2007: a moving year for 612 ABC Brisbane

ABC 612 Brisbane staff are expecting a nomadic year ahead with at least three moves in the pipeline for presenters and support staff.

The entire broadcasting community was shocked to read an independent risk assessment of the ABC’s Toowong site after a statistically significant number of journalists were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Initially some radio staff had been expecting to join their television colleagues in a relocation to Mount Cootha or an extended holiday, however management and engineering are implementing plan to continue to provide local content with as little interruption as possible.

Summer breakfast host Tony Johnston and producer Anne Debert are now feeling at home in their temporary broadcast facility located at ABC Coast FM at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast. As 612’s breakfast show is the only local programming being presented over the summer holiday period, that facility is big enough for now. In the next three weeks, however, the station plans to return to its regular lineup.

Before that happens, management will need to find a temporary broadcast location and are looking at university campuses for what could end up being an extra-long outside broadcast.

Engineers are now in the process of fitting out another temporary location, just around the corner from the old studios in Toowong, until senior management decide on an entirely new, final location for the station. That process is expected to take up to a year.