And so they should win news here in Victoria has lost a lot of.viewers thanks to it being moved to.nsw from.vic
And I hope it does happen
WIN should have merged the Albury and Shepparton bulletins into a new âBorder North Eastâ bulletin to counter SCA Nineâs news.
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Has anyone got an idea of how well (or otherwise) the Canberra & Illawarra bulletins have been performing lately? Because itâd be interesting to know whether even they are safe despite the larger market size than those which have seen/are seeing bulletin axings.
Even though WIN News isnât without its faults, it would be heartless to suggest that we should see the axing of more bulletins and therefore more local people losing the thing which helps them pay the bills.
If anyone should be blamed for the axing of bulletins, itâs those who have higher positions at the WIN Network whoâve done nothing (or very little) to evolve their local news services in the face of declining ratings and stronger competition.
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I disagree it was heartless for win tv to.move from Ballarat to Wollongong
poor Griffith
They have lived without true local news since 2006.
They relied on the Wagga news since then.
There are no employees since 2013.
And now, when the Wagga bulletins got axedâŚ
âŚ:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
#myfriends
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This will mean Griffith and the MIA region will have no local TV news at all (WIN manages the Seven, Nine and Ten signals there), and it is the only region in NSW outside of Sydney that all three Sydney 6pm network news bulletins are seen.
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According to this post on the âWIN Televisionâ thread last month:
Of course, their hometown being Wollongong & the Illawarra. This would imply that both Seven News Sydney & the local Nine News rate higher than WIN News in the region, which prior to the affiliation switch, would be unheard of. As for Canberra, I wouldnât be surprised if itâs a similar story.
Also, for the first time since June 2001 (more than 18 years ago now, believe it or not!), when Prime axed its local news bulletin, the Illawarra region will have the same number of full local news bulletins as those in the Central West, Riverina, Albury, Tamworth & the North Coast.
So, from 1st July (the first weekday after the latest axings), the following regions to still have a 30-minute WIN News bulletin will be:
- Illawarra (Wollongong)
- Canberra
- Western Victoria (Ballarat)
- Central Victoria (Bendigo)
- Goulburn Valley (Shepparton)
- Gippsland
- Tasmania
- Sunshine Coast
- Darling Downs (Toowoomba)
- Central Queensland (Rockhampton)
- North Queensland (Townsville)
- Far North Queensland (Cairns)
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WIN need to be bought out by some larger media conglomerate so they have some sort of scale to produce greater volumes of local news.
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CBS?
Iâm just thinking that maybe all the other bulletins will get the axe in the next year or two, except for maybe Wollongong due to sentimental reasons for the Gordons, and maybe Canberra?
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Yeah but itâs highly likely that people in a boardroom with very little or no connection to the local bulletins wouldâve made these decisions. Aside from being informed about whatâs going on, I doubt the presenters, reporters or behind the scenes crew directly responsible for producing WIN News had anything to do with it.
Geez, thatâs shocking for a market where WIN News arguably has the more familiar presenting/reporting talent.
Many of us said similar things about Ten before CBS brought them, but letâs take a moment to remember where their news service and indeed the entire network is right now.
Sure, On-Air Presentation may have improved over the last 6-12 months but ratings and the overall product is still nowhere near competitive against the big boys.
Hopefully that will NOT happen!
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Being from Tasmania where all our bulletins are a statewide thing, itâs hard to imagine the local bulletins for just one region - or being in a state where it takes more than a day to drive around it.
Would a statewide regional bulletin be viable in any of the states? Obviously some of the local stories would be dropped because theyâd have no interest to anywhere else but would there be enough stuff that could provide a reasonable bulletin to a whole state or half a state?
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From your article:
But WIN really had no choice as SCA signed with Nine meaning WIN had to go with Ten.
Do you know if WIN Television and Radio got any of the grant money? The GrantConnect website is not very user friendly.
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And that was partly WINs fault.
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well i dare say win news in dire trouble iam yet to find out the ratings here in ballarat with 9 news v win news but what i been told so far it isnt looking good for win news so unless they do something fast win news here in victoria will go like central nsw and disappear and yes your right its the higher ups at win thats to blame but i wont be suprised that in the next few months or even near year win news vic will be gone
Wow, absolutely incredible to see WIN abandoning nearly all of NSW.
I never thought Iâd see the day
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Yeah but Seven News rates well in regional Victoria, and always has.
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Iâm guessing we will see consolidated VIC, Southern NSW / Canberra, SEQ / Central QLD & North QLD WIN News bulletins in the next 12 - 18 months, that is if they donât take the old SCA route and do noodle updates for all.
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Hopefully CBS end up buying their regional affiliate, they have followed that route a lot in the US, especially lately. And dump the 5-cap city ratings at the same time then.
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