The stylised on-screen clock (only ever seen on Ten Sydney?) looks somewhat ahead of it’s time if you ask me - almost something that wouldn’t have been totally out of place on TV a decade later!
One sad thing about the recording though is how there were layoffs at Ten shortly after that particular edition of Good Morning Australia went to air, including a presenter seen in the clip:
I don’t really know anything about the other names mentioned there (perhaps someone else might know more though) but despite going to all the trouble of making those “Rob said it would be like this!” promos, it seems that Rob Mundle was the weeknight weather presenter on Ten Sydney for less than a year:
Speaking of Nathan Wood, I wonder if @NewsWeary might remember when he started presenting the weather on WIN News in Wollongong? Presumably sometime after the July 1989 disappearance of Ross Warren?
The Ten team were a bunch of lovable rogues in the 80s and 90s. I was in the Ten newsroom for a couple of years on the late night news at the time - as a teenager. They were rough and tough - few people, including news presenters, as you can see, had any pretensions. I recall that Ron Wilson used to share a small desk with a part-time producer from America. Kerri-Anne and Anne Fulwood also used to have small desks like everybody else in the newsroom (with typewriters, as you can hear in one clip). They were also heavy on the swear words and the drinks after work. And they were the underdog - operating out of a dingy old warehouse in Ultimo at the time. But they were very warm-hearted and open - they were the only station welcoming work experience students at the time.
Yeah, I had a sense of the bad vibes at 10 in late 1990 just from watching the station. Even as a kid, it was pretty obvious. After the fanfare of the “Ten Evening News” in January, Ian Leslie only lasted 4 months or so. Then, they had Ron Wilson at the desk for 2 weeks. Then, Eric Walters was quickly hired over. “Sydney with Mike Gibson” had the axe over it. GMA itself was under threat. There was just a sense of crisis.
Strangely enough, though, most of the actual on-air news product looked great. Doesn’t that “Good Morning Australia” opener with that theme look really nice?
But at the same time, it has to be said that Nine has dramatically modernised it’s On-Air Presentation tactics (especially when it comes to the news service, but in general to some extent) over the last 20 years…
How many people actually had rear projection TVs at that point?
I can recall that there was a TAB in Bondi Junction that my dad dragged me into which was a very old, early 1990s CRT based rear projection TV - and this would have been around 2007ish.
I remember seeing years later a flyer from Hills Antennas about the move and listing the frequencies across the state for all the new channels and what antennas would be needed, it was sitting in the cupboard with all of the VHS tapes at my parents. Sadly, I think it’s long gone but that was a great read and mentioned about SBS, TasTV and Southern Cross going statewide from April 30.
All these Southern Cross and Tas TV aggregation brochures are great - thanks TVAU and hora27fm for posting them!
Presumably even though Tasmanians were generally well prepared for the arrival of these new TV channels in 1994, Southern Cross still dominated the TV ratings in the North of the state and likewise for Tas TV/WIN in the South for a while afterwards?
Yep, just like that but I’m pretty sure I saw it covered the whole the of the state because it included places like Bicheno who were in the Southern region.
