I believe Rick has a daughter who studied journalism or communications or something similar. Not sure what they are up to now
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Two Seven Nightly News Victoria Promos 1992. The first one only features landmarks around Melbourne City and the second - which aired during the Barcelona Olympic Games - features a handful of past personalities as well as Jennifer Keyte. Peter Mitchell does not appear in either also.
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Eleven AM promo from September 1989:
Music used is Headlines by Alan Hawkshaw, later used by Nine for their newsbreak/National Mutual intros.
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Yes that’s where I recognise it from.
Prime version of “Times change” promos with Anne Fulwood, 1996:
And a Today Tonight promo:
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Sunday September 24 of 2000 (Day 9 of Sydney 2000 Olympic Games): Ross Symonds presented with Adam Digby presenting Weather.
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Prime version of a Sydney promo from October 1990:
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Found one:
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That is quite an elaborate set up for something only temporary. But also so standard looking (ie. it is such a good replica that I had to look hard) you have to question the point of them even doing the bulletin there anyway. They could have at least changed the backdrop to have a feed of the showgrounds.
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If you didn’t see the opener you wouldn’t have known it was at the show. Why couldn’t it showoff the showgrounds or something that isn’t the regualr skycam.
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A great point, the idea is to show how you’re local but this almost is such a good replica that you wouldn’t know. Lighting and all.
Having said that, it’s a great effort and far better than a lot of the ameturish looking set ups that make it to air for local Easter shows etc.
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I was there for this on night one. Also got to present at the desk earlier in the day (anyone could). We watched the full bulletin and then everyone was allowed in when the bulletin finished. Alex Cullen stayed behind to sign autographs and meet everyone, Chris Bath left straight away and didn’t stay behind. It was so great to watch. They should do it again.
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I wonder which year this aired, judging by the 7NEWS logo on the blue panel on the left it must be from 2006 or 2007. I know Sydney stopped using the “Make the Switch” slogan in 2005 after Seven News overtook Nine News in that market to become a clear number one (that year, they only lost one week); it was Ian Ross’ second full year at the helm.
I also tend to recall another promo in 2007 or thereabouts that included the slogan “Thanks for making the switch”.
I remember in 2010, Peter Mitchell took long service leave for six weeks, starting from the day of his 50th birthday (June 14), with Jennifer Keyte filling in for that period (and I think Rebecca Maddern would’ve deputised for Keyte on weekends).
I wonder how Seven fared in the ratings during this period, though I also know around this time Nine trialled Tony Jones in their anchor’s chair with Peter Hitchener taking a week or two off, instead of having then-weekend anchor Jo Hall deputise as would’ve been the case normally.
That year, Seven News won in the Melbourne market with 26/40 weeks.
The very first Seven News Melbourne bulletin to be televised from Docklands on March 11, 2002.
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They had a sports preview at the top of the bulletin and a weather update before the first ad break, both of which didn’t last long, though with Seven News bulletins extending to one hour in the mid-10s, the sport and weather previews before the first or second ad break (depending on the market) would return.
I feel it was a huge night for Seven not just in Melbourne, but also as a network, with the special Weakest Link episode airing that evening featuring the nine remaining contestants from the 2002 season of The Mole.
Against expectations, the team raised only $14,100 - the lowest ever amount won on the Seven version of the show.
I remember in 2004, Seven lured Rob Gell (then GTV’s weeknight weather presenter) across to present their weather forecasts on weekends, this would’ve been at least the first step towards them eventually overtaking GTV in the late 00s.
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I don’t think they lured him from Nine, rather Nine had dumped him?
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Not sure how much he would’ve contributed to ratings gains, especially being on weekends, but he was well known and highly experienced, so was a nice get.
He quietly disappeared after 2008, contract not renewed?
I look at it both ways - GTV wanted to refresh its weeknight line up (though they only ended up replacing Rob Gell with Livinia Nixon, after which their weeknight lineup remained unchanged for two decades), and HSV saw this as an opportunity to snap Gell up.
His Wikipedia article states that “Gell was approached by the Seven Network to become its Melbourne weekend weather presenter”. He would also fill in for David Brown occasionally, including on the 4:30 news.
The previous year, Jennifer Keyte also returned to Seven, from what I know she had left after they planned to pair her with David Johnston (returning from Ten) on the 6pm news in the mid-1990s.
Late Edition news hosted by Naomi Robson
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