Here’s another promo
The local WIN News Townsville crew must really hate not having a news room located in Mackay anymore.
A local MP that covers the southern suburbs of Townsville is based in Mackay, so they frequently have to travel to Mackay to interview him for News stories.
Also, not sure why they covered it (most likely because 9 News would have wanted a story), but there was a major accident on the Bruce Highway near Mackay over the weekend, and the local Townsville crew travelled around 450km to cover the story.
Despite it not really being relevant here, they broadcast the story on WIN News Townsville tonight, most likely because they travelled so far to cover it.
Bit of a hiccup with the Shepparton bulletin tonight. I didn’t get to see it myself, but was told that stories shown were from all different parts of the state (eg, country footy results from Gippsland as per one post on their wall). This statement from their Facebook page posted an hour later:
WIN News Shepparton
On behalf of your local WIN News team we would like to apologise for the technical difficulties affecting the broadcast of tonight’s news service.
Due to a systems failure the local news content gathered could not be replayed in its entirety.
All attempts will be made tomorrow to rectify the technical issues, and bring our loyal viewers content that was missed from tonight’s bulletin plus all the local and breaking news as it happens.
Are they going to try to lobby for the reinstatement of the Mackay bulletin? Despite early talks of the wide bay bulletin being axed I’m surprised the wide bay bulletin is still running.
Major timing issues for WIN News Townsville tonight.
The bulletin started on time and ran perfectly for the first section.
But after that every subsequent return from ad break for the entire rest of the bulletin was around 30+ seconds into the story.
For example, the return to the weather report went straight from an ad break to Corinne talking in front of the satellite, missing the opening and the “Today’s temperatures” sections.
Knowing WIN, I doubt they’d be willing to reinstate an axed bulletin.
I was surprised they removed the Mackay bulletin instead of Wide Bay last year when the axing was taking place. Given the Mackay bulletin covered the entire Whitsundays region as well.
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The Canberra bulletin had the same problem.
An example of a ‘Tonight on WIN News’ promo/newsbreak currently doing the rounds on the Queensland bulletins. Each one is localised to their region. I like it, something different for WIN.
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That looks just like the ‘Tonight’ promos I’ve seen airing on Nine News.
Really nice change from WIN!
This is the Nine News version I was talking about:
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Tonight’s version also features a new in studio update ender and voice over. Quality isnt the best, apologies.
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The promo format and idea is decent enough, but the music really lets it down. It’s almost depressing, sombre and boring, Makes the news feel heavy, slow, depressing. The music should be a bit more urgent, exciting, breaking and current in feeling - to make it feel more energetic.
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WIN should move to a one hour news format, with local and national news combined, the same way 9, 7, Ten, 9NBN, 9 Darwin, Southern Cross Tasmania etc do it.
I think it is a better way to deliver the news. It means you can get the biggest stories of the the day up the top of the bulletin. It also means 30 minutes is not padded out with some trivial local news. It means the hour can be filled with the most newsworthy relevant news be it local, state and national
It also moves local news back to 6pm, and means WIN viewers do not have to get a whole lot of local Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne local news, sport and weather which is not relevant to them.
All 9 stations (Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney) now do a one hour combined local/national news at 6 now. WIN should follow that. WIN actually does this in Tasmania
It allows ACA t go back to 7 - which rates very well
I would suggest WIN follow the NBN Model - do a market wide news for QLD, one for Southern NSW, one for Victoria. Then a local news and local weather window for each local region within that hour at about 6.10pm
The opening 10 minutes would be the biggest stories of the day “networked”
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I do tend to agree with this idea.
I think WIN News and 7 Local News should do one hour combined local/national bulletins in the same format as NBN News does.
Living in Townsville, it’s nearly pointless watching 7 News or 9 News from a city nearly 1500km away.
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I probably have to agree that WIN (and indeed, all regional networks) should adopt the NBN-style format of having local, state, national and international news in an hour. That way the most relevant stories of the day can be reported on, rather than having to rely on irrelevant news from another area or some patronising “generic regional issues” report to fill a 30 minute local bulletin.
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Yeah, I 100% agree.
WIN News in Townsville had a completely random fill-in story last night about a robbery in Rockhampton (over 800km away) which had absolutely no relevance to the local area.
Having an NBN-style format would be great.
I’d love to see WIN News open with local stories for the first 15 minutes, then move onto national news for the next 25 minutes, then a mixed local/national sport followed by local weather.
No need to listen to pointless 9 News stories about events in Brisbane.
Similarly, I’d like 7 Local News to rebrand itself as just 7 News, opening with local news, moving to national, mixed sport and local weather.
7’s current format of chopping 7 News into a half hour bulletin is pretty pathetic in my opinion.
Last night for example we had News from 6:30-6:39, Sport from 6:42-6:53 and Weather/Close from 6:56-7:00 (approx.)… there was more sport than there was actual news.
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The big problem with the scenarios presented is that the bulletins would have to start recording at probably about midday. Many local, national and state stories would not be ready by then and some would be out-of-date by the time of broadcast. So they would have to record some of the bulletin at one time, then other parts later and put them together and some things would still be out of date. At least with the current system, WIN viewers should be getting the latest news (including those important live crosses to outside closed court houses 
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Except that aren’t some WIN bulletins taped at about 3 in the afternoon?
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Except that aren’t some WIN bulletins taped at about 3 in the afternoon?
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The preferences above seemed to be for a fully locally focused bulletin for each region that also included national stories.
I was referring to the 6pm Brisbane news that is live.
That’s not what was meant in the previous posts, as I said:
Basically having the local news and sport pre-recorded individually for each market, as is done now.
With the national segment presented LIVE.
In this scenario, theoretically filming wouldn’t need to be started as early, as their would be no need to keep repeating filler stories from other regions.
Example:
6:00 - Pre-recorded individual opener for each region featuring local/national stories.
6:01 - Local News Stories (Pre-recorded)
6:20 - National News Stories (LIVE)
6:40 - National Sport Stories (LIVE)
6:50 - Local Sport Stories (Pre-recorded)
6:55 - Local Weather (Pre-recorded)
6:59 - Closer (LIVE)
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I don’t think the concept of a “national” window for generic window work.
It would need to be state based eg. so items like state elections and NRL/AFL coverage reflects that state.
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Regarding other comments above on a NBN style format to overcome issues of irrelevant news content.
NBN is guilty of doing this still - almost every night, all of Northern NSW gets at least 1 Newcastle centric item.