International News Presentation: Past and Present

Since we were discussing France 2 last week, here's the evening news on France 2 (known as Antenne 2 at the time) on today's date 31 years ago:

http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAB04020797

I love the transition from the announcer to the anchor at the beginning!

Note that they were still debating the guillotine, which wasn't officially banned until 1981, even though the last execution took place in 1977.

Quite very local american News there, but certainately not as epileptic or LSD influenced as TF1's news at the time.

Yes, it does have a somehwhat American vibe to it (even though it's also unmistakingly French in its execution). The idea of showing behind-the-scenes action was an American concept, as were elements such as a voice-over announcer in the intro, multiple people sitting behind the desk, a relaxed, personal style of reading the news, and a somewhat gimmicky emphasis on then-new thechnology such as CSO/chromakey.

Here is a surprisingly similar American set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8Zt6jc_Iw

Screencaps:

Antenne 2, France:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/antenne2.jpg

KABC, Los Angeles:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/kabc.jpg

See the similarities?

BTW, for those of you new to this thread, here's how TF1's news looked in the psychedelic era that nwtv2003 was referring to (this TV Ark clip includes the closing credits from the BBC's retransmission of TF1's news):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4g7sds0eA

From Australia, here's a report on 30 years of televsion news on TV station TVQ in Brisbane (the report includes footage of old intros, sets, etc.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tusmsZ9dps

Channel One, Russia, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3A0ePKLCo

^^^ This is an entirely virtual set, right?

Same station, 2003:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFKFJZmAFKk

SF, Switzerland, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZFTO-77wJc

RAI Due, Italy, 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INMVQo7A4bk

Various regional Spanish news intros, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDd5nV9ODO8

I think so - but that's incredibly well done. Looks fantastic.

It would be more fantastic, if the music gets improved. (I found the intro is an old theme back from its Soviet days, with electronical bits. But don't know where the headline bed came from.)

Ah, I wonder if there is a TV news set taking all the good points of that from DR's TV Avisen (1, 2), Sky News set from 2005 (1, 2), and the Vremya above.

You're right. Here's a Soviet-era news clip beginning with the original (?) version of that theme:

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

According to a YouTube comment, the theme, composed by Georgy Sviridov, is titled Time, Forward!

Al Arabiya's innovative news bulletin, "08:00 KSA" or "Al Thamina" presented by popular young journalist Rima Maktabi. Should be added that David Lowe created the Al Arabiya music, and I think you can spot this in the headline bed, very BBC Breakfast I think..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BEBV9Ogd5Q&feature=channel_page

If I was only listening to the audio on that clip, I would have sworn that was BBC Arabic.

A couple of current US news intros...

WGGB, Springfield, Mass., 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqFHa_vO-c

KRIV, Houston, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9meWataJFjw