I hope it’s a sign Nine correctly see that local news is one of the few things that the ‘old’ media will have an advantage with.
When we’re in an all streaming future, the only reason for you to connect with ‘Nine’ is their fairly unique product of news relevant to your area - the biggest shows are probably on the global streaming services. The internet means that being on ‘Channel 9’ means nothing to audiences.
7+ gives you far more regions of local news product than 9Now does - and Nine need to fix that before people don’t know to try. I don’t think WIN’s product is good enough at this point that even if Nine could add it to their streaming services they wouldn’t - so perhaps going to an arrangement closer to the SCA deal where at least Nine can quality control their brand and product.
This. NBN News, Nine News Darwin and Nine News Tasmania need to be added onto 9Now, as well as maybe WIN. ABC doesn’t exclude the ACT, NT and TAS bulletin on Iview for example, and 7NEWS has all bulletins, metro and regional, on 7+. You can’t say much about 10 and SBS but they do have all their bulletins on 10play and SBS On-Demand.
I’d assumed Nine were just in a better position to be able to wind their service down, absorb staff into their other services, or otherwise had structured contracts knowing they had a 5 year deal with the possibility of not extending.
WIN on the other hand have had a very long term news production business, so would have staff on all sorts of deals - which would be more costly to unwind. I’d expect most if not all of WIN’s current reporters in Tasmania shuffle over to Nine’s bulletin.
Because Tasmania is the exception, rather than the rule, with traditionally a strong local news presence
it’s a gamble to try and take market share away from seven, nothing else
I don’t see that this will be replicated in other areas, unless Seven (formally Prime) were to try something in Canberra/elsewhere first and then Nine were to try and compete
But WIN may not want to take part in that. I remember WIN complaining about loss of business in regional areas in relation to streaming so I’m under an impression that WIN is still against streaming nowadays.
not at all, i have multiple friends based at 9 Sydney at the time and they all said the NEWSroom was very disappointed in the regional news stopping, now the direct competition has what 9 once had and that is regional resources, its just that 7 haven’t really utilised it as yet, 9 regional did crosses for ACA and Today all the time, 7 haven’t really done that.