Yeah, that is. Network 10 took over the Hobart studio operations following 7NEWS Tasmania’s consolidation to Launceston. Very evident.
*OK just because I said 7NEWS Tasmania doesn’t mean it’s that yet. At the moment it’s very much still known as Nightly News 7 Tasmania, or 7 Tasmania Nightly News. It’s still under a transition period.
Yep. And it would fill a gap in many regional cities partially left behind by WIN News.
Unironically it would. Without steering the forum off track run something like this:
4pm Neighbours
4.30pm B&TB
5pm 10 News State-Editions
6pm 10 News Regional (Regional Networks) | Lingo (Metro Networks)
6.30pm 10 News+
7pm Deal or No Deal
7.30pm Reality
8.30pm Late Night
Sometime after 10pm Late News
11pm 10 News Plus RPT
11.30pm Late Show with Colbert
12.30pm Infomercials
Whether 10 would/could invest is another thing. But hey, they have a set in Tassie now FWIW.
With what money, photo-copied $100 notes? You are dreaming.
I clearly said I wish they would (translation: they could but they won’t). Let’s not start a fight please.
Afternoon Mid North Coast updates:
Very lucky TEN has kept allot of their recently purchased regional markets on the air still. Most are running at a loss. National reach advertisers are all that keeps most of those markets going, nothing else. TEN was a very reluctant purchaser of those markets as SCA would have been not far off switching them off if no buyer was found. So, any possibility of the olden days era of regional programming will never happen. The content would be too costly to produce in studios that mostly no longer exist, let alone the cost and facilitation of breakaway broadcast schedules these days, won’t happen.
How do you know that?
What businesses outlay cash to buy assets “very reluctantly”?
Especially when the US would have had to have signed off on it
If only you knew, I can’t say what I do know from inside TEN. Why do you think TEN never had interest in them until the very end of last year? You only have to read about how past possible purchasers of SCA TV assets baulked at the last minute when doing due diligence and saw the true state of the books and onerous 3rd party service contract costs and walked.
A bit like buying prime waterfront real estate with a crappy house on it when you only really want the land.
spot on!
Surely not having to pay 40-50% of revenue for affiliation would make it a but more cash positive. Very simplistic I know but surely would be a slightly better proposition.
How, there is no change? Even if they are affiliating with themselves. They would keep doing that for tax reasons anyway, same as what Seven does. So, no extra pot of money would exist, as that money is still used to keep the metro markets going, money that is already spent.
Not when they’re only making a few million a year in a perpetually declining market. They’re in a slightly worse position than WIN. At least WIN still has fat in its news division to cull, although as usual they are trying not to if they can help it by finding other savings.
The declining revenue for advertising can be seen by Ten trying to make up revenue by saturating 10Drama between midnight and 8am with infomercials.
I think any production of local news needs to more than pay for itself or additional revenue sources need to be found to fund it. In the current economic circumstances, it wont happen
And having the Nine affiliation back would help no end, despite the high fees.
10 need the regional licences on air to maintain their national advertising and program deals. Eg. Masterchef is worth a lot less to advertisers without the regional audience. It then makes the network less appealing to productions and they could very easily lose key programming that they do make money from.
Ten were reluctant to buy the regional licences because there was no money to be made from them, but when faced with the prospect of them going off air and what they would lose if that did happen, copping a small loss to keep them on air doesn’t seem so bad.
I’ve heard advertisers are only really interested in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane markets.
Although it may be true, a lot of advertising is sold as a national package. Obviously there are regional advertisements inserted into regional markets
That’s true in Wollongong. A lot of the advertisers you’d typically see on WIN or Seven, but the ads that are only seen on Network 10 Wollongong (as of present) are (from what I’ve seen lately) the following…
Also if you live in the Illawarra remember those car dealership ads from Albion Park Rail seen on SCA Wollongong? Haven’t seen those lately after Network 10 took over. Not one single ad for Illawarra Toyota, Albion Park Mitsubishi or Shellharbour Haval/GWM. Also the ads for LiSTNR have stopped on the stations. No more of that.
Has anyone in Regional VIC (Bendigo, Shepparton or Gippsland - paging @BendigoTV, @TBoy, @soundsdifferent and @tonks8526), Regional QLD and parts of Southern NSW still seen any SCA radio station ads on the ex-SCA 10 stations after Paramount ANZ took over?