Its what we do.
But still interesting to hear thoughts on where they SHOULD come from assuming the sale is finalised.
Yes, Iām aware.
And obviously fine to discuss about possible options, however the question I responded to wasnāt speculative so I just reconfirmed the sale of either station hasnāt been finalised yet.
Who knows? Como is best set-up for doing multi-market metro bulletins now is all I am going off.
Is there even a plausible option outside of the metro stations taking responsibility for their stateās updates? Like Nine News Local?
10 wonāt be inheriting an established regional hub from SCA, news operations are based out of 7 Tasmania.
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Agree this is most likely.
Unless one location like say Melbourne does them all.
Iām of the opinion that 10 will use this as an opportunity to build a new control room in Brisbane.
They need to address the control of Brisbaneās bulletin come the end of AEDT again, unless they go back to pre-recording a majority of the bulletin.
Iād think Como is already under the pump with all the bulletins/content they control.
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Como?
Thatās Melbourne. Theyāre in the Como Tower/Building/Centre.
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Iām just wondering if there are any known changes once the NRN (Ten Northern NSW) licence sale is finalised with Ten. I heard that the deal was in the process of being finalised.
Specifically, Iām wondering if Ten Northern NSW will get any new channels. I seriously doubt there will be much as far as local news production (probably the best one can hope is a 6 or 7 minute segment being inserted in the last segment before sport Monday to Friday, but even thats probably wishful thinking).
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Wonāt know until after the sale is finalised unless Ten put something out. At this stage, expect the continuation of the noodle updates.
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Itās interesting that SCA at the moment allocate more time overall to news than 10 by using commercial breaks during the day to insert the noodle updates. I assume this is because they donāt have enough advertising to fill the space so may as well use it and itās less disruptive to overall programming/scheduling.
Will be interesting to see if 10 take the same approach or expect the local quotas to somehow be met within the time already allocated to news bulletins and updates (regardless of how they might do that).
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My guess would be that theyāll continue doing the bare minimum required from one of their studios. I canāt see them expanding local coverage, unless Paramount thinks they can do what they do with their CBS O&Os.
Iā d love them to do proper local news. Give places like Newcastle and Wollongong an alternative to what Nine and WIN puts out. But I canāt see it happening.
Heck, could they even put local news out to contract? Give an independent production company a chance to do local news, all theyād do is provide the air time and some legal oversight. Could that work?
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I deleted my last draft of this because I think itās too unlikely - but if you think about it logically, Ten should outsource local news to Seven. They cover all the markets already, and honestly arenāt genuine competitors in the news space.
The networks just sharing the costs of regional news is the obvious way forward - maybe markets like Gold Coast and Newcastle can support a full bulletin, but no market can support competition.
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Possibly Nickelodeon and Bold in HD to mirror the metros. Will probably lose SKY News when that contract expires.
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Why would they do that? Itās not their responsibility to outsource news to a competitor
If youāre not saying it, youāre thinking it. 
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It is their responsibility to provide a local news service. If they have a business case and someone willing (and legally able) to do it on an outsourcing basis, why not? Outsourcing to Seven might attract some scrutiny from ACMA as it might be seen as a reduction in competition. But there are plenty of examples where radio stations have outsourced news to rival operators.
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In the early days of television, some regionals took ABC News instead of Seven News or Nine News according to some early TV guides
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Probably because the ABC relay wasnt ready to go - might have been easier to air the ABC news until they were ready to go and then take Seven or Nine on relay.
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It was probably more that an ABC relay link was available but there may not have been a relay link to the commercials. So for a while yes some regional viewers got ABC News on both ABC and their commercial channel. But it was temporary until commercial channel links became available.
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