Wagga Wagga - Media

Media

As a regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes, Wagga Wagga is home to a number of regional media outlets. Both WIN Television and Prime7 air half-hour local news programs on weeknights. The bulletins are presented from studios in Wollongong and Canberra respectively with reporters and camera crews for both services based in newsrooms in the city. Since 2006, WIN's weeknight bulletin has also included coverage of the Griffith area. In addition, Southern Cross Ten runs a small sales office and airs short local news updates from its Canberra studios throughout the day.

The city also receives the ABC's four free-to-air national television networks on analogue and digital (ABC1, ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24), the SBS's two television networks (SBS ONE and SBS Two) and the commercial networks' digital channels (7Two and 7mate from Prime7, GO! and GEM HD from WIN and One HD and Eleven from Southern Cross Ten).

Local radio stations broadcasting from Wagga Wagga include ABC Riverina, AM radio commercial station 2WG, FM radio commercial station Star FM, and a rebroadcast from radio reading service Radio 1RPH. Other local stations include Christian radio station Life FM and the community station 2AAA FM. The ABC's national stations Radio National, Triple J and ABC Classic FM and the multicultural network SBS Radio are also broadcast into Wagga Wagga.

The Daily Advertiser, published Monday to Friday and its sister publication, the Weekend Advertiser, service Wagga and much of the surrounding region. The newspaper was established by two wealthy local pastoralists, Auber George Jones and Thomas Darlow and first printed on 10 December 1868 by editor Frank Hutchison, an Oxford graduate. Originally printed bi-weekly, by 1880 it was tri-weekly and finally became 'daily' on 31 December 1910. In 1962 the newspaper reduced in size from a broadsheet to a tabloid format. The Riverina Leader, the local free community newspaper was launched in May 1979.