Is Peter Hitchener some bot? or does he seem to be on social media all the time?
Either way, his better then the one mumbling about ‘African Crime Gangs’ over on HSV…
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Peter Hitchener is amazing. His social media presence is just astonishing really… especially for someone in his 70s!
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So amazing. A little story. My mother and i got a studio tour from him ( i organised it) so yeah a lovely tour met everyone to do witht the news. Then afterwards, he took us to the channel 9 building’s cafe and said we could have anything we liked and that he would pay for it himself!! Lovely person. Best news presenter
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Goid point. I just couldnt be bothered to do that. So a screenshot was all i got. Lol
Melissa Russell announcing pregnancy
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Looking at the ratings that was provided via a post in the Prime7 Local News thread, WIN News is rating a distant 3rd in the Border (Albury), Riverina & Central West markets behind Prime7 Local News & Nine News.
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Well thats because i forgot to watch border the last couple of nights i watched ot tonight though. Win shouls be better than prime. Maybe an error from sources.
One thing that surprises me is that WIN does a daily All Australian News but doesn’t do a weekly show. One would think that they would do something like that instead of a daily edition or to compliment the weekday editions. Also I find it a bit silly to air AAN on Friday at around midnight and then not repeat it until Monday morning (on WIN) and Monday afternoon (on 11 and One).
Yes I know that most of what they present on this program is not necessarily time affected and probably content of interest - BUT to me, to remain relevant, perhaps the Friday night edition should air during the day on Saturday and perhaps either produce a weekly edition OR air the cooking shows airing on Saturday morning on the main channel on Monday morning (perhaps Alive and Cooking followed by Good Chef Bad Chef of Family Feud encore)
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WIN News Cairns “watermark”
That why there is was two extra mountain in the Victorian Alps when Jane Bunn was on 
Got a question. I have been up here in Shepparton Area for now 3 years and I have notice that there is a high turnaround of reporters. Well when I first come up here, We have had Sam Saracino, Sueanne McCumstie and Ashleigh Kunowski. Well Sam gone to the Local govenment here in Shepp, Ashleigh gone to Nine News in Wodonga and Sueanne went to work for the government. 3 reporters for the area of Goulburn Valley and Southern Riverina.
but since then, I have seen about 12 different reporters in 2 years like Stephanie Atkins(Seen just popped up on the NEws doing the sport, Jake Keating(Moved to Woolongong did the sport) and John Nelder.
Is Shepparton the dumping ground of Win reporters or is it a bad enviroment? Anyone has some insight into it
I’m pretty sure the phenomenon of media personalities in regional Australia only staying where they are for a few years at most before moving onto other things isn’t something particularly unique to WIN News Goulburn Valley…
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Not when there is only 12 people in the past 2 years. average 6 people a year. It look like two things, The Journalist job market is fantastic which it is not or there is huge pressure coming from above at WIN news
I wouldn’t say it is just WIN News specific - regional areas are generally much smaller grounds for those starting their careers.
In those examples with Stephanie Atkins & Jake Keating - they both started as local journos seen only in the Goulburn Valley market but have since been promoted higher up the ranks to their Woolongong HQ, where they present bulletins across the state.
Over on Nine News Local, the original Shepparton VJ Lana Murphy last year landed a job down the Hume Highway at 9 Melbourne and can sometimes be seen on national bulletins. It’s opportunities like these that move them onto ‘bigger and better’ things, more so than management pressure IMO.
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yes maybe your right.
If I own that part of the business, I would would find it strange that there huge turnover of staff in that department in the past 2 years. For an branch run by about 8 people, I alway thought it was underrescoured…Maybe not then
But the management of WIN/Nine Regional/NBN/SC/ABC regional newsrooms know that they are the B-league with potentially lots of new talent coming through and then going on to bigger and better things, and manage accordingly.
It’s a bit like soccer outside of Australia and the US, where the lower leagues often harbour young talent for a few years before they move onto the bigger stage, and where some grandees or pensioners go to see out their twilight years.
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Here’s two Riverland Updates from last week. They are still using the sponsor opener from the previous graphics package:
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absolutely not strange in the slightest. Many regional tv and radio stations are ‘training grounds’ for us Journos who are starting our careersm some might stay for a few months, others a few years.
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I agree with others that this is very little to do with a bad working environment specific to WIN or more specifically their Shepparton office.
Regional news is largely staffed by younger reporters who have come from metro areas and have ambition to one day work in their home city. (The journalism graduates without ambition never even set foot in the door). Therefore, most will jump at the opportunity for a promotion, even if it’s something as simple as the same level job with the same pay in a larger market.
Also, because regional newsrooms need to cover areas with smaller populations and advertising revenue is smaller per capita than the metros, the pay offered is essentially minimum wage, for workloads that aren’t small - for example having to fully prepare 2 reports per day, and attend news that doesn’t always happen withing the bounds of a 9-5 job. May graduates find that journalism isn’t the glamorous job they thought it would be and find that they can get more better work for better money in other fields, or like many other 20-somethings find after a couple of years that their chosen industry just isn’t for them.
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