International News Presentation: Past and Present

Not over-the-air, I don't think, but Canadian and American television networks are carried on their cable system. Here's a post from 2006 -- before DTT -- that I found on another forum:



Now they also get DTT (a scaled-down version of the French TNT, with the main networks from mainland France). Apparently, St. Pierre and Miquelon is the only part of France where the basic (non-pay-TV) DTT channels are encrypted -- that's apparently done to prevent their unauthorized distribution in Canada.

Oh, and here's a start-up for the TV station in St. Pierre and Miquelon from 1975 -- at the time, the station was a part of the FR3 network:

Huh, interesting. I knew it existed and that they have a radio station but I didn't know they had a television station too. The clip on the last page looks a lot like France 2 and French in style (teasing guests in studio at the top of the show with a very formal bonjour, quick wide shots of the studio just before every package, etc.)

Especially since the population is only about 6000. Just show what can be and the results you see in some places. LOL.

Yes - very France Televisions, but then it IS France Televisions.

(And we thought the BBC and ITV Channel Islands audiences were small...)

Denmark's DR2 has tweaked its news programming this week. The very simple designs launched last year are a bit flashier now, particularly for its morning news strand (which has also moved to a new set). A couple of clips have been uploaded to YouTube - although these are already out of date, with some further revisions to the straps during the week returning them to a flat black and white design.

DR2 Morgen:


DR2 Deadline:

Is it a 'thing' in Denmark to have lighting flares on your main shots? The DR2 Morgen has one on their main two-shot, and a couple of the main shots on Deadline also seem to have them?

And DR2 Morgen moved into the studio at the DR newsroom, originally used by DR1's TV-Avisen when DR moved into DR-Byen, their current headquarters, and later used by the now-defunct news channel, DR Update, when TV-Avisen moved into their current set.

The first-ever TV-Avisen from DR-Byen:

Its close (with a clearly pre-recorded overhead shot of the newsroom):


And a bulletin from DR Update:

1A, a defunct local commercial station serving the city of Berlin, Germany; mid-1990s:



A different-style news intro from 1A can be seen in this clip:

http://youtu.be/W5wU8H5qbYA?t=20s

And here's a launch-day local newscast from Puls TV, the station that replaced 1A in 1996:

http://youtu.be/bvt6ioFegK8?t=2m26s

Puls TV was itself replaced by tv.berlin a few years later.

TVA, the French-language commercial network from Canada, recently unveiled a new set and presentation style:

Quebec has a knack for combining the worst of Anglo and Franco presentation.

Here's TVA's 10 p.m. news from 2007 (with a more American look):





And here's an American station using the same theme music in 1990:



(Thanks to Raymie at tvnewstalk.net for identifying the theme.)