I also remember seeing a photo on the Australian Media website (which has since shut down) which had an overview of the newsroom and the Seven News and Today Tonight sets (I think this was from about 2005 or 2006).
Plus there were also several shots of the news set from 2004 which was used for the 4:30 news, which had a blue wall on the presenter’s left (this was not the same as the blue TV wall set used in Sydney, Brisbane or Perth at the time) and a blue desk with a silver top. This was a modified version of the 2002-03 set.
From February 2005:
YouTube ID - FoHh-dXbGnE (for some reason I cannot post YouTube videos here)
Credit: Media and Transport Channel
IIRC, the 4:30 news was quite unique in its format, with there being (almost) no sports reports for what reason I don’t know. I also liked how they had a preview to the 6:00pm news in each of the main markets, before being reduced to only a preview of the relevant market’s 6:00pm bulletin.
The bulletin also introduced weatherman David Brown to a national audience (beforehand, only Victorians knew him). These days, the only time Victorians would see him on TV is on the morning news.
I was only too young (say about 4-5 years old) to even remember that bulletin.
Was that a weeknight or weekend bulletin? I reckon if it was a weekend bulletin, it may have been launched to counter the Ten Weekend News. Either way it wasn’t until 2015 that Seven would again venture into having a national bulletin at 5:00pm on a Saturday or Sunday (Nine had already launched such a bulletin in 2011, after Ten’s 5:00pm weekend news briefly disappeared from schedule).
No, it was a national weeknight bulletin hosted by Naomi Robinson and Peter Ford. It went for 30 minutes before Wheel of Fortune. I can only remember it vaguely myself. David Brown did the National weather from his desk.
Yep, it’s an impressive mast with the big ‘top hat’ up top - makes you think it’s some alien-type spaceship ready to take off when its people need to leave Earth. By contrast, just a few km down the motorway you have the masts at the 4BC site that look like glorified power poles. Just seeing the two sites it’s unsurprising to learn which station has the better reach signal-wise.
Possibly why when they were on 106.9, they had to be a lower power (160 w I think?) as to not cause conflicts with the Rocky Hill ABCs that were around 102-103?
Thus to run at 4kw, they must have had to either relocate to Rocky Hill OR change frequency?
@gordo92 might know? Even though they weren’t owned by Caralis back then.