Yep, I liked the Gill Sans MT font they used on their supers, though when they switched to the Arial font on their 2006-09 super package, they retained the Gill Sans MT font on the ticker, and on their weather graphics.
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Times New Roman was used for the Seven Nightly News logo until 1999 before it was changed to Arial
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No, I’m pretty sure it was a form of Univers.
In 2004, There was a 7News Adelaide Update with Grahme Goodings on the News and Melody Horrill with an Update on Adelaide’s Weather Forecast for Tomorrow.
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That day has finally arrived, thanks to Vintage Video AU on YouTube.
Sadly the AR isn’t correct. I wish people would upload things properly but it is what it is.
This was how the weekend opener looked with just Paula (since Basil was at Subiaco Oval) but had he been in studio he would have been at the desk with Paula in the opener.
During the week they would show all 4 presenters at the desk (usually Rick, Sue, Dennis and Jeff).
ps: It’s amazing I can’t remember what happened yesterday but I remembered this opener even though I hadn’t seen it for 25 years 
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Credit: YouTube/TigerV
Old logo can be seen with “Seven Nightly News” used which became simply “Seven News” a few weeks later. This was 25 days after the relaunch.
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They should bring that name back same with National Nine News.
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an old Perth recording is always great in my opinion, because for some reason there are very few of them around . . .
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Does anyone have any intel on 7news Gold Coast bulletin and how it works? Like why’s it at 5:30, but the rest of Qld has a 6pm and then a 5:30? Why not have them all at 5:30 then the brisbane bulletin at 6?
Gold Coast is technically part of the Brisbane TV licence area so it metro; it is allowed to broadcast a different signal to the rest of Brisbane for that one 30 minute period.
The other areas are regional Queensland and have historically have a range of owners where the main bulletin has been at 6pm. It seems to be a preferred model based on the ratings achieved and Seven would be loathe to change it.
Yeh right.
Could 7 or 9 do something similar with Geelong? Ie: break away for 30 mins?
They could though the population served would be a lot smaller. The Gold Coast has a very easily defined set of high power transmitters that cover the area that everyone tends to use to receive TV. It’s harder for Geelong where local translators cover a smaller area at lower power and lots of antennas are pointed at Mt Dandenong.
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I think these days antenna installers point new ones towards the local transmitter in Highton. It’s mostly only old set ups that point towards Melbourne. As Highton is in the west it also provides better reception from Ballarat. I remember a couple of years ago a lot of people in Geelong couldn’t pick up Channel 9 and had to rely on the Ballarat signal instead. As it turned out, there was some sort of interference from a UHF device that messed up the local signal.
Back on topic would a local news service work? We are so accustomed to watching the Melbourne news for over 60 years.
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TWT from 29 May 1987:
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A couple of 2005 videos I came across on YT, also showing some good bulletin package, network pres and promo highlights:
Seven Morning News with Chris Bath:
Includes 2003-2004 presentation, network would be updated some weeks after and the news bulletin’s at the end of the year.
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HSV7 news & ca promo:
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A couple things:
- This would be shortly after Sydney got the twisted metal set
- Was when Chris Bath read the morning news, and Ann Sanders read weekends
- V/O IIRC is Matthew O’Sullivan, who by that point had been replaced on the 6pm Sydney and Melbourne news with the other V/O they had between 2003-2016. He’s now V/O at Nine News and 60 Minutes.
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Seven’s V/O since at least the 1980s.
I think he was still on the books for Seven in the mid-2000s, but reduced to sport telecast sponsor billboards mostly and yes in 2005 the dated 2004 news V/Os.
I think these all got re-done at the end of 2005 for 2006, same with the news graphics package and by this time both the network pres and news packages were set, wouldn’t be until 2007 until they were tweaked and the network package and news packages updated again in 2008 and 2010 respectively.
Also later became 7Two’s V/O IIRC and after Prime7’s V/O (until 2020).
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Seven also did use a separate V/Os for news and TT promos during the 2000s though, such as the one “whereever news is happening, we’re at the right place, at the right time…”.
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Ping: @blackbox (Rob McKnight) would probably remember all of this, including those above videos. A great era for Seven and one that paved the way to winning from 2007.
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Was Seven’s News Graphics in Queensland throughout the second half of 1999 not the same as the rest of the network? Because I have seen an Intro on Youtube a while back (Probably has since been taken down) which aired on November 2 (Melbourne Cup Day) which does not look the complete same as the rest of the network but the exact theme music is still the same.
There is also a Queensland news Intro on Youtube from New Years Day of 2000 (The day of the Full Network Relaunch) that has the Graphics of the entire network.
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No it wasn’t. I downloaded the clip from a different site years ago and unloaded it to YouTube in its early days. Can’t even remember where exactly I got it, but here it is the intro. (Apologies for the bad quality though, YouTube was not kind almost 20 years ago)
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