19 minutes? I thought they were only running 4 minutes of news a day, less than they are supposed to…
It would also be less risky to forgo a bit of revenue rather than spending a lot of money that they probably don’t really have to set up infrastructure for proper bulletins that they might not get their $$$ back from.
Well I’m Not in a prime viewing Area, but I’m being told 4 minutes a day are being aired of local news and the test is being made up with community services announcements
Stations must air 24 points a day.
News is 2 points
Other is 1 point
So if they are airing 4 minutes or News (8 points a day) that leaves them 16 points short. If that’s being done with community service info they need 16 minutes a day of it
Do Prime retain all the ad revenue for their own produced content?
https://www.acma.gov.au/local-tv-content-regional-areas
As a regional broadcaster, you gain points for each minute of locally significant material you broadcast.
You gain 2 points for each minute of news that ‘directly relates to a local area’.
You gain 1 point for each minute of:
- news that ‘directly relates to the licence area’.
- other material that directly relates to the local area or the licence area, such as a community service announcement
You must meet the quotas in each of your licence areas for material of local significance. This is at least:
- 90 points per week
- 720 points per six-week period
You must also meet the following rules:
- at least 50% of your points must come from material that relates directly to the local area
- no more than 10% of your points can come from community service announcements
- material of local significance must not include advertising or sponsorship material unless it is a community service announcement
No Prime shares revenue with seven
Yea I don’t know how they are meeting their requirements if at all
Either the ACMA website is shit or they don’t publish the compliance numbers
Multichannels count towards the quota as well, and there are musical weather updates scattered across Prime7 and the multichannels during the day, with 7Two having a few at night to cover up Seven News updates as well. It all counts.
Peter Schauble??? was the host till the end of BCV Southern Cross News.
still way better produced that the current regional news
Yes, but…
- no more than 10% of your points can come from community service announcements
- at least 50% of your points must come from material that relates directly to the local area
Local area is different from license area. License area is say, SNSW, local area is say Canberra / Wollongong / Riverina / Central West
But the fact that can earn their 720 points with just 3-4 minutes of local news updates playing in places like 10.30 and 11.30pm (when viewing numbers are low) and the other 16 minutes a day is computer generated musical weather maps on multi channels
Just shows you these regulations Are a joke.
100%.
Paul Schauble.
I’m not sure if anyone has noticed this, but Kirstie Fitzpatrick has been delivering a small weather report at the end of the news updates for the past few days. Example: “Partly cloudy and a top of 16 for Wollongong tomorrow”
Any ideas why the open and the actual update seem totally separate with no cross dissolve on audio or vision?
Also why not put Canberra images and text in the open? Those generic shots of cop cars and ambulances clearly look nothing like Canberra
NSW, WA and VIC.
The answer is probably obvious, but how come Prime7 never upgraded the set (or at least the backdrop) from the 2017 “red overkill” look for the regions which only get updates?
What’s the obvious answer?
About it not being worth it just for a series of short 1 Minute Updates.
Still interesting though when in the past, Prime7 has upgraded their news sets for both the update only & full bulletin regions.
The updates run 5-6 times a day - 30 times a a week, over 1500 times a year. Why wouldn’t you add local shots into your LOCAL UPdates. Defies logic
Looks like Prime7 have reverted to their normal opener with the two local stories & national news review after opening with no headlines and standing presentation for the past few weeks.
