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Ten News Melbourne Gets A Facelift…

Tonight for the first time in five years Network Ten’s Melbourne news bulletin received a brand new news set. In addition to the new set the sport’s desk has been moved to the opposite end for something a little different.
Comparing the old with the new it is a vast improvement with the old set very [...]

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June 30th, 2008 | Danny | 2 comments | Continued
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Helen Kapalos Goes Under The Paint Brush…

Ten News Melbourne presenter Helen Kapalos ditched her news desk this afternoon to help out a charity at Myer’s flagship Bourke Street Mall store by letting artist Anthony Breslin and weather man Mike Larkin paint her.
Normally where Myer present’s its famous Christmas windows display; Kapalos had to stand still for about 30 minutes while the [...]

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June 23rd, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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When Bloggers Make The News…

An interesting story featured on Ten’s Morning News last week about the increasing amount of people who are blogging for a living.
The story featured three blogers who have found quite a success in there blogging adventures that they have been able to give up working full time and concentrate on there blogs earning revenue from [...]

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June 4th, 2008 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
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Budget 2008 - A News Service Comparison…

Well it’s that boring time of the year again, no it’s not time just yet to pay our taxes but it was time for the new Labor government to deliver its first budget in 12 years which happened two nights ago now. So from a television perspective it is a nice occasion to have a [...]

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May 15th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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A Big Welcome For TEN HD…

This coming Sunday those of you with a High Definition Set Top Box or an integrated High Definition Television will be able to access the new offerings from Network Ten on TEN HD.
We have already seen the very poor introduction of the Seven’s new channel 7HD but don’t expect Ten to hold back as much [...]

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December 14th, 2007 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
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Election 2007 Coverage: Ten’s The Decision & SBS World News Australia…

Now for the final look at the 2007 election coverage and this time the low fan fair from Network Ten and SBS. I must apologise my SBS files were deleted so I’m unable to show SBS coverage (not that it was that exciting anyway) so below will just be some of the Ten coverage which [...]

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November 25th, 2007 | Danny | 1 comment | Continued
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Breaking News: Australian Soldier Killed In Afghanistan… & Election Eve…

Today the Seven and Nine Network’s interrupted election coverage in their 4:30 News bulletin’s to show the press conference announcing of the death of a soldier in Afghanistan while fighting the Talliban.
Kylie Gillies for Seven’s 4:30 News…

Alison Langdon for National Nine News Afternoon Edition…

Also in tonight’s Ten News Melbourne, a special election backdrop…

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Popularity: 37% [?]

November 23rd, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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The Chaser’s War - Week 20 The Eulogy Song and the Uproar From You Know Who…

If you haven’t heard already, which I’m positive is just about impossible, last night’s edition of The Chaser’s War On Everything has copped a lot of criticism today about a song titled The Eulogy Song.
The song sung by Andrew Hansen and written by Chris Taylor dished out some nasty blows to some of the most [...]

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October 18th, 2007 | Danny | 6 comments | Continued
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APEC Day 5 Coverage - The Final Day…

Today is the final day at our look at the APEC coverage, and to make the comparison we will take a look at Ten and Seven News.
Ten News focused firstly on the final day of APEC and the activities the leaders engaged in on the final day. The previous night saw a large fireworks display [...]

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September 10th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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APEC Day 2 Coverage…

Day two of the networks extensive coverage of the APEC summit which was later dominated by The Chaser, but a little on that later.
The Morning News:
The morning news was dominated by the meeting of Kevin Rudd with George W. Bush, with no filming cameras allowed into the room, only still photography was allowed. Once again [...]

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September 6th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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APEC Day 1 Coverage…

Day one of APEC the coverage was mostly centred around the activities of US president George W. Bush. As reported earlier in the day the ABC, Seven and Nine broke regular programing to show John Howard and George Bush’s press conference live.
The Afternoon News:
Channel Seven’s, Seven News had the most extensive coverage with roughly ten [...]

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September 5th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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George W Bush Arrives In Australia…

With George W Bush arriving in Sydney for the APEC summit, Channel Nine was the first to break away from programming to bring live pictures of his arrival.

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Popularity: 27% [?]

September 4th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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National Nine News: Live From Treasury Place…

With the resignation of Steve Bracks as Premier of Victoria, it prompted Melbourne’s National Nine News to be presented live from Treasury Place in the city. Peter Hitchener done a fantastic job from what I saw (only the first 10 minutes, as I was working and pre-recorded it) and the backdrop of the location looked [...]

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July 30th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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Eddie McGuire ‘bones’ himself…

News is just in that Eddie McGuire has quit as the CEO of Channel Nine, the story below is from news.com.au and can be found here.
Eddie spoke on National Nine Morning News with Tony Jones, from the set of 1vs100, and explained how he will be concentrating more on his on-air roles.

Then for National Nine [...]

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May 18th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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Newsic To My Ears…

Today a look at the theme music for the five news services on Australian free to air television. Click the play buttons below to hear the news theme.
ABC News…
ABC’s flagship bulletin is at 7pm nightly and has a state focus rather than a city focus.

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Popularity: 23% [?]

May 4th, 2007 | Danny | 10 comments | Continued