It is more than likely what they’re going for. But given the decades of historical significance of it being the final bulletin out of the soon to be sold off/demolished BTV6 studios, it does rate some kind of mention though. It may come in due course, but a look back at some of the great production that has come out of those studios would be nice.
I also don’t like that presenters that have been on air for a few years in the regions just disappear without warning or notice (eg. Wes Cusworth and Britt Ditterich.) There are a few complaints/queries across the various VIC facebook pages asking where Bruce Roberts and Britt were/if they are coming back, no reply from WIN of course.
@Andyt30 She is new to the Ballarat bulletin as of tonight, but has been presenting the other four local VIC bulletins on and off for the past month plus.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but I can see it staying that way for some time to come too. I couldn’t tell you the exact date, but I’m fairly sure that Wollongong studio bulletins haven’t had a weather presenter for 15+ years.
I’d have to check on this, but I don’t think that WIN News Illawarra has had a regular weather presenter (rather than a news presenter reading out the forecast) since Nathan Wood left however many years ago!
So Win News Ballarat has a new newsreader after 5 years and there is zero promotion, marketing, campaign, social media, press or anything to promote and market the new newsreader?
Umm…it’s to my understanding that Bruce Roberts has been the regular newsreader of WIN News in Regional Victoria (including Ballarat) since about 2009.
That said, I do think that the transition of production from Ballarat to Wollongong could’ve been handled much better.
Not a new newsreader, but a new sports presenter. Not sure what the plan is, whether they keep Amy Duggan on all bulletins, or there are plans in the future for Wes Cusworth to move to Wollongong (unlikely though) but you’re correct on the lack of prior introduction/marketing for a new sports presenter into the VIC regions. No mention that Wes won’t be on our screens either permanently or for an interim amount of time. Poor effort for someone who has been in the chair since 2012.
According to Facebook, Wes Cusworth will be leaving WIN in a few weeks, and Britt Ditterich moved to Queensland. Someone also asked about the Mildura bulletin and something is ‘apparently brewing.’
I think the only time a “Yay, your news is now being produced further away from you” approach was taken was with the shift of the GTS/BKN bulletin to Canberra, where they kinda implied it meant the politicians would all be paying attention to the region now the news “goes to Canberra and back”.
A single two minute update airs each weeknight in the first ad break of Nine News, Seven News and The Project.
Separate updates are provided for the Limestone Coast and the Riverland, with The Border Watch and the Murray Pioneer respectively providing the news content. No vision is included, with only fairly generic OTS graphics shown.
The updates were presented from Ballarat until last Friday, but with the decommissioning of the Ballarat studios, I assumed that Wollongong would be the new home on a permanent basis. There were a couple of times over the past month when Ballarat was short staffed, and so the updates came from Wollongong. Not sure if the Queensland arrangement is permanent or not, but given that only six bulletins come from Maroochydore, whilst nine come from Wollongong, there may be more capacity for Queensland to present these updates.
I think he was rehusring a few years ago