Incidentally, today marks the 60th anniversary of the debut of In Melbourne Tonight. (Although apparently the name had been used for an earlier Channel 9 show but it was quickly gone and I don’t think ever heard of again)
In 1965, in the lead up to the show’s 2000th episode, TV Week featured this… umm… it was a different time…
The same thing happened in early 1989 when Seven used both the Rainbow 7 logo and the Split 7 logo.
Fun fact about the first 6pm news broadcasts of the new millennium/21st century: The presenters who read the news for both Seven and Nine in Sydney that night (Chris Bath and Peter Overton respectively) would become the main weeknight newsreaders for their respective bulletins a decade later!
Perhaps the news department at Seven Melbourne didn’t get the memo, because Sydney and Brisbane were running a slightly modified version of the news graphics for the new logo on 1/1/2000! 
I’m not sure about Seven Nightly News in Adelaide and Perth (does anyone know/remember if they even used the red graphics during 1999/before the logo change?) although those stations very well might’ve taken their time to update the look to their news for the new logo back then.
Perth changed 2 weeks in I think.
It’s a shame with have next to none content of Seven Nightly News Perth from the 1990s other than promos and short little updates, with some of them not including Rick and Sue. There are a few full and half bulletins from the 2000-2004 Seven News era, but pretty little to say at the least. 
Still looking for a Seven Nightly News Perth opener from before 2000…
Hopefully Seven Perth bring out the vault archive. If they can bring it out for Telethon, they can surely bring it out for such a big milestone!
Brisbane pulled it off, as it always does
At least it only took Seven one day to fix it…
Back in 2006 when Nine/NBN/WIN ditched dotty for the box, NBN still had dotty on all of their news branding (openers/supers etc) for another 6 weeks before that was fixed!
Possibly was longer than a day. Not sure when HSV was able to update its news graphics and set.
In early 1989, Seven hadn’t completely switched over to the Split 7 logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSakaZ3X-fw
Does anyone have any background on this? Anyone notable in this?
That’s Doug Parkinson.
Is one of the guys with the blond mullet Darren Lyons?
For some reason 7 had rolled out news promos with the new logo before changing the rest of the presentation across. And it wasn’t just a day or two, it was something like 2 or 3 weeks that it was like that. Very odd.
Not much weirder than Nine using the dotty logo during the cricket when they still had boxy back in 07-08.
Jono Coleman taking note of the TV Times amongst his magazine collection.
The link wasn’t working, so replaced it with a screenshot.
That Jono Coleman link isn’t working any more. Maybe he took down the post because the magazine at the front has Rolf Harris on it…
TEN Adelaide - looking very good in 1991
7 Ident in 1989 - never bettered, imo:
