They might need to cover all the windows in the conveniences on every floor.
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That’s a hell of an oversight. Females will get the shits, males will love the chance to show off. 
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Article from The Murray Pioneer dated Tuesday 10 November 1998.
Fire takes 5A off air.
Television station RTS 5A has been off air since just after midday yesterday due to a fire at its Loxton headquarters.
Station executives are hopeful of resuming full transmission today but said late yesterday afternoon that much would depend on the extent of the damage.
The fire started in the stations only studio, cutting off the complex from its main power source and destroying 3 new cameras.
And electrical cable overheated and then ignited into flames which spread to curtains at the rear of the studio.
The studio was completely gutted by the blaze.
Riverland police yesterday estimated damage may run as high as $1,000,000.
Three cameras and high-tech microphones, which had only been purchased by the station several weeks ago in a major upgrade, and many other items were destroyed.
The alarm was raised at 12:45 PM yesterday and 16 staff had to be evacuated for almost 2 hours.
For fire units including the Loxton MFS fought the blaze for more than an hour.
A support crew from 5A’s sister station, SES 8 in Mount Gambier, were called in late yesterday afternoon to bring emergency equipment to get the station back on air as soon as possible.
RTS5A station manager Wendy Mudge said late yesterday it was too soon to fully assess the extent of the damage.
“It is very serious,” she said.
“The electricians and technicians will open, clean and test every single wire and piece of equipment before we can be fully operational. “
“Everyone at the station is stunned. These things happen to other people.” Mrs Mudge had just finished recording their locally produced at home show in the studio when this fire started.
She said that the evacuation plan had worked well, and she paid tribute to the efforts of the fire crews.
It was remarkable to watch the fire crews walk right into a burning building. The bravery they showed was fantastic.
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I wonder which genius thought “nah let’s not put privacy film on the glass”?
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Apologies if this has been shared before but I only saw it this evening.
Video of the abandoned building formerly home to 2RG and MTN9 in Griffith, located at Remembrance Drive, Griffith.
YouTube: vk3ase
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They look like toilet blocks alongside a lack of windows.
Has anyone here ever visited any of the ABC’s regional radio studios? Would love to see what’s its like in the foyer and studio as photos of the foyer in particular are a bit hard to find…
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One of the Technicians that performed the Logitek console upgrade to many of the regional studios posted a lot of studio and behind the scenes photos on his Flickr photostream which is linked below.
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A successful Olympics bid could change the Brisbane skyline, with television channels pushing to leave Mt Coot-tha and take their towers down and hand back their 99-year leases.
Committee for Brisbane vice president and Nine Queensland managing director Kylie Blucher said the mountain could be handed back to the public.
“Changes to the industry have seen the end of most local production and those buildings are no longer fit for purpose,” Ms Blucher said.
“They are tired and expensive to maintain and, from a technical point of view, the stations do not need to be there.
“Channel Nine would happily leave the mountain and hand its lease back. I believe 7 and 10 would do the same.
“The 2032 Olympics and Paralympics will require a state-of-the-art media centre to be created in Brisbane that will house about 25,000 media representatives. Bowen Hills, already home to News Corporation, is one possible site.
“A legacy might be that the television stations move permanently as anchor tenants into that centre.
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And whose responsible for the loss of local production and an abandonment of the facilities?
They all had the opportunity to make the buildings fit for purpose and make something of the land that they are on but chose not to.
The networks did this to themselves by valuing high priced real estate in Sydney and Melbpurne, they can suffer.
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Take the towers down off Mt Coot-tha. I doubt the towers would go. They might just leave one tower up there and everyone transmits from it. But then again, I’d bet that by 2032, FTA network television will be a thing of the past thus not needing such infrastructure.
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They COULD potentially transmit from atop a high rise in the CBD instead. But would mean a lot of people needing to get up on their roof and fiddle about with antennas, particularly on the northside, and all on the same day.
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So Nine wants to use a potential Olympic Games to allow them to redevelop their site on the mountain, which is currently not allowed under state government legislation. So they want the legislation changed so they can sell it off for a tourism development. That what it seems like, reading between the lines.
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In Auckland, they were originally going to move the city’s main TV transmitters from the mountain range west of the city to Sky Tower in the late 1990’s. That didn’t happen and the site instead became a low powered translator. The high powered FM stations all moved there.
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While the studios might move, it wouldn’t necessarily impact the two commercial towers currently used at TVQ and QTQ. And no effect on ABC’s installation.
They can’t sell off what they don’t own. If someone else took over the leases, it would just mean that the networks wouldn’t have to maintain them.
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There is no local productions. The facilities are just empty shells of past times gone bye.
It would be better for Seven and Nine to move into Brisbane CBD with the ABC/SBS.
10 on the other hand, I’m not sure they’ll even be around by 2032.
it’s an interesting prosptect but reafdin between the lines they are saying “we are happy to move if someone else pays for the building” as the IBC would be built and paid for by the OCOG
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… there is no “local production” any more and their lease says they can’t “abandon” the sites - they have to totally remediate them … (and it’s “who’s”)
… the buildings were “fit for purpose” when television stations were locally owned and were responsible under the Broadcasting Act to properly serve their audience … Paul Keating changed all that by abolishing the “two-station” rule, throwing out the old Broadcasting Act and replacing it in 1992 with a piece of legislation that took away all of those responsibilities …
… so you think it was the “networks” that valued the real estate they were on in Sydney and Melbourne? you need an education in real estate valuation …
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