As Edwina Bartholomew celebrated Channel 7’s final day at its studios in Martin Place in Sydney, she looked back on a previous time of big change for the media company.
The Sunrise presenter shared her news report from when she was a “cub reporter”, delivering the story that Seven’s studios in suburban Epping were being relocated.
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Stars including Eddy, newsreader Mark Ferguson and Home and Away actor Ada Nicodemou were included in the throwback segment from 2009.
“A final farewell to the Sydney studios,” Ferguson said from his spot on the 7NEWS desk before a young Eddy delivered the story about the move from Epping – where Seven had produced some of the biggest TV shows for more than 50 years.
Edwina Bartholomew is the news presenter for Sunrise.
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Eddy shared an old news report about moving from the Epping Channel 7 studios.
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The Mobbs Lane studios opened in 1956, and some of the shows produced there included Home and Away, Packed to the Rafters, A Country Practice and All Saints.
“The drama department is moving to Eveleigh,” Eddy said in the old video, showing props from Home and Away being packed up.
Ada Nicodemou said in the report ‘package’: “There’s so many moments, you remember a conversation, you remember a scene, you remember a person.”
“It’s kind of like an old house that you grew up in and you’re saying goodbye to it.”
Home and Away was filmed at Epping for 20 years.
Ada Nicodemou tells of Home and Away’s move from Epping to Everleigh.
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“All of those shows were filmed here in Studio A,” Eddy continued in