Multiple sources have reported that cable is not impacted by the outage.
That being said, relatively few consumers get their TV signal from a broadcast antenna, with most accessing the networks via cable, satellite or streaming options, which would not be impacted
While the station lost its signal transmission, digital streams of its morning newscasts were provided directly to cable and satellite TV operators, Disney-owned Hulu Live TV and other streaming apps.
If you watch ABC7 over the air and you lost our signal, good news: we are back on!
Correct - the local ABC services were wiped out in that awful fire which led to a local community station agreeing to broadcast ABC Radio and it’s emergency warnings while the main signal was down.
Can’t remember if all or only some TV was impacted, but it definitely took a lot of services off air for some time.
Sure was! The whole facility was destroyed. Not sure if SBS was in that building, but ABC took a long time to get back on the air. It had a temporary arrangement with WIN (I think) to use one of its multichannels to broadcast the main ABC channel.
That’s right. Didn’t the ABC facilities burn down but the old GLV8 tower mostly survive? I remembered the commercial services fared better but couldn’t remember how much better.
A truly horrible time for so many people that day was
I’m unsure if there is still any interest 18 months later but I went near the old Channel 7 building at Martin Place very recently and the Channel 7 logo has now been pulled down from above the studio street view side.
Didn’t get time to actually go up to the building to see if it’s still empty but from the view from afar it still had the pillar things in view so I would guess it probably is
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Sounds like it wasn’t there for long. From research it sounds like it was there around 2016.
I do know there was also a Cairns Bureau which shifted to a Townsville Bureau but has since closed.
The Gold Coast Bureau is the only one outside a state or territory capital which exists today. Plus international ones in Washington DC, Taipei and Wellington, New Zealand.