News Breakfast is set in Melbourne. Not Sydney
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I see the background picture has also changed to the streets of Parramatta CBD.
Glad the standing desks didnât make it to this new generation of sets.
Letâs hope Melbourne gets something similar to whatever NSW gets, because while it has one of the best footprint/floor plans of all the current generation of sets, the fact the desk isnât surrounded by screens is very limiting and it is showing its age with a lot of scuff marks, etc. The Melbourne desk design doesnât work with the front display using the new blue background logo either.
Finally, I am hoping this set wonât use the blue background-white box panel graphic and that they were waiting for this set to launch before removing it from sets interstate. It really clashes with the new graphics.
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What a complete waste of tax payers money. This is such a Sydney centric thinking thought process. I cannot see why a city of 5.5 million now has two studio facilities for its television news deviation.
Iâm looking forward to the ABC now building an additional facility in Geelong or Box Hill (Melbourne 5.5 million) to justify itself moving away from the inner city.
Heck while weâre at it letâs move Queenslands news bulletin to the Gold Coast.
What a joke.
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Exactly - IMO itâs just making the ABC more Sydney centric by moving it further into Sydney, and away from major national institutions like the RBA, etc.
The ABC should be moving staff to interstate locations (i.e. move ABC Classic back to Adelaide, send Double J up to Brisbane, ABC Country to Townsville, overnight programming to Perth, etc).
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âStudio 91âs multi-purpose set features 100 square metres of LED panels arrayed across 12 screens, with the latest slimline technology maximising space in the studio.â
So they vertically aligned 12 screens?
If that above cap is anything to go by, Iâm not that impressed. The lighting on Jeremy looks just as bad as the current set - god I hope theyâve fixed the lighting.
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From ABC
First NSW 7PM News broadcast from ABC Parramatta
ABC NEWS will broadcast the first NSW 7PM News bulletin from the new ABC Parramatta studios next Sunday 8 December.
The historic first broadcast from the state-of-the-art Studio 91 is a key milestone for the ABC Parramatta project.
ABC Director, News Justin Stevens said the bulletin was a great moment for the ABC and audiences.
âABC Parramatta locates our NSW newsroom within one of Australiaâs largest, fastest growing and most diverse communities,â he said. âIt means weâre even more closely representing and connecting with our community.
âPutting to air the first 7PM bulletin is the result of a massive amount of work from teams across the ABC and represents an important technological step forward for the organisation.
âABC Parramatta will serve as a model for the ABC in the future â a sophisticated technology facility that promotes new production practices with agile content sharing and distribution.â
The bulletin will be the ABCâs first full IP-only broadcast, utilising the new cloud-based video production and editing systems (GV AMPP).
The 7PM set features a Parramatta Square skyline and once its Augmented Reality elements are implemented will incorporate full perspective tracking â another first for the ABC.
Presenting across the first week of broadcast will be Jeremy Fernandez and Nakari Thorpe and the NSW team will roll out a series of stories focused on Western Sydney.
The NSW 7PM team has joined colleagues from the NSW newsroom, ABC Radio Sydney and Product & Technology at the ABC Parramatta office. The start of the 7PM bulletin follows the recent launch of ABC Radio Sydneyâs Mornings, Afternoons, Drive and Weekends programs from the Parramatta radio studios.
The relocation to Greater Western Sydney is a key commitment in the ABCâs Five-Year Plan.
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So 7.30, Weekend Breakfast and the News Cannel are staying put?
Yep, though it was reported earlier in the year that at least one News Channel shift would be done from the new studio, however, not sure if thatâs still the plan.
7.30 and other national programs and teams will have space in the Paramatta newsroom for when teams work on stories in the area. There will also be a small amount of staff from the NSW team that will continue to operate out of the Ultimo studios to cover state politics, courts, etc.
Who needs the harbour, the bridge or opera house when you haveâŚ.Parramatta Square! Laughable.
Pretty sure people in their precious western Sydney are as proud of the harbour and Australiaâs only globally famous buildings as everyone else.
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Who needs the harbour, the bridge or opera house when youâre Sunrise and you have (or had)⌠Martin Place! Laughable.
(sarcasm)
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If in Geelong, then the ABC can finally bring local TV news to citizens in the Geelong area.
Yep, might as well, and while theyâre at it, implement a local Gold Coast bulletin just in case Nine axes their 5:30pm local news. Seven already did so towards the end of last month.
If all of this happens, then viewers in VIC and QLD can look forward to thisâŚ
ABC News Geelong
ABC News Gold Coast
Iâll put money on neither happening
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Given the ABC no longer has seperate metro and statewide regional feeds, I doubt they will introduce more, especially for a region which gets its TV from the Melbourne transmitter
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More of a look at the set, quite impressive.
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All this for a Sydney 7PM bulletin 
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Wow. Thatâs huge.
Surely they have other plans to use this⌠Wouldnât make sense for a half hour bulletin.
Time for 7:30 to go in there as well I reckon
It was reported when they first announced the move that they would do one of the News Channel shifts from the studio, although Iâm not sure if this is still the case.
âABC Parramatta will include a state-of-the-art studio, from where weâll broadcast the NSW 7pm News and at least one block of News Channel programming.
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