page_title: Wagga Wagga
section_title: Media
hierarchical_section_title: Wagga Wagga / Media
caption_attribution_description: Wagga Wagga Mayor Kerry Pascoe interviewed by Prime News reporter, Ashlea Brown.
context_page_description: Wagga Wagga is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth fastest growing inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia–Sydney and Melbourne–and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
  The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. The city is in an alluvial valley and much of the city has a problem with urban salinity.
  The original inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people. In 1829, Charles Sturt became the first European explorer to visit the future site of the city. Squatters arrived soon after.
context_section_description: As a regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes, Wagga Wagga is home to a number of regional media outlets.
  The city receives the ABC's four free-to-air national television channels (ABC TV, ABC Comedy, ABC KIDS, ABC Me and ABC News), SBS's four television channels (SBS TV, SBS Viceland, Food Network, and NITV), the commercial networks' main channels (Seven Network from Prime7, Nine Network from Southern Cross Nine and Network Ten from WIN Television) and the commercial networks' multi channels (7Two and 7mate from Prime7, 9Go!, 9Gem and 9Life from Southern Cross Nine and One and Eleven from WIN Television).
  Of the three main commercial networks:
  Prime7 News produces a half-hour local news bulletin for the Riverina, airing each weeknight at 6pm. It is produced from a local newsroom in Wagga Wagga and broadcast from studios in Canberra.
  Southern Cross Nine airs a regional New South Wales edition of Nine News from Sydney each weeknight at 6pm, featuring opt-outs for Wagga Wagga and the Riverina.
  WIN Television aired a half-hour local bulletin until the closure of its Wagga Wagga newsroom in June 2019. The station now produces short news updates throughout the day from its Wollongong studios.
  Local radio stations broadcasting from Wagga Wagga include ABC Riverina, AM radio commercial station Triple M Riverina 1152), FM radio commercial station Hit93.1 Riverina), 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 ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, ABC NewsRadio and Triple J and the multicultural network SBS Radio are 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.
caption: Prime News interviewing Wagga Wagga Mayor Kerry Pascoe
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