I don’t know why but those Nine idents from 2001-2002 always remind me of these idents Ten made in 1997.
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Like I mentioned
Sorry, missed that.
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I’m pretty sure I have a recording of two separate closers from the early-mid '90s and an opener from the early 2000s somewhere still. When I get a chance I’ll see if I can find them.[/quote]Here’s one of the closers from 1994 I’ve got.
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Reason why i uploaded in The mocks thread its because i haven’t find anywhere to put it in but anyway i’m new here
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Reference to Channel 10 News in this song from the 1980s. Just press play:
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Another Saturday Disney closer.
Sadly, still no openers from that era that I could find
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[quote=“Sifon, post:804, topic:137, full:true”]Sadly, still no openers from that era that I could find[/quote]Unfortunately I haven’t been able to track down an opener yet from that era (I have another closer from that time I’ll upload soon). I know I have an opener from 2003 somewhere, but haven’t found it thus far. Such a classic tune! 
Indian dancer girl with a tarp remains to this day to be one of the most bizarre idents I’ve ever seen. Quite different though. Very un-Nine, especially in comparison to the fugly New Millennium Television.
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these idents Ten made in 1997.
[/quote] That look has aged much better than the brackets/Ten-in-the-corner era.
At the start of this Temptation video is an example of a Nine signpost from 2006. I didn’t know this version existed.
And this is the warehouse version.
Kudos to the uploader for leaving all the promos and presentation details around each gameshow unaffected.
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The original signposts only lasted until May IIRC, not very long. The non-commonwealth games signposts featured scenes of presenters doing “normal” things (e.g. Eddie having a coffee in a cafe).
I actually really like the piano-based backing track for those early 2006 idents, and thought they worked really well with WIN’s local scenery idents.
Hated the rest of the package, though.
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Bert’s version of Family Feud may only have lasted 2 seasons, but it was a success despite the poor ratings. Nine axed the show and Bert disappeared from our screens.
Steve Omceke hosting Wheel of Fortune.
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Not quite. Bert Newton continued to present 20 to 1, until it was axed in Early 2011.
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It was on this day 36 years ago that SBS (then known as Channel 0/28) began transmission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6bEZM5dMk
SBS would broadcast on both VHF0 and UHF28 until January 1986 when SBS ceased its VHF transmissions and became a sole UHF broadcaster.
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I believe that at the very start it was just known as Channel O.
The first program on SBS was Who are we? with Peter Luck
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Amazing how dated WoF looked in its later years, especially compared to its US sibling. Seven just didn’t invest enough cash to keep it interesting IMO, and then Nines re-imagined attempt was just weird (they should have just bought the wheel off Seven rather then make that bizarre, slow thing they made).
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The Nine reboot of Wheel was a failure but the US has adopted the Million Dollar version.
It failed to outrate Deal or No Deal and was subsequently axed just a month into its first season
Depends what you mean by “success”… TV networks don’t usually make a habit of axing successful shows.
Mostly, yes, probably just because everyone knew where Channel 0 was on the dial. “28” was probably a bit of a mystery still, given the complete novelty of UHF, although the proper logo did have the words “Channel 0 and Channel 28”.
But some station promos still announced “Channel 0/28”, and I believe the news used to be introduced as “0/28 World News”, although the station ID or continuity announcer(s) might not have mentioned the 28 part.
There was no real uniform branding in TV listings, either. TV Week used “Channel 0/28” but newspapers like The Age, The Herald, The Sun and TV Scene used to just refer to Channel 0.