International News Presentation: Past and Present

TEN-10 Sydney: 21st birthday ident, 1986


NBN-3 Newcastle: NBN Headline News, 1993 (swish network look for Newcastle!)


TEN-10 Sydney: Channel 10 Sydney sign-on, 1986


NWS-9 Adelaide: Nine News promo and Early News w/Eric Walters, c1987


TEN-10 Sydney: Eyewitness News "Move Closer to Your World" extended close, 1980


CTC-7 Canberra: Ten Capital News promo, 1997


TEN-10 Sydney: Eyewitness News Update w/Katrina Lee, 1980


NBN-3 Newcastle: NBN ID, 1993


STW-9 Perth: Nine News, 2009


CTC-7 Canberra: Be The First To Know promo, 1998 (a Canberra original!)

WFOR, Miami, launch in HD, 2010 (includes a report about the switch to HD):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4cLsFx-dk

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/5fe3fe93.jpg

KGO, San Francisco, 1965:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLy0fksPRo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/48b6a4ed.jpg

DR, Denmark, 1983 (beginning at 0:25):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3z6dKn1_ws

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/8cf84f16.jpg

Same station as above, 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2Lc9b0y7E

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/79feed92.jpg

Literally everything about that clip is weird!

I was just about to say how very strange the DR news clip was.
How many news broadcasts in the 1980's had a PSC wandering from the gallery down to the studio? Also, how relaxed was the news presenter? Was this the usual style of the programme - or was it during a strike, and they wound up with the first person who said they could read the news?

Also, if DR2 were putting out news broadcasts a couple of years ago from the 1980's - then that is the ultimate in cheap budget streching schedules!

Well, for comparison's sake, here's another DR newscast from 1983, which I posted here a very long time ago (it begins at 0:15):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67UibF0CGaw

In the late 1970s, Antenne 2 in France often did similar opening shots from wandering cameras (a different one each day, as was apparently the case with DR), but I think they always stayed in either the gallery or the studio.



Several European public broadcasters air old newscasts (usually "on today's date XX years ago") late at night or early in the morning. I know that I'm in the minority, but I think they can be really interesting, both in terms of content and presentation.

Quoting myself...



Here's an example of what I'm talking about from Antenne 2; sometimes they used handheld cameras, but usually it was a creative pan with a studio camera like this (in this case from the makeup area to the anchor):

http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB04018847/ja2-20h-emission-du-07-juillet-1978.fr.html

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/6d3ba23a.jpg

It's entirely possible that that's where DR got its idea from.

Here's another look at WCCO and its wonderfully elegant graphics and music (beginning at 1:10):

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/625d4e18.jpg

I capped this from a satellite feed in 2007 just due to it mentioning its full powered repeaters West of the Mississippi from WCCO-TV

Sure think their graphics package has changed for the better.



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SBT, Brazil's sometimes-#2-sometimes-#3 network has relaunched its newscasts, with new sets, music and graphics packages.

Jornal do SBT Manhã (the network's only pre-recorded bulletin, airs in some stations at 4am and 5am and network-wide at 6am)
2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxD128YrhYk
May 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WchAGZEmLs
2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82y4lqJoUIo
2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8FRfh7BgU

SBT Brasil (flagship bulletin, 7:30pm)
2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDc9Ki6vY3I
November 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjE38qSx1HI
2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwFs_O2yWE4
2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2aSZqjkynA
2005 (premiere edition): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmqi45UEQGs

Jornal do SBT (late news)
2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_URTPz0UoE
2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9aSYyECM
a collection of opening sequences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_AEvRX4anI