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The '''Nine Network''' (commonly known as '''Channel Nine''' or simply '''Nine''') is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, founded in 1956 as the '''National Television Network''', becoming known as the Nine Network in the late 1960s. Nine adopted their famous "dots" logo in 1969. In 1975, Nine Network, along with all other Australian TV channels, switched from the channel's black-and-white broadcasts, to full time color broadcasts. The Nine Network is one of three main free-to-air commercial networks in Australia, with the other two free-to-air networks being [[Seven Network |Seven]] and [[Network 10 |Ten]].

'''Audio:''' The same trumpet fanfare as before, but with added vocals in the background. The first variant had a fluctuating synth sound playing over the tune, while the 2nd variant had cartoonish sound effects added.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the Channel Nine logo (seen in a blue-black circle) zooms out to the left as the words "STILL THE ONE!" slide in. The screen then zooms into the logomark as we see live-action pictures (covered on the bottom-left by program information). As the slideshow finishes, the Nine (golden) dots then appear by glowing in a circle. It then fades to the Nine number as the circle border glows, then switches back to the dots.

'''Visuals:'''  The screen zooms out from a neon city background, similar in style to the previous logo, to reveal a boulevard rendered in the same style in which we see Channel 9 personalities dancing and having fun. The personalities seen include Paul Hogan (later known for ''Crocodile Dundee''), Humphrey B. Bear, cricket commentators Richie Benaud and Tony Greig, presenter and comedian Bert Newton and journalist Ray Martin, among others. As the fanfare crescendos, the screen pans up and see the 9 logo, in gold and sans dots as per the previous logo, rise up from behind the city background. The logo shines.

'''Visuals:''' On an evening sky background, a curved glass stripe wipes in over what appears to be purple clouds, along with glass rods of different sizes. The camera then pans over the glass stripe gets bombarded by several glass rods from behind. This causes a golden picture of Australia to pixelate onto it. As the camera zooms into it, we then go thorough a small hole in it, briefly going underground before emerging out with several glass rods (some flying out, others emerging from the ground), starting with brown and then ending with the normal look from them, all under an evening sky with circling clouds. The camera then pans over to one of the skyscraper-like rods, revealing the Nine logo in translucent orange (later in gold) and a reflection of the station's serving area appears behind it. The sky then either remains or turns to night as the logo shines. The end result also shows the glass rods sections looking like windows on a skyscraper.

'''Visuals:''' On an abstract CGI background of purples, reds and oranges, a swoosh appears and "hits" the middle of the screen, causing circles to disperse from the center of the screen. As this occurs, the Channel 9 logo zooms out from the foreground and settles in the center of screen, this time, in a light gold color.

*In 1996, the logo was slightly updated, the animation is unchanged, though the colors have been somewhat muted.

'''Visuals:'''  The screen zooms into a line of the words "channel nine" repeating with two bars above and below as well as red- and blue-colored flames on the left and right sides, respectively. as the screen zooms into a small sphere and a larger sphere appearing between the bars and over the letter "e" in "channel". The spheres rotate and the smaller one is revealed to be surrounded by a Saturn-esque ring, as we continue to zoom in through more concentric spheres before a cubic version of 9's famous dots appears, rotating throughout. The logo zooms through the dots to reveal the 9 logo on a red and blue background with stylized sparks emerging either side of it and the words "channel nine" both above and below it.

*An alternative version exists, which instead, uses both the orange and aqua blue colors for the flames and background.

'''Visuals:'''  The screen zooms through a fire red background filled with gold spheres. The logo zooms into one of the dots, which opens to reveal "2000" with three CGI spheres as the zeroes. The logo zooms through one of the zeroes as nine more spheres fly past us to form the iconic dots as the nine logo is revealed in an updated version of the previous ident's background with numerous 2000's in a horizontal line repeating in the background. The "Still the One" slogan appears below.

*'''"Urban:"''' A gold-clad woman is shown through various kaleidoscope effects. The 9 dots then appear and move to the side as the rest of the logo and the slogan appears. At the end, as the center of the background turns white, the logo and the text turn black.

*The ident would be a different color throughout the day of the week. Those colors are the following: {{color|blue|Dark Blue}} (Monday), {{color|darkorchid|Purple}} (Tuesday), {{color|Orange}} (Wednesday), {{color|deepskyblue|Light Blue}} (Thursday), {{color|limegreen|Green}} (Friday), {{color|Yellow}} (Saturday), and {{color|Red}} (Sunday).

'''Visuals:''' An updated version of the previous IDs. There is the inside of the nine logo again, but this time, the words "STILL", "THE", and "ONE" appear one by one in white as we transition to different "walls" in the logo before flipping out to the nine logo appearing on a white background.

'''Legacy:''' These would be the last IDs to use the "Still the One" slogan after 27 years. It would be used one final time in a 2006 promo for the rebrand in which the original "Still The One" song was performed by Nine personalities. They would also be the last to feature the original 9 logo after 44 years. The long standing jingle would also be retired, though it would return without the slogan with the 2009 "Welcome Home" package.

'''Visuals:''' There is a green dot zoom out and explode into many dots. This leads to a cascade of other dot "explosions". The explosions rotate, changing color with each turn from greens and yellows to pinks and purples to blues and whites. Finally, there are nine of the dots rotate in to fill about half the frame. The word "Choose" (in all-caps) appears in one of the dots, next to which the Nine logo appears.

*There are two short variants. One with only the pink section seguing into the end of the ident, and one with only the green portion seguing into the end of the same ident.

'''Audio:''' An upbeat tune with male singers vocalizing throughout then singing what sounds like "smile" (similar to The Supernaturals' song from the previous ident) at the end.

'''Visuals:''' There is a {{color|dodgerblue|blue}} structure from various angles, as streaks of light pass through the logo. The screen pans through one of the walls to reveal that the structure is actually the Nine logo. We then see the logo from various close-up angles before cutting to the front as the logo zooms into place and the new slogan, "Welcome Home", writes itself in in a cursive font.

'''Visuals:''' The logo starts with various shots of a "swoosh" passing the frame in various colors, sometimes weaving around spheres in the same color as the swoosh and the background. The colors in this ID, are as followed: {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}, {{color|red}}, {{color|limegreen|green}}, {{color|darkorchid|purple}}, {{color|yellow}}, {{color|limegreen|green}}. Eventually we cut to a shot of the swoosh moving up the left side of the frame as the Nine logo appears on the right with "Welcome Home" (all lowecased) below it. As this happens, the color changes three more times from {{color|darkorchid|purple}}, to {{color|yellow}}, and finally, to {{color|dodgerblue|blue}}.