I always thought Geraldine Doogue was an odd fit for Ten, given she is so heavily associated with ABC in various capacities. I’m guessing her being at Ten wasn’t great, as she was gone at the end of the year?
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Geraldine and Steve Liebmann strung together some ratings wins during 1988 in the glow of the Seoul Olympics and the popularity of Perfect Match. They were a much better team than the Liebmann and Robyn Johnston pairing of 1987. Probably my favourite TEN 10 news reading duo of the 1980s. It was a very good, polished product until Bob Shanks came along. I’d say that update was from the final weeks of the pairing before the bulletin was cut in half, re-badged and a new presenter installed.
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Bruce Mansfield reading News At Six Headlines during coverage of a VFA game, from ATV0 in 1978
YouTube: Gezza1967
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That news theme sounds more like incidental music from a B grade 1970s cop show.
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SAS10 also used the same music around the 1970s (22:30 in this clip)
YouTube: back994
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That was a great news team in the 90s…
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A great team for 10 years. Now half of 10’s First at Five presenters from that era are presenting the news on Smooth’s breakfast show in Sydney and Melbourne - Ron Wilson and Jennifer Hanson respectively.
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Yes both Sydney and Melbourne had very well resourced news teams during this period. The only downfall was local news didn’t exist on weekends from 1994.
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That was an initiative by Carmel Travers. 10’s weekend resources never recovered. Poor move as news director imo. But unfortunately poor news decisions continue to haunt 10.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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Found this online recently.
Max Walsh (RIP), presented The Walsh Report in the aftermath of the 1990 election. This program merged Face to Face and Business Week from memory.
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An episode of Alan Jones Live from 1994. This program is different to others because it had a talkback line. Radio on television.
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That didn’t last long… rating nightmare.
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Note that this was the late-night encore (that aired at around 11:30pm after Sports Tonight) which explains the “no calls please” disclaimer at the start.
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Carmel Travers great shake up after axing Hinch who probably who had a few more years. At least he was popular?
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and pity the poor Melbourne fellow whose telephone number was similar to the 1800 talkback number for the show, so he was getting hammered with wrong number calls.
Sounds like that episode of Seinfeld when Kramer gets a new phone number and its very similar to the MovieFone number
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What a nightmare period
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Interesting that 10 Adelaide still referred to their news as “Eyewitness” in 1990 when the other states had the Ten Evening News. Did they ever adopt the nationwide approach or did they stay Eyewitness News until the ownership change from Curran in 1995?
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