Robyn Power was a TV Week “Telebird” in March 1972
She also featured in this report featured on Seven News Flashback last month
YouTube: 7NEWS Australia
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hosted by (than) married couple Ugly Phil and Jackie O. I can;t confirm it, but i suspect this was one of her earliest hosting gigs
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And then Phil was axed to make way for Jade Gatt from CheezTV when the divorce happened or it was a network decision. Too long ago.
So Ray Wilkie was presenting Ten Sydney weather as well as Brisbane at one point? Presumedly he was pre recorded from Brisbane. Also pre recorded for the Late News I guess.
Who would have thought Ten would have gone back to the future nearly 30 years later.
Also some shots of Ten Melbourne’s reception when they were at Nunawading.
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Yep… a lot of these areas were seen last week in the neighbours thread. Still there to this current day.
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I’d not heard anything of that before, but that sort of thing is not entirely unheard of. Back in the '60s, HSV7 agreed to run ads to provide information to assist viewers in tuning or converting their sets to receive Channel 0, ahead of the launch of ATV0.
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I remember on New Years’ Eve 2005, Network Ten aired a recap of the year’s major news events, including, among others, the Sydney Swans’ premiership and the execution of Australian Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore.
At least two songs I remember being used were “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay and “Never Meant to Fail” by Alex Lloyd, the latter being used over some brief footage of Nguyen.
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A flashback to 2008 when Sunrise crossed to their (now-defunct) counterparts in New Zealand.
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Opener to Eyewitness News on Ten Sydney Monday 19 October 1987, the day the stock market crashed. Haven’t seen this opener for well over 30 years. ✂️ Channel 10 Sydney Eyewitness News Opener 19 October 1987 - YouTube
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How long did Sunrise NZ last?
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According to its Wikipedia page the show was axed in 2010.
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It started in October 2007 and lasted until April 2010. The show was routinely beaten by TVNZ’s Breakfast and had the unfortunate task of trying to keep a show on the air during a recession and a slowdown in advertising. Multiple variations launched over the next few years with Firstline, Paul Henry, The AM Show up until today’s AM.
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I don’t think I’d seen that either, thanks! Although I guess that would have made it the opener on Tuesday, as the Australian market would’ve followed the overnight Black Monday in the US.
They lead with “$65 billion wiped off the ASX” which sorta reminds me that you still see figures like that thrown about in the news even today as if it’s a big figure… and it was in 1987, a hecking lot. Loses its shine in 2022 when it’s used about every other week now when, to borrow Monty Python, “someone in the stock exchange coughed”. Given it only needs to dip about 2% to take that much off in absolute dollar terms now, and not ~25% like what happened in the aftermath of Black Monday. How things have grown since then.
And a few reports by Maeve O’Meara for ABC.
Not sure if this is right thread, but a 1977 Logie Award was sold at auction in Melbourne for $1,100 on Sunday. The trophy was presented to A Current Affair for the Outstanding Contribution to TV Journalism category for a report called ‘The Werribee Accident’.
Sunday Herald Sun’s Fiona Byrne said the award was discovered by a man at a trash and treasure market in Melbourne a few months ago.
Does anyone remember what the accident was about?
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There was a fatal train derailment on the Werribee train line in July 1976. The award winning report is most likely in relation to that. That incident is more commonly known as “The Laverton Accident”. There’s info around on it if you Google “Laverton Accident 1976”.
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In 2000, British boy band Point Break performed their hit song “Stand Tough” on the Network 10 live music show The House of Hits.
This of course was the main theme used by Seven for its AFL coverage that year. As for how it went on the ARIA Charts, it only peaked at #49 in the week of 28/5/2000.
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An article on regional news that I just found from The Australian’s Media section in November 2001 after Southern Cross axed its regional news services in North Queensland, Canberra, Darwin and Central, and Prime axed its local news services in Newcastle, Wollongong and Canberra.
Curious about the “NTD” logo that is shown there. I had never seen that logo before or since then in any capacity so I don’t know what it was about. I don’t think it was ever used on-air.
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Hasn’t really gotten better since 2001. In fact, 2021 had one of the biggest cutbacks to regional news ever.
Only because WIN kept their bulletins post-2016 affiliation change. Having three providers of local news bulletins was an aberration rather than the norm.
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