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Christian Television quits Brissy base

After 15 years Christian Television Australia will move from Brisbane due to network programming decisions being made in Sydney.

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stainedIt’s not often the Christian Television Australia makes news. But the organisation, which was born in 1996 following the merger of Qld and NSW Christian Television Associations, is on the move.

After 15 years of being Brisbane based, the offices of CTA are relocating to Sydney.

Chairman Rob Adsett said that after many years working from Brisbane, the decision to relocate was partially due to network programming decisions now being all made in Sydney and the changes to the commercial television scene with new digital channels.

“Our board has been Brisbane based for some years, but we have welcomed two new board members from Sydney and decided the time had come to officially move our offices there also,” he said.

“We have also appointed Martin Johnson as CEO to represent CTA to the networks. Martin has had more than twenty-five years experience in Christian television production and although his role is part time, we’re looking forward to the contribution he will make.”

Its most-profile programme Face to Face will have 15, one-hour episodes produced at Foxtel’s North Ryde Studios in the first half of 2009 for airing on the Australian Christian Channel.

CTA is also providing a half-hour Easter program for the Seven Network to be seen on Good Friday.

Christian Television Associations were originally formed in the 1960s to create programming for Australian networks. Christian Television Australia is a non-profit tax-exempt organisation owned by the Queensland Baptists, the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Uniting Church in Australia Queensland Synod and the Assemblies of God.

The Australian Christian Channel airs on Foxtel, Austar and Optus TV.

Source: Christian Today

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  1. I’d rather they moved overseas, personally, but at least they had the decency to move to pay TV where they no longer bother FTA viewers.

    Wish the nutbar sects and scammers would do the same.

  2. I would have thought better to produce out of Brisbane,Adelaide,Perth or Hobart rather than busy Sydney or Melbourne.Smaller locales offer good benefits – easeof travel, not so busy with major productions etc

  3. Another 50 or so jobs down south, due to the lack of television production facilities thanks to Ten and Seven downsizing their Brisbane studios to shells.

    Add to that, the Brisbane ABC station is based out of Ten Brisbane, until 2010.

    Queensland is suffering a shortage of TV production facilities, and a glut of film production facilities. Sea Patrol for instance, the indoor scenes are done in a sound stage designed for films.

    Sadly, the regional stations do worse, with Southern Cross Ten’s Cairns studio complex (which opened twenty years ago prior to aggregation) shut down with the station’s operations conducted in a office.

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