Fuck you both for making me want Maccas for lunch.
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If only there was a big Aldi sign it would be OK 
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With links and signals being passed through fibre optics and the internet, I donât think thatâs really a requirement for most television broadcasters these days. FM radio is different though.
A lot of television stations donât have their own individual Presentation, MCR or Engineering departments anymore (or never did) so line of sight doesnât matter so much.
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Queensland have now updated their endtags to include Jonathan Uptin.
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Yes and no. Almost all regional TV sites are still fed by microwave links or off-air from nearby transmitters in the case of some repeaters.
WIN and Prime do this via the Digital Distribution Australia (DDA) network (owned by WIN) - which is a network for microwave links covering Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
SCA in Victoria, NSW, SA, and Tasmania run fibre to their local offices, but then use a microwave link as the last leg to get the signal to the transmission site. In Northern Queensland, use a microwave network running from Brisbane to Cairns (although I believe this is now run by a third party).
But back on topicâŚ
The quality from a camera that would be a suitable size to mount on an existing mast, coupled with a low bit rate would give an image that really wouldnât be suitable for broadcast. You might think it would be OK, but such a setup would cop the exact same amount of hate on here as their current setup.
It would also be a lot of effort and expense for something that really wouldnât make that much difference. Yes, it would be cool if they could do it successfully, but I hardly think anyone is choosing the bulletin they watch based on the background image.
Just came on here to post the same thing.
Jonathan was shown presenting with a selection of stories from last week shown, with both Sam and Jono now added on the end board.
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Itâs a miracle any signals get out of the building at all if this M is as all encompassing as you note. This street view shot shows a reasonable window that a zoom feature (found on most cameras) could work with.
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But why would you want to look at Maccas and a generic road over the shot of the city you see now?
We could run a live feed camera back off Mt Stuart but itâs so far away from the city that it wouldnât look any good either.
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Sevenâs approach seems fine - pre-record a video loop of the local area to use it - so thereâs something moving in the background rather than just the static image.
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Agree. When the anchors did those promo shoots in the regional areas, Nine should have filmed an overview of each city/suburb between 6-7. Then by the launch, they can play it on loop. They could have refilmed in in summer, as well.
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Yes, because a shot of McDonaldâs is exactly what I was hoping for. I think we could all think a little less literally on Media Spy. Height and Zoom work wonders in television, believe me.
The background shot for 9 News Canberra is from a mountain top (Mt Ainsle). Not sure why Townsville is so unphotogenic from Mt Stuart (below), but Iâll take the word of locals.
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Didnât manage to cap it, but just saw a clearly SCA produced promo for âNine Local Newsâ.
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Why would a simple sign block the signals getting out of SCAâs building??
We were talking about mounting a camera on the SCA building - to which I clearly outlined the McDonalds sign would be in the shot.
A sign on the other side of the road is not going to block the radio signals going out of the buildingâŚ
As you can see in the google street view photo you posted, the M sign is about 3x the height of the McDonalds building⌠the McDonalds building is about the same height as the SCA building across the road, hence what I was saying about the sign being 3x the height.
i.e. this statement is perfectly correct:
Yes, Mt Stuart is about 15km south of the city, you really wouldnât have much to look at with a camera on it.
The Townsville photo used on 9 News is from the top of Castle Hill (not Mt Stuart).
Mt Stuart is far too far away to be able to see the CBD clearly from a camera, so a daytime shot from it (as they use on 9 News) would be showing nothing but houses in the suburbs.
Wasnât able to record it, but there was a generalised weather report for all of the Nine News Regional NSW bulletins last night. Vanessa OâHanlon presented it.
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Yesterdayâs weather graphics shown tonight so they canned the weather report. Embarrassing
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Which edition?
Yesterdayâs (21.9.2017) weather graphics/information on tonightâs (22.9.2017) Illawarra bulletin:
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Not the first time. How is this even possible. Dumb.
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