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An example of a Queensland WIN News bulletin with Des McWilliam. Full credits to Dan Martin for the caps.
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Jennifer Hockey (now Jennifer Durante) is now the Head of Communications & Fundraising for Melonoma Institute Australia 
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Just came across this gem on YouTube.
This is a partial WIN News Canberra bulletin from 20th August 1998, presented by the late Peter Leonard, with sport presented by Phil Small and weather by Tony Lynas. There’s also a snow report presented by future NBN News presenter Paul Lobb.
Credit: Robert Wood
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There was a low quality upload of a WIN Local News bulletin from around the 1990s with Denis Walter - anyone have a link?
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This one?
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No, this one has the opener cut out. The one I am looking for is much more low quality, has the spinning globe intro, and has a Ken Sparkes voiceover.
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Yes it’s still about somewhere. I can recall Ken Sparkes “…this is Win Local News with Dennis Walter”
Will keep my eyes open.
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Was it mandated by PBL/Nine that WIN should utilize a comparable package to the one employed by National Nine News during that period? Based on the provided video, it appears to be the case, albeit with some modifications to the fonts, supers, and the coming-up bed. (I believe WIN may have utilized the CBS Evening News 1982 – 1987 Bumper for that specific bed).
For how long did the “WIN Local News” brand remain on-air?
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I think the WIN Local News brand was only used in Victoria: everyone else used WIN News simply.
Also of note the link Frankie posted above doesn’t show any of the spinning globe graphics (apart from the set) so maybe it wasn’t mandatory.p
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I guess this is kind-of WIN related?
Here’s an old bulletin from TasTV before it was changed to WIN:
youtube.com/watch?v=HQIwdWPpxZQ
and a chopped bulletin from Mildura in 1995:
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Never seen that Mildura set before, with the state of Victoria stylised behind the presenter. Obviously a cheap production as it is such a small market.
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I can’t imagine all the different state WINs were doing exactly the same thing then, especially in Victoria where the mid-1995 video of Denis was barely a year after having been known as VIC News under different owners… when you have a bulletin that previously sounded statewide and where the fringes already get covered by the Melbourne news, I’m not surprised they at least tried it there. As you found with the STV-8 bulletin today, it was probably gone by the end of 1995.
The WIN Local News name also appeared in Tasmanian TV guides for a while but that was an evolution of Six O’Clock, when they split apart their local and national news into separate half-hours… (eg. this from 2003: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5fulznkNg0)
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WIN were probably trialing different structures across different regions at the time to see what worked and what didn’t in each. It may have been a case of simply matching/mirroring the metro National Nine News format as closely as possible in areas where Nine itself had the strongest ratings and distancing the two in areas where Nine had the lowest.
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