Yes, microwave from day 1. The landline feeds came later. Some stations on Mount Dandenong still have microwave as back up feeds still with others having satellite backup, depends on the station. And when SBS started, that was landline from Sydney from day 1, then satellite for a few years then back to landline when they started to split the national signal for localised TVC’s into Melbourne.
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Did they sort of copy the Brisbane (and TCN9 Sydney) idea?
I can imagine it would have been cheaper back then to put the studios near the transmitter, given everything was done locally.
Not so much now with centralised systems.
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Possibly. CTC7 also was based originally at the transmitter site on top of Black Mountain. RTS5A was also based at the Loxton transmitter site too.
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Originally co-located with ABC3 Canberra too (but separate studios/building)
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Looks like they are checking out ABC News in the first pic.
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Why would you support that monstrosity of a bulletin…
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Because WIN TV provides local news and employs many people across the country?
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Also, what you’re looking at in this tweet is a government minister touring WIN. Showing interest. This opens up opportunities for WIN to seek additional funding to improve their news service.
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Maybe Bruce explained to her why he needs to look uo from the floor after every story nefore reading the next one. Perhaps a little funding could buy a stand to put the monitor on.
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Like in towns like Hobart, Rockhampton, Ballarat, Mt Gambier, Loxton and Toowoomba?
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Most are still serviced by a state-wide or region-wide bulletin.
All these were major newsmaking facilities for WIN at one point but I don’t understand your comment.
The ass has fallen out of regional television for a while, so is the need to centralise news production.
All of those locations had a working TV studio for at least 20 years and it was an important employer in those towns. If the industry had not been mismanaged as badly as it has been(ie Aggregation) and regional TV owners had not pulled as much money out as they have during the good times, there may still be a genuine local TV service in some of those towns. TV was run as a 100% mark up business for far longer than it was capable of. The commercial radio services in those towns are subject to a regulated local content requirement and managed to survive.
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But people are still listening to radio.
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Those people with radio’s also own TV’s
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The tweet show L-R Seve, ABC, 10 then a non-TV comm tower.
Traffic reports L-R are comm tower, ABC, 10. Nine, Seven with smaller community radio towers.
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The Comms tower sits right out on its own, doesn’t it? Much more to The Gap side of the mountain. Clearly visible from the CBD but somewhat obscured otherwise - you can’t see it from the southern side of the mountain at all.
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Letterman used to do things like that too, product of a bygone era.
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