ABC sells Countdown studios to developer for $30m
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Countdown was recorded to a property developer for about $30 million.
Frontline,
Sea Change and
Spicks and Specks were among other popular series filmed in the broadcaster’s 8 Gordon Street studio in Elsternwick, which is now likely to be turned into luxury apartments.
Johnny Rotten and Molly Meldrum on Countdown.
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Countdown’s Molly Meldrum campaigned against the sale when the ABC first listed the property in 2018.
A last ditch plea by the local Glen Eira City Council for the state and federal governments to halt the sale and keep the historic television studios in public hands fell on deaf ears.
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