Thought it was in this building which says “Shopfittings”. Next door to the former Gold Coast Bulletin site.
When Prime Gold Coast had a local news it was based in the High Street, Southport building Hot Tomato is in now.
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I thank you for that information, funny enough, the old Gold Coast Bulletin building next door is for sale by Ray White.
Also, the building your talking about, on maps it looks like warehouses on the site, I dought it was always like that.
You’re testing my memory from 30 years ago. Could have been in that white building behind it.
I understand it consisted of a studio. Paul Sharratt hosted a travel show from there c. 1986 (there’s clips on YouTube) and Rhonda Sharratt hosted a Friday night talk show there (which only went to air on the Gold Coast I believe around c. 1991).
News was still produced in Coffs Harbour and just relayed into Lismore and Gold Coast. Petrina Zapphir (now on Nine GC) was one of their early Gold Coast reporters.
Here’s a picture from the Travel show produced at the Gold Coast studio c. 1986
Clearly no set designers in regional TV in those days.
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… speaking of testing my memory, there was a TV studio that Sharratt used to use at Radio 4GG … is that the same one you’re talking about? I visited it in around 1980 and checked it out again in late 1991 when we were looking for a home for Prime Gold Coast …
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Very Interesting. 4GG was on Bundall Road, Bundall.
I understand NRTV had their own Production Studio at Ashmore.
The radio station is long gone but the building still exists. It’s the pale yellow structure just left of the “Gold Coast Historic Museum”
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Actually while I think about it. NRTV didn’t start broadcasting into the Gold Coast (from Mt Tamborine) until 1983/84. I presume the “11-8” branding was changed around this time to reflect the expansion. So the 1980 4GG TV studio would pre-date this. Perhaps NRTV didn’t find the 4GG studio facilities to their liking either or couldn’t come to an agreement with 4GG.
Not sure what was produced in their Lismore studios, but I imagine Coffs Harbour would have produced the bulk of the programming.
Apart from the the Local News, I remember Prime Gold Coast in the 90’s was also the home to the “Prime Possum” inserts to air during the 4pm C program and some movie review show which wasn’t on air long.
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No, it was still NRTV “11-8” until the late 1980s. It was later just “NRTV” closer to aggregation
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Ah. I don’t remember it being an issue on the Gold Coast. I don’t think most people realised there was a “6th” television channel on the Gold Coast in the mid-late 80’s/very early 90’s.
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I think plenty would have. The local RTN relay was in between the UHF relays for BTQ and QTQ so people would have found it.
From memory the stations were TVQ46, ABQ49, BTQ52, RTN55, QTQ58, SBS61
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Yes people would have found it, but I don’t know if they watched it 
If you watch between 9:50 to 10:05 you’ll see the transition between Coffs Harbour and the Gold Coast studio.
Good thing WIN don’t have to do this for their “local production” for Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Gold Coast today. It be pretty short.
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Did NRTV (or NBN Gold Goast, post-aggregation) ever carry full/live coverage of Gabba cricket matches when QTQ was limited in what it could show? That would’ve been at least one incentive for Gold Coast viewers to tune in…
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Yes they did.
Also little things like NBN Gold Coast aired the Sydney version of the Footy Show while QTQ had the Brisbane version.
Also NBN, Prime and NRTV aired their programming one hour before the Brisbane stations due to daylight savings, but NBN didn’t do it one year and complained about Prime airing “Pulp Fiction” at 8pm Queensland time. The following year, all the regionals matched their Brisbane timings.
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Which happened to be in the frequency order of their main transmitters’ services, at least at the time the Mt Tamborine transmitter went to air.
TVQ0, ABQ2, BTQ7, RTN8, QTQ9, SBS28
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I think RTN 8 has a fair number of viewers on the Gold Coast. People had spent years putting up antennas to receive both Mt Coot-tha and Mt Nardi signals with 6 and 8 received better than 7 and 9 in many parts of the coast.
Seven Brisbane had a Gold Coast studio.
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Thant NRTV news bulletin is a blast from the past. I believe both Peter Chapman and Greg Hughes ended up at Capital Television a couple of years later.
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Do you know where their GC studios/news bureau was in those days?
because nothing screams credible journalism like a pastel pink suit and bowtie 
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The opener to the news bulletin in those days showed the Golden Gate building on the GC. Don’t know if the studio was there or it was just that the microwave link to Brisbane was there.
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Yes both definitely went to Canberra.
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