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The ABC has had the ability to broadcast nationally from any studio for a long time. However more than half their staff are in the large Ultimo building, so this is a refreshing change.
Fortunately phone charges are not related to distance means that contacts can be maintained.
It would be interesting to see what would have happened last year if Saturday AM & PM were produced in Bega, where one of the Bega studios program feeds went to Mt Wandera near Bateman's Bay where its FM transmitter was burnt down in horrendous fires.
So much of the current news and current affairs output is now repetition due to journalist cuts, I hope that these moves can introduce some unique stories which were not in the preceding news.