Happy to be corrected, but looks 2007-2009ish, judging by the cars in the background. I believe there is a VE Commodore as well as a 2007+ Corolla sedan up in the top right. Probably right before they ditched the Suburban’s too.
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Very American inspired
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A Nine News Melbourne Land Cruiser and a brief glimpse of a Seven News Melbourne Commodore wagon (complete with early 2000s logo!) in this footage from 2005, sourced from a Channel Nine video on YouTube.
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Surprises me they are using Subaru. Each SCA station has a different brand of car. It’s all over the place.
I thought SCA would have a contract with a car manufacturer/leasing company supplying vehicles every 5 years or so - it would save them so much money. Kinda like Channel 9 and ABC with Toyota.
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It’s a good point, but they probably don’t lease enough cars to warrant going down such a path, in my experience those kind of deals only really work on a large scale and can be quite restrictive with contract requirements etc.
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Yes however SCA supplies vehicles for Nine News Regional and the whole radio network of course. Regional stations in NT and other areas as well.
I think SCA mass purchased unmarked Mazda BT-50s or something similar for regional news though?
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The regional news vehicles are owned by 9
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SCA9 drive Mitsubishi Pajero Sport
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Ah yes. I do recall Cairns having the BT-50s however. Different vehicles in every market again
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The “N E W S” probably lower than it should be.
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All their cars are going in for new liveries for the rebrand I believe.
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Interesting to hear. Think the livery in that pic posted above dates back to 2008 with that unused (at least during bulletins) Nine News logo - also seen it on jackets before, which makes me wonder if there were “flying billboard” Openers with that logo which never made it to air.
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Doesn’t look to be any number plates on that van - front or rear.
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In the last picture it appears to be being towed, and the pic just before that it looked abandoned somewhere!
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