Yes, but its tiny. It was made for news updates and live crosses for Sunrise or the Morning show.
Again, There needs to be a second (larger) studio allocated for sports programming. A curtain is not going to do it. Also, as others have said they need a standing platform around the desk and walls for the Seven News set. There is way too much space and black flooring.
Cheers. There is a picture of Studio 2 and some info about it in the article on the 7NEWS website.
Nice read, any chance of tours of any of the other Seven stations?
With the current usage of Seven Melbourne only as 4pm and 6pm news, there would surely be limited overlap between sports content and news? Making one big studio would save on the costs of having one of two large studios going mostly unused during any time of the day.
Seems to be Sydney is the news studio hub while Melbourne is the sports studio hub. It would be nice to see them share national news around like Nine and ABC do, but Brisbane might be a better bet based on Sevenâs current setups (and Perth once they get a decent set!)
But thatâs the problem, The Agender Setters and The Front Bar will be produced off site, as thereâs no room to accommodate them in the studio. And The Wash Up is coming from the smaller (broom closet) Studio 2. News needs its own studio and seeing as HSV7 is the main playout center for sport, it should have a dedicated studio built into the design.
I do think it makes more sense for The Agenda Setters particularly to be produced from SEN/Rainmaker. It is more convenient for Hutchy and Kane who are working out of that site on a Monday, and given Hutchyâs mob are producing the program, it makes sense to keep it in the one spot where production staff can work out of.
The whole setup is a lot smaller than I imagined.
Doesnât seem they have really built this for forward thinking. All the best to them though tech wise itâs an upgrade.
Also hopefully only a placeholder in that video but looks like the live shot is gone sadly. That Hamer hall angle looks to be a still image⌠and very much raised too high.
It was mentioned in the video that they hadnât settled on the backdrop yet.
I wonder why Sevenâs got one of their TVs tuned to Nickelodeon? 
Also noticing Bluey as well in the background on another TV, likely tuned to ABC Kids.
They literally said in the video that they can switch straight from a news program to a sports program
It wouldnât be the first time as the Melbourne news director (formerly the Adelaide news director) made the change from a live shot to a pre-recorded drone background when they introduced that small desk, and finally the still image with the 2022 graphics refresh.
The live shot is easily more dynamic than most doctored backgrounds theyâve used in Adelaide (and they date easily)
It took them a while to update the backdrop to reflect the Casino expansion and Festival Tower. It definitely stands out.
With the utilisation of the (broom closet) Studio 2. Terrible way to do things. And cannot run a sports programme at the time as the news. What a downgrade. Very Poor design.
Yes they can. Did you watch the video? They can close the curtains and have two live programs running at the same time. They made a very clear point on that.
Exactly like they can in Sydney.
Uh not they canât. If you watched the video properly it shows the curtain was in-front of the set to dampen the echo. Also there arenât enough cameras or room for them to do simultaneous broadcasts from both sides. You heard them say that you can do one show off the back of another broadcast but not at the same time
âWe have quite a small space to work within hereâ was literal words said at 3:10
Letâs calm down with the sass David when you didnât interpret the video and what was said correctly.
No they canât. They said that they close the curtains to help with sound isolation. The curtains do not go straight in between the two sets, but rather around the alternate screen.
It would also be part of the reason why these sets are so barebones on the floor. Itâs poor design.
Exactly as said in the curtains are to dampen the sound echo and make it sound like a studio to prevent the sound bouncing off the hard surfaces.
The man with Rob said they could do it. He also said they could use the 2nd studio too.
Go to 3:59 on the video.
We can go from news into a production here and also utilise the second studio if we need to.
They are referring to switching to separate productions. They cannot do multiple productions at once.
The broom closet studio, not this same space. Two productions from this one studio is not possible at the same time.
Yes it switching to separate productions and different control rooms. Switching means one after the other not two programs in production at the same time.
They said they can switch to studio 2 which is the small one with a screen and desk as a stop gap between the transition to the other side of the news studio as a âhandoverâ type situation.
