@sammy123 Peter’s twitter does say presenter @7NewsMelbourne since Feb 1988.
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Gosh Paul Higgins looks like Ned Flanders 
And goodness how was that awkward banter at the end of the bulletin??
Kate Dunstan (who I think was also ex-GTV9 and later went to the ABC) was weekend newsreader with Peter Mitchell for a while as well.
No idea what happened to Pamela Graham. She was reporter for years at HSV7 and then she went to the Hinch program and later Talk To The Animals. Never heard of her again since then.
ATV10 at least had the consistency of David Johnston (1980-1995) even though his newsreading partners changed over the years (Jana Wendt, Jo Pearson, Tracey Curro, Mal Walden, Jo Pearson again then Marie Louise Thiele) and a consistent 6.00pm timeslot until going to 5.00 in 1992.
And Ten was a very competitive news service up against GTV9 in the mid-1980s with both of them knocking each other out for first place. For a while it was almost like Ten News was #1, then Nine the next week, and back to Ten the next…
HSV7 had Mal Walden from 1979 to 1987, and also a consistent timeslot until the late 1980s upheavals.
Ten and Seven in Sydney I guess might not have been quite so consistent during the 1980s.
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Incidentally here is a TV Week article, for some reason in the Brisbane edition, about HSV7’s news re-launch in 1988:
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Sounds like Ten’s current state 
Here’s one I don’t remember. I found a 2005 (?) era WWOS opener which I never recall having seen on-air.
I remember seeing the both the previous and the dot-less one.
While on the subject, what the fuck is this?
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Looks like something that someone has spent a lot of time making for something that probably never goes to air 
I really miss that cricket intro featuring all the grounds and moments from yesteryear. The current one isn’t great in my opinion.
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The network countdown going into each and every session of cricket. It would confirm to Network member stations that they were now receiving a studio feed instead of the blacked-break feed from TCN presentation; and to international broadcasters that they were indeed on time for the program start, especially for the after-lunch session as this was rarely on a neat clock time.
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Approx 30 years ago NBC’s Today show was in Australia. The first cross was 30 January to Freemantle, site of the America’s Cup defence.
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Wow now I’m feeling old. I remember that was Bryant Gumbel, Seven were showing NBC Today overnight back then.
This time to the day eleven years ago mediaspy was in so much hype over the anticipation of the Nine/NBN/Win rebranding!! And now eleven years later look at how much has change for the Nine regional stations…
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This is the 1993 version:
And a program version thanks to Nine being very sloppy with uploading an episode of RPA:
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Did Seven show the full length of Today or just one hour of it back then?
It was only a 2 hour show in those days. Seven showed it mostly in full but were known to edit bits out, but I think mostly just peripheral stuff like US-specific sponsored content.
Seven showed it from midnight then so it was only a few hours delayed from the US.
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The line up used to be CNN followed by the Today show as @TelevisionAU stated mostly the full 2 hour program . Video from the same week as above:
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Did not realise Larry Emdur presented news in the 1980s.
Larry Emdur’s introductions to “News Overnight” on Seven back in the Late 1980s were probably among his very first appearances on TV!
The suit he’s wearing in that clip is very Ron Burgundy from “Anchorman” if you ask me! 
I think his newsreading career didn’t extend beyond post-midnight updates on News Overnight 
Then he became a reporter for Good Morning Australia before hosting Family Double Dare
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I never knew Larry Emdur started out as a journo… there you go.
I’m pretty sure he also hosted some sort of sport coverage on ten back in 1989 or thereabouts.