with Foxtel and Optus refusing the service, ABC-Fairfax would have possibly asked a big price of Galaxy as the potential sole client. And I think Galaxy was probably having enough financial trouble without the high cost of an Australian news channel.
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What did AIM stand for?
Australian Information Media.
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The studio and playout assets ended up being gobbled by the ABC at Gore Hill to upgrade to digital playout up the hill in the Frank Dickson building migrating from the Tower Block basement analogue playout facility which was falling to bits at the time. The AIM studio ended up being used by the ABC for storage.
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A rare ABC News bulletin from SA in the 1980s - presented by Jane Doyle (who moved to SAS7 mid-1988), with Mark Aiston on Sport (Would spend many years at ADS10)
Credit: YouTube/mcadelaide
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A weekend edition of SA edition of The National, presented by John Overton with Mark Aiston on sport.
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In light of the launch of the new ABC News theme and graphics, I thought it would be interesting ask what other members’ opinions are on previous graphic packages?
I always liked the previous package (10/04/2017- 18/08/2024) - especially after the opening titles were revamped. The black colour gave it a slick look in my opinion.
Not sure how I feel about the News 24 package (25/07/2010 - 09/04/2017). For me it was the one I grew up watching so I guess it’s one of my favourites.
The packages before that (26/01/2005 - 24/07/2010), (1998-25/01/2005), etc. I have no comment on. Like seriously I don’t have any good or bad feelings towards them
I wonder what other members think?
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The 2010-2017 looks was very good for the time, and some parts of it would still look good today IMO.
The 2017-2024 look was good, however, the titles were a bit bland.
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#TIL that ABC Canberra’s TV news bulletin (in its current form at least) only began in 2001. From my little Wikipedia research I found that Canberra did have a 30-minute bulletin similar to that of other metro stations in the mid 80s-early 90s before it was axed and the news from Sydney was relayed. Seems like an interesting anomaly considering the majority of other metro stations’ news bulletins have stayed rather consistent in format since their stations began broadcasting … (i may be acting very ignorant here but oh well)
Anyway if anyone else has any other info on this it would be rather enriching to hear.
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Apart from what you mentioned, after they re-introduced the weeknight bulletin, ABC Canberra still took the weekend NSW bulletin until the Canberra bushfires in 2003 convinced management to introduce a local weekend bulletin (along with the NT).
Also, does anyone know if the ACT got a local version of the 7.30 report (back in the late 80s when all states had their own version), and when they got their own version of Stateline (later 7.30 ACT).
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