International News Presentation: Past and Present

The music in this clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DCdmEYQMwo

...is actually a slightly modified version of Frank Gari's Great News Package, which was used by Sky News in 1989 and the early 1990s.

Sky News clip from TV Ark, 1990:

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/dsplus/m.php?p=skynews_update1990.rm

Recognize it?

CNN Election Night, 1984:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StvbnZsQD8w

From France, here's the launch of ORTF's third network (Couleur 3, now France 3), 1973:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me2BHN-vhJk&feature=related

What is it with French TV and those animations that look like they were created by people on LSD? If you don't know what I mean, take a look at TF1's from the late 70's. Interesting still nevertheless.

Any French speakers here?

Was was the rather anxious looks going on as the countdown hit T-4 all about? Was the opener being played off a different telecine player - and no-one told the transmission director?

Indeed. Here's the animation you're probably referring to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D667ln8al3w

As we recently saw in this thread, this style was even used for the news:

http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAA06010454

BTW, Antenne 2's closedown (sign off) from this era was the most artistic and strangely touching closedown I have ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okVU6v8phzY

ABC Election 2000
What a splendid theme!

While most of the world uses computer graphics (some superior may use touch screens...) to explain something, Japanese public broadcaster NHK still uses hand-made miniatures.

http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=10606790

Above is a clip from NHK's news programme for children, explaining last year's melamine milk disaster. But even the evening news uses miniatures. (In the case of the clip below, North Korean nuclear reactors.)

http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=8867256 (From 01:44)

By the way, is there no Japanese-born TV presentation freaks living in Japan? Except for anime, few of news intros were found. (Clips above? Were recorded by Koreans, from NHK World "Premium".)

Pink TV, Serbia, new look, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP2RyVaF4s

Two different signed bulletins from Finland and Japan.

http://areena.yle.fi/hae?pid=169382
The YLE bulletin, was a separated programme, is now a part of the news at six on TV 1. Main presenter also gives audio description to those signs since then. (I like the idea to get more attentions.)

http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=12004967

The NHK bulletin (calls itself a signed news but seems also for hard of seeing.) is broadcast on Educational TV (rather than General TV). Although graphic looks somewhat ..., the content seems more detailed than those of YLE.

An interesting compilation showing the evolution of the news on France's TF1 and the various styles of presentation used over the years (up to the 1990s):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjMRNw-Si5A

MTV3, Finland, 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoYK6hjG6mA