Does anyone have a floor plan or blueprints of the studios?
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I unfortunately never made it to the TCN9 studios at Willoughby. As part of my job I did visit ATN7 at Epping a few times when Atlab had their motion picture film processing facility on site, and later went to the recording of the last episode of Jono and Dano’s late night show. When TEN10 was at Ultimo in the early 1990s (I think they were in Bay St?) I got to see a recording of Saturday Basketball with Bill Woods and Steve Carfino. I never saw the ABC studios at Gore Hill, though I did visit the warehouse in Lanceley Pl a few times.
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Finally found some footage from Seven Nightly News in 1988.
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How long did Donna Meiklejohn remain at Seven for after that report went to air?
I know that she was a co-presenter of Seven National News Brisbane in 1987 and later would do some work for the ABC, notably presenting “Backchat” after Tim Bowden departed that show in mid 1994.
Interesting point made in tonight’s Flashback regarding quality of video tape vs film.
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… the TCN9 move to their new North Sydney digs has been widely reported, but on their own network they made an awful clanger … the SMH and Age ran a story by Michael Idato with several pictures … purportedly of TCN studios … unfortunately two of the three studio pics were actually of GTV9 in Richmond and not TCN at all … a friend of mine also mentioned that they ran some footage on 9 News and Today claiming to be the Mike Walsh Show in Studio 2 at TCN that were actually from the Paul Hogan Show at GTV https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/good-evening-goodbye-to-willoughby-20201114-p56eno.html … oh dear …
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We needn’t be surprised. Research is non-existent these days. Look too at recent newspaper reports about “Burt Newtown” being in hospital.
I think if it has any relevance to anything pre-2000 then details are unimportant.
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Fantastic find. Thank you!
A story I found in the Hammersley News to mark the tenth anniversary of repeater television station HTWR7 Mt Tom Price.
Source: Hamersley News, 1 March 1981. NLA Trove.
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So, it would of carried ABW, GWN and ???.
As the article mentions, HTWR in its later years was showing tapes from ABC Perth, commercial programs from tapes supplied by GTS Spencer Gulf, and its own studio-based programs.
Spencer Gulf? That’s a bit out of the way? Surely one of the regional stations closer to them would’ve been a better bet?
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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this. It looks like the station was probably a bit more sophisticated than I would have given it credit for, in that it even had a studio and presented some of its own programs.
I wonder if GTS is an acronym for something else. I would have thought they’d get taped programs from Perth rather than a small regional station in South Australia.
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I thought GTS stands for Gulf Television South Australia (Gulf being Spencer Gulf).
It stands for Spencer Gulf Telecasters South Australia.
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Don’t know if @Petarkco still has a picture of it, but it’s to my understanding there were also very similar “we 
Parramatta” stickers produced.
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I remember the We love Parramatta ones.
I don’t love Blacktown. 
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I don’t recall ever seeing anything like that?
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Maybe I’ve got you confused with ElCapitanCranky, in which case apologies! 