Ironically enough, CNN now mainly sources Australian material from either Seven or Sky News…
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I’m sure this will get a mention on tonight’s news - 14 Feb 1966, 50 years since the introduction of decimal currency - that was the first day that decimal currency was able to be used.
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Interested to see from the NFSA this clip of footage from the archives, courtesy of ATV0:
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Continuing from the Molly thread
Family Feud was initially a TVW7 production (for Reg Grundy) in Perth and had been sold to ADS7 in Adelaide and BTQ7 in Brisbane. But then the Nine Network took over production of the show, moving it to GTV9 in Melbourne, which saw Family Feud screen on Nine in Sydney and Melbourne but from the previous deals continued to air on Seven in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. (And at the time TVW7 was still independent of any specific network affiliation)
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Kinda like how Fat Cat and Friends started out as a Channel 10 production (SAS10) but then moved to 7 in the late eighties.
Well no, not like it at all, that was a different situation brought about by changes of ownership and affiliation.
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Well, my mistake.
Prime Local News Illawarra Partial Bulletin 1st April 1998.
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This would be a 1972ish ABC TV slide. Quite rare to find stuff like this, I’d imagine.
Taken from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWTrycJH4Ms
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Caps of Prime Local News Illawarra from 1999.
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On this day 11 years ago, ABC2 launched becoming the first multichannel to be broadcast on Australian television and heralding the multichannel era.
Some idents from ABC2 when it first launched
Sydney
Storms
Suburb
The famous Big 2 ident
Family
Dish
Motorbikes
Highway
Forest
Rodeo
Outback
Industry
Birds
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Actually it was beaten by Fly TV/ABC Kids which ran from 2001 to 2003, and the SBS World News Channel which began in 2002.
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In those idents, its obvious that they were going for a similar thing to the BBC Two’s ‘2’. I always hated ABC2’s original look.
It was interesting how they started off Breakfast on 2 all those years ago. I feel like a similar decision made nowadays would be criticised for being a waste of resources, considering back in 07 barely anyone knew ABC2 existed.
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RTQ Newswatch (now WIN News Central Queensland) bulletin that aired 16 months prior to aggregation. Newsreader is Bruce Diamond, sport with Gary Foale and weather with Cathy Miller, who I’m guessing was Peter Byrne’s predecessor. Interesting to note the use of Nine’s Cool Hand Luke theme.
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Seven Nightly News Melbourne (1989) with Glenn Taylor and Jennifer Keyte.
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Back in the day when I used to care about such things, I was never a fan of that Seven Nightly News opening title. I liked the previous one (a Melbourne version of the one below)
YouTube: AustralianTVFan
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Interesting that you’d probably not use any of those skyline shots in a similar opener today. I’d probably pan across the front of Flinders Street Station, and then the Eureka tower, and finally end on a shot of the Montague Street Bridge.
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At least it’s not comic sans
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Oh wow, even for Early '90s standards those graphics look more like something from a regional station rather than a major metro market like Melbourne!