I think GTS-BKN in Spencer Gulf, WIN Riverland (RTS) and WIN Mildura (STV) are still at their original premises but none are being used as studios anymore. There might be a few others still around?
There’s some others like BCV Bendigo and DDQ Toowoomba.
Others like NRN Coffs Harbour have been converted into radio studios.
Prime7 Canberra is still in their original building since aggregation.
What about actually producing local news and television?
The WIN studios in Wollongong which is the centralised point for WIN News I think are the original WIN4 studios?
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Yes WIN Wollongong are still in their original building, as are Ten Bendigo, WIN Mildura, WIN Toowoomba and SCA Port Pirie and Broken Hill. And of course Seven Tasmania. WIN Riverland are now in Berri and the studio site is abandoned to my knowledge. WIN Lismore recently moved out of its original home to an industrial estate in Goonellabah
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28 May 1979: The 0-10 Network debuts the mini-series Roots The Next Generations, the sequel to the high-rating 1977 mini-series Roots. The sequel averaged a 44 rating in Sydney and 39 in Melbourne. Not as high as the original but a welcome relief in particular for ATV0 which was having a tough time in the ratings.
28 May 1999: Seven’s morning news and current affairs show Eleven AM comes to an end after 23 years. It was also this day that Seven started displaying a watermark across all programs. It wasn’t well received but it wasn’t long before all networks were doing the same.
28 May 2000: SBS televises Corroboree 2000 — the National Declaration of Reconciliation Conference, including coverage of the Walk For Reconciliation across Sydney Harbour Bridge
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30 May 2005 Sale of the Century returns as Temptation hosted by Ed Phillips and Livinia Nixon
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the following Monday reruns of Home and Away - The Early Years started lasting until early 2000 resuming again in 2001 at 4:30 then axed for good in May 2002 Home and Away - The Early Years returned from the beginning in November 2009 lasting until April 2017 the second rerun ended at Shane’s death
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This was on 7Two just for clarification.
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SBS TWO launched on this date back in 2009. It started at 6pm on Channel 32 replacing the SBS World News Channel.
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Happy 60th birthday to CTC today.
If not for the TV Tonight article on the anniversary, I wouldn’t have found out that CTC never broadcast Home and Away despite the channel 7 number, and it was the first TV station in Australia to produce and broadcast programs in colour.
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3 June 1968: GTV9 launches Today with Mike Walsh and Bobo Faulkner. Originally broadcast only in Melbourne but was soon extended to be relayed across regional Victoria.
Today in its local form lasted barely a year before Walsh was dumped and the show replaced by a “national” (i.e. Sydney and Melbourne) program with hosts in both Sydney and Melbourne. The revamped show also only lasted a few months before being axed at the end of 1969.
YouTube: Classic Australian TV
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Ten years ago today, analogue TV was switched off in Southern NSW and the ACT. Here’s the last 5 minutes of WIN Wollongong’s analogue transmission as received in Windsor, NW Sydney.
Credit: sirmechie (YouTube)
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6 June 1967 (or, technically, early on 7 June 1967): Television history is made with a live via satellite telecast from Australia’s Exhibition at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada, in what is reported to be the first satellite transmission from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere.
ABC is host Australian broadcaster with their coverage fed to commercial channels for broadcasting commercial-free.
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12 June 1965: Perth’s second commercial TV station, STW9, is officially opened.
Source: The West Australian
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15 June 1967: Melbourne’s ATV0 produces Australia’s first live colour telecast. Coverage of the Pakenham races is produced in colour but the only viewers who could see it in colour were ATV0 executives, representatives of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and invited members of the press to view the pictures on colour sets installed at the ATV0 studios.
The Age’s Ann Gillison described the colour as “not unreal vividness often seen in colour films, but looks rather more like a sepia picture well tinted.”
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X9RYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3164%2C2598946
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17/6/2004 Dean Cartechini becomes the first contestant to win the maximum amount of $200,000 on Deal or No Deal.
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20/6/2005 Seven News Melbourne unveils the twisted wood/metal set as first rolled out in Sydney earlier that year. This followed just over 16 months (or so) of the infamous “cardboard” set and the keyed set that had Telstra Dome (now Marvel Stadium) in the background.
This meant the set went from having the newsroom in the background to being viewed from the newsroom (if that makes sense).
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