International News Presentation: Past and Present

Here are some news openings from WPIX in New York:

WPIX 11 News 1994:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi6M8rgae5M

WPIX 11 News 1997:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gyC01NMgo&feature=related

PIX 11 News 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63akQH4Hgc

The latest of Newsactive3's compilations of news intros, this one covering American local news intros from the period between 1999 and 2004:

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/wusa9a.jpg

Moving to Italy, here's another example of RAI Due's elegantly minimalistic look of the late 1980s and early '90s -- this particular clip is of a news update that aired on Christmas 1988:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWi3YTDjvMw

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/rai1988.jpg

Closing of a bulletin on Al Arabiya from Dubai

Interesting to note that David Lowe created the music, I think you can hear some BBC esque beeps in there!

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh24/justjoshhh/AlArabiya-Titles1.png

The New VI, Vancouver Island, Canada, using the ITV News theme, early 2000s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFK3WOvtKhE

Huh? I introduced it earlier.

KING, Seattle, Morning News, 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Ofp6VcQUw

Note that former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is one of the reporters in this clip.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/king82.jpg

Global TV, Canada, 1985:

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

I may or may not have posted the new set that Nine News in Sydney got a few months back. Whatever the case, their counterpart in Melbourne has just had a similar makeover. Which is quite an improvement for them.

Whereas we used to have a keyed backdrop, we've now got a somewhat US-inspired glass-and-bright colours thing which is a bit of an improvement.


You can also watch a video of it here.

By way of comparison: the last was an.. interesting.. montage of local landmarks and the city skyline.

whoa...
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5048/foxnewshd3.jpg

so this is how FOX News HD looks like...

XD

As always, thanks so much for the caps and the links! I like the new set; it's not grounbreaking by any means, but it fits in well with the graphics and is a vast improvement over the old look.


BTW, TV Ark has drastically expanded its Canadian subsection (now w/ flash videos):

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/International/canada/index.html

Here's a compilation of current German national news intros:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iha52I-2b0