On 30th May members of our club and our sister Probus clubs, Altona and Altona North, visited the Seven Network Building, at Docklands.
The tour was conducted by John Deeks, the well known television and radio presenter.
We soon discovered that production of shows for Channel Seven Melbourne was a small part of the operations in the building. It is actually the Seven Network National Broadcast Centre. The programming for each of the twelve TV stations in the Seven Network is organised and broadcast from this building. The photo below shows John Deeks pointing to three screens that display the content that is being sent from the building to each of the Seven stations. The middle screen shows output on the main Seven channel, left is 7TWO and on the right 7mate. Note that ten of the stations are identical. These are the east coast capital city and regional stations. The two at the bottom right are Adelaide and Perth that run programs appropriate to their time zones. The only difference in these broadcast feeds is in the commercials, which are still sent from Melbourne.
Only two local programs are made in the building - Seven News and Talking Footy. We visited the studios where these shows are produced, as shown in the photos below:
We left the building through the news room and passed the office of Channel Seven Newsreader, Peter Mitchell. Some of our members persuaded Peter to pose in a photo of our group:
Thank you to David Malthouse from Altona North Probus Club for organising this very interesting and informative tour.
The tour was conducted by John Deeks, the well known television and radio presenter.
We soon discovered that production of shows for Channel Seven Melbourne was a small part of the operations in the building. It is actually the Seven Network National Broadcast Centre. The programming for each of the twelve TV stations in the Seven Network is organised and broadcast from this building. The photo below shows John Deeks pointing to three screens that display the content that is being sent from the building to each of the Seven stations. The middle screen shows output on the main Seven channel, left is 7TWO and on the right 7mate. Note that ten of the stations are identical. These are the east coast capital city and regional stations. The two at the bottom right are Adelaide and Perth that run programs appropriate to their time zones. The only difference in these broadcast feeds is in the commercials, which are still sent from Melbourne.
Only two local programs are made in the building - Seven News and Talking Footy. We visited the studios where these shows are produced, as shown in the photos below:
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We left the building through the news room and passed the office of Channel Seven Newsreader, Peter Mitchell. Some of our members persuaded Peter to pose in a photo of our group:
Thank you to David Malthouse from Altona North Probus Club for organising this very interesting and informative tour.
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