WIN News

Studio size is irrelevant. I’m sure I’ve read here the Woolongong studios have been divided up to allow the current news productions to occur each afternoon.

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You are correct

Was there any news coverage of the affiliation swap on WIN News last night? Anyone got a video/caps?

It wasn’t mentioned on it’s Western Victoria bulletin.

Nothing mentioned in the WIN Illawarra bulletin, Nine News Sydney local or metro, or Ten News. Didn’t check Seven as that would require me to watch their god awful double header bulletin.

Perhaps it wasn’t mentioned out of respect for the journos who face an uncertain future. It may be good news for Bruce but it isn’t for people employed to work on these bulletins or for the communities they serve. It has been mentioned here in the past that these regional journos, although competing, worked co-operatively with their colleagues at WIN and Prime and would’ve formed friendships, particularly during long waits outside local court houses.

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Can guarantee that happens all over - the Prime7 and NBN journos have very strong friendships.

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Wonder what will happen in Tassie?
Local News at 5:30, Melbourne News at 6. Or back to a composite Newshour?

I’ll expect to see reports and change-over promos to kick in around May - or when SCA signs a deal with 10 which is always pretty close to the date usually.

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Yes, have wondered that too - there is familiarity with the Nine News Melbourne brand now but with better programming and more finances a composite bulletin may be able to be tried again but they’d need to find some way to get viewers from 7 which could pretty much put a turd on screen for an hour and still win the ratings it seems.

Hard for SCA to advertise the changeover when they’ve lost but I’d expect WIN to talk things up but it’s still a bit early - they need to still sound positive about the shows they currently have to try and get people to watch. Is always interesting closer to the time though because neither will be wanting to advertise shows around that time that they won’t be airing or will be continuing after the changeover but then somehow integrating the newer promos into their ads too - will they have the Nine logo then or just be generic?

As for the remainder of the deals, I’d imagine now that things will be sorted quite quickly between Ten and SCA and all the JV’s. From memory last time WIN had quite long negotiations with Ten and had the threats to go it alone which then meant all the JV stations had delays too in getting finalised. I’m pretty sure the TDT one only got settled on the afternoon of changeover and we didn’t know what was going to happen at midnight as to whether they’d be able to get a Nine feed or not.

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At least WIN News won’t need to change the theme music!

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I think this will be the best option. It’s also a good for Tasmanian viewers who have the choice between 3 local bulletins to watch at 5.30, 6.00 and at 7.00. The market just isn’t big enough to sustain two commercial bulletins up against one another.

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We’d never accept the ABC running the Victorian bulletin in Tasmania. We’d probably never accept SCA Seven running Seven News Melbourne in Tasmania.

We shouldn’t accept WIN running Nine News Melbourne in Tasmania. The only reason we could accept the TDT broadcasts of Nine News Melbourne is because TDT are a joint venture station between WIN & SCA and therefore, a secondary concern compared to the two “original” or “analogue” stations.

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I just don’t think there’s any chance of this.
WIN is hardly going to expand any of their news programming with a 50% share to pay, IMO.

Having a newshour in Tassie would be an expansion of the current bulletin… I just don’t see that happening at all.

what’s the bet they don’t even change news branding and just continue broadcasting the same as previously with no changes?

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Likewise in Queensland.
I’m not surprised. The only bulletin that might have had something was Nine Brisbane. Southern Cross 9 would be in denial and as for WIN, they would love their viewers to keep thinking that the network never lost the Nine affiliation in the first place.

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What did WIN have last time around? I can’t remember

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Which month?

Had the bulletins gone to hour long on 7 by then? Can’t remember when TT was axed. I think it was the full composite bulletin though, either half an hour or an hour.

WIN have never shown the Melbourne bulletins however that was something TDT 10 did which then carried on when it became TDT 9.

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Pretty sure WIN News Tasmania became a composite hour long bulletin (with local, state, national and international stories) at 6pm when Nine News expanded to an hour in Late 2013/Early 2014.

Then the affiliation switch happened which resulted in WIN News Tasmania moving to 5.30pm for a couple of months. Same composite format, but with Ten stories instead of Nine’s for national and international news.

Presumably due to poor ratings, the weeknight editions of WIN News Tasmania became a half hour local bulletin (similar in format as those received in other markets) at 6pm a few months later. Although the composite 5.30pm hour somehow managed to continue on weekends until the 2018 cutbacks and centralisation of presentation to Wollongong.

Seven axed Today Tonight on the East Coast in February 2014 - Southern Cross News Tasmania would’ve expanded to a full hour then.

Going by their profile on Twitter, WIN News Canberra currently has five reporters: Caitlyn Chambers, Emma Groves, Eliza Watson Laura Gardiner and Natasha McFarlane.

I’m pretty sure the Illawarra has a similar number of reporters for their edition of WIN News, don’t know whether some of the smaller regions would have five though!

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Canberra has been force fed Sydney news for years, and NT gets Brisbane. Why is Tassie so special?

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Last I checked, Tasmania is in the unique situation of being an island state.

But that’s not to say I think the two mainland territories shouldn’t get their very own TV news bulletins on all channels rather than having to rely on some from elsewhere.

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