International News Presentation: Past and Present

Very "cutting edge" for the 70's isn't it, and he is standing, prehaps that's where ITV and BBC News got the idea from.

Here's another interesting American clip (from the 1970s again):

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


And a few more from Australia...

BTV6, Ballarat, 1987 (opener):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pV6QpbPr0

NWS9, Adelaide, 1980s (newsbreak open):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzXOZGyktjY

Here's a promo from the same station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZWfseZCUVg

GWN, Western Australia (opener):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUnX0pUEhw

MidState Television, NSW, mid-1980s (opener):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrNKpmhzmg

SCN, Victoria, 1993 (opener):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVuig2Y0Y2Q

SCN, Victoria, 1994 (includes a short closer from ATV10 in Melbourne and various clips of SCN's last-ever newscast):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4v09iTbtk

VIC TV, Victoria, 1994 (newsbreak):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11d3Gui0Bw&NR

Anyone familiar with the 1970s instrumental hit Classical Gas by Mason Williams? You can listen to it HERE.

Later on today, I'll post clips of American TV stations using a part of the music (beginning at 1:11 in the clip above) as their news theme.

Loving this thread, some great finds!

It inspired me to do some more fishing around Youtube and found a few interesting BBC/ITN bits, some of which I've seen elsewhere and others which are new (to me anyway):

The 1st BBC News of the morning of Diana Princess of Wales' death after BBC World's overnight coverage - think it was 6am ?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsdvhh8_X0

BBC2 newsflash - Kegworth air crash, 1989: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLh7bMnlNyU

Lockerbie air crash news reports:
BBC1/2 and ITN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgedAlze9P0&mode=related&search=
BBC2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gZxx3fsQXQ

Hillsborough disaster - excerpts from Grandstand and ITV sport from the afternoon, and BBC and ITN news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySQFrwCHvQ

Challenger Space Shuttle disaster - Phillip Schofield in the broom cupboard leading into Newsround where the news was first broken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0G8Q5Oz_k&mode=related&search=

Emperor Hirohito's death announced - quite surprised that this made 'newsflash' status, but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kogNv61vsOM

1987 Zeebrugge ferry disaster, BBC News reports: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xgY8c_xXE

Tiananmen Square massacre 1989, BBC coverage including Kate Adie's famous report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7PRdz3v-_w

Heysel stadium tragedy, 1985 - ITN newsflash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9EHKIexMc

And no-one reuploaded my clip of breaking news on BBC2 of the Queen Mother's death on there? I'm shocked!

Some great additions there!

Here's a long 1979 clip of ITN's News at 545 , the first day back after a strike that left ITV off the air for weeks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZXP5tigQs

And here is coverage of John Lennon's murder, as seen on Chicago's WBBM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lvrEQRU2E

Sorry!

Can't find it as it happens - haven't seen how news broke on BBC2, do you have a link?

As promised above...



...here are two vintage news intros that feature Classical Gas :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skANf_5sGFI (a long clip of a 1980 newscast -- recommended for those interested in American local news)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-JJkCOa9g

The first clip doesn't appear to be playing ATM, so here's another from the same station (the clip includes commercials):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZjSJf3MjsE

To wrap up our look at U.S. local news (for now), here is a masterfully produced promotional presenation for WBBM's (Chicago) local news from 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZDkj33zrj0

This is a fascinating overview of one of the best local news operations in TV history.

As the news breaks of a plance crash in New York... 9/11

BBC World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdoXjY9ww8

CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUEcgQiEWk

ABC's Good Morning America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0P8JHHh6k

Fox News - Fox and Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e273ykJwDZI

Interesting to see BBC World actually going back to the sport even though it was obvious something serious had happened there.