Still confused by this?
Well I can tell you all that this would’ve aired like during August or September on either a Saturday or Sunday sometime at 4 PM or 5 PM Local time as 10 had already scrapped the state-based 5 PM Weekend bulletins (Except for the ACT) to make way for the National 5 PM Weekend bulletins 12 months later.
From 9 September 1992.
Sydney promo:
Update:
Start of late news:
Hinch, Hard Copy promos:
Two Sydney updates from 17th April 1995:
From 15 November 1991.
Sydney update:
Sydney promo:
Update:
Second Edition:
From what I can recall, Tim Webster left Ten for good either right at the end of 2011 or very early in 2012 (this came after he first retired from the Ten news desk in 2008, before returning to present sport on the short-lived Sydney evening news in 2011).
Apart from being the sports presenter on the Sydney 5:00pm bulletin until 2008, he was also the news presenter on the Perth bulletin which was at the time produced out of the Pyrmont studio.
Yeah, that’s when it returned to Perth and Narelda Jacobs began presenting.
Webster actually came back during 2009 and 2010 to fill-in occasionally on national bulletins, the Friday Late News (which was a separate longer edition and often aired even later) and the Weekend News. Natasha Belling didn’t come back from maternity leave until around May in ‘09 IIRC and several presenters had shuffled roles (Sandra Sully/Deb Knight/Kath Robinson - who was doing Friday Late after Charmaine Dragun passed in 2007). He even had a new bio added to the Ten News website.
Also, Ron Wilson in Jan ‘09 went to Early News and Thursday & Friday Morning News, with Bill Woods departing Early and Weekend for Sydney’s News At Five.
I couldn’t believe my eyes in late 2011 and early 2012 (before the bulletin was axed), Wilson and Webster reading the Early News together, two stalwarts and the audience by then must’ve been minimal following a ratings decline period for the network and a distrust in their suddenly changing bulletins landscape.
As sad as this is, the plan to return Perth’s bulletin to Dianella (where their studios were at the time) was made well before Charmaine Dragun died suddenly 18 years ago.
After Tim Webster continued solo and presented his last bulletin on May 2, 2008, presenting duties alternated between Jacobs, Ron Wilson and Sandra Sully before production officially returned to Perth on June 23 that year.
This was so that the footy results could be recapped in detail on Sports Tonight, which was also separate from the Monday-Thursday edition. I remember there was criticism from viewers that arose when the Late News and ST were merged in 2006 and that the latter show wasn’t long enough.
IMO this was the right move at the time, so as to refresh the Sydney bulletin which Wilson had presented for some 15 (or so) years, first with Jessica Rowe then with Deborah Knight. Also at that time, Sandra Sully deputized for Knight (maternity leave) in the first half of 2009; Woods/Sully then became permanent in October 2011 after Knight left for Nine, until Woods departed at the end of 2012.
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten that, you’re right Wilson and Sully were doing the 5pm news and I think Knight returned just in time to farewell Wilson to the Early News, with Tim Bailey also there to wish him well (even though he wasn’t leaving the network). Don’t recall McEwan being there though.
Just 6 months prior they’d done the same thing but for Tim Webster’s farewell, which was a proper larger farewell, can recall Angela Bishop being on hand too.
So Belling and Knight were both absent in late 2008. That was a lot of extra work for Sully, Knight and Robinson, being without Dragun and Webster. Think this was when Belinda Heggen was brought up from Adelaide and Richard Davies, Jacinta Hocking and Frank Coletta also chipped in mainly Early News.
https://youtu.be/2BXDBsPPrDc?si=lCBhHQf4sRtDJIv2
A short documentary regarding the final days of the local ACT 10 Capital News which was axed exactly 24 years ago and was replaced with the 5:00 PM New South Wales state-based Bulletin.
Only caps but some of Eyewitness News’ presentation in early December 1986 with Ron Wilson (deputising for Tim Webster) and Ann Sanders (regular newsreader)
The weather graphics are… interesting
A rare Melbourne recording of legendary duo David Johnston and Jo Pearson from the early 90’s. Both best of their class newsreaders.
This must have been before Ann Sanders jumped ship to Seven to host with Richard Zachariah on Seven News Sydney in or around 1988
I’m assuming this was 1992 just after they moved to the Como Centre?
Digby jumped ship to Seven heading north to Sydney until 2003. The weather was done before the news and sport and was repeated at the end of the bulletin
That is just the second half of the bulletin isn’t it?
late 1986
Havn’t seen this for a long time, the generic bulletins 10 would run when AFL meant the news wasn’t First at Five’
Meet the Press promo from May 1993:
Was that for a replay, or did it air at night originally?
Aired at night initially
