Media reforms coming to a head: Nationals

The Nationals expect media reforms will come to a head in coming weeks.

The party has proposed a change to local content in regional television through a 900 points system, which would see different weightings for so-called rip and read coverage as opposed to locally produced video packages.

"We are at the pointy end right now and I think in the next couple of weeks this will come to a head," Keith Pitt, who has been chairing the Nationals working group on media reform, told ABC radio on Friday.

Mr Pitt said that to date, negotiations with Communications Minister Mitch Fifield had been quite good.

"There does need to be change ... without change there will be significant pressure on the regional media networks," he said.

The "right outcome" is giving media organisations the absolute best opportunity to survive.

"And (so) we still continue to have that local presence that can produce a story about our local footballers ... that can tell a story about the drought in Western Queensland," he said.

A replacement will be found for Mr Pitt to chair the party's working group, after he was promoted to assistant minister to Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.