Yes, that’s the point of them.
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I think you’re referring to SCA here, they are the license holders in regional QLD - not 10.
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Yeah whoever, the one that’s branded as 10.
Have you seen them? Poor quality and presentation, looks like high school students presenting them. I guess a time quota is just that, nothing stated about quality.
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You’re right, it’s a time quota. Nothing about quality. That’s why they are what they are. The absolute bare minimum to tick off a quota.
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Do the voiceless local weather updates that screen on WIN during Today count as well?
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Seven is now recruiting a journalist to produce news for Mildura / Sunraysia.
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For the record, I left high school in 2006
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You hold your age well, 
Seriously though, I’ve never seen you, I’m not a local, just visiting from Brisbane, but I’ve seen some very young women presenting previously.
Everybody starts somewhere, regional is often a great place for new people in the industry to get a start and lots of the great journalists / presenters we see on the metro stations today also started out in regional newsrooms.
The presentation of the content itself at times can be questionable, with no disrespect to the staff behind them trying to put out that local mandated content every day, I’m confident they do the best with the limited resources available to them.
Let’s stick to criticising the (correct) organisations behind this decision making rather than the presenters who are just doing a job, also it’s been discussed ad nauseam in the relevant thread about the quality of regional updates.
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My apologies if I offended anyone including @DJPizarro … I didn’t mean to make it personal.
I agree it’s the lack of resources, and time provided. If some of these young reporters were given a platform to develop their skills rather than 2 minute updates of no substance, then the whole industry would benefit, as would the viewers and the presenters/reporters themselves.
I know everyone starts somewhere … I actually have quite fond memories of “local television” before aggregation (I’m that old!).
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7 on the Sunshine Coast (channel 6) is named Million Doll tonight.
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…and the final step in Bob Hawke’s dream of regional areas having the same access to tv as metro viewers is almost complete.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/03/30-years-of-regional-aggregation.html
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Any update if Seven will phase out using 6x LCNs on their O&O stations and go to using 7x like RQLD. Southern Cross and WIN would not likely do this as they are only affiliates of Seven and can use what ever they want.
While they’re at it, they should consider bringing 7twoHD to metro and regional areas, as well as making two HD simulcasts on LCN 7/6 and 70/60 (Keeping the SD feed on 71/61 like in Tasmania).
How I think this will play out:
Metro:
7
7HD Sydney
70
7HD Sydney
71
7 Sydney
72
7TWO Sydney
73
7twoHD Sydney
74
7mateHD Sydney
75
7Bravo Sydney
76
7flix Sydney
78
Regional (If Seven decied to keep the 6x LCNs):
6
7HD Canberra
60
7HD Canberra
61
7 Canberra
62
7two Canberra
63
7twoHD Canberra
64
7mateHD Canberra
65
7Bravo
66
7flix
67
ishoptv
68
Seven has owned STQ since pre-digital, so regional Queensland has always been on the 7xx allocation (bar Sunshine Coast). There’s not really a precedent to change to an entirely different allocation - Nine has owned NBN since 2007 yet is still 8xx throughout northern NSW.
There is also not really an incentive for them to do so - we’re moving (slowly) to a post-LCN world anyway; in the meantime, if your audience knows Seven News is on 6, why confuse them?
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That’s a good point for viewers who have lived in regional areas all their lives. What do you mean by post-LCN?
Linear free-to-air television won’t be around forever. Even if we still have “channels” like we know them now, it’s unlikely we’ll be accessing them by channel number.
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Do you mean that streaming services will have live channels that don’t require a channel number like Kayo?
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Correct.
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