International News Presentation: Past and Present

The full song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn4qjTVT4j8

I imagine the music package could get improved by taking most elements from the original score, and pitching up to G major.

I believe there should be two ways of rearrangement; One in full orchestra - like BBC World ident in 1995 (00:00 - 00:45), ABC News (Australia) and News at Ten, The other in moderated electronic bits - like BBC News in 1999, BBC Arabic TV news and current 3 News (NZ).

Anyway, I still don't know the origin of current headline bed.

Some more current and recent US intros (or opens as they are known on that side of the Atlantic):

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

KOIN, Portland, Oregon, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCmMdUyzwzc

NBC Nightly News, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vDYH7ti_MQ

KNSD, San Diego, 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtGy9NQHRw

Some classic intros from New England...

WGAN, Portland, Maine, 1982:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwNJDcTzZB4

WCSH, Portland, Maine, 1977:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35P60IaAOW0

WPTZ, Burlington, Vermont, 1992:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbmgagLvpS0

WNNE, Hartford/Hanover, 1992:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTI41HmK3EU

WLNE, Providence, RI, 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHv8OH9v4kA

A compilation of news intros used by NHK in Japan in the late 1980s and early '90s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZaXhKJNSSM

ANN, Japan, 1980s?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePCPcolHes

JNN, Japan, 1989:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31KZJRnSL4

NNN, Japan, 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwYnQ8mAy8Q

The newest NHK's 7 O'clock news intro in HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6QR-dJQM7o

I like the music; it manages to be both orchestral and modern at the same time. Some of the other elements, including the graphics flying out of the man's mouth at 0:16, are charmingly bizarre.

For the 7 O'clock news theme, I still preffer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Zp7dvKU1g
which I think it could make a corporate signature tune for all of NHK's news programmes.

If I have a professional skills, I could make a corporate look across NHK, using what is surrounding each letters N, H and K in NHK's logo, like how British designers Kemistry played with a dot in Norwegian NRK's logo.

One little more thing:

That's what I think so. And this kind of graphic is somewhat ridiculous, comparing with all those European news graphics.

Indeed. That's a great theme, whoami989.

From 1986, here's special coverage of a tornado outbreak in Minnesota:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekVcUhr56sY

And this is what LIVE tornado coverage looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UExLj2Q5yIU

From New Zealand, here's a compilation of various news intros and idents used by TVNZ's TV One from the late 1970s until 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSQQh4Pzaw

KTSF Channel 26 San Diego I think Catonese News Open October 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdr7BYjxYlE

Compilation of actual reporting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKM1G-ciqZ0&feature=channel_page

Great find! It's San Francisco, by the way.

It's always interesting to me that big, multiculural European countries such as the UK, France, Germany, etc., don't have much -- if any -- national or sub-national TV news in immigrant languages (Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, etc.)

In many cases, European immigrant communities still have access to television programming in their languages, of course, but it's not really national or regional programming tailored to where they live. In most cases, it's just international programming piped directly from their countries of origin. Perhaps that contributes to the problems some European immigrants have fitting in?

If immigrant radio stations can work in Europe, why not TV?

CBS Evening News has a new look, but the music and set remains the same... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55aPX2W9gU