Each capital during that era had a different PRG
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Yes, that certainly surprised me when I started seeing all these weird PRGs in this thread.
I still like the Sydney PRG animation the best.
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Each individual Nine station, even the O&Os at this time were very autonomous in terms of playout / on air presentation, much in the same way that they had different continuity announcers for different cities at the time.
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Yes I think the over credits voiceovers during this era would’ve been done by Ken Sparkes in Sydney, Pete Smith in Melbourne and Steve Andrews in Brisbane?
Of course there were some other local divergences in On-Air Presentation during this time, such as Sean Cosgrove doing the voiceovers of Nine Melbourne Sponsor Billboards.
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Break bumpers were also different between cities?
I distinctly remember while in Adelaide for a holiday in 2000, a show I used to watch with different style break bumper compared to the one in Sydney.
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Caps from Nine Sydney - Saturday 26/5/2001
Saturday Night at the Movies Opener for ‘Indecent Proposal’:
M Classification:
Sponsor:
PRG:
Promo Endtags:
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Caps from Nine Sydney - Thursday 3/5/2001
Lineup:
Sponsors:
PRG:
Promo Endtags:
Thursday/Tonight Promo:
All Drama Tuesday Promo:
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Channel Nine Perth - Wednesday 24/4/2002
PRG:
Sponsors:
Australian Survivor Competition scroll:
Promo Endtags:
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Channel Nine Adelaide - Tuesday 13/2/2001
Malcolm in the Middle Break Bumper:
PRG:
Sponsors:
Promo Endtags:
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Channel Nine Perth - Technical Problem 13/6/2002:
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Channel Nine Sydney - Monday 4/2/2002
PRG:
Sponsors:
Promo during end credits (widescreen):
Promo Endtags:
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Channel Nine Melbourne - Thursday 5/4/2001
Lineup:
Sponsors:
‘Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show’ Themed PRG:
Promo Endtags:
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Now there’s a great question for Media Spy’s Melbourne-based correspondents: What was “5.30 with Jennifer Keyte” and how long did it last for?
Sydney also seemed to have a short lived local program on Nine during 2001 in the form of “Weekend” at 5.30pm on Fridays (May 25-June 29) and later Saturdays (July 7-October 20):
Going by the promo above (with thanks to “Tape Ape” for uploading it to YouTube a while back), I’d presume that show may have been some form of attempt to compete with the longrunning “Sydney Weekender” on Seven…except neither WIN or NBN carried Weekend AFAIK.
Very short lived show, Fridays only, looking at events on the weekend (IIRC) - almost like a Friday version of Postcards. There was also “Summertime with Jennifer Keyte”.
I don’t remember it returning for 2002.
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Channel Nine Melbourne - late night Monday/early morning Tuesday 17-18/12/2001
Seasons Greetings Ident:
Christmas PRGs:
Melbourne version
Sponsors:
Promo Endtags:
Turn it On Tuesday Promo:
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Great to see that the 2001 Christmas Ident has been found at long last…even if it’s essentially the same as what was used in 2000 (and I think 1999 as well) with a different endtag.
As for the PRGs, well I guess at some point during “Further Tales of the City” GTV flicked over to a dirty feed of TCN for the overnight hours?
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It was a glitch on GTV’s behalf…after the first ad break ended it blank screened for a few seconds then the programme abruptly returned briefly taking TCN’s feed until problems were resolved.
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