I think we need to get someone from Queensland to confirm if 7two currently has “HD” in its LCN name.
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In Regional QLD it is 7Two HD [Region]
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But that was because 7twoHD existed at the same time as the SD service until Nov. 2022. That might be why it still has the name.
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Not sure if this is the right place, but I’m staying on the Gold Coast and the hotel I’m at as 2 channel 7s.
One is showing the news from Brisbane and the other is showing the news from Sydney. No day light savings in Queensland so odd the Sydney news is on at the same time.
Any explanations?
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Prior to aggregation in the 90s, Gold Coast got the Brisbane channels + NRTV from the Northern Rivers in NSW. When aggregation occurred, the other two stations in Northern NSW argued that they should be allowed to expand into the Gold Coast, hence why there are two channel 7’s, 9’s etc.
As for Sydney news on delayed, IIRC there was something about Prime7 showing a M rated film at a time before M-Rated films were allowed to be shown (as the NSW stations ran according to NSW time), which then lead to complaints with the regulator which lead to them saying that they have to observe the local time zone.
As for why Sydney news is shown, I guess it is most likely Seven wanting to protect it’s Brisbane ratings.
If I have got any of the above wrong, feel free to correct me.
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That’s pretty much all spot on.
From 1992-97, Prime and Ten NNSW showed programs one hour earlier until the “Pulp Fiction” incident as you referred to.
NBN switched to a delayed feed a year earlier under pressure from Nine.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Ok
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.
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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.
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Thanks.
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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:
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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.
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It could be deliberate - for these health related fields, services are often inaccessible locally in regional areas. Its also cheap to advertise regionally
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