With metro brands being adopted by regional nets, they should consider just allowing regionals to use the LCN of their metrocounterpart and then set a date. Get some ads on air warning of the change and a hotline up and running.
SC9 goes to LCN 9 and so forth.
I agree. Maybe the overlaps could go in the 900 range.
Overlaps would stay as 5, 6 and 8 ranges.
Here is an idea, take it or leave it:
5:00pm
Nice idea, but I think I’d still prefer to rather WIN replace the metropolitan edition of Ten Eyewitness News: First At Five with their own composite local/statewide/national/international bulletin at 5pm.
Not that any of these proposals are ever likely to happen of course, but WIN will have to do something about refreshing the format of their local news (the current format of WIN News is IMO, at least 15-20 years out of date) especially when they get NRN Northern NSW/Gold Coast as part of the network.
Exactly.
Telling people not to rescan was the worst decision made.
Nearly everyone I know has not retuned their TVs since last years change, and all TVs I’ve checked at family, etc. houses have something wrong with them.
Either channels on the wrong numbers or old LCN names present - or both.
9Gem on LCN 50 and 9Go on LCN 55 is a common one I keep seeing (with 9HD in the 350+ range).
The only TVs I’ve seen that are correct are the ones I’ve rescanned myself.
The evidence of the WIN NSW and ACT versions of the 6:00pm local news is that they are not. They are dull, boring and lifeless.
(Rolling over from a different thread to be on topic)
If (a big if) WIN Television chooses to expand WIN News or the 2 minute noodle news updates to northern NSW markets are they likely to get the same newsreaders as the southern NSW markets or would they have to appoint different newsreaders for the Northern NSW markets?
If the above fails would WIN be better off introducing a statewide 1 hour news bulletin at 5 pm to 6 pm including local news windows in every market in the northern and southern NSW markets?
WIN are struggling to keep their current news bulletins alive.
There’s is next to no chance of them adding any new bulletins in NNSW.
2-minute noodle updates, of course, as they will be legally required. But I don’t see them adding new staff for that.
They’ll likely just add them into either the Maroochydore or Wollongong studios current schedules.
In your opinion.
I think we will see WIN News launch a bulletin into at least Newcastle and perhaps some of the other NNSW sub markets, for reasons previous explained.
Newcastle would have to be the largest TV market in the country with only 1 news service, correct?
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In your opinion.[/quote]Well, that’s a given considering it’s a post under @NQCQTV2 username. 
I get where he’s coming from though. Realistically, the likelihood of them adding any new services at the moment is very low I would think. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re currently in the final process of axing more of their struggling existing bulletins soon rather than adding any new ones into other regions. Noodle updates would be all I would be expecting from them due to having no choice but to here.
Win’s careers website is currently recruiting for various positions across their Queensland newsrooms including chief of staffs, reporters and camera operators.
Now that could have everything to do with 9 poaching staff for the new bulletins they will be producing for SCA or Win could (unlikely) be bolstering their teams in these areas with the view to move existing staff into covering any news offering offered in NNSW when/if the ownership changes.
I think you’re right about that. Pretty shocking for what is the largest regional city in New South Wales, and the 2nd biggest in the state overall.
While I hope to be proven wrong (Newcastle & the Hunter does deserve proper competition in local news on TV, just like other major regional markets on the East Coast), I somehow doubt that WIN will go into Northern NSW and establish full local bulletins in the immediate future. Taking over the production of those short 2 Minute “Chicken Noodle” News Updates from SCA? Yes, but those would probably be relatively inexpensive for WIN to produce in either Wollongong or Maroochydore.
Keep in mind that we’re talking about the same regional network who has in recent years, axed local news services in Regional WA, Regional SA (Mount Gambier/Riverland), Mackay and Mildura. So yeah, I fully expect WIN to axe more of their existing local bulletins before launching new ones in Northern NSW.
We all saw how Nine raided other regional newsrooms for staff in Southern NSW/ACT and Victoria, so I’d expect to see something similar to happen in Queensland.
You’d think that if/when WIN News goes into the Northern NSW market, they’d try and get staff currently at NBN or Prime7 to defect.
I’ve noticed recently that Grant Broadcasters Star 106.3 FM here in Townsville have been “interviewing” (via phone) WIN News Townsville anchor Lincoln Humphries about what’s coming up at 6pm that night each afternoon.
Obviously I’m expecting to here 9 News Townsville updates on SCAs radio stations once 9 News launches, so this seems like WIN getting in on the radio news updates early.
I have noticed Humphries and Sophie Ryan have been anchoring the QLD bulletins for the past month or so. What happened to Paul Taylor?
Same thing was happening here before 9News Canberra started.
You don’t think that perhaps WIN would look at axing say WIN News Gippsland (market population 230,000) and reallocate those funds into a local news in Newcastle (market population 810,000)
Much larger opportunity to recover the costs of producing a local news service in a market with 3 times the population - and much higher ad spend - and limited competition.
Not inconceivable, just unlikely.
Now that SC Nine has a local bulletin up and running in the Gippsland region, that would make it easier for WIN to exit that market, but with the lower revenue they now get from a TEN affiliation, they would be less likely to invest in setting up a Newcastle office, staffing and other infrastructure to do local news (even though ongoing running costs would be similar to the Gippsland bulletin).
Is it possible that the Gold Coast local news updates be read out from the Sunshine Coast and the remaining northern NSW news updates be read out from Wollongong?
It’s possible, but I’d think it would be more likely that they’d do all noodle updates from the same studio so that they just need one staff member doing them.