So, just reading the advanced guides for next weekend, Ten has coverage of the V8 Supercars on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm-6pm. Ten have no news of course, but this means no news for Tasmania on WIN either. This is certainly not a great look for WIN Tasmania now is it? They will never gain any sort of traction on SC locally when their news goes MIA whenever Ten have the V8’s on or other sporting commitments.
In this event, they should be airing the news at 6pm and just opt-out of Ten’s metro schedule.
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Definitely agree!
Move the news from 5:30pm to 6:00pm for those two nights only and return to Ten metro programming at 6:30pm.[/quote]Viewers are certainly not missing out on anything. 6pm on Saturday is just a Modern Family repeat, and Sunday Family Feud is still on Eleven and One if people want to watch it ‘live’. Or alternatively, they can catch the repeat the following day at 5pm before WIN News.
On both Saturday and Sunday Ten are producing a nation bulletin. 5.30pm in Adelaide for 30 minutes and a full one hour for Perth to be shown at 5.00pm there.
I know it’s been said before but what’s the bet that within 6-12 months, WIN will axe Tasmania’s weekend bulletin? As much as I want as much local news/content on TV as possible, I do think it’s going to be very hard to justify the continuation of WIN Tasmania’s weekend news long term when Ten themselves don’t do local weekend news in major metro markets and when there’s major sporting events on (which is a complete joke IMO, because we all know that Seven and Nine manage to work their news bulletins around major sporting events just fine), not even a national weekend news bulletin at all!
Of course I really hope to be proven wrong, but it’s probably not a matter of if, but rather when there will next be major cutbacks at WIN News Tasmania. I certainly don’t think the news service will close down entirely (at least not yet anyway) of course, but I do think that the weekend news and possibly the composite hour format may not be sustainable in the long run.
Still very Nine-ish Hopefully more changes will happen through time. Well at least it looks like it did before the affiliation change, so viewers feel at home
About the only difference (apart from the updated supers of course) is the removal of a gloss layer from the logo. Personally, I think they could’ve at least changed the red bit(s) on the titlecards to orange…
I’m curious to want to know if NEC, the owner of nine network will be taking action against WIN for using the opening and closing graphics as too similar to the nine news one?
I completely agree…but remember who we’re talking about here? The same regional news service which kept it’s original 2006 Opening/Closing titlecard graphics in use right up until 2012-13!
Hopefully more changes will happen through time. Well at least it looks like it did before the affiliation change, so viewers feel at home 
