International News Presentation: Past and Present

That sounds like a Google Translate translation. If you read technical German I think the issue is the video editing or vision cutting system.



My rough schoolboy German translates that as there was a problem with the video editing - or possibly video cutting (could be automated vision mixing) - which meant that recorded content couldn't be played out?

That was me attempting to 'Britify' it! Technically, it was the Christian Democrats, rather than Conservatives or Tories, but you get what I mean!

Some Spanish news from 1998:

Primeiro Impacto Televisa:


Noticiero Univision (the audio is very poor):

"Primer Impacto" is actually a Univision show. Televisa had an unfortunate habit of slapping a copyright notice to shows that weren't theirs. That video showed the syndicated version of "Primer Impacto Extra" without the Univision logo. Also, the "Primeiro Impacto" name is from the Brazilian TV station SBT, who actually is leasing the name out from Univision

Speaking of KI.KA, here's Logo!, their newscast for kids, produced in ZDF's news studio:



Also in Germany, BR's Rundschau got a new virtual set last week; it's virtually (pun intended!) identical to the previous physical set, but it offers more flexibility because the background can now change during the news:



This two-minute promo shows the new virtual set in action:

CityNews - CITY-TV Toronto finally got a graphics update to match its website design. Seems like its been 10 years since their last major update. While the design is not objectionable. It is a little plain. But it fits with their innovate styled news broadcast they perfected in the last couple of years. I can only call it a dispersed anchored newscast. There is one presenter in the newsroom but the majority of the broadcast is seemingly presented from the field. Its seems like every report is presented live from the scene but the usual toss to the field report is non-existant. There minimal use of music in the newscast. And they they have retained the Everywhere! tagline and they use the "city is our newsroom" as their subtag line. Its been used for years but now it certainly makes more sense. As the broadcast is most presented live from the streets of Toronto. CityNews is again an innovator in the broadcast news business. Its different, but certainly a quieter affair from its DNA of being loud brash and urbane styled newscast. Worth a watch.

A German version of Newsround, eh? Do any other countries do something similar?

Yes. Sweden has Lilla Aktuellt. https://www.svt.se/barnkanalen/barnplay/lilla-aktuellt

It broadcasts from the main SVT Nyheter news studio - where their main bulletins like Rapport, and I think Aktuellt, come from.

And here's how did the change occured today on TVB's DTT channels 83 and 85.

DTT 83 (formerly TVB iNews)


DTT 85 (formerly J5)


I don't know what happened to the TVB News Channel on PCCW's Now TV IPTV service, though. (Yeah, I know iNews was largely a simulcast of TVB News Channel with minor variation, but still...)

Denmark's DR has "Ultra Nyt", also from the main studio for TV Avisen.


I think TV 2 has also done a kids/schools news service - though I don't know if they still do.

Basically - if the BBC do something, you can pretty much guarantee that NRK, SVT and/or DR will do something similar - and probably ARD/ZDF too. The public service sensibilities of British, Scandinavian and German broadcasters are pretty close.

(SVT even use very similar page numbers to CEEFAX on their teletext service)

NRK has 'Supernytt', named after the channel 'NRK Super'. Just adding it to the list.