oooooh Australian coverage! that’s rare
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There is also coverage from TVW7 and STW9
YouTube: brilton1
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Peter Mitchell and Peter Hitchener were both there. Not sure if Sydney networks sent presenters for localised bulletins.
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Apparently Karl and Kochie / Mel ended up at the pub together.
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ABC-TV QLD 7PM news coverage of the Challenger Disaster…
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Seven News Sydney bulletin with the death of the Queen Mother:
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This is a great upload. I remember this day well.
Chris was also doing special early morning updates from 6am and hosted Sunday Sunrise from 8am.
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Margaret Thatcher’s resignation as British PM
As seen on GMA
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Since it’s the anniversary
KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles Newsflash reporting the death of Elvis
All be it there were a couple if inaccuracies
He was 42 not 45 and he died of a heart attack not a respiratory ailment.
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2SM news bulletin on Elvis’s death:
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I think that Saddam invading Kuwait was the last major historical world event, apart from German reunification, that happened while The Herald (1840 to 1990) was still around?
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14 years ago, a group of Hong Kong tourists were held hostage on the tour bus in Manila, the Philippines. Spanning across 12 hours, 8 hostages were ultimately shot dead among the remaining 15 on the bus (10 were released or escaped throughout the day).
This is the earliest recorded report on the situation from HK, from Now News Channel at 2pm:
The rolling coverage into the night on TVB HD Jade. As the incident developed in primetime HKT, the news was extended and the scheduled soaps were cancelled on Jade.
Coverage over on ATV Home:
And the Filipino media coverage, this one from ABS-CBN’s international pay TV channel, TFC:
GMA’s Saksi:
TV5’s Aksyon:
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Is there any footage of this Philipenes hostage attack on any of the Australian or New Zealand networks?
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ABC did in Australia, couldn’t find other stations (as it predates their current Youtube channels!) but I think they’d have probably covered it, as the bigger names in global news did (Sky News UK, RT, AJ among others).
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18 years to the day since we lost Steve Irwin.
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