International News Presentation: Past and Present

Earlier today, POP TV in Slovenia unveiled a new, hour-long 1PM newscast.

Video: http://24ur.com/bin/tv/?media_id=60440084

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Bits and pieces of national US and local San Francisco news presentation from the 1990s and early 2000s:

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

Here's what small-market US local news looked like in 1973:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RTOp97_Y8g

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WNBC, New York, 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buUb9KESRps

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Same station, morning news intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mk0FFM8nrE

Interesting TV things around Shenzhen and Hong Kong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwgQEEn2do

Notice that CCTV HD is not only HD channel offered by CCTV. The entire CCTV-1 is also simulcast in HD, and so does Xinwen Lianbo.

(Another Xinwen Lianbo video in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiN_udg99hk )

To help you get in a debate mood, here's a brief excerpt from a documentary about the debate that started it all -- the Kennedy-Nixon debate half a century ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGs4535W_o

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And from France, here's TV news coverage of the 1981 French presidential debate. Thirty million viewers tuned in for the event, some even watching TV in restaurants, as you'll see:

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB00017232/ja2-20h-emission-du-6-mai-1981.fr.html

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The full episode of Xinwen Lianbo in HD from Jan 10: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Reports are still in 4:3 and the graphics hasn't been updated yet.
(Do you have any idea for the intro, graphics, and of course, the music in the HD age?)

Speaking of which, here's the intro from 1995, which was pre-recorded for ATV's broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FdzzkOimBY
Looks like it tried to copy the old NOS Journaal intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEq5--Tfg8k#t=2m06s

From a few hours ago, here's France 2's main news with extended coverage of the volcanic ash chaos now affecting most of Europe:

http://jt.france2.fr/player/20h/index-fr.php?jt=20100416

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Does anyone know if Sky News Australia is adopting the new logo and updated graphics at the same time as Sky News UK?

I highly doubt it. Certainly we've still got the old logo this morning, but any changes once permanently adopted by the UK will take a while to filter through here.

Here's a cheezy (but catchy) 1980s news promo for a Pittsburgh station:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2xxpyMxPM

(And here's an eerily similar Communist-era Slovenian commercial for milk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gU4SQ1jicE )

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