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International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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A compilation of 19/20 news intros (the national portion of the program) on France 3 from the 1980s to the present:

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It's sad that the upper and lower bits are cut from this video…
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ABC's World News Tonight (subtitled version as seen on PBS), 1980:

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N24, Germany, 2017 (w/ breaking news coverage of the Barcelona attack):

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phoenix, Germany, 2017
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I don't know about you, but I realise that Germany is more conservative towards TV news presentation than other European countries. I'm a bit late to the French TV crowd but to me France feels more advanced than Germany. UK feels a bit conservative but more improved. Italy has some bits of conservativeness especially TG1 and TG5. Denmark's are also interesting but not conservative.
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WDR; North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Aktuelle Stunde, 2017:



And here's WDR Aktuell:

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KOAT; Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., 1979:

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The first Telematin in 1985:


Telematin 1992:


A full edition of Telematin from 1998 in full:


The man who presents Telematin feels like Frank Bough of BBC Breakfast Time.
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The man who presents Telematin feels like Frank Bough of BBC Breakfast Time.


And in format, the show definitely resembles BBC Breakfast Time more than today's BBC Breakfast/GMB with a selection of culture/cooking/health/society features and an army of different contributors. It's similar to This Morning, relatively laid back with news & weather every 30 minutes and a longer political interview at 7:45. The presenter you mention, William Leymergie, only retired in June.

A more recent edition from July 2016:

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The man who presents Telematin feels like Frank Bough of BBC Breakfast Time.


And in format, the show definitely resembles BBC Breakfast Time more than today's BBC Breakfast/GMB with a selection of culture/cooking/health/society features and an army of different contributors. It's similar to This Morning, relatively laid back with news & weather every 30 minutes and a longer political interview at 7:45. The presenter you mention, William Leymergie, only retired in June.


Télématin certainly was influenced by Breakfast Time and TV:am. The latter was a straight copy of the TV:am clock in the 80s.

Interesting about the programme is the fluff is all centred around the peak of the show, which is basically as mentioned with contributors discussing various fluffy topics or celebrity interviews while the 6.30 start is newsier. However with Franceinfo having a hard news breakfast show, it's not a major issue.
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Here's the granddaddy of them all, NBC's Today...

...in 1952 (We've already seen this clip of the first-ever Today -- and probably the world's first on-air ticker --, but it's always interesting to see where the now familiar format had its origins):



...and in the 1970s:

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