets do news at 530 like WA.
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A few NSW markets get regional news at 6pm, then the 6.30 national bulletin, while others just get Seven Sydney’s 6pm news.
Albury get’s local news at 6pm, before an edited version of Seven News Melbourne at 6:30pm. They use to have local news at 5:30pm, when the bulletin was presented locally, however, this ended with the move to Canberra.
Regional QLD get’s local news at 6pm, before an edited version of Seven News Brisbane at 6:30pm.
Correct - Albury is the only Victorian market to have a local bulletin. Other markets relay 7 Melbourne, with local news updates as required.
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Ahhh cool. I was just wanting to confirm that there was no 530 ones. So the only interruption on the East Coast to the 7 metro schedule in some markets is between 6pm and 7pm.
Thanks
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I think the former Prime and GWN stations still carry additional overnight infomercials (presumably due to contractual obligations).