The French do like their round table debates though. The BFMTV/Business sets still keep the 'classic' design for them. It makes The Pledge once a week seem like nothing in comparison!
Here's a clip from Newsnight - but not the Newsnight you're thinking of! This Newsnight, broadcast on New Zealand's TV2 during the mid-90s, was aimed at twentysomethings, and as such was quite a bit more irreverent than your average news programme, with heavy emphasis on pop-culture. This clip has an intro, with a theme tune that I don't think could be any more 90s if it tried, followed by a blooper reel (it's the final edition for the female presenter, Alison Mau):
Continuing our recent theme of defunct CNN-branded channels, let's go back to 2010 and the last few minutes of Spain's CNN+, a joint venture of Sogecable/PRISA (which had the rights to operate Canal Plus-branded channels in Spain) and Turner Broadcasting; the clip includes footage of protests against the closure and a look back at the channel's history:
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The logo is very 80s....but it was the 80s, I guess! Strange to think it took 7 years before the familiar logo with the NBC peacock was introduced - they’d go through two more short lived logos before that happened.
The logo is very 80s....but it was the 80s, I guess! Strange to think it took 7 years before the familiar logo with the NBC peacock was introduced - they’d go through two more short lived logos before that happened.
If I recall correctly the thinking of it being peacockless was so that people wouldn’t think the NBC stood for National Broadcasting Company but rather News and Business Channel.
CNBC was originally a 50/50 partnership with Cablevision, so my guess is that the other players put obstacles in the way to prevent NBC putting its mark on the station. As soon as NBC took full control, the peacock was gradually introduced. The original partnership is also the reason for CNBCs peculiar location out of town.
I had always worked under the assumption that, even then, “Consumer News and Business Channel” was a backronym - ie it was chosen to fit the initials, not the other way around!
I had always worked under the assumption that, even then, “Consumer News and Business Channel” was a backronym - ie it was chosen to fit the initials, not the other way around!
Got it in one! CNBC was originally a low budget channel known as 'Tempo'. NBC attempted to buy it with the long-term view of pitching it as a business channel, but it's attempts failed, so it ultimately 'went into partnership' with Cablevision, which was really just an unfriendly takeover. That combined with the failure of the established leader of the time - FNN - got us where we are today.
Well i dont think any of us were at the planning meetings at 30 Rock when the channel was in prelaunch. But you'd have to imagine the CNBC name wasnt only just mere coincidence completely. Back in the day they did really push what the acronym stood for, but it was clear they also wanted people to know who owned it with a slight wink to the mothership. Because they didnt wasnt time dropping the launch logo, dropping the acronym eventually and adding the peacock. Thought I have to say I loved the launch logo. I always thought it was cool. Reminded me of the 80s NASA logo the CNN logo.
