All of the Willoughby transmitters are only standby, they only operate roughly 1 hour per week each, during Disaster Recovery testing.
Artarmon is the main site for ATN, TCN & TEN & has been for many years.
Turning off the transmitters at Willoughby is essentially only symbolic, & will just be turning the power circuit breaker off, as they aren’t & won’t be operational at the time on Monday morning.
New alternate/backup site for ATN, TCN & TEN will be at Gore Hill, along with ABC & SBS.
Interesting that they are all NEC DTV transmitters. Thought most broadcasters used R&S these days. Maybe they’re older ones. Will they be taken to another site?
They are all NEC’s & yes they are old, they were moved from Artarmon about 6 years ago, when the transmitters at Artarmon were replaced with R&S’s.
These were the original Digital TV transmitters at Artarmon when DTV began, they’ll be shipped to the other TXA state capital sites for spare parts, (no longer available from NEC).
We already have video journalists with some news organisations in the country.
Google tells me it is a reporter on the now defunct news program Chasing New Jersey on WWOR New York in 2015.
It will be interesting to see the empty shell of the old main studio when they start demolishing that.
Probably filled with copper and asbestos.
I used to enjoy seeing the aerial view of the giant Nine logo on the roof of the studios at the start of the Mike Walsh Show when I was a kid. It was covered up when they added the executive level in the late '70s (early '80s?). Will be interesting to see if any evidence of it remains as they start peeling bits off the building.
And I was only there myself a few months ago.
Did they finally blow the notion that some guests were in a different city when they’re actually in the studio next door? Such a stupid pretence.
No its for social distancing purposes.
They’ve been doing it since well before the pandemic
Is Steve sitting in the ATV10 news studio? I think it is on the same floor just down the corridor at The Como.
I guess HYBPA do a similar thing for the socially distanced guests on there too although I think some of them are in the ATV10 board room as well.
Usually just for some interviews, not the 4th co-host.
Also that would be done from a green screen, they wouldn’t fire up the other studio just for that.
Sport studio.
Which I’m guessing doesn’t see much use these days! No sport on Ten anymore. Probably some late night MotoGP coverage comes out of ATV10 still? Can’t think of anything else.
What’s the point of social distancing if you have a host run between the two studios?
