Placeholder thread for discussion of Seven news in Tasmania, Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill, Darwin, Remote and Central Australia (ex-SCA)
Title to be confirmed
Looks like the word “nightly” will be dropped in the Tasmania bulletin soon but the 7 news branding will be extended to other areas soon
it may be likely but there has been no confirmation AFAIK
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Sorry to nitpick while it’s still TBC, but would “(TAS/Spencer Gulf/Darwin/Central)” be more appropriate?
Following the ex-Prime thread name by listing the main market first?
I mean if we are nit-picking, should SA/Spencer Gulf even be there given they don’t get noodle updates?
But if it is going to be there, I’d argue Broken Hill should also be there.
Bare minimum they’ll soon be receiving noodle updates as Seven’s takeover will trigger new local content quotas in Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill (plus Darwin and Central).
Best case, the bulletin will return in full. 
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Maybe. As I said, TBC
Arguably Regional SA includes Broken Hill. Moot point anyway if they don’t get updates.
Still no change as yet. I saw the latest Tasmania bulletin dated tonight from YouTube. Branding still the same and virtually the same newsroom setup. I now believe it will take time for changes to take effect.
Yeah no changes or mentions of anything from what I saw on the bulletin. Will do a rescan again tomorrow but everything was still the same with the channels too - still got SBN and 3 shopping channels (TVSN, Gecko and you tv)
That’s because at this very moment SCA are still operating the station. 30th June. The day the sale completes. From 1st July 2025, Seven West Media starts operating and controlling the Tasmanian TV license for the 7 station there.
I would expect no changes to the studio set-up, but the colour scheme of the bulletin’s studio will turn red black and white, and adopt 7NEWS branding.
Just the simple tools needed to give the existing studio set-up a 7NEWS facelift. Major changes to the studio itself outside of branding can occur later on.
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Many of your posts are written in a way that implies fact, but we do not know anything is definite until it happens.
We can make educated guesses, but this does not make it fact.
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For the love of god, please please please call it Seven News. We’ve had so many stop and starts in the past decade and it feels so wrong that we’re still being distanced from the metro brand.
Back in 2018 when SCA wanted to brand their bulletins as Seven News, Seven said no because it was a product they did not control but it would have their name on it.
Even after SCA took network branding, news remained under its own brand.
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The 6-month grace period begins for the return of local news in Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill, in whatever form it comes!
Here’s hoping this time it doesn’t take 16 months after the grace period for the ACMA to notice the lack of news…
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Quick question while you’re here - would WIN in WA be obliged to follow the increased quotas since Seven purchased GWN, or do the increased conditions only apply to GWN?
not sure why WIN should be impacted by Seven’s transaction?
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The increased quotas only apply to the station that changes owners.
The joint venture stations, and the second and third stations in a monopoly market appear to be exempt from quotas due to the type of licence they hold.
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Would rather like to see that rather than just short noodle updates. The noodle updates can run on the main channel. To 7, please bring back the local Spencer Gulf 1/2 hour news, but once again shaft it to 7two, and run it at 7pm. Your viewers in the Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill will thank you.
Has anyone seen a news update for tonight’s Tasmania news on 7? Has it been rebranded to 7NEWS?
Paging @tx42, @ando9185 and @Toddletoon…
It’s still the same from what I’ve seen.
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