Even as late as 4:50pm on this day, this old Ten News at Five update aired in Melbourne, which suggested the full relaunch was kept under wraps until 5:00pm.
And this is the news report from that evening explaining the relaunch:
Conversely, on the evening following the “last” Ten Eyewitness News bulletin on 31 October 2018, 10 News First branded updates started airing sometime around 7:30pm.
Strange decision imo.
Promo for the relaunch
Brisbane montage
Channel 10 changed their logo the same night, so it kind of makes sense that the updates started at 7:30.
Also, such a shame imo that they didn’t do what WLS 7 Chicago over in America did with their 2013 reintroduction of 7 Eyewitness News, where they kept the 2013 look until this year. Plus 1 News in New Zealand seems to be able to keep the 2015 look alive.
Forgot about that, yeah makes sense.
The number of quality reporters and presenters they’ve lost across the last 10 years is astonishing. They decimated those newsrooms.
They decimate it every 10 years, it’s basically tradition. Afterwards Sandra Sully surveys the damage and carries on.
The old graphics used 10 minutes until the bulletin went to air
Impressive I know
17 September 1956: The second day of regular transmission from TCN9, Sydney, starting with a new nightly religious talk, Give Us This Day, followed by the station’s first news bulletin, presented by Chuck Faulkner.
17 September 1987: Darling Downs Telecasters, owner of DDQ10 Toowoomba, purchases Brisbane channel TVQ0 from Christopher Skase for $123 million, and announces plans to convert its new station to the Channel 10 frequency.
17 September 1988: The opening ceremony of The Games Of The XXIV Olympiad from Seoul, South Korea. Network Ten, covering its second consecutive Summer Olympics, scheduled more than 15 hours of coverage each day of competition.
17 September 1990: Andrew Denton presents a new show, The Money Or The Gun, on ABC – described as a “documentary/chat/comedy show where the real meets the surreal.”
17 September 2006: Seven presents the 3-hour special TV Turns 50: The Events That Stopped A Nation, hosted by David Koch and Melissa Doyle and an all-star guest list as they count down the top 20 moments from 50 years of Australian television, as voted by the general public.
17 September 2009: ABC1 screens the documentary Skippy: Australia’s First Superstar, paying tribute to the classic TV series that ran from 1966 to 1969 and put Australia onto TV screens worldwide.
YouTube: ABC TV & iview
Do you think they just saw Nine’s obsession with countdown shows at that time an wanted in on it
Brisbane tended to get all these specials but 2 years later and with some early Brisbane television thrown in. (Of course there was quite a lot of early local TV compared to now).
I wouldn’t put it past Channel 7.