6WA is audible at night driving around Melbourne sometimes.
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Yes, would definitely be easier to get in Melbourne now with 7BU gone.
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Nah, it was on the car radio at Beacon Hill Lookout in my taxi.
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Prime7’s Coffs Harbour bureau:
Looks like it takes up two storeys!
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Should have tried to flatten the carpet before the story, even if they kept it there for a few
hours beforehand.
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Looks like there is at least one other tenant in that building.
But yes, looks to be one of the larger regional TV offices.
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Does anyone have any photos of WIN’s former Loxton studios?
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Looks like a motel/hotel if you ask me!
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… some here … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kju7kMMIN4
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I used to be the tech that looked after 6WA’s transmitter - 50Kw Nautel into a big mast with a top hat. The transmitter is in a pre-fab building next to a large unused building from the 1930’s that was built to house Radio Australia. This site is similar to one in Cumnock in NSW.
It puts out a big signal.
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No photos here but I have been to the site - as I recall it had the Win transmitter in it with a feeder running next door to the BA tower. Long defunct as a TV studio but there was a Journo and camo there and a local sales rep. A tech was also based there for the region. The sales guy was a former operator and gave me a great description of an old playout system they had that used 3 Sony BVU tape decks and a homebrew sequencer. Regional TV in its heyday was very cheap and cheerful. It sounded similar to a system the old VEW8 TV station in country WA used.
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Part of the old 5A building had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1998 destroyed the production studio. I do have the newspaper article of it somewhere.
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Prime’s now-defunct Traralgon office:
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Have they moved offices or completely vacated the Gippsland Market?
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They moved to a new office maybe about 6-8 years ago.
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Erin Molan from a couple of days ago on Instagram promoting some freebies or something she was given, but behind her though is a good shot of the 2DayFM studio. I didn’t know they had a glass wall.
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