Stateline (TV program)

{{Short description|Australian news brand}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Use Australian English|date=April 2025}}

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| genre = News, current affairs

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| presenter = Quentin Dempster (NSW)
Josie Taylor (VIC)
Jessica van Vonderen (QLD)
Ian Henschke (SA)
Eliza Blue (WA)
Laetitia Lemke (NT)
Airlie Ward (TAS)
Chris Kimball (ACT)

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| country = Australia

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| network = ABC1
ABC News 24 (2010)
ABC iview

| first_aired = {{start date|1996|2|16|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2011|3|4|df=y}}

| first_aired2 = {{start date|2024|1|1|df=y}}{{Cite news |last=Knox |first=David |date=2023-08-02 |title=ABC backflips on national Sunday bulletin plan, retains state-based news. |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/08/abc-backflips-on-national-sunday-bulletin-plan-retains-state-based-news.html |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=TV Tonight |language=en-AU |archive-date=12 June 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612051516/https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/08/abc-backflips-on-national-sunday-bulletin-plan-retains-state-based-news.html |quote=In June also announced digital-first Stateline to be broadcast on Friday nights as part of an extended 40 minute bulletin, produced out of state and territory newsrooms and anchored by local 7pm presenters.}}

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• ABC News
• 7.30

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Stateline is a brand used by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for in-depth local and state-based news stories and interviews. Some of the stories feature on a monthly program called Stateline, which airs on the ABC News Channel and is available on ABC iview. It is hosted by James Glenday.

Stateline was previously a weekly, Friday night television current affairs program. It provided analysis of state and municipal politics as well as insight into state and regional issues in a current affairs journalistic style. The program was known for its interviews with politicians, and for its coverage of important regional issues.

The program premiered on 16 February 1996 at 6{{nbsp}}pm.{{Cite web |last=Whelan |first=Judith |date=11 March 1996 |title=Affairs of State |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/120396732/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |page=54 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}{{better source needed|date=June 2024|reason=Source provided requires a subscription and likely does not include as much detail as citing the news article from another website.}} It moved to 7:30{{nbsp}}pm in February 2001, which resulted in The 7.30 Report being removed from Fridays.{{Cite news |last=Banham |first=Cynthia |last2=Robinson |first2=Mark |date=15 December 2000 |title=7.30 Report cut back as States get ABC airtime |language=en |page=3 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121568650/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{better source needed|date=June 2024|reason=Source provided requires a subscription and likely does not include as much detail as citing the news article from another website.}}{{Cite news |last=Wilmoth |first=Peter |date=15 December 2000 |title=State affairs back on ABC's 7.30 slot |language=en |page=3 |newspaper=The Age |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/120628852/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{better source needed|date=June 2024|reason=Source provided requires a subscription and likely does not include as much detail as citing the news article from another website.}}

The ABC announced in December 2010 that the state-based current affairs program Stateline would be folded into a new 7.30 brand from March 2011.{{Cite news |last=Washbrook |first=Cyril |date=3 December 2010 |title=Sales and Uhlmann will front revamped 7.30 |work=The Spy Report |publisher=Media Spy |url=http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/12/03/sales-and-uhlmann-will-front-revamped-7-30/ |url-status=dead |access-date=3 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215215907/http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/12/03/sales-and-uhlmann-will-front-revamped-7-30/ |archive-date=15 December 2010}} The change saw 7.30 extended to five nights a week, although Friday editions were to be presented locally and focus on state affairs. The Friday state-based editions of 7.30 were eventually axed in December 2014.{{Cite news |last=Meade |first=Amanda |last2=Davidson |first2=Helen |last3=Alcorn |first3=Gay |date=2014-12-06 |title=ABC cuts: state 7.30 programs broadcast emotional final episodes |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/06/abc-cuts-state-730-programs-broadcast-emotional-final-episodes |archive-date=12 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612115727/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/06/abc-cuts-state-730-programs-broadcast-emotional-final-episodes |url-status=live |access-date=2023-10-22 |issn=0261-3077}}