International News Presentation: Past and Present

XETV is definitely an odd one. It's a CW affiliate - actually one of very few with a news operation. Its studios, newsroom and advertising department are all based in San Diego, so there's not much to give away that its signal comes from across the border.

Getting a bit off topic, but I recommend this book by Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford for anyone interested in Mexico-to-U.S. border blasters. It's a fun read:


Amazon.com

Of course, "border blasters" once existed in Europe as well (although they weren't called that). The story of postwar Radio Luxembourg may be the best known, but before World War II, an eccentric politician named Leonard Plugge built a mini-empire of border blasters. Despite the poor state of European roads at the time, he traveled the continent with his radio-equipped car, making impromptu visits to various stations. He signed a number of agreements that allowed his International Broadcasting Company to transmit entertainment programming to the UK from continental Europe. His IBC challenged the BBC head-on and was very popular among British listeners who wanted an alternative to the monopoly broadcaster. Particularity on Sundays, when the BBC's stations were dominated by classical and solemn religious music, Plugge's IBC dominated the British ratings.

Here is a page about Radio Normandy, the most famous IBC border blaster:

http://www.offshoreechos.fr/radionormandie/RadioNormandy06.htm

Last Thursday, Brazil's SBT, the same day they strarted letterboxing their analog feed and moved their graphics to the 16:9 area, relaunched the local newscasts on their owned-and-operated stations (except in São Paulo, where they have no local newscasts whatsoever), bringing them in line with the national bulletins.

Morning:
SBT Rio Manhã (SBT Rio - Rio de Janeiro, preceded by the end of Primeiro Impacto ):


Midday:
SBT Rio Grande (SBT RS - Porto Alegre):

SBT Rio (SBT Rio - Rio de Janeiro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGHhPA2CVVM
SBT Pará (SBT Pará - Belém): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDav-4khm6Y
SBT Brasília (SBT Brasília): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdha3k3hEA
Noticidade (SBT RP - Ribeirão Preto): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4uMDYRTDQ

Evening:
Jornal SBT Brasília (SBT Brasília):

SBT Rio Grande 2ª Edição (SBT RS - Porto Alegre): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46CqjKL-z88

Redação SBT (short bulletins on some stations, O&O or affiliated - curiously, it shows the Al Jazeera English set):


And the national news flashes also got a new look they day before:

According to the station's Wikipedia entry for many years the FCC didn't allow a network's feed to be sent outside the US. XETV's entire operation was based in Mexico so they'd record ABC's network content and then take it across the border. That meant of course that they couldn't show anything live



The article on them I posted above lists Atlantic 252 as a recent example

BTW, this is what XETV's news looks like these days -- the clip begins with an electoral announcement in Spanish, probably required by the Mexican regulator:

Apparently, it's launching on November 7:

http://www.ozap.com/actu/bfm-paris-sera-officiellement-lancee-le-7-novembre-prochain/506542

According to the article, BFM Paris will be modeled on the News 12 Networks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_12_Networks

And here's a video about News 12:

NPO (WNL), Netherlands, morning show, 2016:

What is the WNL brand?

WNL is one of Nederlands' public service broadcasters.

The Dutch system of public broadcasting is probably unique in Europe: it is made of several different broadcasters (VARA, AVRO, TROS, BNN, WNL, NTR, NOS, STER, EO, KRO, etc.) which share the airtime of the TV and radio channels of the NPO.

Each of these broadcasters is different: some have a religious origin (EO stands for Evangelische Omroep, for example), some are of different political orientations (WNL, Wakker NederLand, is close to the right-wing; VARA used to have close ties to left-wing parties), some have specific roles (NOS for the news, STER for the ads). This diversity is probably meant to represent the different components of the Dutch society.

Some of these broadcasters merged recently (AVRO and TROS for example).

The programme promos make it clear about which broadcaster broadcasts which programme. The name or the logo of the broadcaster appears in them, example here with a programme aired on NPO3 and produced by KRO-NCRV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbXYVng7ls

Indeed. The brodcaster was launched in 2009 after one of the leading right wing media groups successfully lobbied the government, claiming the NPO system was heavily skewing towards a left-wing bias. The whole affair was controversial and WNL struggled initially. The shows are now starting to pick up audiences and win awards. Naturally, they tend to be more news talk focused.

So it's basically UKIPs version of Good Morning Britain. I get the idea of having different companies set up for different areas of PSB broadcasters to avoid one mammoth BBC style company, but does get a bit questionable when you add political affiliation to them.

As Stephen Colbert noted, facts do tend to have a left-wing bias...