Story mentions the newish Screen Queensland facilities at Hemmant where a new NBC series about the rivalry between Tiger King and his neighbour Carole Baskin will be shot. Includes some images.
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QTQ is starting to become a pretty busy station - outputting 4 bulletins a day and whatever else they do as of October 5.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they are looking into the possibilities of moving to a new building despite holding a land lease on Mt Coot-Tha.
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I’m sure the networks look at moving closer to the City occasionally.
All 3 of them are working in ageing buildings with plenty of empty space.
BTQ has their production studio completely empty and TVQ is also downsizing. I wonder if TVQ still have their conference centre?
I understand QTQ use their production studio occasionally (mostly for studio based kids shows on 9GO!)
I know there’s zoning and historic reasons not to move.
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I’d think as @rock12 said it would be looked at, but i would suggest the finances do not add up, however there will come a day when the decision would be made to either stay up the mountain or come down and it comes down to a number of things besides finance.
i think one is access to talent. being up on the mountain can be a disincentive to work for the networks as it can be a pretty hairy dive at night and can be a disincentive
it makes sense for the ABC to be where they are at southbank (as much as i didn’t like the loss of public space), especially in an election season - it’s so easy for a pollie (or a wannabe pollie) to walk across the goodwill bridge and be on the radio or TV - something even 4BC at cannon hill can not match.
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Southbank would be a great Martin Place / Rockefeller Center style location for commercial networks to do news from…
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it would also remove the Sydney / Melbourne bias of networks
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How so? You wouldn’t see national programming suddenly move to Brisbane just because they moved closer into town.
it shold read Perception of bias
Did Nine’s streetside studios in Adelaide and Perth have this effect?
But the networks can’t realistically sell or lease out the existing buildings and large land area.
If they move out they would have to still pay for the upkeep, rates etc on the current studios.
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In that case, they may as well start utilising the building better. They can start with local news 
until in 2 or 3 years and CBS realise the current chages don’t work and they reverse them…
I don’t know… I can see local news presentation returning at some point in Queensland.
The current set up is a dogs breakfast.
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The only option is to sell to the Brisbane City Council, isn’t it? If they do sell to the council are the television stations required to remediate the sites and hand them back as open space?
Yes. The land has to be returned to original state.
I’ve heard a move for 10 would cost close to $20 million… and based on economics the ‘return on investment’ would take ages to recoup.
Also, the studio isn’t actually vacant now anyway…
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What’s it used for?
Currently Sydney and Brisbane weather, Totally Wild, Scope, Shake Takes for 10 Shake, the new children’s show in production, guests for Studio 10 / The Project.
Maybe even shooting TV commercials now that 10 has it’s sales department back in house and has a creative department 10 Imagine.
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Could be a reality show in the deconstruction… I wonder if they factored that into ROI?
Just buy a house in Woodridge and record everything in a garage. Works for Ticker’s Ben, Rob and Robbo 
The Newsroom could be the lounge room and the main bedroom is Sales.
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