This graphics package was a major overhaul for Nine’s news service. Done were they with their traditional globe motif in favour of a flying billboard flying through various city skylines.This is also the first time that Nine Gold Coast News uses the same style of opening and graphics as it’s capital city counterparts. Sets during this era became more noticeable as well, even if they still maintained a sense of simplicity, unlike what was happening on the other 2 commercial networks. In early 2007, the Queensland news desk was changed slightly to appear more like the Sydney desk, whereas Melbourne went out for something completely different. Changing their stylish glass top desk in favour of a wooden design and ditching their live shot in favour of a blue background with various imposed images of landmarks.
Opening Title Cards
<img src="/uploads/default/original/2X/2/22fb3c513cada18bf28f4580cd38af7d299f56b5.png" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News National Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df3000c3959232eb25952252080156a0f74fe4e2.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Sydney Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/5/50541bc53b34da97c79b2432ebc3b0fd85275b99.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Melbourne Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/0/05a1da0c74fb51812f6c96f11c3b9329298e4b73.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Queensland Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/8/823ee1be42373af84e4334111b7e2774b8c39858.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Adelaide Opening Title Card” ><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/9/99783db6a681e7dc668ae912966f66dedd03ebc4.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Perth Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2713ecedc62a5bdd15bc47ad77e6176a38b90622.jpg" width=“400” height=“300"title=“National Nine News Darwin Opening Title Card”><img src=”/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b0b4a1f909680fff2ea48b5e399958289e20ff91.jpg" width=“400” height="300"title=“Nine Gold Coast News Opening Title Card”>
Nine News Melbourne changed their theme back to Cool Hand Luke a few weeks after viewer backlash from the remixed version which wasn’t liked by Melburnians
I’ve always wondered if that was true or not, or maybe it was because the news staff didn’t like it. I wonder what kind of complaints Nine received from viewers if there were any.
Hey Zampakid, when did National Nine News Adelaide launch their own graphics when the Cowbell themed music was still playing when it was launched on Monday January 30th 2006?
They were unbeatable in the ratings in 2006; Brisbane was National Nine News’ strongest performing market that year with only a handful of weeks lost.
But when weatherman John Schluter quit just short of 25 years with the network, sports presenter Wally Lewis had to take sick leave to treat his epilepsy condition, and BTQ poached Sharyn Ghidella (who was then reading the news on Nine’s Today show, following in the footsteps of another Seven defector in Ian Ross) to read its weekend news, QTQ’s news ratings went south of BTQ’s for the first time in two decades.
By 2008 QTQ would crash to not winning a single news ratings week, and Heather Foord decided to step down to spend more time with her family (though was also appointed presenter of Extra), prompting Melissa Downes’ promotion to weeknights alongside Bruce Paige.
Around this time Andrew Lofthouse was poached from the ABC and was appointed weekend co-presenter with Eva Milic. Then when Paige “retired” (I say this in quotes because he didn’t strictly retire, but instead decided to scale back his duties) in mid-2009, Lofthouse stepped up to the weeknight chair with Downes.
Like Peter Overton in Sydney, both Lofthouse and Downes endured a rough start being up against Kay and Rod on Seven (like how Overton was up against Roscoe) but they quietly started to build ratings and by 2013 QTQ would be back on top.
