International News Presentation: Past and Present

I don't know, but I looked at some old TVE newscasts on YouTube and the headline sequences, while not brief by any means, were shorter in the 1980s. This one is about 40 seconds long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Fq0MXhvxc

Headline sequences in Italy and France, for instance, also tend to be on the long side (but still not nearly as long as in Spain). Who knows, maybe it's a Latin thing! For instance, here is how France 2 starts its news -- with more than a minute of headlines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px4Vpem3nk



And here's French TV news reporting on the murder that day (from Antenne 2, which is what France 2 was called back then):

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB04013417/ja2-20h-emission-du-9-decembre-1980.fr.html

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/19b7b27b.jpg

Following the change in the funding of TVE and therefore the lack of ad breaks since January 2010, the main editions of Telediario (Mon-Fri) have grown from 48-50 minutes to usually 65 minutes in length, hence the longer opening. They are on air 14:58-16:03 and 20:58-22:03, followed by promos and 10 minutes of weather.

You can watch an example of this here:
http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20101209/telediario-091210/958553.shtml
(a rare one, as Pepa hands over to the sports presenter for the first item, on sports doping).
The current graphics package dates from 1st January 2008, although the headline bed was refreshed on September 2010 and now is both more dramatic and varied.

There is a tradition for news bulletins in Spain to start with a preview of the two, three or four big stories of the day before going into the actual headline sequence of other relevant news. You can see the different style in presentation in the video I posted above . And the opening of Telediario 2 usually ends with 'the image of the day'.

Moreover, the headline sequence is uploaded immediately to rtve.es as 'Telediario en 4 minutos' (even though they are sometimes as long as 6 or 7 minutes) and this has proved quite successful in terms of online viewership.

Antena 3 Noticias, with shorter news programmes, made almost endless openings for some time (and still does now to a certain extent), with a preview of many of the stories they cover afterwards.

On a similar note, the 3 or 4-minute opening headline sequences of the 30-minute news services in Canal 24 Horas (24h tve), the rolling news channel, are simulcast on La 1 at 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00, where they work as a self-contained bulletin.

Two other points of interest from the Spanish rolling news scene:

Canal 24 Horas generic channel promos. You can watch two refreshed versions of the main promos for 24h tve, with behind-the-scenes shots; one of them (30s) uses the hit 'Hey, soul sister', and the other one (50s) has inserts of news events that happened during the year, with a different sort of music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoYfl3McBt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0vAl3JCUY

I love both versions. This is what they say: "The news of the day, the headlines, the reports from our correspondents, live inserts, and summaries every 30 minutes. Analysis, debate, and reflection. The summary of the day's events. The latest news. Every minute, every hour, of every day. Also on the weekend. Canal 24 horas, leader in information".

Farewell to CNN+. Spain's only remaining private rolling news channel, which started in January 1999, will go off air on 31st December 2010. The licence to use the CNN brand is not being renewed by Turner, and the free-to-air TV operations of the PRISA group have merged with Berlusconi-owned Telecinco, which will now have to decide what they do with the human and technical resources. Read more on rtve.es (via Google Translate): http://is.gd/ixUHk

There are now a number of DTT channels with prime-time political talk shows and some even have news bulletins during the day, but they also include low-cost general entertainment programming and are deliberately addressed at a certain political niche. Although the Prisa group is traditionally close to the Spanish socialist party, CNN+ developed a style of accurate and balanced reporting, even in the last year with the shift from very rigid 30-minute newscasts to live programming, which consisted of:

07:00-09:10 Matinal Cuatro (breakfast show, simulcast with the main Cuatro channel)
09:10-13:00 La mañana en directo (live news magazine show with 10 minute bulletins on the hour)
13:00-15:00 CNN+ Noticias (30-minute newscasts in the traditional format, and live coverage)
15:00-16:00 Hora 15 (60-minute roundup of the news)
16:00-17:00 CNN+ Noticias (30-minute newscasts in the traditional format, and live coverage)
17:00-20:00 La tarde en directo (live news magazine show with 10 minute bulletins on the hour)
20:00-20:30 El debate de CNN+ (daily debate on one topic, with two guests)
20:30-21:00 CNN+ Noticias or Deportes Cuatro (a repeat)
21:00-21:15 Economía 21 (business report)
21:30-22:00 CNN+ Noticias (30-minute newscast in the traditional format, and live coverage)
22:00-00:00 Hoy, con Iñaki Gabilondo (high-brow analysis and opinion show with experts and two long interviews)
00:00-01:00 Hora 00 (60-minute roundup of the day's news, with a look at the following morning's newspapers)
01:00-07:00 Repeats

The last days of operation can be followed, as usual, on this live stream:
http://play.cuatro.com/directo/portada/ver/cnn-en-directo

Canal 24 Horas from Televisión Española (24h tve) remains therefore as the only national rolling news channel. It reached a new high in viewership last week with more than 500.000 people (3,5% share) tuning into a special edition of La noche en 24h, with live coverage of the air controllers walkout. The channel is broadcast live on the web, too:
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/directo/canal-24h/

TEN 10 Eyewitness News 1989


TEN 10 Eyewitness News Close/10 TV Australia ID 1990


The World Turns To Seven News Promo 1996


TEN 10 Eyewitness News Promo 1991


TEN 10 Ten News Your News Promo 2003


TCN 9 Sydney As Hendo Promo, 1988

Also:
CTC 7 Capital Ten News Canberra With CNN's Rosemary Church 1989
TVQ 10 Ten Eyewitness News With Juanita Phillips 1993
TEN 10 Ten Evening News With Ian Leslie Promo 1990
TEN 10 Eyewitness News Long Close 1990
TEN 10 Eyewitness News Sunday Weather/Closer 1990
TEN 10 Ten Eyewitness News War In The Gulf 1991
Nine Network Today Returns Promo 1990

More in Australian TV News

The clock on that screen looking like that of a former ITV breakfast station, when they partially relocated to Australia in early 1988 because of an infamous strike. I assume Kerry Packer owned Channel 9 as well as TV-am?

It was announced today in El Pais, Spanish news paper that Telecinco could launch a 24h news channel

Here's the latest compilation from YouTube user NewsActive3, this time with American and Canadian news intros and promos from 1976 to the present day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KYm2y0l-s

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/24cb803b.jpg

Since we were recently discussing Danish newscasts inspired by the BBC, here's a clip of TV2 News (already mentioned in this thread several months ago), which also seems to fit this category:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XJfLUFFpI

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/ea036ae2.jpg

Back in Australia, a promo for Ten's new evening news lineup, coming in 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIbkqYgAgQ
(Sydney version)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/b6ec3669.jpg

Radio-Canada (the CBC's French-language counterpart), Le Téléjournal , 2002:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IcBxl8Kztw

TVA (a French-language commercial network), Quebec, Canada, 1980s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mRfRUXa-A

Same network, 1994:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK8c_hiaOtg

Here's a rare treat: a 1975 newscast in its entirety, including commercials, from KCRA in Sacramento, California:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I9qSxXKmV0

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/66202656.jpg

CNN, The World Today , 1994:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NIJzC2oGYY

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/8f2bb954.jpg