The Radioinfo report posted by TV-Expert has a similar view.
One reason Channel 9 switched allegiences, according to one insider, was that WIN did not want to invest in new platforms or try new ways of gathering and disseminating news content via social media. The network has only recently, belatedly begun disseminating sponsored news content on social media, but it seems to have come too little and too late for the axed newsrooms.
I agree. One format they could have tried was instead of the just airing the old noodle updates, maybe air a news report on a current issue in an “ad” break relevant to that region - 1 reporter and cameraman/woman keeping their job is better than none. Use some stories as fillers instead of Studio 10 exerts and produce a half hour (or hour) weekly news show like SCA did with State Focus… Perhaps a more sensible axing would be AAN as in the next few years, they might as well screen WIN News Canberra and Wollongong back to back as most likely no other region will have “local” news
Didnt ABC at some point produce local news?
Five minutes before the 7pm news, from what I understand in Victoria, Gippsland got their own and the rest was state wide.
ABC Radio news would provide better coverage now then what tv was doing back then. That said, most nights the 7pm news had a regional story or two
People can complain about WIN axing local news bulletins, but the Ten affiliate for Northern NSW (formerly known as NRTV and SCA10) have not screened local news since 1995
Wouldnt WIN be better off screening a state-based sports program on Sunday morning as an offering in affected markets rather than just axing local news?
It would make more sense than screening a late night news service that no one watches
Re, the old 5 minute ABC Regional News Update: Even back then, you probably would’ve been better watching the regional commercial TV station’s local news service (which of course was probably better resourced in the 1980s than it is now, but that’s really beside the point)?
Just for the record, I’d actually be delighted if the ABC were to expand their regional TV news operations. Heck, I’d even like to see an ABC News service on TV which is more focused on Sydney because there are sometimes important local stories that won’t make ABC News NSW that Seven & Nine (Ten to a lesser extent) will cover. But for obvious reasons I can’t see that happening anytime soon.
Sure, but that doesn’t make WIN’s decision to axe four news bulletins any better.
Also if what I saw in Newcastle back in Late April/Early May was anything to go by, WIN’s so-called “effort” at a local news service up there isn’t great. One of the updates was essentially just a regurgitated press release for the Woolworths “Earn & Learn” program!
AAN is easy content, the packaged stories were already made from the previous night’s bulletins. It wouldn’t take them that long to put it all together.
Step 1: Cherry-pick the best stories from the night before; surely a one-person job.
Step 2: Record linking studio pieces, recycle the story intro from last night’s scripts.
Plus it would keep regional viewers happy who like “localness” and shows them stories that might not make the metro network news.
agreed
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Comment from Prime CEO regarding WIN News bulletin closures
“I know the WIN guys well – this would have been a torturous decision for them,” Mr Audsley said. "They’ve been tremendous supporters of local news”.
The axing of WIN News made it as a question on this week’s Have You Been Paying Attention.
Rather strangely, it didn’t make it on this week’s Media Watch, however WIN News was mentioned in this week’s episode in regards to the Ballarat court trial that was already documented elsewhere in this forum.
With the last bulletins airing on Friday, the topic might feature in next week’s episode
That’s a good point.
After all, Media Watch didn’t bring up about WIN News Tasmania’s shifting of production from Hobart to Wollongong until after it happened last August.
I think WIN was originally trying to sweep this under the rug without informing the public. If that journalist didn’t do the tweet, most of us wouldn’t know about it no doubt.
Regional media shutdowns are a partnership opportunity
Media transformation is an opportunity for Charles Sturt to pioneer a new model of news production.
https://news.csu.edu.au/opinion/regional-media-shutdowns-are-a-partnership-opportunity
Of all the unis, they would actually be the best placed to do some sort of partnership with a commercial outlet. CSU Bathurst used to work with the old CBN-8 Orange back the day IIRC, and maybe with Prime in their early days? (Happy to be corrected, but that’s what I was told).
The only issue here is that CSU needs to make sure they are fairly compensated for their efforts, both the university AND the students. The students are doing what would otherwise be paid work that the likes of WIN can not, or are not, willing to pay. Prime, Nine, SCA and WIN would be rubbing their hands at glee at the thought of cheap labour.
There are issues with the use of uni students for unpaid internships, and that what this could turn into if it isn’t monitored. CSU have to be very, VERY careful about this. The idea is sound, but these commercial mongrels are not to be trusted.
Note: I am a CSU alumni, although not a media graduate.
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