A bit of an update on the ABC’s Studio 26 in Sydney. Their former offices in Selwyn Street Elsternwick (not to be confused with the Gordon Street studios) are also mentioned.
ABC cashes in as former Sydney studios sold for $95m (commercialrealestate.com.au)
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I’ve lived in Leopold (east of Geelong) my whole life so the twin transmitters for 3CW have always been part of the landscape. Today I noticed that only 1 of them is still standing. I don’t know when the other was pulled down. No surprise as 3CW has been off air for a while now and the land is being developed.
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Did you take this photo
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What’s this?
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Oh wtf, it didn’t send properly. I’ll try fix it. Jen walking into the studio, shows off some rarely seen angles of the set
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A carpark with a view.
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ABC Newsroom
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QTQ’s Ku band satellite antenna is one of the last big satellite antennas left in Brisbane now: The big Ku band antenna at Optus Rochedale has now been demolished. I would imagine Nine still has a satellite transponder for disaster recovery and SNG but they are becoming a relic of a bygone era now fibre is everywhere.
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I believe Nine use Intelsat 19 as disaster recovery - they’ve had a few transponders there for a while
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SEN at Norwood:
10/Paramount+ at AAMI Park:
Fox Footy NEP:
ABC in Darwin:
https://twitter.com/quentinhull/status/1649368509162598400?s=46&t=1xDnT4GHEsdn4Svv1sS4Iw
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Here’s a couple of photos I managed to quickly get of Geelong’s main FM radio transmitter just out of Drysdale. KRock, Bay 93.9, 96three and The Pulse all come out of here. Kix Country is transmitted from Wandana Heights, as is Vision Australia I think.
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Didn’t the Chinese radio AM towers also neighbour those?
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No, those were closer to Geelong at Leopold. Only 1 of them is still standing. Both transmitters belong to Geelong Broadcasters (Grants).
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What does that transmit these days?
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Nothing, they’ve been off for a year or so now.
I too noticed that one tower is now gone down there. I had wondered if the whole site might be being demolished, given there’s currently no user for 1341kHz. There is a housing estate being built closeby, so maybe the AM TX site will eventually make way for houses?
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If that happens, it would be good see a street named 3GL Road in it as a tribute of sorts to its former use.
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