WIN News

History

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.

On 30 January 2006, the network'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 - they were replaced by simulcasts of the Melbourne edition of Nine News - but were reintroduced a year later.

On 18 August 2006, WIN Television announced that Griffith's locally produced news bulletin would be axed and merged with Wagga Wagga's half-hour bulletin. The decision was criticised by the local council and chamber of commerce, who stated that the isolation of the area increased the need for local content and information. The amalgamated Wagga Wagga bulletin is presented and produced from Wollongong.

In April 2009, two regional bulletins were introduced in Queensland serving Mackay & the Whitsundays 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.

In June 2013, WIN announced it would move studio presentation of its Canberra bulletins to Wollongong - the company's studios in Kingston continue to operate as a newsgathering base.

In May 2015, WIN axed its bulletins in Mackay, Queensland and Mildura, Victoria.

From July 2016, after striking a deal with Ten Eyewitness News, all WIN News bulletins moved to 6pm, except Tasmania where it nightly bulletin moved to 5:30pm (30 minutes earlier than its leading rival Southern Cross News).

However, in September 2016, the Tasmanian bulletin scaled back to a half-hour local bulletin amid poor ratings; it moved back to its traditional time slot at 6pm on weeknights but retaining the weekend time slot at 5:30pm.

New South Wales and the ACT

WIN News New South Wales & ACT produces four bulletins for southern New South Wales & the ACT, broadcast from WIN's Wollongong headquarters with newsgathering teams and camera crews based in Canberra, Orange, and Wagga Wagga.

The bulletins are presented by Geoff Phillips with Amy Duggan presenting sport. Weather forecasts are presented by Queensland-based Hannah McEwan for the ACT and in-house Tanya Dendrinos for the Illawarra and South Coast.

The head of news for New South Wales and the ACT is Stella Lauri.

Victoria

WIN News Victoria produces five separate editions for regional Victoria, broadcast from the Wollongong studios, with newsrooms also based in Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton (Goulburn Valley & Northern Victoria), Traralgon (Gippsland) and Albury.

The bulletins are presented by Bruce Roberts with sport presenter Amy Duggan. Weather forecasts are presented on weeknights by Tanya Dendrinos.

The chief of staff for all WIN News Victoria services is Jeff Sly.

Queensland

WIN News Queensland covers six of the seven regional markets - the Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton & Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Cairns & Far North Queensland, Toowoomba and Townsville & North Queensland. All bulletins are broadcast from WIN's studios in Maroochydore.

The state news manager is Chris Wordsworth and the state news sub-editor is Corinne May. The production manager is Carl Bulwinkel.

Tasmania

WIN News Tasmania is presented by Lucy Breaden on weeknights and Amira Vaatstra on weekends from TVT's studios in Hobart. Sports news is presented on weeknights by Brent Costelloe and Tom Cooper on weekends. Weather forecasts are presented on weeknights by Hannah McEwan from Maroochydore.

Weekend bulletins were previously axed in July 2011, when they were replaced with a simulcast of Nine News's 6pm Melbourne bulletin, but were reinstated a year later.

South Australia

90-second news updates are broadcast on weekday evenings in the Limestone Coast and the Riverland. The updates, presented by Melissa Russell are produced in co-operation with The Border Watch and The Murray Pioneer. They air on all three WIN-owned network affiliated stations during the 6pm timeslot.

All Australian News

WIN also produces All Australian News, an hour-long national program which airs on WIN Television at midnight and then again at 7am the following morning.

All Australian News is a compilation of human interest and feature news stories that have aired on WIN's various regional news bulletins in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania. All Australian News commenced airing in February 2014.

The program has been presented from both WIN Television’s headquarters in Wollongong and WIN's Maroochydore studios on the Sunshine Coast.

In July 2016, All Australian News moved to 7am and 11:30pm due to becoming an Ten affiliate.

In October 2016, another time-slot for the All Australian News came to One, weekdays at 12pm.

Schedule

WIN News airs at several different times on weekday evenings depending on state.