Brian Bury was at Seven for a bit in the mid-90s. This clip from our member @NewsWeary suggests he was there in 1995 - perhaps he was just away.
Yeah that was rather unexpected and I think viewers weren’t overly happy at the time.
This promo might’ve been his last (also the last of that original top-rating team going back to 2005):
Video courtesy of our own: BradF89 on YT.
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This is the Perth version with the 5 and 2 hand signals used in the Lucky Number 7 promos brought back
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I do believe Adam Digby came either sometime in mid-late 1998 or the following year, going by this clip that was originally uploaded to YouTube from Seven themselves.
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Seven News in Melbourne needed to do something at the time, having lost all 40 ratings weeks to Nine News in 2012.
Leith Mulligan, who had only just been at Seven for four years, was one of those let go by Simon Pristel.
Was a strange period - Digby was there in 96’ then was punted to weekends - Bury was there from 97-98 before Digby reclaimed his weeknight throne.
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Bizarre lol
Seven news breaks , promos, and partial news opening for September 24th 1988 (AFL GF result and Ben Johnson Olympics)
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Seven clearly spent a lot of money on sets and presenters in 1988, to try a regain the fallout from the year below.
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From March 1995.
National update:
Sports promo:
Australia remembers:
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From 1st August 1989. Gina Boon before she moved to Nine.
National update:
Sydney updates:
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Sydney promo from 1994.
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From 23rd February 2002.
Sydney update:
Sydney bulletin:
Today Tonight promo:
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I believe it was around that time the Melbourne edition of the show began to be broadcast into Sydney, as Melissa Doyle (then the host of the local Sydney edition) went on maternity leave.
If Wikipedia is to be trusted, the Melbourne edition rated better than the Sydney one did (though ACA would’ve outrated it in any case, given Nine’s undisputed dominance in the news ratings at that period in time), leading Seven executives to merge the Sydney and Melbourne editions of TT into one; it eventually became an East Coast edition when Brisbane axed its local TT in 2002 or 2003 (at which point in time their presenter Michelle Reiken also went on maternity leave).
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Yes Naomi proved popular in Sydney and it was decided to move show into a national edition with Brisbane following a year later.
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This wasn’t a good period for Seven News on the East Coast with the network losing AFL rights
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2002 was a very bad year for Seven across all timeslots. I believe TEN came second in Melbourne for the year. 2003 wasn’t much better.
This is the only footage I could find of Melissa Doyle presenting Today Tonight in the early noughties. She had taken over as host of the program, which was then Sydney-based (noting the Melbourne-based edition presented by Naomi Robson was later reformatted to serve NSW/Victoria, and then the East Coast), after Stan Grant was dismissed in 2000.
Courtesy: NewsWeary
I believe this might be from January 2002, when 7NEWS Sydney rolled out the blue TV wall set that (IMO) became symbolic of its struggles in the ratings at the time. Brisbane received the same set that same year, while Perth followed suit in 2004.
Here is a Seven News Sydney update also from January 2002 -
Courtesy: Zampakid
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Late edition with Georgie Gardner from 22 December 1998:
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Much better news theme then they have now.
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