Under the control of the Director of News, Journalists and Camera Crews cover stories throughout the day. News happens 24 hours a day, so news reporting goes on round the clock . News from overseas arrives via satellite. Networks subscribe to worldwide TV news gathering services and also maintain their own news staff in some of the world's major centres. News from other cities in Australia arrives by satellite or by microwave or fibre optic circuits.
Local news is shot using very portable hand-held video cameras and recorders.
The tapes are then transported back to the station for editing and transmission. In the bigger cities where news is very competitive, stations use vehicles equipped with microwave radio links to get the story back to the station with the least possible delay - it may even go live to air. One of these vehicles will probably be a helicopter, giving both fast transport and a very good platform for the microwave radio link. The program is put together in the Studio Control Room which is usually alongside the studio with windows looking into it. In the Studio Control Room the pictures from the different cameras are mixed and interchanged according to the director's instructions, and material from other sources such as videotape or outside broadcasts is also inserted.