Sale of Southern Cross Television assets to Ten/ADH

[Casper]

I wonder what ADH will do with studio at Rocky Hill, & facilities across the Spencer Gulf with GTS having studio at Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Augusta & Port Lincoln.

[Nick]

@Casper

facilities across the Spencer Gulf with GTS having studio at Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Augusta & Port Lincoln

Aren’t those buildings nothing more than sales offices (and former news gathering) now?

Since Port Pirie was always the main studio and HQ, were Whyalla and Port Augusta ever TV studios in the first place? Their current shopfront in Port Augusta surely isn’t (according to Google Maps they moved in sometime between 2010 and 2019).

[JPA]

@Casper

I wonder what ADH will do with studio at Rocky Hill, & facilities across the Spencer Gulf with GTS having studio at Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Augusta & Port Lincoln.

Broken Hill

@Nick

Since Port Pirie was always the main studio and HQ, were Whyalla and Port Augusta ever TV studios in the first place?

According to this post from @Techster, as of a few years ago they were in the original Whyalla, Broken Hill, and Port Pire studios.

Broadcast Facilities

We’re still in our original Port Pirie, Whyalla and Broken Hill studios.

[webguy]

Some of them also have network links to broadcast sites, with fibre being available to the “studio” but not to the broadcast site.
I wouldn’t expect ADH to do much with them. They’re too remote to get many additional staff in to serve the other parts of their business, and given the cuts SCA made even while maintaining the local bulletin (and the TV landscape in general) I can’t see there being enough money to really increase the local presence.

I think the future of those site is really eventually being sold once suitable arrangements can be made to relocate the network infrastructure and remaining staff - but even then based on how aggressive SCA were with selling off their remaining offices in most other markets, I imagine there’s not a lot of money to be realised with relatively low property prices and the cost of relocation.

[TelevisionAU]

@Casper

Rocky Hill

@JPA

Broken Hill

You’re both right. SCA is located at Rocky Hill in Broken Hill

https://www.whitepages.com.au/southern-cross-television-10085609/broken-hill-nsw-10088846B

[SA_TV]

@webguy

Some of them also have network links to broadcast sites, with fibre being available to the “studio” but not to the broadcast site.
I wouldn’t expect ADH to do much with them. They’re too remote to get many additional staff in to serve the other parts of their business, and given the cuts SCA made even while maintaining the local bulletin (and the TV landscape in general) I can’t see there being enough money to really increase the local presence.

any tech in those sites would be obsolete by now. aside from space, there would be little usefulness in them as studio spaces.

[Willwalk]

@MossPickle

So what you’re saying is IF 7 can’t/won’t air it in TAS then Nine could potentially do the funniest thing ever and get AFL & Cricket rights if those sports wish to be nationally shown?

Nine and WIN can’t do that, but there is s potential that the ABC might have to show test cricket to regional Australians like before in addition to AFL to ensure nobody misses out not even in regional and remote Australia.

I remember seeing cricket on the ABC in the 1970s and 1980s when I was much younger