so do they air all day and evening like the ones on Southern Cross, or is it just 1 per night?
@southeastsa Both Queensland studios only have three bulletins out of each, so thatâs more than likely the reason. Any chance youâd be able to cap one of these updates? It would be much appreciated.
I have recently moved to the Mackay/Coalfields region, and managed to cap one of the WIN News Weather Updates that air statewide during the evening. This is the only material from WIN News now aired into the Mackay region, and even comes with itâs own generic WIN opener, even though the WIN News watermark is on screen.
Looks like Corinne May now doing Wins All Australian news
Hannah McEwan has given birth to her baby girl, rather fittingly named Storm. Mum and bub are said to be doing well.
Spot the difference!
The strangest part was that they had the correct temperatures up for the area forecasts; it was just the seven day outlook which displayed the wrong temps (which Corinne read out) o.O
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Surely she should have known there was something wrong with those tempsâŚ
We ALL know that Canberra doesnât get overnight lows of 21 degrees for seven days straight in April!
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It was very odd, given earlier in the report she mentioned a ~10 degree drop for tomorrow and the fact that it would be 21, then went on to say ~:30 all week!
The temperatures listed are pretty much exactly the same as what Weatherzone says for Rockhampton. Someone changed the city name but not the temps? I didnt see what went to air in Rocky though.
Either way amateur effort.
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Just checked on the BOM.
Theyâve listed the Rockhampton forecast on the Canberra bulletin by mistake by the looks of it.
Iâd guess they probably listed the Canberra temps on the Rockhampton bulletin, which would have really confused people!
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Good pick up there, NQ!
I donât know how they can make an error as big as that?
Or did someone get Canberra and Capricornia confused somehow? 
I thought WIN Weather was presented in QLD for QLD viewers and in NSW for ACT viewers?
Nope.
WIN News QLD produces and presents the weather reports for QLD, ACT and Tasmania usually.
I sent an email through to the WIN Weather crew about the error and Corinne replied and said it was an error from their data entry crew.
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Riverina updates and bulletins from Monday and Tuesday this week
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As NQ mentioned, Hannah McEwan (and Corinne May when Hannah is off) are both based in Maroochydore, and are the only weather presenters for the WIN Network, with Hannah being the meteorologist.
Corinne used to be the fill in for Peter Byrne in the Rocky studios too.
Hannah does QLD, Canberra and TAS, Corinne only does QLD and Canberra.
Victoria used to have their own weather presenter (Britt Ditterich), but since the lead up to/move to Wollongong, itâs read from the desk, along with the NSW bulletins.
Also, it would appear Corinne is now the regular presenter of the All Australian News, currently in its third week of coming out of Maroochydore.
Thanks to both CQtvNetwork and NQCQTV2 for the explanations re WIN Weather presenters (are you related by the way!?)
Canberra promo
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Regional news promos are always so bad. None of them ever feel current or topical. They feel like they get a few stories from the last few weeks, say the same vague things about âcommitment to youâ, âyour town, your newsâ blah blah - they are all the same. They need to look to larger market news promos and up the quality and marketing
And that music in the WIN News Canberra promo - itâs like the background music to a government department promotional video or something
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I agree. Probably the best regional news promo(s) Iâve seen in recent times were the âYour News Every Dayâ series for NBN News. Iâm not sure if theyâre still running since the transition to Nineâs branding, but those efforts from NBN were quite possibly the best promos for a regional TV news service that Iâve ever seen and would give many promos for metropolitan news services (cough Seven News Sydney cough) a good run for their money.
Aside from that, pretty much every other promo for regional TV news services have been pretty average from what Iâve seen. Always following the same template with voiceover lines about how they âtake local news seriouslyâ and âbringing you more of the news you need to knowâ while the news report footage used is of some lighthearted story from a community event that happened last week. Boring!
I think that WIN need to start looking outside the Audio Network library for production music to use in their promos, thatâs for sure!
I think you over estimate the resources they have behind the scenes, to be cutting new promos every night to keep them up to date is not going to happen.
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Itâs understandable that regional networks donât have the same resources as their metro counterparts to produce promos. It would be unrealistic to expect WIN or Prime7 to produce and air Nine News Sydney-standard promos every night, but surely they would be better off doing a polished and professional promo thatâs kept intact for about six months or so rather than a lacklustre promo thatâs updated every week or two?
No one would expect the promos to be the quality of 9 Sydney or 7 Melbourne news promos, clearly - we are talking about much smaller markets. My point is the promos could and should be a lot better than they are. They seem to have followed the same formula forever, looking to regional promos from 15 years ago rather than looking to bigger market news promos for inspiration.
WIN has stated it costs around $1m a year to operate each of the local 20 local news services. So if you are going to invest that kind of money, you need sufficient marketing and promos. They have promo people, editors, graphics staff, producers etc for the news - it would take an investment of some better promo people and the direction of the news director or promo director to look to target market promos, and up the quality.
Not a huge dollar investment when you consider WIN spends $25m a year on local news
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