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International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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I'm moving the following conversation from the Tagesschau thread because it's off-topic there:

noggin posted:
guest03 posted:
This clip is a recording from the tagesschau24 news channel. It shows what happens between a regular tagesschau bulletin (broadcast on "Das Erste") and the tagesschau24 news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLiYuu6yg8


It's quite common in some countries to use that style of presentation. German news programmes often start with that kind of "behind the scenes" shot before their opening sequences. I think N-tv did the same thing at the top of the hour?

In Sweden SVT at one point ended Rapprt (their news programme) on a wide shot with a credit strap, then panned the camera to the Sportnytt set and ran the opening titles with no junction from pres. Worked ok - but always seems a bit odd to a Brit. Not sure they still do it - haven't watched that junction for a while.


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I can't find any clips of the SVT transition mentioned by noggin, but here's a cool transition between the news and a discussion program from ORF in Austria:



And here's N24 in Germany with a long shot of the desk before the TOTH sequence:



Canvas in Belgium uses a set that enables great transitions between news programs -- but I'm not sure if they're used on a regular basis or just for great-looking promos like this one:



And from Outre-Mer 1ère, serving the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, here's a transition from the news to a local election special:

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From 1986, the launch promo for 19/20 on FR3 (now France 3), a combined regional/national news hour that is still going strong:

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fox1
NHK News - the 8:45pm local updates leading into "Newswatch 9". I think Aomori is my favorite..


5:00AM News on New Year's Day! (Akemash*te omedetou gozaimasu" is "Happy New Year"); Good Morning Kansai looking at Nara; News Terrace Kansai from Osaka; news from Miyazaki and Kagoshima. Final clip: Close Up Gendai - NHK's nightly public affairs program.


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Maarten1
WW Update posted:

Canvas in Belgium uses a set that enables great transitions between news programs -- but I'm not sure if they're used on a regular basis or just for great-looking promos like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0oUsFUoZI


Only for the promos. The shows never follow up immediately, because the set has to be changed. The show 'LOGIN' has been cancelled (I believe since January 2014), Terzake is broadcast at 20h-20h40, Reyers Laat at 22h30 (if not changed in the new schedule).
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For those interested in the history of U.S. television news, here's an article about the "Golden Age" of American broadcast journalism. It's actually a book review of a recent Cronkite biography, but the article's author, Charles Ponce de Leon, is also writing a book about television news, and his article contains some interesting analysis:

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-most-trusted-man-in-america

Here's an excerpt:

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Comfortable with their authority as professional journalists, [the network news teams] resolved to provide viewers with news about things that they ought to know—on the assumption that this would make them more informed citizens. This unabashedly “elitist” mission informed the content and format of the CBS Evening News and its competitors throughout Cronkite’s tenure. Cronkite and his staff identified the stories they thought were most important and then reported them in ways that would enable viewers to see how they were connected to the “drama” of our national life. It was an ambitious, distinctly educational project, directing their audience’s attention outward, beyond the provincial and familiar, to encourage understanding of a distant and complex public world. Often this meant making viewers aware of things they might not know about—for example, the extent of white resistance to the civil rights movement in the South, the prevalence of industrial pollution, or the economic and social problems plaguing American cities.


BTW, here's the publisher's description of Ponce de Leon's upcoming book, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo12345529.html
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Kevizz MS
New look for France 2's news output. Has been lambasted on Twitter, as most change is, but deservedly so IMO. Consensus seems to be that it looks good if it were from 2006, with the replacement of the red square with glossy 90s Word Art and replacement of the impactful 4 note theme with a weak backing track identified as the biggest issues.




It's a shame to see them move from the large Atrium space to a traditional studio, and the fact they have essentially tried to copy the presentation style of TF1. I agree that it's awfully conservative and dated, and seems a step backwards.
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Thanks for that Kevizz. I didn't expect France 2 to get a new look, especially because the previous look was very modern -- certainly more so than what they came up with as a replacement. I completely agree with your assessment, BTW.

For comparison, this was their previous, atrium-based look (recorded almost exactly a year ago):



The style used for the headline straps reminds me of the one from several years ago:



Lenodal.com has various caps and clips on its blog:

http://blog.lenodal.com/index.php?/archives/0272-Le-nouvel-habillage-des-journaux-de-France-2.html

http://blog.lenodal.com/uploads/actualitedelhabillage/2014/habinfof2-10914-gen13-640-3.png
Image: lenodal.com
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NNN 4:30AM News - includes tours of new set and News Center ( @ 3:00min), 2004

http://i58.tinypic.com/wirev7.png


Another day's 4:30AM News
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Kevizz MS
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Thanks for that Kevizz. I didn't expect France 2 to get a new look, especially because the previous look was very modern -- certainly more so than what they came up with as a replacement. I completely agree with your assessment, BTW.


Looking at it again I think I dislike it even more than I did at first, more than anything it seems half finished. Very sloppy job for one of the largest and most well regarded broadcasters in Europe.

Meanwhile, a new look for TV SYD Nyheder, which is broadcast to the Southern Jutland region of Denmark.
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From ORF in Austria, the regional news for the Bundesland of Vorarlberg (on the border with Switzerland), 1993:

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Kevizz MS
A new look for RTS Info (Switzerland) was launched at the end of August. Studio is very nice and minimalist but the opening titles are rather bizarre.

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Some wonderfully cheesy news promos from 1970s Florida:

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