FrameLight provides end to end turnkey service for Australian News Channel relocation

FrameLight was engaged by Australian News Channel (operator of News 24 formerly Sky News Australia) in late 2024 to join its network relocation project design team as Broadcast Lighting Consultant.

Over the next 12 months FrameLight worked with the contracted builder, SHAPE and the broader consultancy team to design eight studios within a brownfield site at News Corp Australia’s headquarters in Surry Hills, Sydney.

Studio designs comprised of four large robotic multi-cam studios, a dedicated multi-cam podcast studio, and three single camera ‘remote’ studios.

Across the project FrameLight designed and specified broadcast lighting suspension & rigging systems, lighting power & data distribution, broadcast lighting control, and broadcast automation integration, along with final broadcast lighting design and fixture selection.

FrameLight was further engaged to:
-Fabricate and install all lighting suspension and grids
-Supply and install all lighting control
-Install power & data distribution equipment

Framelight supplied the complete package of broadcast lighting fixtures including LED soft panels, fresnels, soft boxes and rigging and control accessories, as well as bespoke RGBW linear luminaries that form elements of the design.

FrameLight’s design also incorporated luminaires which were relocated and reused from the organisation’s existing facility.

In the latter part of 2025, to facilitate the staged relocation of the network from Macquarie Park to its new location in Surry Hills, FrameLight rigged, lit and commissioned each new studio as building works were completed, as well as finalised the broadcast lighting design for each studio during on camera talent rehearsals.

The relocation required commissioning and rehearsals to occur concurrently within studios that had been handed over and were operationally live. As such, FrameLight developed processes and programming to virtually separate the studios to protect finished live on-air studios from automation triggers and programming changes made under rehearsal.

The processes and programming developed by FrameLight allow the broadcast studios to be linked and unlinked, as well as operate independently under the direction of its six control rooms from anywhere in the world.