1996 WIN Tasmania Newsbreak

A WIN newsbreak from Tasmania in 1996 with Tom Payne who had been presenting the news for TVT6/Tas TV/WIN for 29 years.

WIN Television in Tasmania still had the TAS TV style graphics and set back then.

The backdrop of the city of Launceston in the opening bit was made specifically for Launceston viewers. I assume Hobart would have had their own backdrop of their city too.

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News & Politics

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• WIN
• Television
• Tasmania
• TVT-6
• TVT6
• Hobart
• TVT-35
• TVT35
• Launceston
• National
• Mutual
• Tom
• Payne
• Newsbreak
• TV
• 1996

[stanzemanek]

If I remember the news set in '96, that National Nine News style map & TV screens were actually in the middle of a mainly grey, chip-board style set, & the blue part was only used for newsbreaks throughout the day.

But you're right Jezza! That was carried over from the TAS TV days, before '95.

I think you're also right when it comes to the National Mutual backdrop, at least until AXA started a long relationship with the newsbreaks...

[Jezza46]

Quite right. There was virtually nothing going on at all behind the map compared to the newsroom at National Nine News in Melbourne at that time. Also by that time, I think NNN Melbourne got rid of the map and replaced it with a few simple TV screens.

[Squashola]

Tom was also a philatelist, and ran a Stamp Shop. He probably had to give that up when he became a Celebrant due to a clash of ideology

[SirDrinkalot06]

Tom Payne read the news for TVT-6/Tas-TV/WIN from 1975 until about the early 2000's.

Now a funeral celebrant in Hobart these days.

[stanzemanek]

Yeah, WIN had taken a while to make all their TAS TV & VIC TV news sets line up with the 'Gong. But in saying that though, the newsbreak backdrop was a fav of mine...