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WIN News
WIN News is a local television news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. 14 regional bulletins and news update services are presented from WIN's headquarters in Wollongong, and until 2021 included production of a national compilation programme shared between the city and Maroochydore.
As well as its flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has, in the past, produced a number of public affairs programmes at its original Wollongong station, WIN-4, such as community affairs program Roving Eye and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national and local stories.
During the 1990s, WIN News was called WIN Nightly News, similar to that of Seven Nightly News. By the end of the decade, the networks combined covered most of Queensland, as well as New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. Prior to aggregation in 1994, Victoria's WIN News was called VIC News, and the network itself was called VIC TV. Tasmania's WIN News was called TasTV Evening News, and the network was called TasTV. South Australia's WIN News was called SES-8 Regional News and RTS-5A Regional News, and the network was called Channel 8 and Channel 5A. All were rebranded as WIN after aggregation, renaming their respective bulletins as WIN News only, with the exception of Victoria, which branded itself as WIN Local News and adopted a similar format to that of GTV-9 in Melbourne.
On 30 January 2006, WIN's Tasmanian news bulletins were moved from separate local and national bulletins to a single, half-hour bulletin featuring local, national and international news. This was reported by The Hobart Mercury as being due to the previous arrangement's poor ratings. WIN's main competitor in the area, Southern Cross Nightly News, had at the time a 64.9% share of the 6.00pm news audience during the 2005 survey period. In June 2011, WIN axed its Tasmanian weekend bulletins and replaced them with simulcasts of the Melbourne evening news, but were reintroduced a year later.
On 18 August 2006, WIN Television announced that Griffith's locally produced news bulletin would be axed due to high costs and revenue and would be merged with Wagga Wagga's half-hour bulletin, and the presenter, Jacalyn Cremasco's last bulletin was on the 18th. Before the network was branded as MTN, it was under the possession of Prime, the regional affiliate of Seven, but it was axed after a few years. It then became an affiliate of WIN, with its news adopting a similar format to that of WIN News. The decision was criticised by the local council and chamber of commerce, who, in a statement to the ABC's Media Watch, said that the isolation of the area increased the need for local content and information. The now-discontinued amalgamated Wagga Wagga bulletin is presented and produced from Wollongong. However there is still a WIN newsroom in the city to cover news in the region, and Jacalyn Cremasco is a reporter in the newsroom.
In April 2009, two regional bulletins were introduced in Queensland serving Mackay and the Whitsunday Islands and the Wide Bay area.
In March 2012, WIN announced it would axe its weeknight Western Australia bulletin with regional news coverage incorporated into a localised edition of Nine Afternoon News at 4:30pm, produced and presented from Perth. The last edition of WIN News Western Australia aired on 9 March 2012.
On 18 February 2013, WIN axed its pan-regional bulletin for the Mount Gambier and Riverland areas of South Australia. The program had been broadcast since the merger of separate bulletins for the two areas in October 2010. Ten staff at newsrooms in Mount Gambier and Loxton were made redundant. Both bulletins prior to a few years ago were produced separately from the two newsrooms, but they wereboth filmed at the Mount Gambier studios.
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WIN News
WIN News is a local television news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by WIN Television. 14 regional bulletins and news update services are presented from WIN's headquarters in Wollongong, and until 2021 included production of a national compilation programme shared between the city and Maroochydore.
As well as its flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has, in the past, produced a number of public affairs programmes at its original Wollongong station, WIN-4, such as community affairs program Roving Eye and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national and local stories.
During the 1990s, WIN News was called WIN Nightly News, similar to that of Seven Nightly News. By the end of the decade, the networks combined covered most of Queensland, as well as New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. Prior to aggregation in 1994, Victoria's WIN News was called VIC News, and the network itself was called VIC TV. Tasmania's WIN News was called TasTV Evening News, and the network was called TasTV. South Australia's WIN News was called SES-8 Regional News and RTS-5A Regional News, and the network was called Channel 8 and Channel 5A. All were rebranded as WIN after aggregation, renaming their respective bulletins as WIN News only, with the exception of Victoria, which branded itself as WIN Local News and adopted a similar format to that of GTV-9 in Melbourne.
On 30 January 2006, WIN's Tasmanian news bulletins were moved from separate local and national bulletins to a single, half-hour bulletin featuring local, national and international news. This was reported by The Hobart Mercury as being due to the previous arrangement's poor ratings. WIN's main competitor in the area, Southern Cross Nightly News, had at the time a 64.9% share of the 6.00pm news audience during the 2005 survey period. In June 2011, WIN axed its Tasmanian weekend bulletins and replaced them with simulcasts of the Melbourne evening news, but were reintroduced a year later.
On 18 August 2006, WIN Television announced that Griffith's locally produced news bulletin would be axed due to high costs and revenue and would be merged with Wagga Wagga's half-hour bulletin, and the presenter, Jacalyn Cremasco's last bulletin was on the 18th. Before the network was branded as MTN, it was under the possession of Prime, the regional affiliate of Seven, but it was axed after a few years. It then became an affiliate of WIN, with its news adopting a similar format to that of WIN News. The decision was criticised by the local council and chamber of commerce, who, in a statement to the ABC's Media Watch, said that the isolation of the area increased the need for local content and information. The now-discontinued amalgamated Wagga Wagga bulletin is presented and produced from Wollongong. However there is still a WIN newsroom in the city to cover news in the region, and Jacalyn Cremasco is a reporter in the newsroom.
In April 2009, two regional bulletins were introduced in Queensland serving Mackay and the Whitsunday Islands and the Wide Bay area.
In March 2012, WIN announced it would axe its weeknight Western Australia bulletin with regional news coverage incorporated into a localised edition of Nine Afternoon News at 4:30pm, produced and presented from Perth. The last edition of WIN News Western Australia aired on 9 March 2012.
On 18 February 2013, WIN axed its pan-regional bulletin for the Mount Gambier and Riverland areas of South Australia. The program had been broadcast since the merger of separate bulletins for the two areas in October 2010. Ten staff at newsrooms in Mount Gambier and Loxton were made redundant. Both bulletins prior to a few years ago were produced separately from the two newsrooms, but they wereboth filmed at the Mount Gambier studios.