Global Television (Australia)
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Coventry Street, Southbank
Hawthorn Road, Vermont South
New South Wales:
Eveleigh
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|completion_date = 1956 (Southbank, Victoria)
1964 (Vermont South, Victoria)
2010 (Eveleigh, New South Wales)
|building_type = film & television studios Complex
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Global Television{{cite web|title=Global Television Ltd/Australia|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/GTV:AU-global-television-ltd/australia|publisher=Bloomberg News|accessdate=29 February 2016}} is a large television production company with studios in Australia's two largest cities Sydney and Melbourne. It was co-founded in 1988{{cite web|title=Global Television Stays Ahead of the Game|url=https://pro.sony.com.au/pro/article/broadcast-products-global-television-stays-ahead-of-the-game|publisher=Sony|accessdate=29 February 2016}} by Bruce Fink.{{cite web|title=ECN Board of Directors|url=http://www.executivechannelnetwork.com/about-us/board/|publisher=Executive Channel Network|accessdate=29 February 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121216/http://www.executivechannelnetwork.com/about-us/board/|url-status=dead}} They have been responsible for handling the technical side of most top live sport and entertainment events produced and broadcast in Australia.{{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Sally|title=Global TV sold to US firm NEP Group|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/global-tv-sold-to-us-firm-nep-group/story-e6frg996-1226785820130|publisher=The Australian|accessdate=29 February 2016}}
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.globaltv.com.au/company/index.html |title=Overview | Global Television |access-date=2011-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217191523/http://www.globaltv.com.au/company/index.html |archive-date=2011-02-17 |url-status=dead }}
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
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.{{cite web|title=NEP|url=http://www.nepinc.com/welcome/nep_australia|publisher=NEP Inc.|accessdate=29 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191102/http://www.nepinc.com/welcome/nep_australia|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}} 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.
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Category:Australian film studios
Category:Television studios in Australia
Category:1956 establishments in Australia
Category:2014 disestablishments in Australia
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