as I said before and will say again ACMA should have thought of that back in 1956, had this scenario happened back then GMV6 would have been a relay station of AMV4 (but wasn’t in the end).
Shepparton gets mentioned in the 7NEWS Border (Albury-Wodonga) weather forecast at the end of their 30-min bulletins, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Seven came out and announced that Shepparton would be integrated into the Albury-Wodonga coverage area for local news, which would mean Shepparton would no longer get the full hour of 7NEWS from Melbourne. Ads would remain the same, it would just be Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley receiving news from the NSW/VIC Border.
Noel moved to Canberra?
Could explain why he took that time off in July.
As of yesterday Noel is still presenting from Bunbury.
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Some of the station clusters in southern NSW and Victoria never made sense to me. As an example to me, MTN9 should have been paired with RVN2 instead of CBN8/CWN6 and AMV4 should have been paired with GMV6, with BTV6 and STV8 together and BCV8 and GLV8. All these would have kept consistent pairings of 2.
It’s all a very “what if” scenario but it was a very different time in broadcasting. Some stations wanted to go it “alone” and didn’t see any value in merging or taking over underperforming stations in a “network” arrangement or saw little value in partnerships. A lot of communities with their own tv station didn’t have anywhere near the population levels of today.
RVN2 did pair with AMV4 which are adjacent markets which I understand apart from a period in 1987 each had their own local news services.
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Do we have confirmation where GWN news comes from?
We seem to have members contradicting one another.
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Only way to work out is it one of our WA members took a drive to Bunbury to look inside the office windows.
For goodness sake. You can clearly tell that the news still comes from Bunbury.
Black desk compared to white in Canberra. Washed out background compared to crisp green screen in Canberra. Horrible dial up camera compared to crisp and clean in Canberra.
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I think the issue is different interpretations of the exact meaning of “where it’s from” and not necessarily total contradictions.
Where it’s presented from, ie. where Noel sits to talk into the camera = Bunbury
Where it’s controlled from, ie. where the control room is with staff running the graphics, playing out packages, counting Noel in etc = Canberra
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Camera: What can I do for you?
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Facebook videos uploaded only hours ago confirm that it’s still coming from the same space… Perhaps only control of the bulletin is from Canberra now? (If it were done locally in Bunbury before?)
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People shouldn’t be posting things as fact when they are clearly not, especially without anything to back it up.
Blind Freddy can tell it is still coming from the Bunbury studio/office.
It makes no sense to have to GWN presented out of Canberra. Control, sure, especially being that it is ex-Prime, but presentation? Come on. Noel has his own restaurant in Bunbury, and as someone else pointed it, isn’t far off retiring. He’s unlikely to move just for the news.
Reading the news from over east permanently is a sure way to get viewers to turn off. If they ever go full Canberra then they might as well just throw in the towel and put something else on at 5:30pm.
The long term plan after Noel retires should be to have GWN News come out of TVW, otherwise just give it up.
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Been controlled from Canberra since they moved studios in 2018.
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I think we now have confirmation. Thanks guys.
Presentation (set/studio/presenter) is still locally made in Bunbury.
Control room operations based in Canberra.
So nothing has changed since 2018.
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Except they’ve apparently went from satellite links to IP to control the cameras, etc a couple years ago.
Find it extremely odd that two users “confirmed” something has changed whereas nothing seemingly has…
Well one of them is a first time poster so there’s no real evidence or proof that they’re in the know.
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In that case, just relay the Perth schedule into Regional WA. Seven Afternoon News from Perth would be extended til 5pm there, and The Chase Australia would be seen at 5pm before Perth’s news at 6pm.
Besides, most of the regional ads aired on the 7 Regional WA feed come not from Bunbury, but from Geraldton.
Here’s one example of mostly Geraldton advertising off the 7two Regional WA feed from 2021 during an episode of Our Town.
Reuben presented last night’s news, and he does a brilliant job 
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