That particular recording of ABC-TV during Industrial Action was probably from December 2000?
Someone else here probably knows what happened better than I do and might even be able to muster up a date for when The 7.30 Report (and presumably other programs) went off air, but wasn’t the ABC facing mass protests by staff over budget cuts and how then-Managing Director Johnathan Shier was running the national broadcaster around the end of 2000?
TBH, I’m somewhat surprised we haven’t seen more of it in recent years.
Who did the voiceovers for the Channel Nine Perth lineup in 2005? Bob Peters or Chris Brown.
And also do you have any sponsor billboards for Nine Perth in 2005? Does Perth have the same sponsor billboard style as Melbourne/Sydney?
Looks like we might be one step closer to finding out exactly when the final Sydney/national set at Epping and (most likely) Seven News’ slightly refreshed graphical elements for 2002 were first launched.
Among @Zampakid’s recent finds on the tapes from Perth were a couple of Seven Late News Openers (via GWN) from February 5 & 8 2002 and the presentation had changed by the time those bulletins went to air!
I vaguely recall reading somewhere at the time that TNC was being piped through to TV screens through Parliament House while the channel was being wound down. Making it a pretty expensive investment for a mere handful of viewers!
Yes, there was a determined push to have the government declare the channel as “must carry” and I believe the exercise of piping the trial through Parliament was part of that.
I’m not even sure there was officially such a thing as “must carry” status but I guess in those early days before any services actually launched there was an opportunity to have it introduced.
There were some pretty deep pockets involved… Fairfax was still flush from the rivers of gold, Cox Communications weren’t short of a dollar or two, CNN was in there keen to stake out a claim to a new territory and the ABC invested staff and equipment.
After the shut down all that new state or the art gear found a new home in ABC newsrooms.
Channel Nine Perth still had the ‘Still Local, Still The One’ as their lineup for primetime shows in 2005. However, Channel Seven was too strong at the end where they claimed No 1 in Perth.
Mal Walden and jennifer Hansen used be at 10, but Hansen’s left 10 in 2006, and Walden retired in late 2013. MAl Walden is a phenomenon where he tried to pronounce words and also making puns.
Mal Walden Book is on of the best books I have read about the News and the Newsroom. I love the occiasially adlibing he did during the broadcast. Phenomenon was funny but Mixing the work “Bus Bombing” was funnier and the smirk from Mal said it all
Jen Hanson, Underated newsreader in my opinion, Married to Alan fletcher who is Dr. Karl Kennedy off neighbours.
