I quite like it actually.
I know they do. And they should, because screw the stations for reasons I stated earlier.
But they’ll be begging and pleading to sell the land, maybe even team up to leave one tower there for all of them to broadcast from. You watch.
There are only three towers that are actually in use for TV (AFAIK) - the TVQ one (main commercial one, and ABC’s backup), the ABC tower (which also has SBS), and the QTQ tower (which is the commercial backup).
The BTQ tower is no longer in use and has been partially dismantled.
Surely they could move the ABC and SBS broadcasts to TVQ tower full time, and remove the ABC transmitter and the remainder of the BTQ transmitter.
Remember that the towers are not just used for TV there are radio stations as well - ABC/SBS on ABCs tower plus another shorter tower that carries community radio. So all the ABC’s FM bays would have to find a place on the TVQ tower. There is also a fifth tower on a smaller adjacent hill that is just telecommunications.
As far as studios go, one location could be the Olympic broadcast facility to be built at West End.
Another is the existing and new Screen QLD facility at Hemmant.
Perhaps not in time for 2032, but there will be a time to sunset transmission towers at some point.
i’ll be surprised if the OBF becomes a full-time facility post 2032. the current plan is to have a temp facility there and then turn it into a Southbank extension.
I made mention of this in the Paramount thread, but maybe TVQ and Paramount could set up shop there? Do what Fox/Disney did at the old Sydney Showground?
I think the stuff coming off the towers could be sunset first?
Ugly as!
Imagine spending your career working with people you met at university. Then imagine that together, over more than three decades, you created some of the most successful TV shows in the country. As well, you produced films, books, podcasts, stage shows, radio programs and an animation series. Throughout, you remained close friends and enthusiastic colleagues.
Reflecting on just that kind of history, Tom Gleisner says, “I fell in with the right crowd”, neatly displaying the wit and facility with words his workmates – Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy and Michael Hirsh – justifiably admire.
In the Working Dog ecosystem, ideas can percolate for years: maybe they’ll grow into something tangible, maybe not. Gleisner and Sitch came up with the concept for The Cheap Seats years ago, but couldn’t decide on a title. When they finally did, they thought they were too old to front it. They found the ideal hosts in Tim McDonald, who was employed by the company as a social media producer and who, Sitch reckons, “was clearly a prodigy”, and Kiwi comedian Melanie Bracewell, who’d been a contestant on HYBPA.
“We’ve never done an announcement that ‘this is the final season.’ TGYH is a good example: we just stopped. And a decade or so later, picked up where we left off.” Given that approach, fans of Frontline , The Hollowmen and Utopia might still have reason to hope.
That article is a really great read. Enjoyed it.
Very surprising