Thanks - do you know if Prime aired Seven’s Brisbane news at any point on the GC, or has it been Sydney since day 1 (apart from when they did that joint local bulletin).
IIRC Ten NNSW aired the Sydney news until around 2013, when they switched to Brisbane, while NBN has aired it’s own news since day 1.
I think it’s always been the Sydney bulletin on Prime7 (NEN).
During DST, Prime had a unique early evening line up from 1992-97
QLD time
5pm Home And Away (6pm NSW time)
5.30pm Seven News
6pm Local News
(so H&A and Local News effectively got switched around from the incoming NSW feed)
There was a time. This is testing my memory so I’m gonna say around 1996 when Prime was trying 5.30pm News around the Network (I’m not sure if it was network wide or just a test in certain places) and Nine Gold Coast News launched at 5.30pm.
Prime Gold Coast aired Local News at 5.30pm, Seven News (Brisbane) at 6 and Today Tonight (Brisbane) at 6.30pm. I don’t remember it lasting long. Maybe a few months.
Prime bailed on the 5.30pm news idea around the same time and shifted everything back to 6pm. Albury was the only place where this worked so wasn’t immediately pushed back until 2011.
This wasn’t the only variation sequence but was the most commonly used line up. I remember seeing Today Tonight and Hey Dad! repeats listed in one of the Brisbane TV guides. I thought it was around 1994, but I can’t remember for sure. I believe Seven Tasmania did similar in early years when Tasmania started daylight savings 3 weeks earlier than mainland Australia
Actually I think this experiment lasted less than 2 weeks from memory. The afternoon schedule looked something like this
4:30pm (Metro) Family Feud with John Deeks
4:30 (GC/Prime NSW) Wheel Of Fortune
5:00pm Seven News at 5
5:30pm Wheel Of Fortune
5:30 (GC/Prime NSW) Prime Local News
6:00pm Seven News
6:30pm Today Tonight
7:00pm Home And Away
Prime initially aired Family at 10:30am under the new arrangement replacing NBC News I believe (immediately after infomercials)
Prime reverted back to the pre 5:00pm news experiment between 5:30pm til 7:30pm line up and followed Sevens 4:30pm to 5:30pm line up of
4:30pm Family Feud
5:00pm MASH
The Australian MotoGP is on this coming weekend, and I looked at the Mildura programme guide and it is not scheduled to air there on Seven nor WIN Nine. Thank God for 10Play and Foxtel/Kayo otherwise there would be protest marches along Langtree Avenue. In the past when WIN (STV 8) was the only commercial station if a sports event on the anti-siphoning list from Seven or Ten was on STV would have broken away from the WIN schedule and screened that event live. I put this in the Seven Regional thread because the Ten (Mildura Digital Television) thread is closed.
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I noticed something on 7twoHD Wollongong. During ad breaks overnight, the regional ads seen on the station were essentially mostly commercials coming from Bathurst, Dubbo and Orange, and some from Wagga Wagga. I’m assuming it’s a statewide feed for NSW just like Regional QLD but broadcast from Orange.
Just take a look at this emersive range of commercials, there’s way more from Orange and the Central West than that of Illawarra commercials, I’m assuming this is the Orange feed, although not exactly sure. (Credit: @tvcl DVB-T Webserver)
Is this feed of 7twoHD being broadcast across Regional NSW in all of Seven’s O&O markets? (Central West, Mid North Coast, Riverina, New England, Border, Hunter, Central Coast and Northern Rivers) - Can anyone please confirm if this is the case? Cheers.
It’s a statewide feed, just like RQLD.
RQLD used to have localised 7two feeds when the 7 News replay was at 6.30 on the channel.
Thanks.
Strange that they’re running ads in regional NSW when their only offices are in the Sydney metropolitan area.
I guess that means you can make a compliation of regional NSW markets’ ads with access to just the Wollongong mux.
I wonder why most of the ads are for the Central West market though if it’s a state-wide feed.
I note there was this Albury ad though:
Even though it’s a Southern NSW/ACT combined feed, it’s probably more aimed at Wollongong viewers. Isn’t there a bit of signal overspill into Sydney TV1? Especially around the Southern fringes?
Albury retirement village is probably also very deliberate. It’s common for some clients to pay for advertising in their ‘home’ market and a few dollars extra to get ‘out of home’ advertising to get in front of extra eyeballs. Doesn’t work for all clients but it’s an added incentive for some.
It could be deliberate - for these health related fields, services are often inaccessible locally in regional areas. Its also cheap to advertise regionally
Yep, I’m in Sydney and Radio_TVGuy is recording these ads off my DVB-T server which gets Wollongong reception as well.
Even in the north/north-west, aerials to get Wollongong channels are common.
Saw some Sydney-specific ads on 9GEM Wollongong also:
I’m pretty sure they have already closed. Don’t know why they are still airing it.
That’s because at the time this was recorded, they were relaying 9Gem Sydney into Wollongong.
From 6am-12am it’s a local feed of Nine for the Wollongong area, and then from 12am-6am it’s just a plain dirty feed (complete relay) of Nine from Sydney, this also applies to the multichannels.
I had scheduled a 9Go recording once for overnight hoping there would be a heap of regional ads, but when I scanned through the recording, I quickly learnt that this was just a plain dirty relay of Sydney.
SC10 ran Home Shopping infomercials during ad breaks aired after midnight until their final program finished and they went into Home Shopping mode, no regional advertising seen there.
Seven is the only network to show a localised feed 24/7, featuring regional ads, although (on 7HD and 7mateHD) the ones they air can get a bit repetitive after a while if you see the ones they air overnight.
Oh. It looked closed when i drove past on Tuesday that’s why i said it.
Did 7twoHD’s regional launch go under the radar for us?
Nope - was noted here:
