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Rod Young to present Seven News Gold Coast

Seven to screen 5:30pm Gold Coast bulletins from Monday July 4th.

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Seven has confirmed its Gold Coast news bulletin will be hosted by Rod Young.

7 Gold Coast News will air at 5.30pm daily beginning Monday July 4th from a new purpose-built studio in Surfers Paradise.

Amanda Abate will present the weekend bulletin.

Coastal, boating and fishing expert, Paul Burt, will be presenting weather in addition to his other commitments. Gold Coast resident Liz Cantor will also present weather reports.

Ben Roberts-Smith, General Manager Seven Brisbane / Regional Queensland said, “Seven is proud to be investing in this new local Gold Coast News service. It reaffirms Seven’s commitment to the local community and highlights our belief in providing all communities a voice through quality local News programming”.

Neil Warren, 7 News Director for South East Queensland added, “We are proud to be bringing the Gold Coast a quality local news service, it thoroughly deserves, 7 days a week. Focusing not just on the stories of the day, but the local issues that matter to people most. A local news service, for locals, produced and presented by locals who understand the community”.

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  1. Could work because 7 Sunshine Coast already runs a repeat of the 6.00 pm news hour at 6.30pm. Your suggestion makes more sense. Minor point though – the channels are 61 and 62.

  2. Am expecting a very long uphill road for Seven on weeknights: especially if Nine pump up the promos and pump up the 50 Cavill budget. The weekend news will succeed, simply due to it being unopposed.

    Rumor going around Brisbane in the last few weeks, is that Seven QLD/BNE under new GM, is looking to do all local content produced in QLD in-house to reduce production costs.

  3. Honestly we already have 9 Gold Coast news. Don’t think we need one on 7 as well. So they seem to be doing it on the weekend too. Wonder if 9 will do that too now.

  4. Is there a reason that there is so much news on the TV these days. I am amazed with the early news, breakfast news updates, Morning shows with news, early edition 11am news, then afternoon news at 3 or 4, then Early evening news at 5 and if that wasn’t enough the move last year to an hours news at 6pm.
    Perhaps move the news to one channel like the ABC have with News 24 and then then only have a morning lunch and evening news. I realise that this is for the GC, but I feel that there is an oversaturation of news.

  5. Maybe Mr. Roberts-Smith could align Sunshine Coast’s 6.00 pm Seven Local News with the Gold Coast’s new bulletin at 5.30pm . Then we could see the full hour of the national bulletin.(Currently we get about 4 stories before sport & weather kicks in).
    Difficulty is the hour-long “The Chase”, but the Gold Coast has apparently solved this so why not the Sunshine Coast. With WIN’s local news moving back to 6.00 pm from July 1, Rob Brough’s team could trump them by half-an-hour instead of going head-to-head.

    1. Or leave as is on 71 with the current 30 minute local bulletin at 6:00pm followed by the cut-down 30 minute bulletin from Brisbane from 6:30pm. But on 72, run the whole Brisbane bulletin live 6:00pm to 7:00pm followed by a repeat of the local 30 minute bulletin from 7:00pm?

      1. Could work because 7 Sunshine Coast already runs a repeat of the 6.00 pm news hour at 6.30pm. Your suggestion makes more sense. Minor point though – the channels are 61 and 62.
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