You and me both and I’ve lost the original files too
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
If anyone can find a video of NNN Melbourne using that theme it would be absolute gold.
…and that saw them take out the Melbourne news wars winning 24 weeks to Seven’s 16 weeks.
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.
Taken via Channel 9 Perth on 14 January 2008
What is interesting was that instead of Perth’s Chris Brown’s voiceover intro, they had Ken Sparkes doing the vo for NNN Perth in 2008.
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.
Yes I believe everyone is well and truly aware of how everything unfolded in those years. No need to keep repeating it every time someone mentions it.
Georgina McGuinness Presented a National 9News Update for Adelaide Sponsored by the Bank of SA during a Nightly Movie on Saturday October 7th 2006.
Promo for Adelaide’s National 9News with Kevin Crease, Rob Kelvin and Georgina McGuinness.
Caps of National 9News Adelaide (Sunday) with Georgina McGuinness, Mark Bickley and Xavier Minniecon on Sunday April 15th 2007.
News with Georgina McGuinness Caps:
Sport with Mark Bickley Caps:
Weather with Xavier Minniecon Caps:
Closer:
National Nine News Sydney bulletin presented by the late Peter Harvey 9/7/2007:
Remember when Peter Harvey presented an afternoon bulletin I think in 2012? He was leaning and slouching in the desk.
The intro is quite peculiar without a VO and the theme out of tune… Could that have been done by WIN during their feud with Nine in 2007 to dub out “National Nine News” VO, or just a one off error?
It all sounded like a mixing error to me. 99% chance that WIN wasn’t responsible for the lack of VO.