If your business is in Griffith then companies from Orange and Wollongong are not your competitors.
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But who doesnât love a 5-6hr drive to buy a brand new sofa? 
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Mate, I clearly (and openly) mentioned Seven in that first paragraph, not Ten. I referred to the Seven Network station owned by WIN in the Griffith area. Most of the stuff Iâve said and referred to is true. Nine and Ten Griffith (also owned by WIN) continue to sell local ad spots.
Can you please properly read my posts before posting stuff like this where Iâm claiming to be mentioning Ten? Seriously.
Itâs not even news content. Or even content. Thank you and good night.
About time Ten brought the regional stations. Now just buy NNSW and put local news on. Wishful thinking but there you go.
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Yea. I said ads are not going to be broadcast to 3.3 million people for free and you said âtechnically thatâs already happeningâ
Thatâs false.
A tiny market that canât support local advertising is not the same as markets over 3 million people
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Generally not, but there will be some items and situations where they are competitors - especially if these businesses are price competitive and potentially willing to deliver for a reasonable rate.
The two businesses quoted (a car dealer and a furniture store) are decent examples where a consumer may be willing to travel to purchase an item - maybe not as a far as Orange or Wollongong, but certainly far enough to go out of the local region.
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Or get it online if they post. 
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I know this may have already been discussed, but will 10 try to now have a broadcast in Mildura?
Highly unlikely.
Hopefully 10 upgrade Bold to HD in regional areas soon.
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Just merge Mildura into regional Victoria.
And while youâre at it, merge Griffith into southern NSW, combine east and west SA into one, and combine the west, central and east remote satellite into one license area.
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Already discussed above, no, viewers can access on 10 play. There isnât the money to expend for literally no return.
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Both should have happened during the aggregation process in the early 1990s.
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Exactly.
Weâve been through this already in this thread. No need to rehash it again.
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Get rid of the failing middle-men regional operators who try to skim anything that is left over and make 7,9,10 national licences. Then the money that regionals made by skimming off the back of metro content could be used for mandated local news windows. That would make sense.
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That would make sense.
ButâŚ
Do you trust 7, 9 and 10 to either continue to make OR start producing local content? I donât.
Itâs not so much the failing middle-men regional operators, over the years the networks have been squeezing them dry and combined with overall maleficence and toxicity within the sector, theyâre all doomed.
In my dream world (or your/their worst nightmare, take your pick), theyâd be eliminated. Send the army and federal police in, tell to pull the plug, evacuate everyone and bulldoze the place. 
Iâd allow the networks to buy regional licenses as they are now, BUT they have to ensure local news is produce, and the current output levels as they are now are considered the new minimum by law and cannot go any lower.
7 and 9 canât cut news, 10 would be made to start producing regional news, and all 3 would be required to produce non-news local content, encourage independent regional production, and ensure more than adequate local regional staffing and management. None of this NBN-run-by-QTQ shit. If I had an issue with a program, they should be directed to the head honcho in Newcastle, not Brisbane.
Otherwise, license fees and spectrum fees are reinstated at, letâs say 25% (because I would be a c**t of a PM), with the aim of going to the ABC who would be mandated to do regional news. Also, bring back public license renewal hearings, if the punters donât like what the networks are doing, especially with regional areas, theyâre fucked. Get off the public spectrum, youâre gone.
Again, I would be a c**t of a PM/media/communications minister. 7, 9 and 10 have had a good run, now to they need to be brought down like a good little submissive.
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I did say âmandateâ for local news windows. As in legally enforceable, possibly with an enforceable local production requirement of news packages. But I donât have a problem with a centralised production hub doing the final presentation of the news windows. Other than news, I canât see any other local regional content ever coming back. As it would displace content and make scheduling messy in regional areas. That oosts money, is why the regionals themselves stopped doing that decades ago. These News windows would air as a 5 to 6 minute breakaway segment within the main evening bulletin, similar to what NBN does now in their 6pm bulletin.
As for ABC resuming TV regional News bulletins, the only one that was reinstated was the one in Canberra in 2001. And yes, Canberra is a regional market, not metro as some assert. Same as ABC Darwin which has had a continuous local news presence since they started in 1971. Sadly ABC Rockhampton and Townsville TV bulletins were discontinued in 1984. They wonât be coming back as the expense would be massive both in terms of production and transmission. It would require commencing fulltime transmission splits that cost buckets of money the ABC does not have. The only option is for each of the 50 odd ABC Local Radio stations around the country to package up a locally produced mini TV bulletin for publishing on ABC Iview.
The biggest mistake Hawke did was getting rid of the old ABT/ABA public licence renewal hearings. No way would many of the current licence holders today be allowed to keep their licences, back when the general viewing public had some sort of say.
And donât forget restoring the production of C & P classified childrenâs content screening with no commercial breaks and mandate prominent timeslots, not like buried away on a multi-channel at 7am when no-one is watching.
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Can we please stop going in circles about local content, 10 Mildura and licence area changes?
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Indeed. I think weâll lock this for now until there is something relevant to add/discuss
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