History of ABC Australia News intros

[@anishraja9655]

Sorry the first one always gets me. The absolutely brilliant Majestic Fanfare plays, and then the newscaster just randomly saying “It is feared that the Prime Minister has drowned.” It could make it into a Monty Python sketch.

[@SonofthePhantom]

I like how the accents become more Aussie and less British overtime

[@BruceHeselwood]

@@RMArblx Newer microphones make you sound more Aussie and less British?

[@RMArblx]

@@BruceHeselwood yes thats what I was saying

[@RileyDaBozz]

@@RMArblx it was mandated that you had to speak with a traditional english accent for some time on NZ and AUS tv

[@btf_flotsam478]

@@RileyDaBozz I'm pretty sure it was also the case with _British_ TV as well.

[@MarkPentler]

@@RMArblx well that’s fucking absurd.

[@simjom02]

The original theme is still used before news bulletins on ABC radio.

[@guksack]

Channel 4 (UK) news theme out of nowhere! (Still used today so seemed even more weird here)

[@airlineshow]

Was lucky enough to have spent a week of work experience at ABC studios in artarmon Sydney in 1989 - was privileged to have spend a day in news operations including on the set of the 7pm news with Richard Morecroft and the 7.30 report. Very special memories

[@GoogleUser-lk6xn]

“......it is feared that the prime minister has drown”.

[@test-ru2jo]

Lol

[@johnnykemedy4188]

The ABC News Theme from 1952-1981 and 1983-1985 was Majestic Fanfare performed by The Queen's Light Hall Orchestra

[@swaziiumgaming1309]

if the majestic fanfare isn't stuck in your head, you aint australian

[@olivesouch6423]

Love Australia from the Philippines. 🇦🇺❤️🇵🇭

[@donatist59]

3:47 LOL -- British music and a Canadian title for the programme.

[@thoriqulfathony01]

3:08 Special for viewers :D

[@tanaponlivehd2806]

3:48 CBC Style Name mixed with Channel 4 News theme.

[@nickk1518]

TanaponLive HD2 looks like they stole the theme

[@MiiMaker]

aus broadcasters aint creative. they also steal the song "We are the One" from the ABC America and cover it. What a bloody mess. Anyway, the cover isnt that bad but it cant beat the original. PS. UK tv is the best.

[@MarkPentler]

PLEASE look up what library music is.

[@Spi-AU]

Although admittedly the ABC "National" was a bit closer (if a bit more radical) than what the CBC did later on with Canada Now. I suspect they, like a lot of news outlets here in the 80s, (re-)learned that many of our states are a parochial lot - particularly, importing news from Sydney into Melbourne - as the main "National" did... before my time, but according to reports, the local window was limited - tends to be akin to death. (The clip here coming from the QLD version which kept more of its local news in comparison.) Needless to say, it didn't last; state based bulletins continue mostly to this day, and some of the deeper and shared stuff got reformulated into The 7.30 Report. Of course digital TV means national-scope bulletins are also seen on a news channel now, as seen here.

[@krazykat1977]

The 63-83 jingle does remind me of RAI's TG1 theme tune.

[@MattCaseyFun]

ABC Classic FM radio station had a variation of that tune up until a couple years ago (maybe they're still using it I dunno)

[@taygadesign]

0:34 Ah, the news of the death of Harold Holt, the Prime Minister at the time who presumably drowned while swimming in the ocean. Ironically, they named a swimming pool in his honour after his death.

[@markwrenn8569]

That, according to Wikipedia, was in December 1967.

[@hugohann2250]

1985 and 1988 are very futurist for this time

[@sswiftwell]

3:48 So they once used Channel 4 News' theme?

[@neodeckard5158]

They introduced a new intro last Monday, and a rare 1981 intro was recently found~ Update it when you can~

[@dialupdude]

Where did you find the footage at 0:50 of the man picking up the spool of tape and dropping it? I have been looking for that footage for ages

[@IntroCollector]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5LQdHSNa5eJr5Y

[@Bongaboi151]

Misspelling... SYRA? That's a new place....

[@johnnykemedy4188]

The music of ABC News in 1983 was "Down Under" by Men At Work. Dude watdafuq is that girl doing on there?

