Global Television (Australia)
| Global Television | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | film & television studios Complex |
| Location | Victoria: Coventry Street, Southbank Hawthorn Road, Vermont South New South Wales: Eveleigh |
| Completed | 1956 (Southbank, Victoria) 1964 (Vermont South, Victoria) 2010 (Eveleigh, New South Wales) |
Global Television[1] is a large television production company with studios in Australia's two largest cities Sydney and Melbourne. It was co-founded in 1988[2] by Bruce Fink.[3] They have been responsible for handling the technical side of most top live sport and entertainment events produced and broadcast in Australia.[4]
Global Television's Sydney studios are located at South Eveleigh in the inner city suburb of Eveleigh. The new studios were built in 2010, and produce a large number of Australian programmes from its two studios.
Global Television's Melbourne studios are located in the inner suburb of South Melbourne and occupy the previous existing HSV-7 Studios. The four open studios are home to such shows as Dancing with the Stars, The Chase Australia, My Kitchen Rules, Family Feud, Fox Footy and Taskmaster.[5]
Global Television also occupied the former ATV-10 Studios in the outer suburb of Nunawading where Neighbours is produced at Forest Hill for a number of years, this is now operated by FremantleMedia.
Acquired
[edit]In January 2014, NEP Group acquired Global Television for an undisclosed amount from Catalyst Investments and Global Television is now completely part of the NEP worldwide network.[6] NEP also acquired Harry Michaels' Silk Studios (formerly zerO1zerO) in the same year, reducing the number of competing outside broadcasting and studio production hire facilities.
References
[edit]- ^ "Global Television Ltd/Australia". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Global Television Stays Ahead of the Game". Sony. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "ECN Board of Directors". Executive Channel Network. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ Jackson, Sally. "Global TV sold to US firm NEP Group". The Australian. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ "Overview | Global Television". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ "NEP". NEP Inc. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
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