International News Presentation: Past and Present

Thanks for that. Anchors wearing channel logo buttonholes and astons written in the anchor's own handwriting??? It just doesn't get better than this!

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ATN-7 Sydney: Seven says goodbye to Ian Ross, 2009

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TEN-10 Sydney: Ten News w/Ron Wilson, Anne Fulwood, 1989

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TVW-7 Perth: Seven News: 20 years of Rick and Sue

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ATV-10 Melbourne: Eyewitness News, 1980

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TEN-10 Sydney: Ten farewells a legend: Tim Webster signs off, 2008

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HSV-7 Melbourne: 7 News at 9pm, early 1970s

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TVQ-10 Brisbane: Ten News w/ Bill McDonald, Marie-Louise Thiele: 30 Years of TVQ News

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ATV-10 Melbourne: Ten News w/Mal Walden, Helen Kapalos: Big Chill '08 coverage, 2008

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BTQ-7 Brisbane: Seven Nightly News w/Frank Warwick, Kay McGrath, 1989

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ATV-10 Melbourne: Eyewitness News, 1985 special report

What a great compilation, fox1! Do you happen to know the music played in the Ian Ross farewell piece? It sounds like a movie score.

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Here's the same basic (US-produced) news promo as seen in...

...the United Kingdom (Sky News):

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/dsplus/m.php?p=skynews_werethere_promo1989.rm

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... Australia (ATV10, Melbourne):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVOV0tGeoEQ

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/3d50f04c.jpg

...and the United States (KNXT, Los Angeles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVFE2yHodU

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I was reading L'aventure de la télévision: des pionniers a aujourd hui (a great out-of-print illustrated history of television in France, for anyone who's interested in this sort of thing): The designer of these animations was Catherine Chaillet, who first designed the animations for ORTF's third network and then moved to TF1 when ORTF was broken up. You may remember her equally psychedelic news intros for TF1, which we've already seen in this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTS7cGYS00

Chaillet's popular TF1 animations even led to a cartoon series (featuring the three parts of the TF1 logo!), whose opening credits you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7pJNGTHwEI

BTW, this is what TF1's news looks like nowadays:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xabrbu_tf120h2008_shortfilms

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Some elegant graphics and wonderfully unusual news music from the US, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oky8SjCzv6s

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Love that WCCO look. The theme's a bold move. Wonder if that will catch on? The graphics and feel of the program is great. Interesting that they call it a "show". I know a lot of newscasts are very "showy" but that one not so much. I guess they're still a powerhouse? Powerhouses usually stay as powerhouses.

Just on my clips, from the top: Ian Ross in 2003 turned perennially (decades-long) hopeless 7 News into a force and turned Australian TV on its head. The old "Still the One" Nine has lost 3 ratings years in a row now and much of that is attributed to its unimaginable collapse in the evening news block. It was taken for granted that Nine smashed everything at 6. Pretty much since Roscoe took helm, 7 News was up 150%, even 200% on Nine News Sydney. That success bred success elsewhere for 7 too. About the 7 Perth video, 7 Perth has always and always will be the ONLY station in Perth, pretty much. 7 News Perth typically attracts 220,000+ vs STW 9's <100,000. It's been that way for decades. (Clueless local owner). Ten is quite strong there. Tim Webster's farewell and some of the other Ten ones are my favorites.

The Newshour With Jim Leher, the flagship news programme of PBS in America is undergoing a format change on Monday. The current graphics are quite stodgy and old-fashioned, and the demographic is generally older people. In a move to bring a younger demographic into the viewing audience, the show will become less anchor-centric, with an improved online presence. The following link has a preview of the new look:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec09/pbsnewshour_12-04.html

The graphics are much fresher and more European than American!

Here's a look back on past looks:

The Macneil/Leher Newshour, 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvqpG4mEKI&feature=related

The Newshour with Jim Leher, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJNfR7ushA

ATV, Hong Kong, 1983 (English-language news):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChKxTk8NBgs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/0dde68eb.jpg

Bits an pieces of news (and other) presentation from apartheid-era South Africa and Namibia (in English and Afrikaans):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnFbB1EvqE

Here's a fascinating compilation of American news presentation, mostly from the 1970s and '80s (NewsActive3's latest upload):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsE2m0Kqqus

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ZDF, Germany, 1985:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFLrGt6Gv1M

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