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Have just digitised and uploaded the first 3 hours of Australian TV broadcast of the Gulf War âDesert Stormâ - showcasing channel surfing between Ch10, Ch9, Ch7 and ABCâs coverage on January 17th 1991
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I remember this and 10 year old me at the time was mighty pissed at not being able to watch any of my shows being school holidays and all.
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First few days of Tenâs 1991-2018 logo. The relaunch from â10 TV Australiaâ to âTenâ was 4 days earlier
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Itâs funny remembering back to our views on things. The very first political feelings I can remember would have been from watching these on the news and I developed a hatred for Bob Hawke as PM at the time because he had started a war. Obviously my 5 year old political senses were still developing and as I learned more later on in life I realised it probably wasnât him who started it! I reckon I was also pissed about the shows not being on as well - probably Gumby on the ABC at the time and whatever would have been on TNT9/Southern Cross Network.
Is the good old fashioned news flash still a thing? Or has social media put that to bed
No more news flashes - everything is now breaking news. Even if itâs the most trivial or mundane thing it needs the flashy red graphics and âbreaking newsâ mentioned every 30 seconds.
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I was at work and we had a TV in a meeting room tuned to Channel Ten which had everyoneâs attention.
News flashes before major news events was common before social media and the internet arrived
Great video. The Gulf War was my real first experience of âBreaking Newsâ that I can clearly remember watching live. All channels did a great job but in particular Ten News had exclusive access to CNN which went onto broadcast one of the first âTV warsâ. Ten also shared Melbourne/Sydney resources from the looks of that compilation, and interesting that Seven used Hinch as its main national news anchor.
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apart from the Moon Landing rolling coverage of news events was pretty rare if not non-existent prior to the Gulf War IIRC
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And there was nothing quite like that sudden âbreaking into normal programmingâ with the Breaking News sting.
This was 10 announcing that they were suspending normal programing for rolling coverage.
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Would never see that today, with everything superseded by this one coverage for weeks on end.
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The Gulf War was an example of the use of satellite (the internet was in its infancy) to relay coverage from CNN/ABC America and NBC to Australian viewers back in 1991. Those times have changed now.
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If youâre interested in CNNâs coverage of the Gulf War, worth tracking down and watching a movie called Live from Baghdad
Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. The film focuses on the news mediaâs (primarily CNNâs) coverage of the war. Fundamentally an actionâdrama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United States-led bombing of Baghdad.
The whole thing is on You Tube: Live From Baghdad (2002) a pivotal moment in the history of journalism
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Just an addendum to the Port Arthur Massacre - this news report a day or so later is about a store owner destroying toy guns.
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Having a look at the Evening Schedules for November 6 of 1999 (VIC, NSW and ACT), was it true that ABC and Nine only did full coverage of the last referendum with Seven providing updates throughout that evening with 10 only showing it during the Late News Bulletin?
The schedules would be a good indicator.
This says 7 had a full report at midnight but may have just been an extended update.
7 Network News Australia - Referendum Update 06111999
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