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I didn't realise how faithful they'd been to their theme over time, there's little difference between that and their current one:
While we're on the subject of ARD, apparently they will be launching a new set in December this year.
Yes, ARD is one of the world's most conservative broadcasters in terms of presentation -- not only has it retained its music, its overall style hasn't changed much over the decades. It maintains the old European practice of having announcers rather than journalists read some of its newscasts and didn't even use prompters until very recently.
Here is a compilation of ARD's Tagesschau intros from the 1950s up to today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rU5ckWahdQ
Do you happen to know anything about the new set?
ARD, Germany, 1974 -- a day after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, when many feared that a major war was about to break out between Greece and Turkey:
I didn't realise how faithful they'd been to their theme over time, there's little difference between that and their current one:
While we're on the subject of ARD, apparently they will be launching a new set in December this year.
Yes, ARD is one of the world's most conservative broadcasters in terms of presentation -- not only has it retained its music, its overall style hasn't changed much over the decades. It maintains the old European practice of having announcers rather than journalists read some of its newscasts and didn't even use prompters until very recently.
Here is a compilation of ARD's Tagesschau intros from the 1950s up to today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rU5ckWahdQ
Do you happen to know anything about the new set?
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