In that case that was on 12 September - all other news was just swamped by the attack, so they produced a shorter bulletin to get back to network coverage as soon as possible. This was at a time when WIN used to delay Nine News for half an hour, something you certainly couldn’t do during such a major news event.
I think you occasionally saw shortened editions, statewide or otherwise, for certain sporting events where they needed to get local/national news squeezed in a 30 minute break in the schedule instead of pre-empting half an hour either side.
WIN News Late Edition was as far as I remember always just them recording a new opener for the local bulletin that aired at 6.
Late Edition was a seperately recorded bulletin from the local editions in Queensland markets. Featured stories from all regions and statewide weather.
Victoria and NSW/ACT also did have state wide editions at some stage.
I think it was around 1997 or 1998 when Six O’Clock started and they did originally have a separate North and South edition but then turned it back into a statewide bulletin before going to a composite bulletin in the early 2000’s I think. There may have been a period as WIN Local News though or that was after.
The original presenter for Six O’Clock was Penny Tame who had up until then been the weather presenter on WIN’s bulletin. Margaret Dekker here spent many years at WIN before going to 7 Melbourne from memory. Is she still up there?
Based on different fonts used, the graphics used on WIN News are done by local newsrooms not by Wollongong itself. The latter’s only job was to record intros and weather, then insert and merge with clips made by newsrooms into a single file specifically for transmission.
