The Newsroom

International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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WW
WW Update
And here's WDR's pan-regional news, for all of North Rhine - Westphalia:



BTW, here is a map of all nine ARD regional broadcasters. (The Land borders are shown, but WDR's local news areas are not):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/ARD_Karte.svg/2000px-ARD_Karte.svg.png

Image: Wikipedia

SR, Germany, local news for Saarland:
New intro of SR-Aktuell since the beginning of this year:


Saarland was once the home of a really interesting TV station: Telesaar. It was a commercial operation in the French protectorate of the Saar before the protectorate joined West Germany in 1957 -- as Saarland -- after a referendum. (When it was still a protectorate, the Saar even competed independently at the Olympics.)

Apparently, Telesaar was Europe's first privately owned, fully commercial TV station when it signed on in 1953.

Here's a fantastic site devoted to the history of the station (in German):

http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Telesaar.htm

And here's the site in English via Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Telesaar.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtelesaar%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1600%26bih%3D775&sa=X&ei=ypc6UbOOJ6muyQH7xICYAQ&ved=0CEcQ7gEwAw

http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Bilder/SR/Telesaar1.jpg

http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Bilder/SR/Fernsehprogramm1c.JPG
Source: saar-nostalgie.de

Telesaar was eventually shut down after the protectorate joined West Germany and was replaced by SR, a public service ARD member. However, a French-language commercial radio station based in the Saar, Europe 1, survived the handover, ended up playing a major role on the French radio landscape, and still operates today. (Plans for a TV version of Europe 1, on the other hand, were never realized.)
Last edited by WW Update on 15 March 2015 12:42am
BR
Brekkie
Thanks - interesting stuff. I wonder if on the Germans equivalent of this place moans every time a newsreader sits diwn.
WW
WW Update
KGMB, Hawaii, U.S., 2015:



Apparently, "vog" is a term for volcanic smog!
MO
Mouseboy33
I always thought that Keahi Tucker has the best name ever! Not a bad anchor either. Thumbs up
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huszar
Hungarian state-owned m1 became news channel yesterday, and got a new studio designed by Simon Jago.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoIqzmpsdpM
BR
Brekkie
That is very nice indeed - almost what the BBC's could look like if they actually put some effort into it. And does one supplier provide all chairs nowadays - those ones seem to be everywhere!
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mark Founding member
It's also as if it's the love child of the BBC and ITV News. Slightly freaky, but very impressive.
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AxG
The name aston could do with wider spacing, but overall very nice.
BR
Brekkie
Seems to be part of a new look across the channels - a few things have cropped up on Youtube today. I quite like their logos (seen in the headers here - simple idea of a circle uniting all the brands then lines representing the numbers and other variations.

I'm getting the impression then there has been a bit of a shake up across the Hungarian PSB - anyone have more info?
MO
Mouseboy33
CNN Philippines launched within the past 24 hours. Ehhh.

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globaltraffic24
Seems to be part of a new look across the channels - a few things have cropped up on Youtube today. I quite like their logos (seen in the headers here - simple idea of a circle uniting all the brands then lines representing the numbers and other variations.

I'm getting the impression then there has been a bit of a shake up across the Hungarian PSB - anyone have more info?


There has been a big shake up at MTV. The parent company has in effect been changed from a BBC style PSB to pretty much a state owned entity. There's a lot of anger about its part of a wider tightening of media and new media rules in the country. Budgets have also been slashed at the broadcaster so all in all its not a happy ship.
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CNA
CNN Philippines launched within the past 24 hours. Ehhh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDcGpxHkC_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBnOIR8Uugo


The graphics are all over the place and the music is too un-CNN...

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