Too bad he wasn’t moved to Prime
Yeah but in 1962, the news broadcast properly wasn’t called WIN News 
It wasn’t always called WIN News in the past 50 years, either. During the 1970s it’s title was The 6 O’Clock News and featured an Apollo rocket on the launch pad in the opening titles. During the late '80s and early '90s it was known as WIN Nightly News.
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TCN9 news had a rocket launch as part of their opening titles in the either late 1960s or early 1970s, hard to remember exactly when. I wonder who had it first.
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On location Update
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I just saw a really good quality Central West WIN News promo, and jeez were they great. Possibly one of the best Regional News promos I’ve seen for a while. They can make great promos, but make dull outdated bulletins.
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I saw one of their promos recently, it was in HD, unlike the bulletin. (Perhaps slightly misleading?)
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Sounds a bit like NBN News 
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How is WIN News performing in other markets at the moment?
Canberra seems to be doing well, but have other markets settled down with the network change?
Last week, in the 6-6:30pm timeslot, WIN News wins in Canberra, but lost to Seven News Sydney in their heritage Wollongong market.
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Yes in the 6-630
Slot WIN news Canberra beat Prime7 in Canberra but only in that 30 minute block
7 News sydney actually has more viewers than WIN news as a broadcast
Both
Were soundly beaten by ABC News Canberra
But
And love how WIN didn’t issue a release for Wollongong
But the biggest loser is 9 news SNSW coming 4th in Canberra and at least 3rd in the Gong
Central West promos
Caps from tonights bulletin:
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I don’t hate that WIN News promo - the message is spot on and the GFX look decent. Just the music sounds like a kids fairytale movie sound track.
I really wish WIN would contract dd8 (design house in Sydney who did Ten’s current package) to render out a WIN News version of the look, complete with the music and localized opens
And as the sets are all green screen, also do some Ten News inspired set changes.
Then the bug should change from “your local news” to “central west” (insert region)
Small
Inexpensive changes that would really do wonders
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If anything WIN have proven they had the right tactic - Nine Local News looks like a pale imitation of the familiar faces and look on WIN.
There’s no benefit to them of the Ten brand, and all the viewer confusion over WIN/Nine seems to be falling in WIN’s favour, with viewers choosing WIN’s familiar faces - they’re smart not to mess with the formula right now.
I still think Nine’s concept is better - but they’ve blown it with their execution and lost the Nine News Sydney audience that WIN built for them.
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I agree Nine’s concept is better but their execution is really dissapointing
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Considering Prime7 Canberra is beating both WIN and Nine in that market with a $0 investment in local news - I don’t see them rushing to launch local news or change anything.
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Unfortunately as it’s off topic but still covers local news, Prime has it’s own mind and can do what it likes. 7 Queensland and Prime are 2 completely different companies.
