Perhaps they were having problems with the Wide World Of Sports and borrowed a W for that. There is worldwide shortage of Ws apparently.
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I believe that was the old GTV9 set pre 2010, from Bendigo Street.
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You may recall this blow up from the start of the 2023 AFL season which drew attention to Seven ad Fox Footy building temporary presentation sets over accessible seating areas at the MCG.
Today I discovered the MCC’s solution to this problem has been to relocate the Betty Cuthbert Bar on level 2 of the Olympic stand and build a couple of studio presentation areas which open onto the concourse at the rear of N52.
Only action I saw was Huddo and Dal Santo coming down for a wrap after the match, sounded like it was the first time Huddo had seen the set up. It’s the first time I’ve sat here this year so unsure when it was completed but I’ve noticed Seven’s post match coming from that angle for at least the last few weeks. It’s made a good use of the space as you couldn’t really view the oval from the bar very well and the relocated bar is now the previously unused atrium overlooking Yarra Park.
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In 1991, BCV-8 did a big upgrade to their Lily St site with a large playout room added (mostly filled with Betacam SP gear IIRC). And check out the vehicle fleet! (Courtesy of Lost Bendigo & District FB page):
(Worth noting the big OB van was sold to a private operator in Melbourne in the late-2000s. It had very low mileage!)
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Both Seven and Fox had OBs on Friday night with desks… I’m assuming there are two presentation areas side by side?
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I noticed the in-stand (or appeared to be) desks for ‘marquee’ games looked different this year, more set-up and glass panels behind retracted. And then remembered I thought the MCC banned broadcasters following said incident. So this explains it and probably good for broadcasters, rather than having to shift large set pieces on/off the ground itseelf on the grass, which they may now save for finals.
For non-marquee games, have they still been using the standard MCG TV studio, where they also call from and their central cameras are?
I think Nine also used one of these new host positions for SOO the other week.
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Yeah, have a look int the first pic, Sevens sitting desk is on the left, Fox’s standing desk (at least it was yesterday) is on the right.
I didn’t want to be too weird wandering around taking photos!
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Thanks for that.
Long since demolished and replaced with residential units.
Was a fully fledged station in it’s own right except for no Presentation which was done from Wollongong.
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Colours suit Raiders TV to the ground!
A real green screen machine there!
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Like many regional networks, when aggregation started wasting money on studio facilities which were not needed.
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In it’s day WIN News Canberra was watchable when produced out of Kingston, meaning it solely focused on Canberra region news and events. As they had enough reporters and crew staff to produce 22 minutes of content per weekday for the 6pm bulletin. Plus produce more up to the minute news updates through the day.
Since it was centralised to Wollongong, you are lucky to get 3 to 4 packages related to the Canberra region now, with very little resources left in Canberra to package content. It is tiresome to watch full of generic and out of region fluff. I don’t even bother to watch it. WIN would be better served to package a 5 minute local news breakaway within the Nine 6pm bulletin that focuses on Canberra region news only. They could easily insert it in between sport and weather over the top of the 6.50pm fluff segment of the Nine 6pm bulletin and still run the ad breaks as normal.
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Didn’t WIN Canberra at one point had a local weekend update bulletin?
Also prior to moving to Wollongong, they also did local coverage of ACT elections from the tally room.
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Since the Nine bulletin is live and WIN would need to pre-record these inserts, getting the timing right would be a problem without it ‘crashing’ back into the weather part way though.
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They (and Wollongong) had a 6.28pm insert at the end of the Sat/Sun Nine bulletins. That stopped in the late 1990s I think.
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They could come to arrangement with Nine to tighten up the timing or WIN fills up to 7pm with a live local weather segment that goes statewide where they can adjust timing on the run, would not be hard. The bonus for Nine is the stronger Tipping Point lead-in to the 6pm bulletin with the WN News 5.30pm bulletin gone.
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Win Canberra used to also have weather updates with Tony Lynas that was used state wide not just in Canberra. That was still happening well into the 2000’s.
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Studios were built for aggregation but decommissioned around 23 years later.
It saw the death of its competitors on 10 Capital and Prime so the WIN bulletin may not have been as successful had it been presented from Wollongong from Day 1.
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