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WIN TV selling Canberra site

After 26 years in Kingston WIN is moving its Canberra base to Fyshwick.

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After 26 years on the site, WIN Television is selling its Canberra headquarters in Kingston and moving to Fyshwick.

The prime real estate on Wentworth Avenue is expected to fetch between $2m – $2.5m on September 3rd, and likely to be redeveloped for units.

Fairfax reports many who had worked there included Samantha Armytage, Melissa Doyle, Erin Molan, Peter Stefanovic, Hamish Macdonald, Lachlan Kennedy and Gabrielle Boyle.

A statement from WIN said, “Staff will move their operations from Kingston to Fyshwick, allowing them to develop a workplace more suitable to the needs of media in the 21st century.

“The reporting and presenting of news is a constantly changing field that requires an adaptable, mobile team drawing on resources tailored to their roles.

“The new building allows the WIN team to create an environment that will enhance their reporting skills and provide access to latest technology and assets while enjoying a fresh, lively atmosphere in the workplace.”

The move is scheduled to happen within the next three months.

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  1. everything that happens now in WIN Canberra will stay exactly the same…. the building is old… it is way too big for what WIN needs… it makes sense to move to a better office… seven in sydney moved nine in melbourne moved Prime in Wagga moved… its no big deal…. Win Griffith moved… does it really matter where the news reader is actually reading the intros to the stories?? The crews are still on the road in Canberra… TV isnt the only industry to centralise… Its happens in the paper and radio world as well… and other non media industry as well… anyway off the soapbox now… and @MHA my info is that its just been a sales off ice with no real active studio for a couple years now…. and a studio only has to be room that can hold LED lights…. its not like they ever had a studio audience or shot drama in their….

  2. Downgrade to just being a sales office shopfront and with no Canberra studio with local news content sent to be packaged/edited in Wollongong perhaps? Or am I being too cynical?

  3. The bright spot is that they are building a new base in Canberra rather than abandoning the city altogether. It would have been tempting to run everything out of Wollongong to save money and wages, especially since the local Canberra news bulletin now comes out of Wollongong.

    1. They still need a sales office and video recording facility for commercials and news content, even though all of the production will be done in Wollongong. Just as TEN has a reverse situation in Wollongong, where all of their production, and their horrific “news updateth” are done from Canberra using yesterday’s Illawarra Mercury online.
      @MHA – That’s exactly as it is now.

  4. “The reporting and presenting of news is a constantly changing field…” – like changing the presenting of Canberra news from Canberra to Wollongong?

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