Seven (Southern Cross)

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1724

One of the last purpose built studios left in Australia.

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1725

Correct, TNT9 and WIN4 in 1962 still in use. QTQ9 would be the oldest in August 1959 followed by BTQ7 in November 1959.

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1726

BCV8 is still operationalā€¦ but only for office and radio purposes.

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1727

Along with STQ7, ABT2, and ABC2 (Canberra).

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1728

Are those still at their heritage studio sites? (STQ being a merger of the old MVQ6 and SEQ8 stations)

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1729

ABC2 and ABT2 are, not entirely sure about STQ7.

TVQ10, GTS Port Pire, BKN Broken Hill, and Imparja are also still in their original studios, but are only now used for sales.

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1730

ABT2ā€™s original studios were on Harrington Street, Hobart. Arenā€™t they now at Livingstone Street?

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1731

Guess Iā€™ve been corrected then. Thanks.

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1732

Thatā€™s incorrect. Theyā€™ve only occupied their current studios at 18 Leichardt Terrace since 2008.

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1733

Donā€™t forget ABD6 Darwin.
It was ABC3 Canberra, not ABC2 Canberra.

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1734

@TelevisionAU

Any more than we can think of? updated

TNT9 (Tasmania)
WIN4 (NSW)
QTQ9 (Brisbane)
BTQ7 (Brisbane)
TVQ10 (Brisbane)
BCV8 (Victoria)
ABC3 (Canberra)
ABD6 (Darwin)
GTS4 (Port Pire & Whyalla)
BKN7 (Broken Hill)

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1735

GTS4 (Port Pire & Whyalla)
BKN7 (Broken Hill)

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1736

WIN Toowoomba.

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1737

Re: GTS Port Pirie

SCA no longer own the building I believe but lease it back. Only office space inside nowadays with Vodafone leasing the tower for their mobile service.

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1738

Canā€™t be anything at DDQ anymore surely? Maybe a salesperson, a journo and a camera person? Canā€™t be anything else that building does? That is if WIN still owns that building?

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1739

Not sure if it counts, Seven Canberra (Prime) still at the one and only site they set up in 1989. That being CBN34 Canberra in the analogue days when it started.

Even though it does not have a functional TV studio anymore, the ABTQ3 building is still at the same site in Townsville still owned by the ABC. Whereas ABRQ3 in Rockhampton is long gone. QLD was the only state that had regional TV stations for the ABC that started off as standalone stations in the 1960s before they were linked from ABQ2 Brisbane. ABAD7 Alice Springs ABC started off as a standalone station in the 1970s, but was only a replay facility of tape compiles that were shipped up from ABS2, long gone. It never had a studio for local presentation unlike Darwin, Rockhampton, Townsville and Canberra.

Did WIN sell their heritage BTV6 Ballarat site and fully move out?

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1740

ABC Radio Rockhampton is still in their original facilities - however TV studio is now gone since renovations.

Townsville still has the TV studio space - used as cyclone shelter.

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1741

Yes, they moved out at the beginning of last year. I believe the building is still there, yet to be developed.

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Yes, the Rockhampton studio was gutted in the early 1990s after fulltime TV production ceased around 1985, sadly. Whereas the Townsville studio still lives on, albeit a storage room and staff designated cyclone shelter only now, same as Rockhampton with fulltime TV production ceasing in 1985. There was a plan under Russell Balding to restore local TV production from the disused Townsville studio in the early 2000ā€™s to re-instate a local TV News Service for Far North QLD. The Fed Govt said no.

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1743

I did a trip to Cairns in 1979 and the local ABC was long ago in colour but they crashed in the Townsville local news and it was still B&W. Townsville ABC TV News probably never made it to colour before it was axed for ABQ2