Speculation with Tasmanian politicians calling for Seven to retain local news production seven nights a week if they purchase the station.
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We can only go by what Seven have done with Prime and the regional Queensland operations which hasn’t changed much in particular Prime since they took over. To me it would make sense to keep a basic studio in Hobart so they can perform live crosses etc interview Tasmanian politicians etc and the cost of having the equipment that they already have would be minimal. If they have specialist staff in Hobart that may charge but I would say they would already have camera operators in Hobart anyway. They may run it similar to Sky News whereby they do not need specific technical training to operate the equipment at Hobart. It would be controlled out of Launceston. But given how much the news rates I doubt anything would change at least in the short term like Prime which has been owned by Seven probably for 2 years now and other than the name changing from Prime7 to Seven the average viewer would not notice any changes. Everything else has remained the same.
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That article is about preventing production being moved to the mainland, nothing about shifting from Launceston to Hobart.
Nick, it’s only speculation what Seven may do with its Tasmanian operations. As others have stated, there is more chance that Seven will base it’s Tasmanian operations in Hobart (going forward) rather than moving them to Melbourne or Canberra.
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That’s a great looking shot, only thing the lighting in her could be a little better, but overall looks good.
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This week in Tassie…
We had Michael on Tuesday
And Murph Wednesday & Thursday
New state political reporter Anthony Dodd had a big week with two ministers resigning from cabinet amongst other things
Lou presented tonight with some just slightly different camera angles from Hobart which look great IMHO
Lily (as mentioned previously) still on sport
And a shout out to our own @Techster great to see your face tonight mate!
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Thank you for watching! 
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wow a real musical chairs!
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Yeah definitely been a few in the seat lately and Murph was back on weather on Saturday night and Jackie Harvey was back on Sunday night. Lou did mention last night though that Kim’s voice was back and she’d be back in the chair tonight though so sounds like it might have been some fairly last minute shuffling of chairs to cover!
Meanwhile, I can still picture @Techster sitting back and rocking backward and forward going “don’t pick me, don’t pick me, don’t pick me” when they’re going through the names trying to find who can do the bulletin!
Once again though, the interesting thing is even with so many different faces and several new ones too - it still feels the same bulletin which is a hard thing to keep when many are resistant to change or when audiences are so picky.
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I think we, as Tasmanian’s, forget what talented and committed people we fortunately have at SCA7.
To chop and change and still get a consistent and local bulletin is a credit to those in front and behind the cameras…
Well done crew.
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10 Central West local news updates from last Friday:
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Updated presenter list for the 10 News Local updates
Southern NSW + ACT: Will Boddy
Regional VIC: Kasey Wilkins
Regional QLD: Stacey Eldridge
TAS: Madeline Kerr
Fill-in presenters: Philippa Christian, Sarah Bennallack, Zeke Gaffney
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Kasey’s been there since the start hasn’t she?
Her and Maddy both started off as fill-in presenters for the 10 News Local updates, IIRC. Kasey is now the Chief of Staff too.
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Matthew Ricketson, a professor of communication at Deakin University, said independent local journalism must be free of political and commercial interests.
“We already know that the provision of locally gathered and reported news and current affairs in regional and rural Australia is stretched almost to breaking point,” Ricketson said.
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OMG what a terrifying prospect, as if those local communities haven’t suffered enough.
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If only we still had the ABT and the old-style regular licence renewal hearings to gauge fit and proper qualities of licence holders. Sadly long gone.
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