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Southern Cross opens new Orange Media Centre
The Orange Media Centre will house digital radio, television and news facilities for Southern Cross Media.
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Southern Cross Media CEO Rhys Holleran last night unveiled a new custom-built radio and television facility in Orange, NSW.
The Orange Media Centre will house digital radio, television and news facilities, and will broadcast two live and local breakfast radio teams as well a local news journalist and television producers that will shoot, edit and produce local television commercials for the Orange and Dubbo regions.
Holleran said, “We are thrilled to able to invest in the Orange market. This new facility is testimony to the confidence we have in our own staff and to the region generally.”
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9 Responses
im with Josh. Even when WIN does the local news they are consistantly a day behind PRIME7. and they dont give us news from Wollongong. Atleast Southern Cross is out there and not trying ot be something their not. id prefer Noodle news over news thats got nothing to do with the area and is a day late.
@Josh…what market are you referring to ? Where does Sth X show a 30min bulletin? and then where are WIN TV downsizing…i must have missed something…
Looking forward to seeing Kyle & Jackie O moving their show to Orange! 😉
SCM have made a total mess with the Star FM radio station in this town. The only local show done is the breakfast show, then it’s networked from the Gold Coast after 10am, no local weather updates, the network programs almost breaking down from time to time, Star FM was a lot better when DMG owned it.
Let’s be honest – SCM will save a bundle in rental and administration costs by tossing the radio & TV operations into one building.
And I totally agreed with MHA – when radio consisted of “Personality Jocks”, it was truly fun and daring – Not todays breakfast hobos with their “yuk yuk, listen to me, I’m clever, yuk yuk” style.
Due to cost cutting, there’s virtually only a breakfast shift in regional areas that’s “liver and local”… the rest is either syndicated from the main centre or pre-recorded so the ‘jock’ can go on the road and sell air-time…
I’d prefer a nice shade of Pink. Oh…the town Orange.
Good to see something is being done local, but alas, it will never rival the glory days of the 70’s and 80’s when regional radio and tv were fully local.
Josh, all well and good but Southern Cross is mostly radio in the regional areas… only TV production is essentially advertising…. WIN at least give their areas a 30 minute nightly news, Southern Cross gives us 30 second “noodle news.”
So WIN Corp. have been downsizing the last couple of years with less and less radio and tv being done locally, yet Southern Cross are expanding locally. I think WIN Corp. would be smart to take a note from the Southern Cross book as its not local news if its coming from a place hours away from you.