On that note, Sky are currently selling off part of their Mt Wellington site. They will retain their main production/broadcast building however.
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The old Prime building in Albany is a similar design to the Prime7 studios in Canberra. When Prime7 constructed new studios in Wollongong, Canberra, Newcastle and Ballarat back in the 1990’s, they were almost identical to each other.
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I wish prime moved back to that studio
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You obviously never watched the poor excuse of a news bulletin they put to air (via Sydney) from that studio.
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It was not the best but they currently use a green screen and use all of NewsHubs content
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I remember how awful it was, though discovery/newshub use a green screen, its still miles ahead of what they did previously
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It was also a one shot set up usually, in front of a dull static background. They may have been green screen by the end of the Sky News era.
They only ever had a few reporters on the ground, used voice over reports for a lot of stories (especially anything South Island based) and used vision from 3News. Then padding the bulletin out with sports news because Sky had the rights to coverage.
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Maori TV is adding a few extra news updates to its schedule:
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TVNZ will bring back Home Learning TV on its sister channel Duke starting tomorrow. It’ll take over the Duke +1 channel from 9am-1pm daily.
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Weird that they’d put it on Duke +1, surely it could go on a more prominent station.
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Low use channel that everyone has access to without taking capacity off the existing broadcast schedule.
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No plans.
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So is film and TV post-production not allowed under level 4 restrictions?
Nope. Not unless working from home.
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Season 4 of Travel Guides premieres on TVNZ2 next Tuesday (August 31) at 7.30pm. The first four episodes feature Byron Bay, Red Centre, Whitsundays and Tasmania.
Odd that radio can continue though.
(Wait, live TV can continue - ignore me)
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yeah, it’s essentially live broadcast media that is allowed to continue plus publishing. But most are WFH unless absolutely necessary to be in the office.
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It seems like the Facebook pages for Choice TV and HGTV have been deleted for some reason.
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Well that’s just stupid. They should of kept them active or the very least Choice TV’s one. Its probably the start of consolidation.
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