The Newsroom

International News Presentation: Past and Present

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
HA
Hazimworks
TweeVandaag opener 2002:



The opener feels like a typical British newsmagazine to me. It even has the vibes of a typical newsmagazine from Ireland.
WW Update, Quatorzine Neko and Woodpecker gave kudos
WO
Woodpecker
Hazimworks posted:
TweeVandaag opener 2002:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYuurJmLVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiaEO7VmO6I

The opener feels like a typical British newsmagazine to me. It even has the vibes of a typical newsmagazine from Ireland.


Yes, a lot of the designs on Dutch TV have been influenced by British TV. Indeed, a lot of their looks have been designed by British companies - for example, the current logos for the Dutch public channels, NPO 1, 2 and 3, were designed by Kemistry in London, and the 2005 NOS rebrand was designed by Lambie-Nairn.

After a major restructure of the public channels in 2006, TweeVandaag moved from Nederland 2 to Nederland 1, and appropriately was renamed to EenVandaag. Nowadays, the structure of the NPO channels isn't a million miles away from the BBC - NPO 1 is for mainstream programmes, NPO 2 is the in-depth channel, and NPO 3 is the youth channel, which shares space with NPO's childrens' channel.
Hazimworks and Quatorzine Neko gave kudos
HA
Hazimworks
Woodpecker posted:
Hazimworks posted:
Woodpecker posted:

Yes, it was SBS6's first foray into international news; that being said, from what I can gather, the stories covered were those deemed to have some relevance to 'the ordinary man or woman'. To use an example from the programme's editor, Boris Yeltsin's heart bypass would be covered, but NATO's expansion to eastern Europe would not. As always with SBS6, Actienieuws' coverage was highly sensationalist, SBS6 being a populist, downmarket channel. (SBS6 even showed soft porn late at night in its early days - remind you of a certain British channel?)

Anyway, as you say, Actienieuws didn't last very long, being axed at the start of 1999. It was revived in 2004, and did very well this time round, regularly attracting over half a million viewers. Ultimately, it proved too expensive to produce, and was again axed in 2006, being replaced with an extra edition of Hart van Nederland, which continues to this day. Clips from this second era are scarce, but I did manage to find a promotion from around 2004 for Actienieuws: (BTW, I really dig the theme tune in that clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzqdSjTjmA4

BTW, I found out the reason for Hart van Nederland only ever having female presenters: the chief editor's reasoning is that "They are familiar faces and recognizable types - they could be your wife, girlfriend or mother."

There are no newscasts on NET 5 I think.


I think you're right - though I think there was one in the station's early days. An interesting fact about SBS6 (and by extension, NET 5) was that when it was set up, the owners didn't want it to be part of the media establishment in Hilversum, so they instead chose to base the channel(s) in Amsterdam. Not too dissimilar to the thinking behind Channel 4's possible move at the moment...

NET 5's newscast in 1999
WW Update, Woodpecker and Quatorzine Neko gave kudos
BA
Bail Moderator
Hazimworks posted:

News from Voyagers Holodeck?
Hazimworks, Woodpecker and mark gave kudos
GU
guest03
WW Update posted:
The SNT Three posted:
radiolistener posted:
Are there any 24/7 news radio stations in Germany?


Most of the Länder have a publicly financed one (e.g MDR Aktuell, HR-info...). These vary in format but tend to operate a 15 or 20 minute newswheel format.



And late at night, most of these news stations come together for ARD-Infonacht, a national news service produced at MDR's studios in Halle (even though a few of the stations still have their own regional opt-outs at that time).

Here's a look behind the scenes at ARD-Infonacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pScbH0ywoZ0


Here's the jingle of ARD-Infonacht (1:15)


It sounds a bit similar to the news intro music of "MDR Aktuell" in TV.
BB
BBI45
guest03 posted:
WW Update posted:
The SNT Three posted:

Most of the Länder have a publicly financed one (e.g MDR Aktuell, HR-info...). These vary in format but tend to operate a 15 or 20 minute newswheel format.



And late at night, most of these news stations come together for ARD-Infonacht, a national news service produced at MDR's studios in Halle (even though a few of the stations still have their own regional opt-outs at that time).

Here's a look behind the scenes at ARD-Infonacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pScbH0ywoZ0



Here's the jingle of ARD-Infonacht (1:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNgNaWj4Lq8

It sounds a bit similar to the news intro music of "MDR Aktuell" in TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAt_JofBmsA

The ARD Infonacht jingles are exactly the same as the ones on MDR Aktuell on radio:

Quatorzine Neko and guest03 gave kudos
HA
Hazimworks
NOS, News in text form and Jeugdjournaal (children's news), Netherlands, 1986
( the news in text form is at the start of the clip; Jeugdjournaal is at 28:40 on the same clip )

HA
Hazimworks
How foreign TV stations react to the Dutch royal wedding, 2002:


Includes mostly ZDF and VRT.
HA
Hazimworks
Telesguard (Romanish news), Switzerland, 2005:
WO
Woodpecker
Hazimworks posted:
How foreign TV stations react to the Dutch royal wedding, 2002:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawCnq-5W0E

Includes mostly ZDF and VRT.


I know I said this in the news themes thread, but I really do love the 2002 VRT look (0:43 in the video). Great music, very clean, almost spartan titles and a gorgeous set, that all complement each other perfectly.

I'm also a huge fan of the look that came after that (introduced in 2008), which I understand is a bit of a TVF favourite. Again, very clean, very minimalistic, and very ahead of its time. Oh, and some utterly fantastic music. Incidentally, it was designed by a British company called whynotassociates (all one word).

LT
LTSC1980
TVB Pearl, Hong Kong, 1981:

TVB Pearl, Hong Kong, 1986:
WW
WW Update
TVSA; local news for Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2018:

Last edited by WW Update on 7 March 2018 12:30am

Newer posts