I doubt a 2.4 meter antenna on Asiasat 5 is sufficiently large enough to pull in anything but the strongest of C band carriers… not to mention the horror of C-band RF interference at that elevation. Only grace is that the dish will be pointing north, avoiding ship Based radar from the harbor…
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No 4K camera by the looks of it from
https://www.canon.co.uk/broadcast/pan-tilt/bu-47h/ Full HD (1920x1080)
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The one pointing South will most likely be to monitor Kings Cross Translator, & the one pointing North will be likely monitoring North Head Translator, but might also be for Bouddi Translator.
Nine Sydney have no interest receiving Wollongong stations at the studios, Newcastle slim possibility as NBN is Nine owned, but unlikely, as it’s essentially managed out of Nine Brisbane, so Nine Brisbane would be more interested in monitoring NBN from the Gold Coast.
It’s mostly just to see/monitor what’s going to air in Sydney, (eg. TV’s in the news room, lunch room, various offices, board room, Reception/visitor waiting area, etc.), & just to keep an eye on TXA doing their job.
There’s a VHF antenna, to receive off air from Artarmon too.
Transmitter monitoring (as to if it’s on air or off or has some other issue), is monitored by both TXA & NPC at Frenchs Forrest.
TEN monitor the transmitters also from their studios/playout in Pyrmont, but 7 & 9 don’t.
TXA & NPC monitor 7 & 9 transmitters right around Australia, TXA & TEN Sydney monitor TEN transmitters right around Australia.
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While I’m sure an antenna would be needed to receive the other networks (plus satellite for Pay TV and international feeds), the feeds of Nine’s own channels would likely come into the studios independently of all that?
It is to the best of my understanding that Nine has access to HD feeds of all network channels internally at their studios, even ones the general public can only watch in SD.
Are we expecting this camera to replace the one at Kirribilli/Milsons Point as the live backdrop on the news? Or will that still be used after the move?
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The VHF antenna is also for DAB+. Presumably Nine wouldn’t be bothering to install the VHF and UHF antennas if they were not going to use them.
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Correct.
I recall the Darwin office being able to watch TCN channels etc. The same everywhere else as-well.
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BUT BROADCAST TELEVISION IS ALL MOVING TO 4K! What are Nine thinking… they’re not future proofing at all. OMG, poor decision by them. DISASTER. RUN FOR THE HILLS.
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You must be fun to hang around. 4k should really be used for video walls as it really makes a difference.
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I am. When inane comments aren’t made.
Yeah, it should … but as far as I’m aware you won’t find any broadcast equipment readily available in 4K for deployment on a mast.
Additionally, broadcast HD (uncompressed) is a lot prettier than 1080p from YouTube.
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I wasn’t born yesterday.
But if you are not going to use 4K, why buy 4K? That is my point.
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Yes this may shock you, but you’re not the only person who works in broadcast television.
Never said I was, also never said I work in broadcast television.
True, but not necessarily for distribution around the offices etc. Much easier to just feed RF to TVs, so they’ll just get the off-air versions of the Nine channels.
Also a good way of monitoring for failures etc, however rare these days.
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Let’s all keep in mind that a Canon BU-47H is only what Nine is proposing to put on the roof.
Either way, I’m sure Nine would have the option to swap it out for a 4K camera in the future just like how the one at Milsons Point was SD for ages before being upgraded (if I’m not mistaken).
…and this is why it wouldn’t terribly surprise me if the cameras (and possibly other equipment) inside the North Sydney studios are 4K.
Sure viewers won’t immediately see all the benefits in 4K upgrades but if the technology is available and Nine are willing to invest in it, they should. I for one, won’t be massively surprised if in five years time, ten years time, whenever - we’ll be talking about how Nine News is Sydney’s only 4K news while the other channels are upconverting their 1080i pictures to 2160p!
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You certainly post as if you do, you can get your point across without acting like you know it all.
Yes, but they do monitor what’s coming out of the transmitters off air, I’ve had an operator at one of the Master Control Rooms phone me saying, “we’ve noticed an issue with ? transmitter”, before I’ve got any alarms telling me there’s an issue, because they’re sitting there with a screen in front of them, our alarms are delayed, so we don’t get nuisance alarms when there’s a second or 2 break in transmission for whatever reason.
Also note, we have receivers in the racks at Artarmon, & same will be at all main sites, that receive the off air straight from the main/alternate TX’s, & then send that as an ASI monitor output, to the studios master control rooms (NPC or TEN) via their comms fibres, for monitoring purposes, comparisons can then be made, if it’s really a transmission fault, or some sort of interference/receive fault between the main TX site & the studios?
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Strange that Nine left it quite late to lodge a DA to install the dishes and a tower just as TCN is about to relocate from Willoughby.
Probably shifting the current satellites whilst keeping the bare minimum required at Willoughby.
I would say some programs will move before others.
Also worth noting that this is a highly specialized camera worth around $30K. It has the ability to be controlled (pan and zoom) remotely (ie. Without being on the roof) as will as withstand the harsh elements of being outdoors on the roof of a building. I don’t believe there’s to many options for this type of camera let alone one with 4K.
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As I said before being summarily dismissed for being too forward in my posting.
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