Beginning of the end of 10 Eyewitness News State/territory-based weekend editions from right around Australia (Including Australian Capital Territory?, Not sure). Apparently, 10 did not have any Weekend News Bulletins (Both national and state/territory-based) until August or September of 1994 (12-13 Months Later) when the rebranding to just 10 News kicked in and saw the Weekend News bulletins at Five became National and that has remained the case ever since.
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Capital did their own Eyewitness News when Ten metro didn’t have it.
TV Guide example via the Canberra Times on Trove -
Likewise Adelaide were owned separately at the time, and also had weekend news (Trove via the Hills Messenger),
Compared to the Melbourne schedule for the same date with no weekend news: Sunday 17 April 1994 — MELBOURNE – Television.AU
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Pretty sure the east coast only had a national late news after the movie.
The making of “My Girl 2” and 1am LOL!
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By far ATV’s fugliest ever set
It was the best 10 News look they had, IMO. The set was a bit off, but ATV’s sets have always been rather ugly. It was a strong brand for the news division at the time, showing off their hard news and offensive approach.
All gone these days languishing in daytime and late night. Such a waste of resources.
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Brisbane also had a similar set around that time, though except with Brad McEwan (and later on Michael Voss and Peter O’Dempsey) sitting on Marie-Louise Theile/Georgina Lewis’ left (right of screen).
Speaking of Voss, these are the only videos I could find of him on the Ten News desk in Brisbane:
Courtesy: Channel 10
Courtesy: Brisbane Development
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Have to agree with that - and the current (rather old) set really hasn’t progressed much.
At lest the one they had with the Como Centre was quirky and different at the time.
Loved Loved Loved the ten|NEWS look and sound from this era. Was so unique to 10 and set them apart.
I also adored the minimalist Sydney sets. So edgy and cool for that era. They knew exactly who they were.
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Also liked the contemporary theme they used between 2005-08 as well. Toned down (if you like) with a classic feel to it.
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Mal and Jen! These bring back so many childhood memories of watching the news followed by 6pm Simpsons 
#noughtiesbaby
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Great find, peak era, a big TV and news year too, Rob Waters is still reporting for ATV, think it’s just him, Nicole Strahan (she’s behind the scenes now and also lectures at Unis) and Quartermain left, perhaps a few other crew as well. All go back 25 years at least, Waters ABC before that in the 90s and Quarters of course just celebrated 40.
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From memory wasn’t the 2005 blue set a minor update from the previous set?
I can remember around 2003/4 they showed the Como shopping centre as the main backdrop.
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Ten did move its morning news to 12:00pm in 2004, titled “Ten News @ Noon”, but IIRC it rated very poorly and it wasn’t long (maybe by 2005?) that they moved their morning news back to 11:30am.
I also think that they extended it to an hour (to begin at 11:00am) towards the end of the noughties, and on Mondays and Fridays they would have Mark Aiston (from Adelaide) and Rob Canning present the sport respectively.
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With some keen interest on the Melbourne caps above, I’ve uploaded them to YouTube this evening
Updates
Bulletin
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Great videos. Would’ve been very rare for 10 to have had two reporters I. Bali covering two different stories (Bali 9 and a Corby story). Really good quality 10 bulletins back then. They were winning the 5pm hour in the ratings.
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Promo for Sydney with Mike Gibson at 25:00
Promo for Ian Leslie and 10 Evening News at 1:10:05
Not sure if the 2020 centralization of 10 News is something we could discuss here, but can anyone remember if/how the 10 News accounts on social media, especially Brisbane and Adelaide, copped any backlash after it was announced that their local bulletins would be merged with Sydney and Melbourne, respectively?
While Perth’s news remained separate, production was moved back to Sydney in 2020, though returned back home not long after in what was supposed to be a trial, only for it to become permanent in December 2023.
Found this old Ten Capital News opener on YouTube:
Quite interesting how they brand it as being broadcasted live from the Telstra Tower…
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