Will never happen. If anything, Wagga, Orange, Albury, Tamworth, Taree, North Coast and Bunbury may get reduced to noodle updates over time.
7 are in the process of cutting costs. There’s no way they’re adding more bulletins.
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Be good If 7 locally produced & presented a new bulletin for Mildura they could get more advertising revenue In the market by doing that, When WIN stopped producing local news for Mildura some businesses pulled their advertising from WIN because of the local news being axed.
Not enough revenue to make such a venture profitable
Only way would be if it was statewide or similar to what 9 tried (under SC affiliation deal) with breakaway local segments.
Mildura now gets local updates from 7, same as rest of Victoria which is a better offering than what Win News serves up in 30 minutes
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As posted earlier in the week.
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I have been checking every day since the ads last week but Sunshine Coast is still MPEG2 - Toowoomba as discussed previously changed 19 June
TV News report that ran tonight in local news. Not sure that the claim of it being an Australian first (all MPEG 4) is correct.
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So not just HD, but 7 main channel SD too? 7QLD (regional) does seem to always be the test station, before being rolled out to major markets like Sydney and Melbourne. Interesting developments. Can see plenty being affected though, those just not bothering or willing to upgrade pre-2009 digital flatscreens, maybe those financially not able or not tech savvy.
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There has been no 7SD main channel on 7QLD for a few years now, has been MPEG2 HD main channel until now.
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I wonder if Seven will introduce streams for Canberra, Regional NSW, Regional VIC and Regional WA onto 7plus? They are now O&O stations (except for Griffith) so it makes sense really for them to put these up for their respective areas.
Regional NSW
7 Canberra
7 Central West
7 North Coast
7 Tamworth
7 Newcastle
7 Northern Rivers
7 Wagga Wagga
7 Wollongong
7 South Coast
7 Dubbo
7 Border
Regional VIC
7 Ballarat
7 Bendigo
7 Shepparton
7 Traralgon
7 Mildura
Regional WA
7 Regional WA
Yes I know Canberra is Australia’s capital city, but they do have lots of local advertising on the station, hence as to why it went under the “Regional NSW” category.
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You’re forgetting the NSW South Coast feed, which (courtesy to popular belief) is different to the Wollongong feed.
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Thanks for letting me know. I’ve updated it.
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Is it really worth the expense of having to spin up 15-odd feeds that may only pull small viewer numbers and minimal deviation from the cap city programming?
Technology already exists to allow Seven to insert localised ads
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I reckon it would be worth it for the stations where 7NEWS has local bulletin presences, but this was a relatively rough list.
If they ever did introduce such feeds outside of the ones covered with local bulletins, the only differences in these would be the noodle updates and local advertising. This would be a huge problem solver for those who own a television without terrestrial TV capabilities. But by doing this they would be putting themselves further ahead of WIN Television, who (to this day) still don’t have a streaming service with any of their TV channels being simulcast.
And by the way, most of the localised advertising inserted onto 7plus are coming out of Sydney in NSW, Melbourne and Geelong in VIC, and Perth in WA, not from the regional cities. So I reckon doing this would be a huge step forward.
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Bit silly to introduce all those streams when many are plain dirty feeds of 7 with Mildura being one of them.
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Got it, here’s a revised list for you with just the ones covered by local 6pm bulletins.
New potential streams on 7plus
7 Central West (Orange)
7 North Coast (Coffs Harbour)
7 New England (Tamworth)
7 Riverina (Wagga Wagga)
7 Border (Albury/Wodonga)
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Over time it may well be the case the metro stream will remain the bed stream with programmatic advertising inserting over the top of some of the local Sydney TVCs, with the national buys untouched. Meaning their FTA playout may become more complex with more trigger elements built-in to their linear playlists. If so, all the region by region streams as seen on 7QLD may be replaced by the 7 Brisbane feed over time. More so when all the regional bulletins go by the wayside (and they will) and there will no longer be any program differences statewide.
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I don’t see the point of having separate live streams just for the sake of the one hour where they break from the network schedule. They’d be better to just live stream or upload the respective news bulletins for viewing on 7plus (if they don’t do that already?) rather than having separate 24/7 live feeds for each station.
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