Regional areas not Prime for 7TWO

3 November 2009 | by Willem Reyners Tay

In the last few days we have heard from an increasing number of regional Australians frustrated that they have no access to the new digital channel 7TWO.

Whilst those tuning in to Seven branded stations have been able to tune into 7TWO, and Southern Cross Broadcasting has agreed to start airing the channel on December 1st, Prime remains tight lipped about their future plans. Their standard response to customer enquiries being.

“Thank you for your enquiry. PRIME hopes to make an announcement on its multi-channels in the near future”

However according to the Mediahunter blog, the fights all in the name. Apparently Prime weren't too happy with the 7TWO branding, which is too closely affiliated with Channel 7 branding.

Perhaps regional Australians would have preferred one of the alternative names speculated upon before launch.

Tags: | 7TWO | prime

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Add a comment23 Comments

at 07:43 PM on 20 January 2010, Jenny wrote:
this is absolute crap!!! I live in the blue mtns and i can hardly get 7TWO to work when i want to watch a show because the signal is shit. PLEASE FIX THE DAM THING seeing as we all have to have digital now
at 11:21 AM on 15 January 2010, Barbara wrote:
I have had 7Two for a while now, the last 5 days the signal has been playing up terribly, I wish they would up their signal strength, must be on minimal at the moment, this ticks me off big time. Newcastle hunter Valley area.
at 08:04 PM on 3 January 2010, kae wrote:
If you can;t provide the promised service PLEASE put LOST, 24, HEROES on prime !!!
at 04:10 PM on 24 December 2009, Chris wrote:
Country VIC has 7 TWO on PRIME now.
at 04:27 PM on 23 December 2009, Pudd wrote:
Hi every one. 7two is now on on the mid north cost of n.s.w PORT MACQUARIE. (on 62)
at 05:59 PM on 22 December 2009, Adam wrote:
live in country vic and reprogramed tv because of win tv, but picked up 7two on prime on channel 62 but it identical to normal prime programming
at 08:15 PM on 21 December 2009, Dylan wrote:
I cant pick up 7two either, annoying i know. Though can we really complain about something we get for free....jeez it could be worse. Prime have dogged us, but theres still 9 other free stations. Get over it!
at 12:22 PM on 21 December 2009, Melissa Brown wrote:
Since Prime has "conveniently" refused to pick up 7two I can't watch "Heartbeat" on Monday nights at 7.30.It hasn't been on for two years.Thanks alot.
at 12:39 PM on 18 December 2009, Owen wrote:
It is disappointing that Prime are being so slack, but I live in an area that can receive from Sydney so I'll spend $200 or so getting the old antenna working...then remove Prime altogether.
at 05:51 PM on 13 December 2009, Sezdj wrote:
What a shame that we were promised this channel to launch as of dec 1st, now we are halfway thru the month and still nothing is happening.. PRIME = the least you could do is keep us informed..rural areas or city! How often a week do we have to re-tune our tellys just to see if we've finally got it, just to be disappointed? Pothetic!
at 06:58 PM on 4 December 2009, Colleen wrote:
We live in rural Victoria and still can't get 7two. Was told it was on 62 but can't find it anywhere.
at 06:04 PM on 4 December 2009, Doc wrote:
WEAK AS PISS
at 01:03 PM on 1 December 2009, john wrote:
the regions are the poor relations again - unite australia don't divide it
at 10:16 AM on 29 November 2009, c.neilsen wrote:
I am disappointed i cannot get 7 two. Come on hurry up so reginal areas can get also
at 11:52 PM on 27 November 2009, tim wrote:
to all you people that in bush i know how you feel. i live across the road from 7 main tower in sydney and i still can not get 7two
at 09:49 PM on 16 November 2009, Carole wrote:
Once again regional viewers are losing out. Prime should come to the party and give us the same range of service that one can get in the city. I won't watch Prime until 7TWO is available.
at 07:26 PM on 16 November 2009, hans wrote:
all i would like is that they let us know on 7 when we can stop wasteing time tuning in a channel that is not there yet for us in the country areas instead they waste air time telling us whats on 7two they could also waste some of their air time to let us know when it will be there
at 07:51 PM on 15 November 2009, Chewyofrats wrote:
I don't know why Pay TV is worried as far as the commercial free to air station in regional are concerned collectively they could not buy a beer in a pub, their a joke.
at 02:10 PM on 12 November 2009, LISA wrote:
not happy live 1hour away from sydney and cant get 7two
at 09:46 PM on 11 November 2009, Andrew wrote:
What a joke, 2009 and we can't get a digital signal for 7two. Even HD60s signal continually breaks up. I live 2.5 hours north of sydney and have trouble getting analogue and digital signals on all channels, even with boosters to all aerial points. In 1969 we got TV pictures from the moon. 2009 can't get a picture from Sydney or where ever they come from. It's just a Joke'
at 04:41 PM on 9 November 2009, melissa wrote:
this is pathetic..we live less than 2 hours north of Sydney and cannot get 7two...come on!!!!
at 04:30 PM on 9 November 2009, lisa wrote:
i cant get 7two channel on our tv just want to know what is the frequency number.Thank you.
at 09:58 PM on 4 November 2009, TREVOR wrote:
what is regional Austalian in another world????????????