Yes, not dumped - she was on maternity leave and again in 2002 was replaced by Jillian Whiting. I wasn’t aware that Heather ever did weekends in 1999 however saying that, again I was o/s between June 1999 and May 2000. She was presenting weeknights before and after I was away.
IIRC, there was new paint on the newsroom/studio around 1994 with the “Queensland” added below Nine News, which was around the time QTQ-9 changed branding from Brisbane to Queensland.
Channel Nine Melbourne
Wednesday 18 December 1996
National Nine News Update With Jo Hall
National Nine News ‘Day’ Promo
National Nine News/A Current Affair ‘Day’ Promo
A few years ago I found an old video of a news bulletin from a station called MTN9 - I think it broadcast in Griffith.
The video is gone for some reason but from what I can recall it did use the same spinning-globe intro as used by WIN and 9 stations … probably because it was and still is affiliated with them?
Was it something like this? The opening seems to be absent, but the headline grpahic looked indeed similar to WIN.
MTN9 News mic flag from that bulletin:
kind of? The video I found that’s been deleted had the spinning globe intro and no headlines IIRC