ATN7 back around 6 years ago with news personalites posters:
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Hope everyone is have a great easter holiday, myself and family certainly are. Thought we might head into Newcastle and I took it upon myself to pop around to the old NBN Studios, to see what’s been happening.
Not much but a fence, and boards, and removal of the broadcast tower in the carpark.
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Hmmm. That construction logo looks kinds familiar… 
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Fantastic space, very versatile. Interested to see how they change the wooden panel on the right of the frame. It is removable, they took it away completely for the flood fundraiser, but it has also had the Stan logo on it and a love heart for Love Island.
Are there separate panels which they wheel in with different logos, or is it movable and they can attach different logos?
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At least the wood panel would be removed and swapped out each time.
The Sydney 9 studio.
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Not the best photos. This is/was ABC Melbourne’s pop up studio at Deakin Uni along the Geelong waterfront. I beleive they only used it in March but the signage is still here today. It’s kind of funny seeing a photo of the Geelong bollards but with an ABC Melbourne sign.
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Are they still based out of 94.7 The Pulse studios or did they move their local journos to Deaking Uni too?
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I didn’t know ABC had staff based in Geelong. They do have a facebook page called ‘ABC News Geelong’ but it doesn’t have regular posts. I just checked and the contact email for this page is Rachel Clayton, who appears to be based in Geelong, as most of her stories on ABC News website are about the Geelong area.
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The ABC has a bare presence in the City which is a shame because given the regions population, its news is very much disregarded due to its close proximity to Melbourne (as opposed to Newcastle or Wollongong who get their own TV and Radio coverage).
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ABC TV in Newcastle is pretty much the same on air as Sydney.
Geelong also has it’s own relay at Highton, so in reality it’s no different to Newcastle for TV, other than the network name here is ABC NSW instead of ABC Sydney.
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Yes ABC TV is state based, but on radio Newcastle gets local programming, and 7,9 and 10 all have local programming on TV in Newcastle.
Back then, it was all that was needed. The ABN2 tower had an FM array at the very top back in the late 1950s for the experimental FM service.
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ABC Local Radio Newscastle is more a regional now as more content is networked in, sadly. But, yes, it has a hell of a lot more local content that ABC listeners in Geelong do not get.
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WIN does not have any local content on its Ten station bar the noodle updates and advertising. Prime is the same in the Newcastle sub-market.
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