Division of: Prime Media Group Area served: Regional Australia | Founded: 1960s Parent: Prime7 | |
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Prime7 News is a local television news service in parts of regional Australia, produced by Prime7. A statewide national bulletin, 5 full local news bulletins, and news update services are presented from Prime Media's National Headquarters in Canberra to viewers in Regional NSW, ACT, Regional VIC and Gold Coast QLD.
Contents
- Prime7 News at 630 with Daniel Gibson
- Prime7 Local News
- Local News Updates
- Prime7 News notable personalities
- References
As a Seven Network affiliate it also broadcasts:
Prime7 News at 6:30 (with Daniel Gibson)
Until 21 February 2014, Prime7 broadcasts a delayed Seven News into areas that receive full Prime7 News at 6pm bulletins on weeknights. Since 24 February 2014, Prime7 has produced its own live bulletin due to the extension of Seven News to one hour on the eastern seaboard. This is presented by Daniel Gibson at 6:30pm, and covers national and international news that are being broadcast by Seven News in its metropolitan counterparts. Resident meteorologist Karl Lijnders presents the expanded weather forecast, which features state, East Coast metropolitan cities and national weather. Natalie Forrest is the fill-in news presenter for the bulletin.
The statewide edition, however, does not cover across the entire New South Wales. Albury (which is served by sister station AMV in Victoria) does not receive this bulletin and continues to receive an edited version of Seven News Melbourne, which has been trimmed down to 30 minutes.
Prime7 Local News
Prime7's flagship bulletin airs at 6pm in five distinct local editions for the Border, Central West, North West, North Coast and Wagga Wagga broadcast regions. The bulletins are co-presented by Madelaine Collignon and Kenny Heatley, with resident meteorologist Karl Lijnders as its weather presenter. Each region has its own reporter, such as Tamworth's William Kelly. Since the closure of the Tamworth studios in April 2015, the North West edition of the bulletin broadcasts live from Canberra.
After being broadcast on television, the latest bulletins from each of the five regions become available to watch on their respective YouTube pages.
In its website posted on 2 February 2017, Prime7 announced that the presentation of Northern NSW and Southern NSW local bulletins will be consolidated into a unified presentation format by 13 February, beginning with the introduction of dual presenter roles for Heatley and Collignon, as well as Guy Fenton introduced as its interim weather presenter. This also comes after Southern NSW's final news presenter Freya Cole left Prime7 to contribute reports for Seven News. The 6.30pm national bulletin, however, remained under a single presenter format. More adjustments saw Lijnders, who was weatherzone.com.au's founding moderator, replacing Fenton in presenting local weather forecasts from 20 March.
Local News Updates
News bulletins for the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra, and Wollongong were axed in 2001 (in the Gold Coast's case, 2000). At the same time, the network's Moree news bureau, which provided stories for the Tamworth bulletin, was closed. This, as well as the closure of bulletin by Southern Cross Ten in parts of Queensland and New South Wales, prompted an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Authority. New rules were later set out requiring regional stations to offer minimum levels of local content, over a six-week period.
Two-minute news updates were introduced to Newcastle, Wollongong and Canberra in 2004. There are also updates presented for Gold Coast, Shepparton and The Goulburn Valley, Ballarat and Western Victoria, Bendigo and Central Victoria, Gippsland and Mildura, and Sunraysia. These are presented by rotating presenters with weather presented by Daniel Gibson. Craig Moore presents weekend weather updates across the Prime7 broadcast area.
Prime7 News notable personalities
A number of well-known news presenters and television personalities began their careers at Prime7 News, including Studio 10 co-host Jessica Rowe, The Morning Show co-host Kylie Gillies, and former Million Dollar Minute host Grant Denyer.