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Prime News stays in Albury

Prime TV will proceed with moving News bulletins from Wagga and Orange to Canberra, but its News in Albury will remain.

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Prime TV will proceed with moving News bulletins from Wagga and Orange to its centralised base at Canberra, but its News in Albury will remain.

CEO Doug Edwards has told the Border Mail, “The reason for centralising some of the News operations is that we’ve got six or seven studios that are all 40 years old and they need to be digitised and it is just not economic to digitise each one.”

An upgrade of facilities at the Albury studios is aiming for a June 30th deadline at a cost of less than $100,000. It will bring broadcasts to widescreen, rather than the existing 4:3 ratio.

Edwards said it was decided to keep broadcasting the Albury news from the Union Road studios because of the potential to move into Victoria.

“It’s quite possible we may expand our news service into Victoria and by having a newsroom in Albury it gives us that option in years to come,” he said.

“We’re reviewing operations all the time and that could be an option, going forward, expanding into Victoria.”

Source: Border Mail

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  1. Kuttsy: You do realise that Prime and Seven are two totally seperate companies owned by different people. There’s no way in hell that Seven would produce a bulletin for Prime unless Prime was willing to pay big $$ for their studio use or unless it was a co-production like the failed Seven/Prime Gold Coast News bulletin from 1998-1999.

  2. Found myself staying in Wang for a few days last year. The Prime Albury news felt more local than any Win news ever does in Victoria. Most of the stories seemed to be south of the border from Wang, Beechworth and the high country.

    Anyway, the callsign is AMV 11 formerly AMV 4 and everyone knows that the Riverina should be part of Victoria.

  3. Pietro: Prime does retransmit into aggregated Victoria, as well as Mildura.

    Lismore viewers: I’d much rather see BTQ in Brisbane take over the production of a local Prime service, as part of a expanded news offering for 7 on the Gold Coast, where there would be a hour produced, 30 mins (5:30-6pm) for the metro station (branded 7 News Gold Coast Edition) and 30 mins for the Northern Rivers/GC area on Prime at 6pm (branded as Prime News-Northern Rivers/Gold Coast, but would label that their bulletin as produced by 7 Brisbane).

    All ad sales for Prime on the GC could be transferred to Seven’s recently opened Surfers Paradise facility, all journalists for Prime in that area would have stories beamed to Surfers not Tamworth, with BTQ able to use it for their 6pm.

    After all, NBN and Nine Brisbane have shared facilities on the coast, as O&O’s, why not allow Prime access to Seven’s up-to-date Surfers facilities, to produce news from.

    Those Northern Rivers areas would still get ATN’s 6pm news delayed alongside their local news, the only change being that the local news is coming from a lot closer to home.

  4. Errrr may i draw your attention to my post on the original story about Prime….i said this was the case then…why the sudden post now…just cause its in the Border mail…geezzz… hey and pietro they mean moving into the vict market as in Ballarat and so on…. you’re in Beechworth but watching a NSW Bulletin…

  5. The viewers in this area get a pretty good deal. No M*A*S*H, Deal or no Deal at 5pm and local news at 5:30pm.

    The news includes every place where it is broadcast, including Victoria towns, but with Albury being the most populous place in the area, it gets the most airtime.

  7. Prime local news is so boring it should be put out of it’s misery. Just show 7 news like Prime do on the Gold Coast. I hate having to sit through 30 minutes of snooze news before the real news is shown.

  9. Pietro,

    Doug Edwards meant that at the moment, Prime doesn’t produce any local news for Victorian regions (if we count Albury & Wodonga as just one large NSW based regional city). You may receive Prime News in your area, but I don’t think it’s produced with your town in mind. Although, I could be wrong?

    Seems to me, though, that Albury news watchers will have to wait a little while longer before they get Prime News in widescreen…

  11. OMG. Prime News moves into the 21st century.

    Not quite sure what they mean about moving into Victoria though. I live in Beechworth and last time I checked I definitely live in Victoria. Might be the case of the CEO having no idea what goes on. It wouldn’t be the first time.

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