Paywall article… does it say anthing interesting or have a link to plans?
Documents lodged by Design Intent Architecture and Management for Watchorn Street Developments PTY LTD state that the South Launceston site would include the partial demolition and refurbishment of the existing building, with its height reduced and the facade modernised.
Plans have been unveiled to convert the home of TNT-9, more recently known as 7Tasmania, at 36 Watchorn Street, South Launceston, into a thriving business hub. Picture: Design Intent Architecture and Management
Design Intent Architecture and Management director and architect Heath Clayton highlighted the potential of the proposed works, saying the transformation would open up the land for a variety of activities, including administration, clerical, technical, professional, or similar activities, presenting a range of potential business opportunities.
“Examples include a bank, call centre, consulting room, funeral parlour, medical centre, office, post office, real estate agency, residential support services, travel agency and veterinary centre,” Mr Clayton said.
“Channel 7 will remain on site as one of the tenants. Tenancy 2 will be Channel7 and may operate slightly later hours,” he said.
Found some plans on the City of Launceston website. Appears most of the building will be gutted, including the original studio.
Would be nice if someone from SCA did a video tour as they did in Canberra pre-demolition…
Dose 7 Tasmania still have studio facilities & where are they located?.
Yes.
They renovated the place to put all the departments in one area.
They have a news studio in Launceston (inside the current building) and also a news studio in Hobart.
That would’ve been when Ten had just moved into Pyrmont (IIRC, they were previously at a small warehouse in Ultimo, before which they were based at North Ryde).
From past videos of the Late News I have seen, it would seem they split the desk used for the 5:00pm news in half - with the left hand side of it (where Ron Wilson would sit) being used for the Perth news (when production moved to Sydney in 2000) as well as the Late News, and the right-hand side (where Jessica Rowe/Tim Webster would sit) being used for Sports Tonight.
Yes that is correct. Was quite innovative of the time.
When they first moved in they had Bert come up and present GMA as a once off from the studios and they did a tour around. Oh to get footage of that these days. They did have a basic GMA replica set up here as they use to record the advertorials up in Sydney and insert them into GMA.
Then once Ten News relaunched in 2005, there was one long desk used for both the Sydney and Perth bulletins, and then a smaller desk used for the national bulletins.
Around this time, Sports Tonight also rebranded and got a dedicated desk that was silver/metal.
Inside 9 Melbourne:
I thought I’d be more appropriate to continue this discussion here.
According to WIN’s website they still have an office in the old DDQ studios. Some of the vacant offices were put up for lease last year.
1/1a Video Avenue, Mount Lofty QLD 4350 - Leased Office | Commercial Real Estate
You’ve forgotten a big metro studio that still produces tv: ATV/Fremantle in Forest Hill. Then there’s ABC Collinswood but I don’t know if that’s the original building or an extension?
Then there’s of course old studios which have been sold and repurposed like NEN9, AMV4, RVN2, MVQ6, WBQ8 etc or vacant studios (ABV, NTD) but that’s another story.
A Young Kevin Crease on the tower at Mount Lofty, South Australia.
Looking down from the top of the tower.
Areal image 1959
Areal image 1968 you can see the car park design is 45 degree with a turning loop at the end.
Areal image 2022
NWS9 40 Years: Safety
That stuff’s not in there now is it?
Presumably they would’ve removed anything useful already, and are probably removing anything still there that is either valuable, or can be used again (i.e. spare parts for equipment, etc).
Apparently some leftover gear from TCN was sent to there and QTQ.
The clock is ticking down to Newshub’s final broadcast (on Friday 5 July) and here is a throwback to the vintage 3 National News and Nightline sets from 1991. As per John Campbell, who had worked at TV3 (now Three) at the time and was featured on Ice TV as a special guest in 1997, all the sets were indeed housed within the studio at the network’s Flower Street headquarters in Auckland. In fact, everything’s changed over the years.
All photos courtesy of Andrew Adeane, who had worked at TV3 as a floor manager many years ago.
I take it someone somewhere was short of a W so helped themselves? 