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Global Television (Australia)

Global Television
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 Freemantle Media.

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.

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