[@6SamChat9]

5:20 1991 and 1998 that's the intro that I'm familiar with

[@johnnykemedy4188]

In 1985 ABC National used Alan Hawkshaw's Best Endeavors

[@gummyray_the_superstar]

0:12 1956 - 1961 ???? 1961 - 1963 0:24 1963 - 1968 0:37 1968 - 1972 0:56 Late 1972 - 1974 1:14 Late 1974 - 1979 1:42 1979 - 1981 1:55 April - June 1981 2:06 July 1981 2:28 1981 - 1982 2:58 1982 - 1983 3:14 1983 - 1985 3:47 1985 (ABC National) 4:14 1985 - 1988 4:45 1989 - 1991 5:21 1991 - 1997 5:52 1998 - 2004 6:27 January 2005 - July 2010 7:14 July 2010 - April 2017 8:17 April 2017 - Present

[@hansw410]

Hello Auntie!

[@stupidgaygay]

Loving that 2010 theme (7:13)

[@moxgirl5]

8:33 They spelt Syria wrong hehe xD

[@muftiharits]

3:41 Does the ABC has some sort of cooperation with Channel 4 in 1985? That tune is so similar.

[@CuSO4546]

I think its exactly the same

[@TheRolyPoly]

Can you do NBC Nightly News? I can't seem to find a compliation of one.

[@thoriqulfathony01]

More of Australian News Intros!

[@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast]

3:47 Channel 4 News theme in bound, ITN must have been pissed!

[@siredith8846]

2:20 what’s the name of that song?

[@videonut1988]

0:25, the animated thin version of the Wavelength logo in use on the open…

[@biancawilloughby9980]

Any chance of the weather theme tune from the 60s?

[@nigeldeveyra5520]

History of RPN Philippines News intros

[@jfwfreo]

The logo for the 1985 ABC National reminds me of the golf-ball type element from an old IBM Selectric typewriter. The theme used from 1985 to 2005 is the best of the lot IMO.

[@d2dar459]

3:47 - Channel 4 News (UK) RIP Alan Hawking.

[@olivesouch6423]

Copyright 1956-2017 - Australia Broadcasting Corporation.

[@NuggetKai]

0:53 What the!

[@TheOne-ei5kc]

3:47 that reminds my of channel 4 (UK) news theme

[@rogerdarthwell5393]

It is

[@eduardvlad926]

Where do you take that Video from part 3:00

[@IntroCollector]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYOpc5-oo9qVh5I

[@eduardvlad926]

@@IntroCollector Thank You

[@stewartlynch7859]

The original news theme sounds similar to the Universal Newsreel.

[@siredith8846]

2:06 my favourite

[@bogdansiuda2799]

He found an new intro, it's from 1961.

[@MigzEbronNetwork]

How about Japanese News Intros please?

[@fijielectrical8323]

6:26

[@akouna]

Where did you get 0:12? It's very rare

[@akouna]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZizeoJ5jJWKgs0

[@IntroCollector]

From here kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4utnId5jap6bqs

[@akouna]

@@IntroCollector Wow, thank you so much! And I think 0:36 is a rare footage since ABC Australia News page, Logopedia or Google Images search didn't have a result?

[@DONE_DEN]

0:38 I think it was around 1967-1972

[@alfiejmulcahy]

4:05 Channel 4 News?

[@julsz.mmviii]

6:27 The channel ABC already on 16:9 way back on 2005? What

[@RCJYSNLCS]

What was the headline in 1985 ABC News?

[@user-fj4cg6wi6u]

Next Soir 3.

[@MiiMaker]

bruh, BBC is way better. 3:48 wait, thats C4 news theme.

[@MarkPentler]

1981 - really weird with the guitars and hard rock

[@MarkPentler]

Nice typo at 8:38 too - woops!

[@lukebattersby9179]

I miss the 2010-2017 era. Blue was the trademark ABC colour. I don’t like the black and capitalisation of the headlines currently. Feels like an angry funeral!

[@GaboTV1]

It fits for the current news. The world nowadays is an angry funeral.

[@emigames6248]

8:34 - "over Syra" lol

[@Seung_Hee-kyung]

3:42 Wait, Channel 4 News UK?

[@rogerdarthwell5393]

Yes

[@sickoslater]

Lmao 0:12 , so that's where they got the triple j intro from (as well as fuck tha police, fucking incredible that they managed to sneak that in there)

[@DN21Media]

Love how you nick other peoples uploads and stick ridiculously sized graphics on top.

[@vocamaster1493]

1985 it was channel 4 lol

[@ewtwetrwerwteet]

You listen to all the headlines and today it's the same old shit. "Record lows" "Sliding towards recession" - blah blah. We're all still here

[@henn16]

Atn ch7

[@tigerden1908]

The newer intro stinks, said anyone left watching this far-left propaganda.

[@uktaofficial]

8:33 ABC News did the wrong spelling like @bbozek10 did