60 Minutes promo from October 1991:
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Channel Nine
Wednesday 14 December 2005
National Nine Newsbreak With Jo Hall
Channel Nine
Wednesday 21 December 2005
National Nine Newsbreak With Jo Hall
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Wow. That’s the promo I’ve searching for years now. Do we have a video of it? Thanks!
Hair suit and background all the same colour
She also presented Today when Jessica Rowe was on maternity leave but only lasted for a short stint
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If Wikipedia is to be trusted, she was formerly a reporter on ACA but was redeployed to the news division as Nine revamped the show at the end of 2005.
She then presented the national afternoon news and on occasion the morning news and Nightline.
It’s worth noting ratings weren’t at their best when Melissa Downes replaced Heather Foord as the female co-presenter on Nine News Queensland in 2009 - and when Andrew Lofthouse replaced Bruce Paige in the middle of that year, the once-dominant bulletin had then become a distant second behind the Seven pairing of Kay and Rod.
But Lofty and Downes would become the top-rating newsreading duo in Brisbane, and as you say, the transition from Lofty to Joel Dry has been seamless. Likewise, Melbourne viewers immediately warmed to Alicia and Tom, with strong ratings to show for it.
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Nine Perth 20 years ago was the worst-rated Nine News service often being trounced by rival Seven News Perth week-in and week-out despite having AFL rights from 2002-06
And now Nine is making ground in the west
Tipping Point ring a bell anyone?
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YouTube video documenting the digital restoration of an A Current Affair report from 16mm film. The film is dated from 1976. The reporter featured is Kate Baillieu, who in years to come was to be one of the founding reporters for 60 Minutes, but withdrew prior to the show making its debut. The decision was made then to reduce the reporter line-up to three: Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus. It wasn’t until 1982 that 60 Minutes ended up getting its first female reporter, Jana Wendt.
YouTube: David Mirabella
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True but as long as Rick and Sue are still at the helm at Seven, Nine will forever be second.
Similarly, while Peter Overton is still at the helm of Nine News in Sydney; they’ll forever be first (like they were during the Hendo days).
Channel Nine Melbourne
Wednesday 4 January 2006
7:25PM National Nine Newsbreak With Jo Hall
10:35PM National Nine Newsbreak With Ellen Fanning
11:35PM Nightline ‘Coming Up’ Update With Ellen Fanning
National Nine News (WWOS) Sports Update With Leith Mulligan
Melbourne Promo (The single and team shots must’ve been filmed months apart judging by Lavinia’s hair)
Nightline With Ellen Fanning (Partial)
50 Years Of News & Current Affairs Promo
11 January 2006
7:35PM National Nine Newsbreak With Jo Hall
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26 days before they refreshed with Nine dropping the dots
Has anybody seen what style of intro 9 (or 8 as it was) was using in Darwin in like 2001/2002? I know in the 90s they’d used one almost identical to the standard National Nine News intro… and I know in 2001 they were using a key of the National set, but never seen an intro, or any vision from that era, and curious as to how they changed to logo/intro.
The Eight National News opens I’ve seen were essentially the standard globe fly-in and rotation, paired with a stacked logo that used the exact same text animation as National Nine News. The typography appeared to use either the same font (Brix Condensed Semi-Bold?) or, at the very least, a visually similar serif such as Rockwell at a comparable weight, with the date styling following the same design logic.
The break animation featured a bordered vision frame occupying the left and central portions of the screen. Along the right edge, a vertical, stylised globe graphic appeared, composed of curved, illuminated latitude-like bands layered in blue gradients. A solid blue lower-third bar spanned the bottom of the frame, displaying the EIGHT NATIONAL NEWS title in serif capital lettering, underlined by a thin yellow rule, with an animated National Nine News globe icon positioned at the far right of the bar. All elements used the same theme variants and music cuts Nine was using during that period—and were even timed identically.
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Thank you for that very detailed response.
I was more thinking about the era after that though…. Like what was the corresponding opening below…
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I myself have always been curious about the same thing. Or even what did the package prior to the flying blue and white billboard, look like
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