22 years ago today since Princess Diana passed away.
This is how Channel Nine covered her death on this day in 1997. They were the first to report that she had died.
7 interrupted an AFL match to cover the death of Diana
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Nine and Ten’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks aired during Nightline and Ten late news. NBN News had a simulcast of ABC America’s coverage before switching to national coverage at 1am AEST.
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ABC News commemorating tomorrow’s 20th anniversary of the East Timor intervention…
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12 October 2002 - Bali was hit by a terror bombing, killing 202 people. Out of 202 people, 88 were Australians.
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Star Hotel Riot. Newcastle 1979
28 October 2011 - CHOGM was held in Perth. If I remember correctly, Channel Seven Perth had a localised morning bulletin on that day to coincide with the Conference. (also on that day, it was a public holiday in WA).
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I suppose this counts as a “historic news event”, it was the beginning of TV in Australia, after all.
While we’ve known for a long time that the famous “Good evening, and welcome to television” spiel from Bruce Gyngell is most likely a recreation filmed a year or two after the actual event, the NFSA has published some rare silent footage that shows part of the actual presentation on that first night and pin pointed some of the differences between Gyngell’s appearance on opening night and again on “opening night”
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Election Night 1984 and some segments of coverage from all five networks (including SBS doing its first ever federal election coverage)
YouTube: Malcolm Farnsworth
Those YouTube clips represent about 3 hours worth, so here’s some screen caps for the time deprived 
Network Ten (Katrina Lee and David Johnston)
Nine Network (Mike Willesee, right)
SBS Network 0/28 (Dennis Grant, centre)
ABC (Richard Morecroft)
Seven Network (Ken Begg, right)
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Here is parts of the NBC Today’s coverage of the London 7/7 Bombings in 2005.
Anchored by Katie Couric and Lester Holt (Matt Lauer was on holidays).
According to Wikipedia, this broadcast went from 7am-1pm East Coast time, and was live around the country.
Two NBC News Special Reports aired (included in the video), at around 8.06 and 8.30 Eastern Time.
What was coverage like here?
Side Note: This video came from the YouTube channel Timothy Crawford, which has many snippets of NBC Today, Meet The Press and Nightly News broadcasts from 2004-10. Would recommend.
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I think I remember once seeing a snippet (possibly during a compilation shown during the first episode of The Daily Edition in 2013, which if I’m not mistaken was Roscoe’s last ever TV appearance) of Ian Ross breaking the news right after the Weather at the end of the 7/7/2005 Seven News Sydney, but that’s about it.
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First ABC News bulletins reporting on the disappearance of MH370
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How did Nine and ABC covered the Millennium night celebrations 2 decades ago?
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Today is 13 years since former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed for crimes against humanity.
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Nine stole footage from the ABC 2000 Today telecast.
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you just answered your own question?
This was Nine’s promo for Millennium Live which commenced at 8.30pm AEDST on NYE
This is the NYE schedule:
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that video takes on an eerie context when you consider the plane was likely still in the air as that coverage was going to air.
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Last weekend marked 30 years since the Newcastle earthquake, which measured 5.6 on the Richter scale and killed 30 people. Here is the ABC’s lookback at the earthquake which took place on December 28, 1989.
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