That would be ideal, WIN’s best on air talent by far, so I hope he lands somewhere good.
The quote in the article about being overseas makes me think it’s instead something totally out of the media, a kind of right place at the right time opportunity/offer.
Not the first WIN-star to head overseas for opportunities. Tanya Dendrios comes to mind.
Not the first person to leave Australia, no.
Watched WIN News in Bundaberg tonight.
Despite starting with a voiceover, “across the Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay”, it was hardly specific to the region.
Stories from the Darling Downs, Mackay and FNQ.
Sport was 2 State of Origin stories, one generic and one from Townsville; and another story from Central Qld.
Not one story from Bundaberg which is the major city in this area.
Might as well just have a statewide bulletin.
Same scenario again tonight.
First half dozen stories were generic statewide stories. None really “news of the day” just general interest. The reminder of stories included one from Sunshine Coast and one from Maryborough, but others from Callide, Toowoomba and Mackay, all not part of this region.
Sport was 2 State of Origin stories, one a recount of last night’s game (that’s not local), and one from Townsville. There was one sport story from the Sunshine Coast.
At least the weather is local.
It is not a full local bulletin and it won’t be again. There isn’t the revenue base to support such resources as there was in the past.
This. They don’t even have the resources to do proper news like courts and crime stories. Journalists are encouraged to find feature stories which can travel across regions.
I saw a story about the journalist tandem skydiving out of a plane for some charity. This is the content you’ll find on WIN News.
Just have one state bulletin. Surely that has to be cheaper.
Briefly, without going into details, a stateside bulletin wouldn’t fulfil the requirements of local news required of regional stations.
Fair enough. Silly requirement if it only has to be local in name not content.
They still have have to do (i think) 120 points of local content per week on average in each region (they have to do 5 regions out of 7 in regional QLD I think). This equates to 60 minutes of local news.
Seems to me that Wide Bay is one of the two they are not covering in that respect.
Other option for those markets is to run the Brisbane schedule, but seems like WIN are doing this just to have a consistent schedule and nothing else.
They have a Reporter in Hervey Bay which is in the Wide Bay. They would have to travel to Bundaberg if there was something earth shattering but they don’t have a reporter based there.
7 however I understand have reporters in both cities.
It’s a bit over an hour drive between Hervey Bay and Bundy. They could quite easily cover stores in both cities on the same day 
I’m just wonder what are the 7 WIN markets WIN are in across QLD
The markets I’m aware of are
Townsville/Cairns (old TNQ/FNQ region);
Mackay (old MVQ region);
Rockhampton (old RTQ region);
Wide Bay (old SEQ region); and
Darling Downs (old DDQ/SDQ region)
I think Townsville and Cairns are meant to be separate for local content requirements plus there is the Sunshine Coast.
WBQ (Maryborough, Bundaberg) expanded in the late 1970s to include the Sunshine Coast and became SEQ, later Sunshine Television.
Ok, I wasn’t sure if you were putting Gold Coast in with either Sunshine Coast as having a WIN presence, noting that the old ITQ region is under remote licence and WIN not having a presence there.
WIN Network has announced the appointment of Sophie Kuryl to the role of WIN’s Tasmania news director.
Sophie takes over the role from Alex Johnston who is moving into a media role within State Politics.
