General TV History

[Nicholas]

Thought i’d post these here which I found on YouTube
Probably some of the highest definition and widescreen lineups from the 2002-04 period that I could find!
The sound is spot on as well.

[SydneyCityTV]

Those clips were from none other than Media Spy’s @tvcl who has plenty of other gems from VHS & Digital TV on his channel.

From what I remember reading on the old forums, he was one of the first people to get the very first digital TV tuner card made specifically for the Australian market (released by a Canberra-based company called DigitalNow, for those interested) back in 2003 - that’s probably how these digital TV recordings in such high quality still exist to this day!

[tvcl]

@SydneyCityTV

Those clips were from none other than Media Spy’s @tvcl who has plenty of other gems from VHS & Digital TV on his channel.

Thanks for the credit, SydneyCityTV. That’s prompted me to continue digging through my archives a bit more. Didn’t see much from SBS from around 2001 on YouTube, so here are a few. Not digital captures, unfortunately.

SBS Friday Night Movie Opener:

SBS - Friday Night Movie Introduction (2001)

SBS World News News Tonight Update:

SBS World News Tonight Update (2001)

SBS World News Tonight Opener:

SBS World News Tonight Opener (2001)

Some IDs…

SBS James - Protective:

SBS - James Protective ID (2001)

SBS Sriya - Active:

SBS - Sriya Active ID (2001)

Another version of SBS James with creepy music:

SBS - James ID (2001)

And a promo from Nine about the Ray Martin Show:

Nine - The Ray Martin Show Promo (2001)

[sammy123]

@tvcl

SBS World News Tonight Opener:

Big fan of the the SBS News theme of that era and the graphics package wasn’t bad (same can’t be said about the one after).

[TelevisionAU]

Australian Story - Monday 6 November, 8pm, ABC and ABC iview

This should be worth a look.

Although I imagine they might casually overlook his brief stint as director of news and current affairs at Ten in the 1970s which wasn’t overly fruitful, or his attempt to revamp his Willesee program on Seven in 1981 to have a focus on comedy. The show was axed at the end of that year.

[Squee]

@sammy123

(same can’t be said about the one after).

Agreed… all that dark pink and blue and that god awful virtual set!

[pelican]

@Nicholas

Probably some of the highest definition and widescreen lineups from the 2002-04 period that I could find!

2002-2003*

2004 didn’t have the characters interacting with the balls and gigantic days. Instead they had a character dancing or something and then the camera zoomed out from the floor to reveal Nine and Still the One.

2002-2006 was the best era of Nine pres imo

[SydneyCityTV]

I think they were still using the “This is Channel Nine’s [Day]” Idents in Early 2004 (along with the standard “camera zooming through and out the logo” Idents), although they were probably phased out of regular use by the time of the Late 2004 refresh.

Here’s another one from @zampakid which was (probably) from around the same period of time as the Blue/Monday one from tvcl:

[Squee]

@pelican

2002-2006 was the best era of Nine pres imo

I think most of MediaSpy would agree with this, arguably still the best presentation package of any of our commercial networks. It still looks fresh and hasn’t dated at all 15 years on, unlike several of the packages that Nine used after (especially anything with the dotless nine).

[TV.Cynic]

May be of interest to TV histroy buffs

ABC TV - Programs and Schedules

The Dream Factory [image] Thursday 30 November at 9:30pm [image] Ripponlea (Victoria) was a place where Australia learned to make television. Known as The Dream Factory, the iconic ABC studios were a unique creative hub where actors, comedians, set designers, costume makers and make-up artists collaborated and honed their craft under the one roof. Presented by Ben Knight, The Dream Factory is a collection of untold behind-the-scenes stories and a tribute to the programs that Australian aud…

[pelican]

@SydneyCityTV

I think they were still using the “This is Channel Nine’s [Day]” Idents in Early 2004 (along with the standard “camera zooming through and out the logo” Idents), although they were probably phased out of regular use by the time of the Late 2004 refresh.

This was the 2004 version I was talking about with the camera panning up from the floor. I believe this was used throughout early 2004 instead of the bouncing balls with the day.

Channel 9's Saturday Lineup 2004

This one says 2006, but it’s 2004.

TCN9 Program Lineup and ident 2006

[Moe]

@Squee

especially anything with the dotless nine

I still maintain the original launch day dotless 9 package was great, then Nine ruined it with tweaks.

Indeed, given it’s something I maintain, I’ll just quote for complete correctness the last post I made saying this exact thing:

@Moe

It looked better though - Nine’s initial package after the relaunch in January 2006 was great.

The whole channel had a clean and consistent look and sound - now Nine’s logo looks different on the news to regular programming, and their other elements are an inconsistent mess.

The 2006-era Nightline titles are probably my second favourite TV presentation element, just all well put together (with the Seven production ender of the 90s being number 1).

Seven’s logo change is the one that should have been reversed, not Nine.

[TelevisionAU]

In 1980: “This could ruin a man’s chance of becoming president”

How times have changed.

[Ricketycricket]

Yeah, now he’d Tweet about it

[southernguy]

I loved the 2006 relaunch as well!

[Bort]

@dxnerd

Does anyone have a copy of The Great Chase which aired on Channel 9 in the year 2000?

I watched that show, but I don’t remember it being as dorky as the opening titles suggest…

[SEQTelevision]

Does anyone have any content from Nine’s morning/Afternoon News from the 18th February 2014?

[Bort]

I doubt they covered the birth of @LukeMovieMan, if that’s what you’re after.

[Sully]

[pelican]

You literally could’ve attempted any comeback possible and you picked that?