General TV History

Not that I am aware of. WIN was purely a Nine outlet in Tasmania. Southern Cross had Seven and Ten.

But WIN in Western Australia and Mildura would be predominantly Nine with the occasional Ten program thrown in. WIN (MTN) Griffith possibly the same. As those markets had Seven affiliates in competition but no Ten outlet

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When Ten did weekend news

I think Jen Keyte did the Melbourne version with Alistaire Patterson (and later Sarah Henderson). Can’t find footage, but I love this news update set:

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but I do remember that Southern Cross in Tassie had predominately a Seven based schedule, with some Ten programming shown late at night or in timeslots where Seven had a lower rating programme. This was in the era when Ten was rating a distant third to Nine and Seven.

It’s to my understanding that in the East Coast markets, the final local weekend editions of Ten Eyewitness News at 6pm aired on August 8, 1993.

The national 5pm bulletins started on August 20, 1994 - probably timed to coincide with the Commonwealth Games + the On-Air Presentation relaunch which resulted in the “Eyewitness” being dropped from the name of Ten News (…until it was brought back in 2013 of course)!

There is Mike with out the famous Mo

I guess this is sort of TV History related… Channel ident/signpost music or news/current affair themes, past or present, that are partially or entirely sourced from production music libraries that you’ve heard for unrelated purposes?

On more than one occasion I’ve heard certain pieces of music in different contexts. I’ve previously posted about the current Today Tonight Adelaide (News Themes), which I overheard on one of ten’s programmes last year (and more recently, a 7two promo for a UK show that I can’t think of). There are others!

Take this 2000 Christmas ident for Channel 7:


…aside from some alterations like the electricity sound effect, it is available in a production music library from https://www.adrenalinsounds.com.

Or this Nine Ident:


… where an identical sounding build-up of strings is heard in the following video (but I don’t know the name of the music track or which library it came from):

There are a couple others that are listed in production music libraries but which I haven’t heard in other contexts (…yet):

So do any other examples come to mind where you’ve heard music from AU TV channel or news branding play from something completely unrelated? :slight_smile:

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I remember there was an unrelated ad on TV maybe a decade ago which used that exact music, and I definitely recognised it as the music from Nine’s 2001 IDs.

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I think it was a car brand, maybe Nissan?

CTC 7’s version of the “Turn to News” from 30 years ago today.

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This one from Epsilon TV Greece springs to mind. But I think it’s purposefully ripped rather than picked from a library.

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There’s also PTC News from Punjab. Not sure if ripped from Nine or from a sound library:

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What about the music they used for the news-breaks brought to us by National Mutual?

It sounds like they’ve used the sound library from BBC News for their headlines…

Oh yes, KBS News 9 (1991-1993)

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I believe it was for an ING Bank commercial, back when Billy Connelly used to do ads for them.

And the headline bed uses Al Jazeera’s English business update music…

A couple of examples from this side of the Pacific:

  • Canadian Punjabi-language show Gaunda Punjab uses the last few notes of the 2005-2010 ABC News theme for program idents.
  • Ten’s news music was being used by a Telemundo affiliate in Oklahoma City (saw it on a compilation of news opens).

Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think we’ve seen this lineup graphic from the 2004-2006 Channel 9 on-air presentation package before?

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Inside this video is a big tribute to an Australian entertainer, Graham Kennedy who died on 25 May 2005. It was a very sad year for Australian TV. Channel 9 covered his funeral service live.
RIP Graham Kennedy (1934-2005).

if I recall correctly, Channel 7 covered the funeral because Channel 9 initially declined, but as a goodwill gesture Seven made its vision available to Nine and so it ended up being simulcast across both channels.

Interesting also that in the Channel 9 tribute to Graham Kennedy was footage (and audio) from Kennedy performing the song For All We Know was actually from Channel 0 when he appeared as a guest on Young Talent Time

Source: Australian Television Archive

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