And come September 10 of that year, each branch of the network would be using it.
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Teenage boys across the country would be bitterly disappointed when they realised the new logo didn’t mean we had our first free to air porn channel. Even the stations own talent was poking fun at the new logo with Mark Mitchell calling it the “cross your heart network”. “The tautology network” and “the ten kisses channel” were names thrown around in the media at the time.
I used to love doodling geometric shapes during boring classroom lessons in high school and that logo design started appearing quite a bit in the margins of my notebooks in 1988.
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I wonder if in the future, we’ll be referring to Ten’s 2011 News Revolution as “The beginning of the end for Ten News”?!
Because the service is a very thin shell of its former self these days.
The 2014 Seven News theme music which lasted only 4-5 days was a completely different piece of music. Probably for the best it was pulled off air quite quickly, because it wouldn’t exactly sound appropriate for COVID-19 pandemic headlines!
Haha! 
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In 1988 for Year 11 legal studies I had to do an essay on the state election as part of it I included an analysis of the number of commercials I’d seen from the major parties to compare the number of ads from the incumbent versus the opposition. Of course I could have shown them in a table just as a total for each party but I managed to shoe horn in TV logos by breaking it down to sub-totals of each of 7, 9 and 10, including their logos 
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I remember being outside the TVQ 0 pavilion at Expo waiting to watch the news live and there were a lot of these X signs around the place with messages about X coming soon. But I overheard people saying 'what was x?". Clearly the Roman numeral didn’t mean anything to them. This was just before TVO changed frequency.
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It started on HSV7 Melbourne on 15 November 1975. Does anyone know when it began on QTQ9 Brisbane? At the time Fairfax owned ATN and QTQ which is why Sound Unlimited was networked to QTQ.
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25 January 1977: The final episode of Homicide airs on HSV7. The series had run for 12 years and 510 episodes.
25 January 1989: Network Ten airs the first episode of a new soap, E Street. The series replaced the former Richmond Hill’s timeslot of 7.30 Wednesday and Thursday, debuting with two-hour episodes in the first week. The Nine Network tried to dent any enthusiasm for the series by slotting The Sound Of Music against E Street’s debut.
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25 January 1988: A week after Seven’s news service gets a major revamp and a day after TEN unveils a new logo, Sydney’s second place and only remaining one hour news service is relaunched with a new newsroom set, new graphics and a new co-anchor when Geraldine Doogue joins Steve Liebmann for TEN Eyewitness News.
Source: SMH, 25 January 1988.
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I preferred Richmond Hill to Neighbours and always thought it was superior to E Street. It’d be interesting to re-watch some of those episodes to see if it was as good as I thought it was at the time. Enjoyed watching a number of great Australian actors in it- Maggie Kirkpatrick, Paula Duncan, Gwen Plumb, Ross Higgins, Amanda Muggleton. They had a good young cast, also. Ashley Paske had grown up in Wollongong and I’d met him so it was interesting to see him in his first major role.
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Given that Geraldine Doogue was so well associated with ABC, how did she go at Ten? She didn’t last long there?
In the wake of losing Jo Pearson and Rob Gell, Ten in Melbourne was also revamping its news at around this time with a new line-up - David Johnston, Mal Walden and new recruit Tracey Curro (ex-GMV6, ex-QTQ9). I don’t know when that new line-up started but must have been in time for ratings to commence in February.
I only caught Richmond Hill sporadically as the usual routine for me then was have dinner, watch Neighbours, and then at 7.30 off to my room to (pretend to) do homework 
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I thought Geraldine and Steve were a great team and thought the bulletin was a very polished product. She brought a lot of warmth to the role compared to the person she replaced, Robyn Johnston, who came across as rather cold and was greatly overshadowed by Steve. I think they had some wins around the time of the Olympics but started to falter towards the end of the year.
Probably listening to the radio like I was.
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yep, 3XY and EON FM (later Triple M). I never really appreciated though how much the radio blaring must have annoyed my parents, but they never said anything.
Despite its popularity, Richmond Hill was considered a lukewarm success in the ratings and was cancelled on 22 June 1988. The show lasted only 91 episodes.
Grundy sold the show to Germany where a dubbed version aired on Pro7 from 1991-92.
I think it aired in the UK as well. Coming from the same producers as Neighbours, and a number of cast members familiar to UK audiences probably helped that sale.
It was getting good ratings when it was axed but I think the problem was it skewed fairly old, which at the time I wouldn’t have thought to be too much a concern for Ten as it was trying to be a broadly-appealing network to compete with Nine.
But E Street was decidedly younger in its approach, more so after its revamp later in the year (one of Mr Shanks’ better decisions, that one)
One of the few shows to survive those dark times.
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to his credit (and he wasn’t due many of those!), he could have just axed the show and started up something new but instead ordered it go back to the drawing board and fix it up, and in the meantime it was reduced from two to one night a week (IIRC) to allow for changes in production. It came back stronger and even though it only went for about four years it was probably longer than its early ratings would have justified.
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25/1/2010 Sunrise launches a new graphics package and a new set, which introduces a flipping on-screen news ticker in place of the rolling ticker that had existed since 2003.
This look would last until January 31, 2016.
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That was one of the first news bulletins I caught when my family moved from Hong Kong to Melbourne in July 1988.
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23 January 1965: NRN-11 Coffs Harbour begins broadcasting.
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Originally as NRN10 but changed to Channel 11 just twelve months later due to interference issues in Grafton from the oscillators of TVs in the local area tuned to ABRN6 Lismore.
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