The late news and Sports Tonight from 10 August 1994:
News update:
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When 10 had exclusive rights to CNN. I think I recall 10 also used the American ‘Headline News’ graphics for News Updates for a short while (but I can’t find evidence of this..).
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Alan Jones Live from 18 March 1994:
though Sandra later returned to the Late News in mid-2011 after the Sydney Evening News (which she migrated to at the start of the year) was axed, with 6PM with George Negus moving to 6:30 and therefore going head to head with the more established ACA and TT.
For the Ten News Revolution that the network promoted in 2011, sadly by 2014 it would be reduced to just the 5:00pm bulletin, though in recent years we’ve seen them introduce the midday (now lunchtime) and afternoon bulletins (which IMO are just too close to each other), and revive the Late News.
Completely forgot about the era when The Bolt Report was produced by 10 and came from Melbourne.
From the old Melbourne studio
The current studio using that old desk (which also made an appearance in the Sports Tonight 2018 reboot).
Shows how old this studio is!
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Pretty sure it debuted in 2011, for Melbourne’s Ten Evening News at 6.30.
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That’s right
Meet The Press was also filmed in The Project Studio next door. Melbourne also accommodated a Sunday morning News Update too.
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10 News moved into that studio the day Candice joined Stephen as co-anchor. Previously it was in the studio that Cheap Seats now houses.
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It’s been about a 11 years now with that set.
Candice said it was the best looking set in Melbourne at the time.
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At the time it was if you remember the Nine and Seven sets were pretty ordinary
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I think Seven has had three sets since.
Yep, I would agree that 10 had the best set in that era until Nine got their current set in 2017.
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A Brigitte Duclos newsbreak in Melbourne. Always enjoyed her on 10’s news. Also includes a nice David & Jo endboard for the 6pm news in 1991.
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The music they play at the start will wake anyone up.
And we all know how disastrous that was for the network:
2012 also saw Ten enter the breakfast TV market, but their foray wouldn’t last more than nine months. On the same day Breakfast aired for the final time, many experienced newsreaders (Ron Wilson, Bill Woods, Helen Kapalos and Bill McDonald to name a few) were sacked as part of cost-cutting measures.
None of those four I mentioned are on TV anymore, though I know Bill McDonald is presenting mornings on 4BC in Brisbane.
It was disastrous because of the poor way it was promoted and the fact that Murdoch and Packer were meddling. It was actually proven to be the right strategy moving forward because seven and nine pretty much copied it and increased their news output hours dramatically. Also it was news of extremely good quality.
If had been seen through for a good 5 years the network would’ve been in a different place. They quit if after 9 months because of packer and Murdoch. And then they put the network into ruin.
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Throw into that the fact 2011 was also Ten’s final year sharing the FTA broadcasting rights with Channel Seven (after which they became the sole FTA broadcaster, which is still the case today), and Network 10 would never be the same again.
Dare we also mention the centralization of 2020 when local bulletins were axed/merged/moved production elsewhere. Who in Sydney would care about what’s happening in Brisbane when Sydneysiders couldn’t travel to the northern city for most of that year, for example?
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That was that ridiculous Ross Dagan’s decision and he cut it to bare bones then got a big job over on CBS. Was worse than the 2011 cut and the 2014 cuts.
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