International News Presentation: Past and Present

And this is how the evening edition of the new Telenoticias looks (and sounds) like:

Nearly 7 minutes for the headline sequence!! That's got to be some sort of record. I was losing the will to live.

I disagree - the more original elements in that theme (the siren noise replacing the beeps, the orchestral hit at the end) just make it seem like less of a homage and more a crap remix / mock.

Incidentally, the previous theme seems to be "inspired" by RTVE's Telediario.



This sort of length is standard with news in Spain, at least in the other programmes I've seen.

I like the headline bed. The opening is similar to the BBC's with what I call the "cats cradle" (what are the connecting things called internally at the BBC) but still unique.


It's a bit tedious. With about a minute of clips for each headline has me wondering if it will be repeated in the package later on? Some of the clips are the length of entire packages I see in the US or on BBC World. Also did anyone see how many cue cards each presenter was holding? I couldn't tell if they were individual index cards or a card being used to hide regular sized paper folded in half.

I believe Spanish newscasts have a 5 to 7-minute-long intro sequence so that people who just want to know the basic news watch the newscast during the first few minutes, and only those who want to dig deeper in the news watch the rest.

In comparison, in France or in Denmark or in the UK were intros are way shorter (more or less 1 minute), I believe it's more in order to attract the viewer and make him watch the whole newscast.

Anyway, the 5 to 7-minute-long intros found in Spain remind me of a previous French newscast which was called "6 Minutes". The aim was to summarize news in six minutes, and that made it successful for years.

So I guess Spanish newscasts want the advantages of both "6 Minutes"-style newscasts and traditional half-an-hour or full-hour newscasts.

ORB Brandenburg Aktuell , Germany, 1996:



I always liked their logo:

(source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostdeutscher_Rundfunk_Brandenburg )

B1 Abendschau, Berlin/Germany, 1995 (starts at 1:15)

That Susanne Daubner is now a regular anchor on Tagesschau.
(I don't watch Tagesschau on a real TV or on their Youtube channel but only watched some Tagesschau openers on Youtube).
Also the former ORB was possibly the only German public broadcaster, other than Deutsche Welle in the 1990s that puts their on screen logo at the bottom. Other broadcasters are at mostly top left, some top right.

The ORB logo is somewhat unique, depicting a country landscape.

The beauty cam seen before the weather and as the background over the Abendschau titles faces the Reichstag's building, still under renovation and being blanketed up until 1999.

It was an art project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude#Wrapped_Reichstag

n-tv, Germany, 2001

What's the point of KBS having two different morning newscasts, News Plaza and Morning News Time?