Comments on: Local Prime News to shift to Canberra base

By: anthony pike

anthony pike — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:22:19 +0000

what a matter with your web site

By: George

George — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:35:23 +0000

It was fun that the WIN Orange news included some coverage of the loss of the local ‘live’ Prime bulletins on Wednesday, the night before the Prime Orange ran the story saying how great it was that they were finally going widescreen. On Friday the Orange newspaper had an article on ‘The news that no longer lives here’.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:05:54 +0000

Perhaps the $$$$$$ handback in licence fees to Prime, WIN and SCTEN (assuming they will be getting the same deal as 7, 9 & 10) should be conditional on them providing proper nightly news programs in all regional markets. After all, isn’t the kickback supposed to be all about “Australian content”?

By: michael

michael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:57:44 +0000

daniel also does the weather for prime newcastle and i am pretty sure they were one of the first to get rid of their local 6pm news

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:30:28 +0000

I think Kenny’s comments say it all.

Unless you’re in a coastal capital you’re provided a bugger all service by way of news and weather. I don’t mind it being centralised but why Sydney’s traffic report or Gold Coast traffic is of interest to me 99% of the time in Newcastle is hard to establish and I’m a reasonable open minded person.

Basically regional tv is bereft of innovation and stick to a slow drip feed of existence living of major network decisions and placing nothin back to the community in return.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:19:51 +0000

Amazing that TV operators still trot out the weather guy and pretend he’s in the same studio or worse talking live to that person when they recorded their parts hours apart and miles apart. SBS seem the worse if you ever watch The World Game and the fake live interviews with players etc. Foz goes into newsreader mode in place of frustrated thunderbird mode.

By: BG

BG — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:08:03 +0000

@Kenny, pretty sure WIN’s WA bulletin has come out of Perth for the last couple of years, was after WIN aquired Nine Perth. think Greg Pearce has even bobbed up on WIN News rather than on Nine before.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:33:16 +0000

@Clint – he also does weather for Wollongong/South Coast NSW as a window before 7 News’ weather. Third biggest city in the state but no local Prime News, just an autocue reader for 20-secs from Canberra or somewhere.
@Stan – WIN Wollongong’s one studio is stretched to the limit. They dropped Griffith news (now included with Wagga) and moved W’gong local news from 6pm to 6:30 to give a bit more time. They also do regional WA from Wollongong but the 2-3 hrs time zone helps there. I believe they now do precords for Orange/Central West, Wagga/Griffith, with Wollongong live, followed by WA regional. Ballarat on the other hand does Ballarat plus Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury & Traralgon (I think – or used to when Dennis Walter did it all).

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:43:12 +0000

Gibbo is based out of Canberra. He does a pre record weather, and as you noted they pretend he’s in the studio with the news presenter.

This explains a lot, because the directive going around Prime was, as the weather boxes/computers die in each location, Gibbo would do a pre record for that news bulletin. So far, he’s doing Albury and Orange I believe.

By: pietro

pietro — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:50:53 +0000

So the guy Daniel who does the weather…where is he based? From Albury he’s sometimes in 4:3, sometimes in 16:9. He talks to the newsreader as if they are next to each other which is certainly not true.

By: pietro

pietro — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:39:54 +0000

This might explain why Prime News Albury is still in 4:3 and the studio looks ancient. ( And the dress sense of the main news presenter is horrendous).

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:33:29 +0000

Hopefully the move the a large metro city (Canberra) will mean an increase in production values and a slicker bulletin and overhaul of the look.
Prime News looks so dated.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:38:52 +0000

Denis Walter left WIN in November 2008.

By: Craig(Buzz)

Craig(Buzz) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:32:12 +0000

I lived up the country a few years ago,and remember the Prime and Win Local news programs.To the country folk i would have thought this was important for the local news to stay local.To be based up in Canberra,i would have thought as a poor decision.If your going to do that get rid of it all together.Will Win News now follow suit,my guess would be no not unless down the track Dennis Walter calls it quits or gets a call from Channel 9 to do some weekend work,or something related to the news

By: camo

camo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:36:11 +0000

this does not effect Albury and Tamworth…according to my source, and it is very good…the wagga reader Hogan is his name, will move to Canberra to read Wagga and a Orange Bulletin, they are thinking but its not confirmed that Prime will restart their Canberra News Bulletin, meaning they will do what WIN Tv has successfully done for over a decade, and that is to produce three Bulletins out on one studio, two pre record and one live…the funny thing is that Prime for years and years has bagged WIN TV for reading their news from some distant place, and therfore not really local news…hehehe now they have to cook and eat that humble pie…its all about the $$$$ in TV now , sad but its the way it is. This is fact.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:19:55 +0000

Surely, the people who lost their jobs, are angry, but scorned viewers will burn you, Prime. No amount of possum talk will ease the anger in Tamworth, Albury/Wodonga, Wagga Wagga and Orange when you cut the heartland news, like Southern Cross, did in Cairns/Townsville and Canberra in 2001…