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International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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WW
WW Update
WW Update posted:
With the upcoming referendum in Scotland making global headlines. here's a look back at TV coverage of a similar vote -- with a clip of three Canadian networks announcing that the voters of Quebec had narrowly rejected their independence, 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUKorhH5CFA


Here's more coverage of the independence referendum results as seen on the CBC and several other networks:

Last edited by WW Update on 13 September 2014 5:55am - 3 times in total
WH
whoiam989
MBC News in South Korea had a new look last August to coincide with the company's moving to new headquarters. MBC Newsdesk , their flagship evening TV bulletin, had a new look of course. And guess what...


(The adverts between intro and headlines were cut out by the uploader.)

Awful.

People are complaining about the new theme and new headline bed. (To me, it doesn't suit this new BBC-inspired set.) Some have even pointed that new music sounds like a score from Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky .


They had a tour around their new news room, broadcast on the same day as the new look.

Personal rant here:
Personally, I think this score (composed by Japanese artist Joe Hisaishi) from South Korean history-fantasy series Taewang Sasin-gi (which was brodcast on MBC) would make a good news theme. I also have idea of how should L3s and other graphics look like and animate, but I don't have suitable software and right skills right now.



New look aside, I want to show you how MBC's news department was (I believe) ruined during the time the former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was on power, but my English isn't that good at all, and I'm not sure I can describe the whole thing very well with no bias.
IU
I am not from UK
whoiam989 posted:
MBC News in South Korea had a new look last August to coincide with the company's moving to new headquarters. MBC Newsdesk , their flagship evening TV bulletin, had a new look of course. And guess what...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LteKzKtjgew
(The adverts between intro and headlines were cut out by the uploader.)

Awful.

People are complaining about the new theme and new headline bed. (To me, it doesn't suit this new BBC-inspired set.) Some have even pointed that new music sounds like a score from Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNQW1oa220
They had a tour around their new news room, broadcast on the same day as the new look.

Personal rant here:
[spoiler]Personally, I think this score (composed by Japanese artist Joe Hisaishi) from South Korean history-fantasy series Taewang Sasin-gi (which was brodcast on MBC) would make a good news theme. I also have idea of how should L3s and other graphics look like and animate, but I don't have suitable software and right skills right now.



New look aside, I want to show you how MBC's news department was (I believe) ruined during the time the former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was on power, but my English isn't that good at all, and I'm not sure I can describe the whole thing very well with no bias.

[/spoiler]

Well the new set is very modern and big. However compare with the old music, the old one is better.
Also, the Headline Bed reminds me of Tagesschau (The one before the new one). Moreover, the camera zooming seems too fast.
This let me think of BBC NBH Studio C (only the Presenter's Desk part.)
WW
WW Update
whoiam989 posted:
MBC News in South Korea had a new look last August to coincide with the company's moving to new headquarters. MBC Newsdesk , their flagship evening TV bulletin, had a new look of course. And guess what...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LteKzKtjgew
(The adverts between intro and headlines were cut out by the uploader.)


The sequence at the beginning, with the circles pulsating from the news desk, reminds me of VTM in Belgium:



whoiam989 posted:
my English isn't that good at all


Your English is excellent!
Last edited by WW Update on 13 September 2014 6:21pm
DV
dvboy
WW Update posted:


whoiam989 posted:
my English isn't that good at all


Your English is excellent!


It's better than some of the British people on this website.
NY
NYTV
And for comparison, here is the hisory of MBC Newsdesk from 1970 to February 2013
VI
Viakenny
In Spain, Antena 3 Noticias relaunched last Tuesday, with new graphics, new music, a refreshed set (with a much smaller desk) and new presenter lineups for the 9pm weeknight edition and the weekend editions.



And here's how the set looks like on the 3pm edition:
VI
Viakenny
And back to South Korea, it wasn't just MBC that ditched their longtime theme: SBS' SBS 8 News also got a new theme (and a new opening sequence):

NY
NYTV
Viakenny posted:
And back to South Korea, it wasn't just MBC that ditched their longtime theme: SBS' SBS 8 News also got a new theme (and a new opening sequence):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhqaq82FPf0

And for comparison, here is a retrospective of the SBS 8 News opens from 1991 to April 2012
LT
LTSC1980
NYTV posted:
Viakenny posted:
And back to South Korea, it wasn't just MBC that ditched their longtime theme: SBS' SBS 8 News also got a new theme (and a new opening sequence):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhqaq82FPf0

And for comparison, here is a retrospective of the SBS 8 News opens from 1991 to April 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXsM7xAn7Q

And that's not at all. Here is opening between them.........
late 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOybynw1Yo
early 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LlJtJGsp-M
late 2013: (Open starts in 3:14,headlines starts in 7:14)

March 2014:

May 10, 2014:
LT
LTSC1980
I am not from UK posted:

Well the new set is very modern and big. However compare with the old music, the old one is better.
Also, the Headline Bed reminds me of Tagesschau (The one before the new one). Moreover, the camera zooming seems too fast.
This let me think of BBC NBH Studio C (only the Presenter's Desk part.)

Set also remind me about new look of France 2.


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T/N news in 1997-2012
ME
melpax
Some rare YouTube finds,

Channel 7 Brisbane, June 13, 1975.

Only 3 months or so since the introduction of Colour broadcasting in Australia, from the looks of the anchor's dodgy wardrobe, they were still probably trying to work out what looked best in colour... And 'Channel 7 Eyewitness News'..... Proably no autocue either, or it was on the blink..



Channels 7 & 9 Melbourne, September 22 1980.

1980 National election coverage, the PM at the time wanting to talk about Cattle, not politics....

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