Original upload date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:03:19 GMT
*note, some years after this video was made it was discovered that BTN actually started in 1968! Get the full story in our 50 years doco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSLYXuXk4g4
A quick look at th
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e opening titles and presenters that have made up Behind the News' long legacy. Unfortunately it's too costly to collect some of the footage from the 70s and 80s but here is a list of presenters and rough timeframes from what we have available.
(1968 - Pete Sumner)
1969 - Richard Oxenburgh
1970s - (Des Murphy filling in for Barry Eaton)
1980s - Richard Morecroft
1980s - Paul Higgins
1990s - Tania Nugent
2000 - Rohan Wenn
2002 - Dhana Quinn
2006 - Krista Eleftheriou
2007 - Nathan Bazley
You can read more about BTN's history here: http://bit.ly/BTN45th
You can see our first episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh6Iop5hhmU
If you have any old recordings of Behind the News which has someone different from the list here presenting, we'd love to hear from you. Also, we haven't got all of the opening titles so we'd like to collect more of them too.