WIN Canberra bulletin pushed to 5.30pm as it joins forces with Nine

WIN has announced a move to statewide bulletins in Queensland, Victoria and NSW and it is not yet known how many jobs will go under the restructure.

Nine and WIN announced the minimum seven-year agreement in March. The stations have gone head to head for the past four years after splitting in 2016 and starting separate bulletins in regional areas.

WIN has a newsroom based in Fyshwick but the bulletin is read in its Wollongong facility. Nine has up to nine journalists and production staff based in the ACT.

From July, WIN will move its local news bulletin to 5.30pm before the 6pm Nine national bulletin out of Sydney.

A WIN spokesperson confirmed there would be no job losses at the Canberra newsroom.

It is not known how the arrangement will impact Nine's Canberra-based roles.

The WIN Network will also change local half-hour bulletins in Queensland, Victoria and western parts of southern NSW to statewide.

The change will be made from July 1 while WIN bulletins in Canberra, Wollongong and Tasmania will be in the same format at 5.30pm. The ACT bulletin is currently on at 6pm weekdays.

WIN Network chief executive Andrew Lancaster said jobs would be lost at its facility in Wollongong as well as in Queensland and Victoria because of the move away from localised news to a statewide bulletin.

"With this change, WIN News bulletins in Queensland, Victoria and western areas of Southern NSW will be state bulletins delivering the most important local stories from all of our regions across the respective states," he said.

"The move to state based bulletins in Queensland and Victoria will result in a reduction in news gathering staff in these regions as well as in the news production facility in Wollongong.

"As is always our priority, WIN will make every attempt to redeploy, second or retrain any impacted employees to suitable, alternative employment within the WIN Group."

Mr Lancaster said the number of jobs to be lost would be decided in the coming weeks, as WIN went through a process to determine the "resources, skills and experience required to continue".

"WIN has always prided itself on delivering local news and whilst some of these changes are impactful, the statewide WIN News bulletins will be telling local stories across more regional communities with the most important stories of the day," Mr Lancaster said.

WIN said the statewide bulletins would broadcast into new regions including, Mackay, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland, Orange, Dubbo, Wagga Wagga and Griffith in NSW and Albury/Wodonga in Victoria.

"The creation of these bulletins will see WIN employ additional local news gathering staff in these regions," a statement read.

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