Seven boosts Gold Coast news coverage with 5.30 bulletin promising ‘a local service for local people’

Tim Burrowes

June 19, 2016 4:10

TV viewers in the Gold Coast will have the choice between three daily news bulletins at 5.30pm following the decision by Seven to launch a local offering in the timeslot.

Seven’s Gold Coast Team. From left: Burt, Young and Abate

The 30 minute 7 Gold Coast News, presented by Rod Young, will go head-to-head with Nine’s existing Gold Coast News. The programs will also be up against Ten’s national Eyewitness News First At Five.

7 Gold Coast News, will begin on Monday July 4 from a new purpose-built studio in Surfers Paradise. Seven’s 5-6pm timeslot in the GC is currently occupied by double episodes of quiz show The Chase.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Amanda Abate Gold Coast Paul Burt Rod Young Seven News television

1 COMMENTS

Colin 21 Jun 16

Double episodes of The Chase? Um, no. One episode of The Chase is 60mins, currently aired between 5pm and 6pm.

Because of this, I dare say there will be some slight schedule changes for Gold Coast viewers.

There is a possibility that the Brisbane-produced news bulletin that currently airs on Seven between 4pm and 5pm will segue into The Chase at 4:30pm with the newsreader saying “Time for our Gold Coast viewers to leave us now for The Chase…”

This would be identical to what the 4pm news on Channel 9 does where the newsreader says it’s time for Gold Coast viewers to leave them for Millionaire Hot Seat at 5pm, enabling their Gold Coast bulletin to be aired at 5:30pm.

And remember, Gold Coast viewers are lucky because thanks to the peculiarities of the local TV license area, if they don’t like watching local news bullletis, they can always switch over to Seven and Nine affiliates, Prime7 and NBN, that air the regular 5:30pm programming.

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