“WIN News your only local news service”. In Wollongong there is local news on Wave FM 96.5, ABC Illawarra radio, and in the Illawarra Mercury, in addition to local news on WIN’s i98.
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I think they are referring to TV lol.
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In country areas, I doubt the statewide/territory-wide ABC News is viewed as any more local than the capital city metro bulletins. With the ACT being so small, I suppose Canberra is the exception (as your post suggests).
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I know, but it doesn’t state that.
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Surely the Tasmania and Northern Territory 7pm ABC News bulletins would be regarded as being more local than the bulletins from interstate (Nine & 10 First Melbourne in Tasmania, Seven & 10 First Melbourne in Darwin, Queensland bulletins from all three commercial channels in rural NT) on the commercial channels?
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Especially considering their populations are relatively concentrated - despite the massive area in the NT’s case.
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NT is also broadcasted onto ABC Australia in foreign countries like Indonesia, which is why you see a bit more international content in that bulletin plus weather.
Off-topic now anyway
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WIN News promoted the Pell interview during the bulletin tonight: “The interview will air on Sky News on WIN at 7 o’clock tonight. That’s on channel 83”.
Currently airing on Sky News on WIN channel 83 is Sky News Across Australia.
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How are the noodle updates meeting local content requirements for many stations in the local sub markets: say for Prime7 in Canberra, Wollongong and Victoria. And Win in Newcastle and all NNSW local markets.
I thought the requirement was 900 points every 6 weeks which is 150 points a week
That’s at least 10 minutes of daily local content with locally shot video news, or 15 minutes daily without
Are Prime7 and WIN putting 15 minutes a day of noodle updates to air?
Yes, including local weather updates.
This has been the case since the Mid 2000s.
15 minutes worth a day?
Is it all original or do they play the same ones a few times
What times do they air ?
Before the media reforms, local content requirements in RQLD, NNSW, SNSW, RVIC and TAS was 720 minutes per six weeks or 120 min per week (24 min per day in a 5-day Mon-Fri work week). Relevant locally-made news content counts for double (i.e. 1 minute of relevant local news = 2 minutes of quota filled).
The new quotas from the reforms only kick in after a change of control/ownership. None of the stations have changed ownership since the reforms were passed (August 2017) so they’re still bound to the old rules.
New quotas are 900 minutes in the existing markets (150 min per week, 30 min per day Mon-Fri) and 360 minutes in non-remote WA, both SA markets, Broken Hill, Darwin, Mildura and Griffith (60 min per week, 10 min per day Mon-Fri).
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Thanks for all that.
So is WIN doing 12 minutes of local news a day in all 5 local markets in NNSW?
The updates I’ve seen are 30-60 seconds each.
So to hit 12 minutes they have to run 12-24 updates a day? Is that happening?
Is it? I’ve only ever seen news channel bulletins on ABCA
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Yes it is, not sure about what time it’s shown
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Really? The TV Guide suggests it’s all bulletins from the news channel http://www.abcaustralia.net.au/tvguide
(Mods, happy to move this elsewhere)
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I saw that “only local news” promo run in Townsville as well. Completely wrong as we have 7 Local News
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Re the discussion from @TheMoreYouKnow, @JasonF and others in the Prime7 News thread about WIN: I could potentially see a point in the future where WIN News scales back their operations to just producing full local bulletins in their “home” markets of the Illawarra/South Coast, Western Victoria, Goulburn Valley, Darling Downs, Central Queensland & Tasmania.
Not at the moment they don’t. Haven’t you heard about how Nine have suspended their regional bulletins?
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I was referring in general “over the last couple of years”
It appears that there was no WIN News Canberra tonight (because of the ACT public holiday?). Turned over to watch The Project to see Tim Bailey finishing his weather report just before 6:30pm.
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