This is the one I purchased:
Quality isn’t the best thing ever but it’s certainly watchable 
Even found some Seven Nightly News clips!
Seven Nightly News - April 10th 1999
With Peter Mitchell (news and weather) and Mark Beretta (sport)
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No problem 
Finding the discussion quite interesting anyway, always learning new stuff in this thread.
Interesting Seven Nightly News caps! Back in the day when they did the straight angle with the plasma to the left, dumped soon after with the relaunch in July becuase it looked ‘outdated’.
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Might need to turn the saturation/colours a bit on those I think.
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12 Cordoba was (majority) bought by Artear’s “Canal Trece” television network in 2000 (they have 85% stake in that station)
Following the acquisation, 12 then became “Canal Doce”, and began using Canal Trece’s graphics. However:
While Canal Trece’s graphics changed in 2001, Canal Doce continue to use Trece’s 2000 graphics until 2002, when Trece changed graphics.
Trece’s 2003 graphics continue to used on Canal Doce until 2005, when Trece changed graphics.
Trece’s 2006 graphics continue to used on Canal Doce until 2010 (although Trece did change graphics every year) when the station rebranded as El Doce.
When Canal Doce became El Doce as the result of Trece’s 2008 rebranding (the network’s name became “El Trece” as the result), El Doce began use El Trece’s late 2009 graphics until 2012, and since then El Doce’s graphics is always being changed every year like the parent network.
However, unlike other Artear-owned stations, El Doce chose not to use the “sun donut in purple-yellow-red-orange” logo. The station also chose not to be stylized their branding as “eldoce” like the parent network. (El Doce’s logo was a modernised version of its 1960s logo)
12 Cordoba was NEVER afiliated with Canal 9 (which was bought by Prime in 1999 and became Azul TV as the result) throughtout its existance.
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A few more I’ve got.
Recorded during Hey Hey It’s Saturday finale in 1999:
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I still think it was a mistake to axe Hey Hey when they did.
It was time for it to go… it had lost its edge.
When it was a Saturday morning show and really was ad lib whackiness it was at its peak. (I was very young at the time)
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Maybe you’re right. And i don’t think the return in 2009 helped its image.
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I just booked a trip to Argentina a minute before I saw this.
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Off topic: when will you go to AR, #myfriend ?
26 Dec - 16 Jan
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One of the oldest Sydney TV news bulletins we’ll ever see in full: Seven National News from Sunday May 1, 1983. Presenters are Paul Marshall (News), Gary Wilkinson (Sport), Rex Mossup (Rugby League Report) & Mike Bailey - all had quite long Sydney media careers.
There’s a rather interesting Opener counting down the seven seconds to 6pm, while the set can be best described as being very brown! Theme music is Rick Wakeman’s 1984 Overture or some variant of it.
…and while I’m here, a partial edition of “Newsworld” with Kay Stammers:
Both clips are from Steve Rutherford, so full credit to him for these! 
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For 35+ years ago they’re not bad looking bulletins.
Of course the technology isn’t what we expect today but even without it the look was professional, the theme music worked. the creative elements were solid if lacking a little in flash and the rundown was particularly good; a nice mix of stories without the uber local crap we get today.
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Gosh I miss those concise, no-nonsense news bulletins we used to get. I still believe there’s a market for such a news service on commercial television- all the news you need in 30 minutes without the fluff.
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The end frame of that 1983 bulletin reveals that Seven had a relationship with CNN not long after it was founded in 1980.
CNN didn’t really come to prominence in Australia until the first gulf war in 1990/1991.
I wasn’t aware that any Australian broadcaster was affiliated with them in those early years, although I guess it makes sense, CNN would have been keen for a partner and probably gave their content away in exchange for Australian news items. Seven obviously weren’t that interested though, Ten had secured exclusive rights by the time the gulf kicked off.
EDIT: Clip posted below reveals how old age has dimmed my memory… CNN was of course a big part of Seven’s news overnight in the 80s.
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Seven started broadcasting CNN overnight on 1 Jan 1985
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You’re absutely right… I remember this now… old age etc
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This has probably been posted before but it’s always worth a listen… possibly the best Ten News theme from Eyewitness era
This is the full version of “Move Closer To Your World” complete with lyrics.
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for some reason HSV7 didn’t pick up News Overnight until March. Maybe the local management weren’t sold on the idea at first?
A variant of it, used on Band (Brasil)'s nightime (*) talk show calle “Canal Livre” (Free Channel). The program was even used to be a symbol of independence when Brasil was struggling in gaining democracy in 1980s and 90s.
(*) It’s transmitted at midnight every Sunday since 2003.
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