The affiliate stations like NEW10 Perth, ADS10 Adelaide and Capital didn’t always follow suit with the O&O stations. IIRC, Capital stayed with Ten News in 1989 even after the O&O Tens reverted to Eyewitness News with the change to 10 TV Australia. I thought ADS10, at least, later became Ten Evening News at least some time during the year.
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Found a May/June 1987 Ten Eyewitness Newsbreak with Jennifer Keyte.
I can’t date it more precisely.
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I’d say late April 1988.
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Jennifer Keyte had left Ten later in 1987 to start at Seven in 1988. Also Ten had changed to the X logo in 1988.
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Ah, I misread Wikipedia.
Possibly May 10, 1987 (this article is from May 9 but that’s in America) https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/09/us/courting-danger-the-fall-of-gary-hart.html
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It amazes me how senior presenters back then were so young. Jennifer Keyte was only 25 reading the news for 10. She then moved to Seven where she was 28 reading Melbourne’s main bulletin.
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In those days, though, females in particular were regarded as “too old” by 40. So I guess they started younger, too.
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Peter Mitchell reading Melbourne’s weekend news at 28 is another example. But I do understand for women back then it would have been harder.
Now days you want someone with a bit more life experience sitting in the main chair.
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Apparently Darren McDonald (ex-Nine, Seven and NZ) set the record for youngest newsreader, at 17
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Different time back then… I’m sure there were some reginal stations also had a similar age group.
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These days a university qualification is pretty much a bare minimum to be allowed in a newsroom but plenty of behind the scenes people still studying for one.
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Didn’t Chris Bath start at NBN straight out of high school?
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That was at Prime in Albury - she joined NBN in 1991
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According to Wikipedia she did a short stint at Prime Albury at the age of 20 and she was 23 when she joined NBN.
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A rare look at the 1988 million-dollar set. Steve, Geraldine and it appears to be Dal Myles there with them!
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Ten must have had money to burn.
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it was the 1980s, all the networks splurged on all sorts of things. TEN10 alone went from a workforce of 700 to around 1000 in the mid-late 1980s. The station’s fleet of 100 company cars was said to include 33 BMWs.
TV stations had helicopter fleets.
Then the Wall Street crash of 1987 stopped the flow of money and we were in the “recession we had to have” and it all went downhill, for all the networks.
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This was when after Murdoch had to sell the network after he set up his Fox network in the US due to media ownership laws. X-TEN became “10 TV Australia” in 1989 with the logo looking like a cigarette box before another relaunch in 1991.
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The 1988 Olympics were obviously the peak for Ten.
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