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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
