The first show with the new logo was Australia’s Ultimate Songs. Counts down the greatest 100 Australian songs of the century! Aired on 12:15AM! WOW! It’s all about the music on NYE!
We don’t know that the change was at midnight. I think that’s been a common assumption. Like i said it could have happened earlier in the evening. But I don’t think anyone knows or recalls either way. Most of us were otherwise preoccupied that night with celebrations or some people working.
All i know from my perspective was that it was sometime between 6pm and 3am as they were the only times i saw Channel 7
I bet they do that this year, HOWEVER, There’s the Melbourne NYE Fireworks on Channel 7. That was a good show!
Do what?
Hard to believe that there’s an event that could overshadow a potential 
RELAUNCH.
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My recollection is I didn’t see the new 7 logo until just after 9am that morning. I had to have another look to make sure I wasn’t seeing things as I had only 4 hours sleep after getting home from the Sydney CBD celebration. Either way, it was a very well kept secret. I do recall 7 kept using their Christmas ID’s right up to New Years Eve but there was no other indication that they were going to do a relaunch.
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I was at my then-girlfriend’s family’s house celebrating the new millenium and the TV was on Channel 7 for the fireworks, I saw a promo for some action movie about 11.45pm that night and it had the new 7 logo. The watermark changed to the new logo after 12 midnight when Australia’s Ultimate Songs went to air.
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The Australia’s Ultimate Songs they aired on New Years Day 2000 on Channel 7.
I didn’t know 7 had the fireworks. I seem to recall there was argy bargy between ABC and 9 over the rights to the Sydney fireworks.
The first Media Watch of 2000 discussed this. I watched it last night
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TVW had local programming for new years over this period, however it was the same deal - once Australia’s Ultimate Songs started, the watermark flicked over and new promos featuring the logo immediately appeared in the ad breaks.
As I think has been discussed previously, TVW did not update the logo on the news graphics until a few weeks later.
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I’d imagine there were a few media enthusiasts around in 1999/2000.
But in lieu of any available recordings (most Australian TV viewers brave enough to have VCRs running as 1999 became 2000 probably would’ve been on either Nine or the ABC), we may never know for sure whether Seven changed their logo at midnight exactly or just before/after 12am on 1/1/2000. The changeover time may have also varied slightly from market to market, with station playout still done locally back then.
Synopsis of the program which Seven was airing as 1999 became 2000 (with yet another archived page on the Newspapers.com database coming to the rescue):
Is it possible that the fireworks display shown at/near the end of this might’ve just been from the concert rather than the Harbour Bridge/Opera House pictures that were shown on Nine and the ABC?
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What about a hard one? Channel 7 logo from 1 September 2003?
Surely someone on the Austvlogos Yahoo! Group (or possibly egroups) covered it at the time
Possibly… but yahoo has wiped out group archives now AFAIK. You just reminded me that I still have a folder of emails from the group… though it’s not a complete archive a search might bring something up 
the aus.tv newsgroup which I guess still exists in cyberspace somewhere probably has it covered too
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Just looking at the TV Guide of 13 February 2006 and on Channel 10, it said the Ellen show aired. What year did Ellen switched to Channel 9? And what year did it began on Channel 10?
Was this a network promo or did it just run in Melbourne?
Courtesy on dontv3192.
just been watching some night time shut down montages on youtube and it made me think - when nightly shutdown happened, was it just a stop to bradcasting shows (ie a signal was still broadcast that had nothing on it) or did they shut down the transmitters?
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Transmitters used to be shut down but I know that in the early 2000s when SBS used to closedown for the night, they just threw the WeatherWatch map on and kept the transmitters operating. WIN SA also did the same thing by just having a WIN logo on screen to fill in the gap when they weren’t broadcasting any programming.
TVOne in New Zealand in the early 90’s when they closed down overnight either broadcasting a ONE slide or PM5544 test pattern with the audio of RNZ National Radio broadcast as well.
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NBN switched their transmitter off after the end of their closedown message.
They first went 24 hours from the first day of aggregation (31 Dec 1991) and used to relay Channel Nine with their ads and promos overnight.
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