OSIRUS (08-11-16)
An article in the local paper (cant find a link) written by James Joyce announces that Southern Cross Austereo will launch 15 regional bulletins of the NINE News from early 2017 and compete head-to-head with WIN and Prime for local news viewers.
The article goes on to say this will begin during February and will cover most of the East Coast from Cairns to regional Victoria.
It also goes on to say this will be an increase of Staff to handle this.
While journalists, camera operators and editors based in regional areas will gather the News, the programs will be produced and presented from the studios in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
I wonder will this affect the current rebroadcast of the News on VAST at all?
Last edited by gordon_s1942; 08-11-16 at 02:29 PM.
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OSIRUS (08-11-16)
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Won't be long now before WIN axes their bulletins. Should free up some space on VAST!
OSIRUS (08-11-16)
This has been on the cards since the NINE/SCA deal back in July.
Canberra will be the first area to get the new service in Feb, followed by Wollongong, then Wagga Wagga, the Central West (including Bathurst), Ballarat, Bendigo, Albury/Shepparton and Gippsland in Victoria as well as Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
NINE expects around 80 staff to be employed in the regional centres, plus an additional 30 staff in the metropolitan news rooms.
Nine's Queensland news director Mike Dalton has been appointed head of "Nine News Regional".
Playout of the regional news services will likely be from the SCA transmission hub in Canberra.
WIN owner, Bruce Gordon recently said that the 3000 hours of local content it produced and broadcast each year was "not a profitable exercise" and increasingly at risk without reform of Australia's media ownership laws.
So it's highly probable WIN will eventually pull the pin on its local news.
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