WIN News regional Queensland presenter Lincoln Humphries presented the Illawarra bulletin tonight. I believe that could be a first.
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Must have had a busy day as he still presented in Queensland, though I don’t know how many bulletins.
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Lincoln was presenting Canberra too. Bruce must be away
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I believe the WIN bulletins are pre-recorded clips for each pack compiled together into a rundown rather than pre-recording whole bulletins.
It makes it much more efficient when another presenter has to cover more regions. I guess it also saves time when you want to play the same pack in another region as-well.
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They should have local presentation it can’t be that expensive with today’s technology no excuses.
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Yes it’s really not as expensive now as people think.
It’s the purchasing/upgrading the equipment that makes networks avoid it. However, it’s much cheaper to present from the local area/state and controlled in the central hub (Wollongong). It’s what GWN7 does at the moment I believe.
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… it’s not the technology that’s expensive … it’s the people …
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Well they already have people reporting in the area they could use the chief of staff or someone who assigns the jobs to each reporter as the presenter especially in other states like Tasmania and Queensland . They do not need a special person to do it.
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… and someone to point the camera … and someone to switch the vision … and someone to control the audio … and someone to fix the equipment when it breaks down …
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They don’t need any of that with today’s automation. Just train the presenter on how to fix basic audio issues. While it isn’t much of an issue when Canberra news is presented from Wollongong it is an issue when Hobart news is presented from Wollogorang and it should be avoided where possible. WIN news should be doing more cost should not be an issue if they use tech that is currently available to them…
… have you ever worked in the television industry?
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TV stations are lucky they can get away with limited news services if i had my way WIN would have their license to operate revoked due to their decision to axe news bulletins which would force them to be innovative in their news gathering and do more with less.
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… I notice you keep using the word “obligation” … what you need to understand is that local station “obligation” went out the window in 1985 when Bob Hawke introduced his crackpot “aggregation” policy … at that point “obligation” was replaced by “competition” and the flipside of getting three competing networked services in place of one was that “localism” was banished into history … if you want to blame someone, blame the politicians for fiddling with the media business to suit their capital-city-based media-mogul mates and making it worse every time …
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TV stations should not need government legislation in order to provide appropriate service to the public. With a bit of effort and innovation news services can be profitable and it’s a point of difference that Amazon Prime Video, Netflix etc don’t currently provide it is purely laziness and greed on Win’s part so you should not be blaming a decision of the government made over 30 years ago.
I can see both points here. IMO local news including win news is done because it has to be done. because they’re obligated to do it. I’m sure win prime 7 and sca9 would be happy if they didn’t have to do it all. and if I remember correctly the law only changed because either the govt or people were complaining about having all metro news and no local news but I could and probably am wrong. I know there is a reason why it all changed but can’t remember why. and going on to streaming services if the federal govt really wanted to they could make streaming services here in Australia have local news and have it that they must be part of the streaming services term of being streamed in australia
you realise they don’t just run these stations for love right? It’s a commercial service, if they don’t turn a profit they go out of business. If they can find a way to save a buck that doesn’t break legal obligations, they will.
The fact you think they only need one person doing essentially everything in regards to getting a bulletin to air, even in the present day with automation makes it blatantly obvious that you know absolutely nothing about the industry.
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and I can also remember where win news used to be a good product. back when I was growing up my family never got any newspaper, because they could always rely on win news always bringing local news and staying local but now it’s the complete opposite, it’s like as though there trying to encourage you to get the local paper to read
I know more then you think while I have never worked in the industry I have been participating in these forums on and off since it started. Not providing news should not be a option and it can and does make money if it’s done right so the money debate doesn’t cut it for me.
I think I’ve only ever seen full bulletins from the Illawarra (previously living in an area of Sydney which could sometimes get the Knights Hill stations, plus the trips down South in 2016) and going by those…
*WIN News was a reasonably decent local news service for the Illawarra in the Late 2000s and the early part of last decade when the main presenting team was Geoff Phillips, Kerryn Johnson & Amy Taylor/Duggan.
*From the little I’ve seen of more recent bulletins, WIN News is unfortunately, a lacklustre product these days. While I don’t doubt the current presenters/reporters/other BTS crew do the very best they can with virtually no resources, the reporting style and overall structure of the bulletin feels like something from the 1990s.
Although other regional broadcasters have some of the same issues with their local bulletins that WIN News does (eg, the production of “generic regional issues” pieces that air across multiple markets), at least they try and mix things up with the inclusion of crosses to reporters on the scene, presenter banter, etc.
I’m reasonably sure that even the television and radio networks which serve metropolitan Australia would not produce any local news/programming if it wasn’t profitable. But that’s for another time and topic.
If the likes of Netflix and Amazon were told by the Federal Government than they had to produce regional news services as a condition of being available in the Australian market, I think they’d just pull out.
And if every streaming and satellite service available in Australia had to provide regional news there would be dozens of bulletins that no one would be watching.
Canal Plus Australia producing a Wagga Wagga news in French would be a novelty.
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