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Melbourne viewers will recognise ATN7 reporter Edwin Maher, who went on to many years at ABC News in Melbourne.

Seven claims the bulletin is dated 15 November 1966, though, but has:

  • reports on the day’s rugby league matches. The league would have wrapped up its season months earlier?
  • A report of snow in Melbourne. I know Melbourne gets cold but I don’t imagine it having snow in November. (The voice over of the reporter in the Melbourne story is familiar but is not identified. I can’t recognise who it is)
  • The bulletin also closes with a handover to Sunday Magazine, but 15 November 1966 was a Tuesday.
  • The ad for radio station 2UW includes talkback which wasn’t permitted by law until 1967, and features John Laws who (according to Wikipedia) joined 2UW in 1969.
  • The circle “7” logo and the use of “Seven National News” certainly places this bulletin as being later than 1966.

EDIT: The newspaper front cover shown in the news story about scientists heading to Papua New Guinea for ANZAAS conference matches this cover, dated 16 August 1970.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7MBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J-UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1026%2C6107977

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A news bulletin from almost 55 years ago!

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except it isn’t. I’ve dated it to be 16 August 1970 as per the post above

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A news flash from TVW dated 14 September 2008

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Managed to find a clip of this, albeit not in the greatest quality:

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Good job with that research! :slight_smile:

Correct. The 1970 NSW-RL was played (and won by South Sydney) on September 19.

The info I could find suggests Lawsie joined 2UW around November 1969, so Wikipedia seems to have that one right.

Don’t know about the Seven National News brand, but I was under the impression that the first “circle 7” logo was introduced in/around 1970?

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Well done!

I would say the tapes may have been incorrectly labeled over the years. You should make a comment under the YouTube clip for correction.

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I already had :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m just thrilled there’s a full Australia news bulletin on YouTube that dates from before I was born. Never thought I’d see it. Hopefully there’ll be more to come. Credit to Seven for salvaging some of this stuff and preserving it.

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Absolutely love the opening stinger - it instantly captures your attention

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And the original circle 7 logo

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Now here’s a biazare variant of the Seven Nightly News intro in Brisbane from 1999…

A interesting mish-mash of the more traditional styled logo at the time, with the recently debuted red graphics, in a blue tint!

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What on earth even was that haha.
A big mis mash there

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An interesting little detail I noticed from this Melbourne promo in 2003, the helicopter’s livery was already updated with Seven News’ forthcoming logo, a year before the 2004 relaunch.

Same deal with Sydney’s too:

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As far as I’m aware, those two promos were produced/went to air sometime during the first half of 2004 with endtags updated for the new logo after August 30 going by this.

But yes, the new logo made it onto the helicopters (or at the very least, one of them - I thought Sydney’s main chopper was red?) pre-relaunch.

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11AM with Don Willesee and Ross Symonds

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Interesting to see David Richardson (probably most in/famous for his work on Today Tonight later down the track) reporting on an armed robbery at a Pyrmont, Sydney newsagency.

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11AM format doesn’t seem to have changed much. Don Willesee was a good host from what I saw (1988-1989 I think his stint was).

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11AM should return. Clearly wouldn’t be too expensive to produce. It would also add more depth to the 7 News Brand.

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While 11AM was good during the time it was on-air, the final 30 minutes of The Morning Show + Seven’s Morning News seems to have worked fine in that timeslot for over a decade…

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