International News Presentation: Past and Present

In 1980, the NBC Nightly News took a look at the future of television, including a brand-new British import known as teletext:

Not an actual on air presentation, but this mock of Telexornal on TVG in Galicia, Spain uses the same music.


By the way, speaking of Bloomberg Daybreak , how many shows on Bloomberg use stock music as their theme?

Local elections in Denmark last month - here's the graphics package used by DR, in line with the refreshed look for its main news broadcast (TV Avisen). A large part of this video is the opening sequence and introductions for the main pre-election debate at DR's concert hall.

WTOP; Washington, D.C.; 1972:

Antenne 2's 8 p.m. news from 40 years ago this week. The bizarre coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa as Emperor of Central Africa -- a lavish ceremony that virtually bankrupted his country -- is the lead story:

FR3, France, 1978:

From Jiangsu Province in China, a compilation of JSBC NEWS intros/outros from 2016 to the present.

From Shandong Province in China, a compilation of SDRTC NEWS intros/outros from August 2017 to the present.

And here's TV2's coverage - TV2 has regional stations, so they took the lead with region-specific coverage on the primary channel. This video shows clips from the island of Funen (Fyn). At the same time, the TV2 News channel offered separate national coverage -
the national team took over on TV2 at 11pm.

That looks great. I often say that I wish the BBC was more slick and dynamic - this video is a great example of what I mean by that.

Johnny Hallyday interview on TF1 France, 1990.