I believe he was recruited by GTV9 for its Today show in 1968. Not sure when he went to Seven.
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The Age guides show that Landy was still at GTV in March 1971, but by December 1971 he was at HSV. Not all months of The Age are available for 1971, so I can’t do a full search.
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Haven’t gone through them with a fine tooth comb to confirm when Peter Landy switched channels, but it seems there’s a fair few 1971 editions of The Age available via the Google News Archive Search collection that Newspapers.com doesn’t have.
Of course it’d be great if there was a completely full archive of these papers available on the net, but at least the known selection/s available are better than nothing.
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I’m not a current subscriber but I thought newspapers.com, being a paid service, would have a more comprehensive archive. Disappointing if it hasn’t.
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Yeah, even with the later years there’s still some not insignificant gaps (not years, but months) with the Newspaper.com collections of The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age as far as I can tell.
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The SMH collection on newspapers.com seems reasonably complete. Though the search function is better on the SMH archives site so I also search there.
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There’s also reference to him moving from 3UZ to 3AK, which at the time was owned by GTV, but I wonder what came first, GTV then work on AK as was required or AK leading to work on GTV.
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If you become a member of the National Library (its free and you can do it online) you can access Fairfax’s archives online
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Never knew Today started prior to 7am at anytime before the Karl/Tracy era.
Also look at Ten News back then, what a line-up and they pissed it all away with cuts and moving news at 5pm which looked like a masterstroke for about 5 minutes before plunging them into irrelevance.
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Ten was doing well with their news in Melbourne which was generally the top rating bulletin between 1984 and 1987. From what I remember in 1986 it was neck and neck with Nine with some nights going to Nine and Ten winning the others.
They were also producing a local bulletin at 2pm. It was presented from the newsroom and was pretty plain with little use of graphics. Each of the weekday/weekend newsreaders would present 1 day and Des Connors would present the other (a Friday I think). It stood out from the usual daytime bulletins of that time as it had a lot of local content that you would normally have to wait to 6pm to see. Daytime bulletins were usually full of politics, overseas news or Sydney news unless there was a big story outside of Sydney.
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It was a masterstroke for a long time in that it revived ratings that were terminal at 6.00, and for many years managed to outrate the higher profile 5.30 game show battles between 7 and 9. But its numbers have been whittled away by 7 and 9 launching competing early bulletins, plus the general decline in FTA viewership. Ten has also not done itself any favours by changing strategy every couple of years in the last decade or so.
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Thanks for the information on that one. How long did the local 2pm Afternoon News Bulletin last for?
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It only lasted until November. John O’Loan was the news director in Melbourne when it was introduced. He moved up to run things in Sydney mid way through 1986 and David Johnston moved from deputy news director to news director in Melbourne. They must have axed it in favour of doing a national morning news in 1987. John O’Loan later moved on to start up Sky News in the UK.
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Interesting, great read, Melbourne did the national morning news back then until it was axed around 1992 yes?
I think it mostly came out of Sydney in 1987. In 1988 it came from Brisbane for Expo '88. Not sure after that but probably from Sydney. I think when it came back in the mid 90s it was from Melbourne.
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Amazing how different both cities line ups where.
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