Ten Eyewitness News Adelaide from 1988
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Ten News Shortened Weekend Edition Opener March 27 2004 which aired during the delayed AFL coverage of Hawthorn and Melbourne in Victoria and during the delayed Fox Footy Channel Coverage of Fremantle and Carlton in Western Australia.
These happened nearly every Saturday during 2002-2006 in Victoria and occasionally during the delayed Saturday Afternoon Fox Footy Channel Coverage in Western Australia and South Australia (Home Games involving Eagles/Dockers and Crows/Power).
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That second shot of the globe with only “NEWS” scrolling over without thew 'first at five" always looked half done. They should have added another line of “ten” or even “weekend”
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Speaking of the Saturday AFL bulletins, did Melbourne and Adelaide get seperate editions, or was it just a shared bulletin?
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depended, but usually we got an Adelaide version from the Melbourne set.
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interesting seeing a Ten News bulletin presented from a “Seven” news set, as it was Seven National News a year earlier (and IIRC, Ten doesn’t traditionally use brown for its news sets), and just changed the lettering on the set to Eyewitness News 
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Thanks- another question- did George Donikian work 6 days when the AFL was on, or did he have something like Monday off?
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he’d do 6 days.
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I think the set changed in the Ten News change during the Seoul Olympics. Happy to be wrong on that though!
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Just on this, I don’t recall Melbourne’s having one? The bulletin was anchored by Hermione Kitson, sport was with ONE HD’s Nicole Livingstone. Short lived, they reinstated George Donikian some months later, who’d done a Saturday 6pm bulletin in Melbourne and Adelaide during the AFL season for some years due to Saturday Afternoon Football (usually delayed telecast), until his retirement the night of their AFL Grand Final, when Ten infamously aired a family movie first instead of news. A new national bulletin (back at 5pm - which had continued most of that year anyway separately with long-time presenter Natarsha Belling) then replaced it, adding Matt Doran, former Weather Channel meteorologist Magdalena Roze and continuing Tarsh and Rob Canning.
AFL, Donikian, Sydney’s Deborah Knight, Sports Tonight and multiple reporters and producers etc would be shown the door in October 2011 and began the downfall of the network.
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Brisbane was the only one - in all the other states, the weather was read from the desk.
As for Melbourne, they first moved George to the weekday 5pm news alongside Helen Kapalos, with Mal Walden moving to the 6:30pm bulletin. When the 5pm weekday news became 30 minutes, George got moved to weekends.
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Not to also mention that Video Hits copped the axe two months beforehand - it used to be a weekend staple and would air around the time that rage was still running on ABC.
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Came across a local weekend Adelaide bulletin from 1995. Does anyone know if this was a one off thing (due to the Grand Prix), or did Adelaide (and possibly Perth) still had local news for sometime after the east coast became national.
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Adelaide/Perth were separately owned to the rest of the Ten network at the time, so I assume they did local stuff - like that horrible opener.
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Correct. From the others:
- Ron Wilson: now on smoothfm in Sydney
- Bill Woods: don’t know his status but I do know he hosted a show on Fox Sports and commentated on Seven’s “Ultimate Tag” in 2021
- Helen Kapalos: moved to Seven to present Today Tonight in the NSW/Victorian markets, before leaving the network not long after it was axed
- Bill McDonald: now presenting mornings on 4BC, before which he had a five-year stint presenting Seven News in Brisbane with Sharyn Ghidella
- Belinda Heggen (can’t remember if she was part of those 2012 cuts): don’t know her status atm, but I do know she spent time at Seven Adelaide
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She resigned in February 2012 - now doing media consulting.
IIRC he was involved in Nine Radio’s Olympic coverage.
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A time when 10 News Melbourne was number one.
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They found Melbourne’s version of “The Team to Watch”. That’s awesome.
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One key point is it was actually called ‘Eyewitness News’ and not “Ten Eyewitness News” which is quoted often. I really like that solid short branding of just Eyewitness News.
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