Yes, Studio C had its own control room opposite the Studio B control room. Just as Studio C was the payroll office before it became a studio, Studio C Control was the Transfers room before becoming a studio control room.
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It amazes me Seven doesn’t run the 6.30 state bulletin overnight or late in Sydney/NSW.
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Based on my memory of visiting relatives in Northern NSW (Tamworth License Area) c.2007-2009. They used to have Prime News at 6pm and then air the Sydney News on a 30 minute delay with Today Tonight not airing there at all going straight to Home and Away at 7pm.
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Today Tonight for some of its run was shown in the early afternoon or morning but yes most of the time it wasn’t shown. They tried putting the local news on at 5:30pm in most markets but it failed and was put back at 6pm within a few weeks.
I don’t think much will change if it was rating poorly they would have already axed the 6:30 national news once Seven took over. It’s not very expensive to make they use a presenter already on staff that read introductions for stories already made for the 6pm news. They would also need a producer to help choose the stories but they would already be on the payroll for the local news.
Do we know if Tasmania will get 7flix/7Bravo now that they own TNT?
Why would owning TDT have to do with anything? And yes, you would hope so, but WA never got 7flix or Bravo. And the SCA7 multiplex has 5 datacast channels which I think is the most of any network?! Pretty stupid though that a 10 year old channel is still not on air everywhere though.
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The NSW setup with a 6.30 National News bulletin read by a presenter is so much more elegant than what Vic and Qld do.
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Just a heads up:
TNT is 7 Tasmania
TVT is WIN 9 Tasmania
TDT is 10 Tasmania (co-owned by Seven and WIN)
But in terms of if they could launch those channels, it’ll only happen in WA or any of the former SCA stations they think they can get enough ad revenue to support it.
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I suspect we will never see any of the extra multi-channels in Tasmania from either WIN or SWM.
I don’t know the commercial agreements but they wouldn’t be carrying the religious and shopping content for free….plus they probably pay less affiliate fees too, so win win really….pun intended.
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Yes, I’ve checked regularly since SWM took over 7Tas and there have been no noticeable changes to the channels that I’ve seen - still got 3 shopping channels, the SBN channel and the racing channel.
The other interesting thing I’ve noticed and this is more for the Freeview thread, is the 7 advertising for the Freeview and showing the cool things with the guide and catch up etc… Only problem is, only the ABC and SBS use the HbbTV stuff so none of the commercials do so it’s a little bit of false advertising there.
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Seven added HbbTV to ex-Prime/GWN stations recently. Only a matter of time before they add it to TNT hopefully.
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Suggestion to the admins, would it be a good idea to remove the Prime/GWN-era tags from this thread and replace them with the standard “sevennetwork” and “seven” tags since it’s all O&O now?
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Why?
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The answer you seek is in my original post: 
People may forget what forums were previously Prime so having tags makes sense even if they are currently owned and operated by Seven. There are three forums one for regional Queensland, one for regional NSW, Vic and WA formally Prime and GWN and Tasmania formally Southern Cross and remote Australia. To help keep track of it all having tags is helpful? I don’t understand your need to remove them?
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Formerly
My thought was ex-SCA threads for Seven and 10 aren’t tagged SCA? And the ex-WIN 10 isn’t tagged WIN or SCA?
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Prime TV Victoria breaches election blackout rules
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found Prime Television (Victoria) Pty Limited breached election advertising blackout rules during the May 2025 Federal Election campaign.
Under blackout rules, broadcasters cannot air election ads on TV or radio during election blackout periods, which run from the end of the Wednesday before the relevant polling day until the close of the poll on polling day.
An ACMA investigation found that the licensee, Prime Television Victoria, aired 23 election advertisements on the Racing.com free-to-air TV channel on Thursday 1 May ahead of the Saturday 3 May election.
ACMA member Carolyn Lidgerwood said all broadcasters needed to have processes in place to ensure compliance with election advertising blackout rules.
“These rules are licence conditions applying to commercial television broadcasting licensees under the Broadcasting Services Act. They have been in place for many years. We expect that broadcasters should understand their statutory obligations and be focussed on compliance,” Ms Lidgerwood said.
Content on Racing.com is produced and broadcast by Racing Victoria under a broadcast partnership with the licensee.
The licensee submitted that under its broadcasting partnership arrangement it had a reasonable expectation that Racing Victoria would ensure all content broadcast would comply with the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (BSA).
However, the ACMA does not consider that licensees can contract out their obligations to ensure compliance with broadcasting legislation and codes.
Following this incident the licensee has reviewed its procedures to ensure that a similar situation will not occur again.
The ACMA is considering appropriate enforcement action.
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The Age has revealed the 23 election ads were for Liberal MP Dan Tehan during his re-election campaign.
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Wouldn’t this be a national breach, not just in Victoria? My understanding is that RDC only splits it broadcast signal 2 ways, to Foxtel for their residential and commercial platforms, and separately to Seven for FTA distribution?
Standby the brush from wet lettuce punishment from the ACMA.
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the usual ACMA protocol is that the complaint/ruling is held against the outlet where the original complaint was made, even if the program/content was produced or broadcast elsewhere. It’s a fairly outdated model that doesn’t adapt to the current environment where nearly everything is national/networked.
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