Is that the 7 van from Adelaide?
who are Sydney Teleport?
Sydney Teleport Services
A leading provider of broadcast and television services for domestic and international broadcasters.
Previously known as Sydney Film and TV Studios
Sydney Teleport uplink to satellite as well, and used to feed one of the transponders on Optus D2 that I think TBS may have taken over (can’t remember). They currently only uplink to Eutelsat 172B and Asiasat 9. Sydney Teleport Services - LyngSat
They’re located in Rozelle, NSW and their antennas are tiny in comparison to others (local government regulation), so had massive issues with rain fade.
Edit: the transponder that STS used to uplink to is the current MX1/SES transponder, not TBS. It’s now uplinked by Optus Satellite in Belrose for MX1.
I noticed a big wide aperture satellite antenna on top of a building in Everleigh Sydney when I last caught a train out that way a few years ago. I believe the location is near where 7 network now lives but was owned by someone else such as a teleport?
The other important broadcasting uplink in Sydney was the satellite antenna on top of the radio building in Saunders St Pyrmont - I was told multiple services from the building(possibly Nova and 2GB) were uplinked on it at one stage. I am guessing IP distribution may be replacing it over time.
I have lost touch with broadcast infrastructure in Sydney over the years.
That’s where 7 has always been, that was their production site, news & main studios is at Martin Place in the city & head office was at Pyrmont, but head office has now moved to Everliegh. Global (Television) was the other company you’re thinking of who’s in the same building.
I think there’s a dish on the roof of Nova, who use it I’m not sure, Nova, Smooth, 2GB, 2UE (ex 2CH) are all in that building. Network TEN is right next door, & they also have Sat. dishes on the roof.
Thanks - that wide aperture antenna is the only one of its kind I have seen in my travels. I wouldn’t have guessed Global at Everleigh as I had always associated them with Epping Rd but I guess that site would have been redeveloped years ago.
The other big satellite setup in Sydney from those days was the 18m C band at TCN(which had a Klystron uplink but wasn’t allowed to be used back then because of the OTC monopoly ) and ATN at Epping had two 12m C bands for their link from Los Angeles that ran in tandem.
One famous piece of broadcast infrastructure which I just missed was the unlicensed microwave bearers both ways between GTV and TCN that 9 hastily built during the Telecom strike in the early 80’s. One staffer I knew got dropped by helicopter on Mt Ginni near Canberra with a set of links, a tent and generator in the middle of winter. I don’t recall exactly how many hops they did GTV to TCN in but it was quite low like 4 or something.
Because GTV to TCN worked so well 9 did TCN to QTQ as well - in the end the government shut them down, confiscated the gear and fined 9 but the $$$ lost was far less than the Telecom bearers would have cost over the same period.
Some more info on the pool - https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2606828
Thanks for that link, I obviously posted about the 9 bearers on Whirlpool in 2017 - at least my short term memory loss only goes back 5 years!
Mt Ginini has an Air Services radio site up there these days with a BOM weather station co-located. It’s the only reason the road up there is maintained. I wonder if any of that stuff was up there back then?
A few photos from a drive up there in 2017.
DDA have a microwave link site at Bulls Head (connecting Black Mountain and I can’t remember the other side, and ACMA RRL is taking too long to load to check) which isn’t far away but almost an hour closer to Canberra by road. There’s a locked gate at the bottom of the access track. It’s a short hike but I haven’t visited yet.
Thanks for the photo’s - the A frame building indicates its alpine there during winter so a tent would have been no fun.
The old TCN/GTV 9 TV arrangement from the 70/80’s was fairly high tech for its time but they were very dependent on having connectivity between the 2. Both were owned by the Packers and as I recall had multiple bearers between the two labeled ‘Southbound 1’, ‘Northbound 2’ etc. If say cricket was running over one bearer they had another one to do news interchange etc. In fact it was so integral to the way they worked TCN didn’t have a Master Control but a Relay Room. Program production was split between GTV and TCN such as the Midday Show from TCN and Hey Hey from GTV . 9 beat their competitors easily during that era because it was well run.
The EP of the view worked on Letterman. So explains why
Steadicam on a Segway
I’m always in awe of these camera people. Just operating a camera is hard enough, so is a Segway with your hands, let alone with your legs, and both at the same time! 
I guess this can go here:
Inside the NFL review booth