International News Presentation: Past and Present

And here is the same style intro on TCN9 in Sydney, Australia (This is a newsbreak. The full newscast, which I can't find on YT, even included the date at the beginning):

ThaiPBS, Thailand, 2014:

i-Télé, France; weekend morning news promo, 2014:

Staying in France, here's a clip of the morning show from Canal+, 2010 -- I mentioned it in another thread as an example of how a dark, pre-daybreak background can be made effective with inventive lighting:

I don't really think it's inventive lighting, they've just obscured as much of the pitch black background as they can.

And not particularly well, that pink is quite garish especially for that time of morning.

The show has since been cancelled, too.

France really is a different world when it comes to TV presentation... And to be honest I don't know why they didn't totally cover up the windows. The bits that were there were lost in the darkness and just gave us annoying reflections of other people. Don't see the point in seeing them.

(But then the B&W half-face of the presenter in some of the LED columns was pretty distracting too... But very French)

I actually like the contrast between the darkness outside and the in-your-face, time-to-wake-up purple of the set. In a way, it reminds me of big-city neon signage.



Well, once it got light outside, the look and feel of the set changed completely:

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The set was also quite 'open' with guests walking in from outside then sitting straight down for an interview. I love French TV style. It's very marmite. You either love it or hate it, but it has a clear, confident and ultra-modernist approach.

From 1983, an anniversary tribute for the Satellite News Channel, a short-lived competitor to CNN that was bought out by Ted Turner a few months later:

From user compubit on tvnewstalk.net, here's a brand-new (November 2014) compilation of newscast intros (and other elements) from Italy -- including the national networks and various regional/local stations from Tuscany: