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PRIME Television has cut local news services in three regional centres, shocking staff and local communities.
The network announced yesterday Newcastle, Wollongong and Canberra were to lose their local Prime news broadcasts, to be replaced by Seven's Sydney news and Today Tonight.
Station manager Brad Jones walked into the Newcastle Prime office yesterday morning and told staff there would be no broadcast last night for the first time since 1992 and that 15 of them were out of a job.
One sacked staff member said there had been no indication of what was...