The Newsroom

International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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remlap
Is that the same Keith Olberman - he looks younger now than he does there?
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WW Update
remlap posted:
Is that the same Keith Olberman - he looks younger now than he does there?


Yes, that's him.
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remlap
Time's have been good for Keith, career and looks.
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WW Update
Note the similarity between one of those KTLA intros in the compilation and this 1983 Australian intro mentioned on the very first page of this thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duBPyPyl0is

Switching decades and continents, here is YouTube user 3ddk's newest compilation of current news intros from various European public broadcasters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3rzl4U79M

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/ec1a.jpg
Last edited by WW Update on 9 June 2009 10:07pm
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whoiam989
WW Update posted:


"This is a full Six o'clock news intro, in widescreen":
Arrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvWwJVvhKU

Another one in SD:
Arrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4sSzj3iiq4


I remember someone pointed out number of pages ago that ATV in Hong Kong had used similar music in the middle of 1980s:
Arrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Nqp47M4DU

Imagine if ATV uses current WCBS news music package right now...

PS: CCTV to revamp their most authoritative and popular newscast, Xinwen Lianbo:
Arrow http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/10/content_8266365.htm
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WW Update
Interesting article about Xinwen Lianbo, whoiam!

Here is a montage of the current graphics package used by InfoTV in Slovenia, featuring a custom theme composed by a well-known American TV music composer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SKuSHl1QEo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/info09a.jpg
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whoiam989
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WW Update posted:
Interesting article about Xinwen Lianbo, whoiam!


According to the report, it will focus on "human-interest segments and critical reportage" rather than propaganda. It will occur from June 20.

So, will the title sequence, dates back from as far as early-1990s, be changed from that day? I hope so...

Speaking of Xinwen Lianbo, CNN.com has the first 5 min. of the bulletin on the day of Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
Arrow http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2009/06/01/tiananmen.cctv.square.cnn?iref=videosearch
As we can see on this video, CCTV had in-vision continuity at that time.

2. YouTube user WCBS2 (Not the station's official) has full intros of "CBS 2 News, in high-definition":
Arrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NPXJj4WUo (Morning news)

3. To find the name of WCBS music, I searched http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/ , and found it is a part of the CBS Enforcer Music Collection. On the site, although not a full package, you can listen to some of clean intros. Also, I found they have a full Channel 4 (UK) News theme and the very original version of The Mission.

PS: Who has the Enforcer New Generation 2?
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nwtv2003
WW Update posted:
whoiam989 posted:
(I found the intro is an old theme back from its Soviet days, with electronical bits. But don't know where the headline bed came from.)


You're right. Here's a Soviet-era news clip beginning with the original (?) version of that theme:

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

According to a YouTube comment, the theme, composed by Georgy Sviridov, is titled Time, Forward!


Vremya 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqsQpfnRWJI&feature=related

...nice CGI sequence for the time.
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WW Update
whoiam989 posted:
3. To find the name of WCBS music, I searched http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/ , and found it is a part of the CBS Enforcer Music Collection.


Right, but the melody itself -- including the catchy nine-note musical signature -- comes from "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home", a theme composed for WBBM in Chicago in the 1970s.

Here's WBBM's intro for that era:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJO4QlQpPs
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nwtv2003
TF1 Journal 1970's generic Titles [HD]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEDZ_RG7ig&feature=channel_page
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timgraham
nwtv2003 posted:
WW Update posted:
whoiam989 posted:
(I found the intro is an old theme back from its Soviet days, with electronical bits. But don't know where the headline bed came from.)


You're right. Here's a Soviet-era news clip beginning with the original (?) version of that theme:

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

According to a YouTube comment, the theme, composed by Georgy Sviridov, is titled Time, Forward!


Vremya 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqsQpfnRWJI&feature=related

...nice CGI sequence for the time.


A nice daggy old video from SBS in 1990: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tIMN_KANw
That man has the world's most amazing glasses.

They still have the Russian news every morning and I'm pretty sure it's still propaganda. If there's any interest I'll post a video.
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whoiam989
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WW Update posted:
... the melody itself -- including the catchy nine-note musical signature -- comes from "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home", a theme composed for WBBM in Chicago in the 1970s.


It is said to be based on the old folk song of the same name. So I Googled around to listen to the song, but no fruits now.

2. I found China's CCTV website offers live streams of all their channels, without IP restriction: http://zhibo.cctv.com/

For Xinwen Lianbo, it is on CCTV-1 and CCTV-News(dah, broken Chinese letters...) everyday at 19:00 Beijing, which is 11:00 UTC.

Trivia: Through their live streams, the government-owned television broadcaster also operates a home shoping channel.

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