A reasonable theory is that NTD simply adapted to the network’s look at the time, adjusting fonts and graphics wherever possible, although I’m not entirely certain. They became part of PBL on 1 January 2001, so it could be possible that PBL gradually began to influence how NTD’s bulletin looked and felt, leading up to the buyout and eventual relaunch as Nine.
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They were 9 by then, they had the flying billboards over Darwin.
I’m sure they did, I’ve just never seen anything from the era hence why I’m asking.
I was referring to the striped dark blue and orange look before the 2006 relaunch. I haven’t come across what Darwin looked like during this era
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i think that happened long before 2001? NTD8 was using Nine graphics/presentation as far back as 1993. It was mentioned in another thread that (IIRC), Packer’s private company bought NTD8 in the late 1980s but it was not until after he took back control of Nine in the early 1990s that NTD was brought into the network.
EDIT: It appears that Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH) sold its ownership of NTD8 into PBL in October 1991.
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oh apologies, I misread. Yes wondering about that too!
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A National Nine News Darwin opener from 2007 with the billboard intro
I was referring to the package before this look
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The switch happened in 2003, and I think the blue/gold era was from 2004? So they’d have been 9 by then.
Correct - IIRC this graphics set launched on Australia Day that year. It was the last major graphics set with the striped globe, though a dotted variant was introduced in the 2012 graphics relaunch.
The 2004-05 period was also when the Arial font was used on most (if not all) supers.
Stephanie Brantz had a brief stint at Nine in the second half of the noughties which included presenting sport on Nightline.
Courtesy: For the Love of Broadcast
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