A lot of history at that studio.
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Reminds me of that time in 2010 while walking out of Nines Willoughby studios when a taping of Funniest Home Videos finished, I noticed the security guards at the gate were watching Channel 7.
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What the boss doesn’t know…
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Tonight Live is still one of my favourite shows. I wish Australian TV has a similar show today.
Unlike many American late night talk shows which are all recorded in mid or late afternoon, Tonight Live was broadcast live for most of the week, with only the Friday episodes filmed in the afternoon.
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30 January 2006 - Nine drops the dots from its newly-launched logo, which simply features the number 9 in a blue box. It would last just less than two years before the dots were reinstated.
Also on this day, National Nine News is relaunched to reflect the rebranding of the network. A new remix of the Cool Hand Luke theme is also introduced.
which is acctually from the soundtrack from cool hand luke the movie not the theme
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30 January 1978: Nine launches a sanitised news service for children during The Super Flying Fun Show. The ten minute bulletin airs at 7.30am and is presented by Warwick Rankin (formerly Commander Strongarm on TEN10 and later Triple M legend Wazza the Rock Dog).
30 January 1982: Sue Smith joins Ron Wilson to present the weekend edition of TEN10’s Eyewitness News for the first time. She will also be making appearances on John Laws’s Beauty and the Beast.
Smith had previously been a high profile talent at Nine for eight years. She was to have been part of the soon to be launched National Today Show but was taken off air and placed on “gardening leave” until the expiration of her contract when her husband, Hugh McGowan, left the Nine fold to become program director at TEN10.
30 January 1983: TCN9 debuts young adult targeted Grundy produced soap Waterloo Station to a television schedule already awash with Australian drama. Following a movie length premiere on a Sunday night, Nine bravely schedules it against Australian dramas A Country Practice and Carson’s Law. The GTV9 premiere takes place the following night.
30 January 1984: Perfect Match makes its debut on Ten and is an instant hit. The show helps to lift the entire network and ushers in a period of unprecedented ratings success. The lead in is credited with helping Eyewitness News to become the most watched news service in Sydney and Melbourne.
30 January 1986: Nine takes another stab at Australian drama following a string of failures. Prime Time is a Crawford Productions offering set at the fictional Channel Five television station and revolves around the people producing a current affairs show.
Media writers are suspicious Nine has another dud drama on its hands after the network fails to supply preview tapes of the first episode, doesn’t host a launch party for cast and press and moves its debut from a Monday night, instead scheduling it to run Thursday and Friday nights. The writing is on the wall for the show when the cast isn’t invited to the 1986 Logies a couple of months later.
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The theme wasn’t popular in Melbourne and after a few weeks, GTV reinstated Cool Hand Luke
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the soundtrack u mean . cool hand luke is an acutall movie
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ON that day 14 years ago, the on air presentation changed, where Channel 9 dropped the 7 colour day package. When I looked at the new on air set, it was a one step backward from the Aug 2004-Jan 2006 set. They dropped the dots and replaced it with a standalone Nine in a blue box. It was never the same after Kerry Packer died. Also, on that day, Jessica Rowe started co-hosting Today Show with Karl Stefanovic. Today Show also refreshed its graphics, a new set, a new presentation. The ratings for Today Show was bad, losing most weeks to Sunrise.
Also in 30 Jan 2006–9am with David and Kim premiered on CHannel 10, replacing GMA. Bert Newton moved to Nine. During the summer period, they ran repeats of GMA before retiring the show to make way for a new morning show, 9am with David and Kim. David Reyne came from Nine, while Kim Watkins came from Seven.
Larry Emdur headed to Channel 7 to host Wheel of Fortune, replacing Steve Oemcke as Host. I didn’t liked Steve Oemcke as host of Wheel of Fortune in 2004 because Oemcke gets things confused. But when Larry came, he was a better host. Wheel of Fortune had a few tweaks with the game board screen. Sadly, Wheel of Fortune would be axed in July 2006, ending a 25-year run of this game show.
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And after Wheel of Fortune was axed, Seven would run episodes from the unaired 2005 season.
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On the morning of the launch of the 9 sans dots logo, Channel 9 towed this massive flag featuring its new logo from a helicopter over Sydney. I remember seeing it from my train over Parramatta and they were talking about the new logo on the radio. This screen grab from National Nine News that night.
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I am too young to remember Sue Smith in her earlier days, she was on ACA in the 1970s, and certainly don’t recall her days as Jackpot Quiz hostess on CBN8 in the 1960s! But I do remember she used to do those ads for Pears shampoo in the 1980s. In some of them she was quite harsh in delivery but this one on YouTube actually shows a softer delivery…
YouTube: Gary86
You’d think Nine by the 1980s had enough networking nous to launch a new signature drama on the same night across Sydney and Melbourne. Although I guess it’s a moot point given the show was a dud. I didn’t see it during its original run but did catch re-runs a few years later when it was a summer replacement for The Midday Show
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I don’t remember her on Nine but I do recall her time on TEN reading news, filling in on Good Morning Australia and as a panelist on Beauty and the Beast. I agree there was something “harsh” about her delivery and have wondered if it had to do with her being one of the pioneering women in TV news. Perhaps she felt the need to adopt that no nonsense persona to compete in that world. I can’t imagine she had that same aura when she was presenting children’s television on TEN early in her career.
oh dear what was that??
It was an early morning Sydney show in the vein of Cartoon Corner and Super Flying Fun Show- cartoons interspersed with competitions, skits and educational segments of interest to kids.
There’s some info in this wiki article (last paragraph in “overview”). The 1971 date is wrong. I think I remember reading that change took place mid way through 1970 and there was some viewer backlash when Rosemary Eather was replaced.
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I just read that Wikipedia page and it reminded me, there’s a photo of it in the book Australian TV: The First 25 Years and I’d never twigged until now that it’s Sue Smith there…
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Interestingly the show that Bert’s GMA replaced, Til Ten with Andrew Harwood and Joan McInness, premiered on the same date in 1989.
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The new logo was designed by Bruce Dunlop
31 January 1977: Game show Let’s Make A Deal starts on TCN9 and GTV9 with Jimmy Hannan and Garry Meadows. The show occupies the 6pm time slot on Mondays and Fridays with relatively new drama The Young Doctors taking the slot Tuesday to Thursday.
On the same date, Charlie’s Angels premieres with the movie length pilot episode on TCN9 and GTV9 at 7.30pm. Nine is sure they’re on a winner with the American import based on the ratings the show is attracting in the US and the publicity the stars of the show are receiving.
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