International News Presentation: Past and Present

Fixed.

Argh! I can't get anything right these days.

I don't know where the CBS et. al thread is. But I believe today they launched new special report graphics that match their current CBS Evening News package. This is a montage of the new graphical elements and a bit of President Trump's opening remarks.

It's a nice update, but they still have tendencies to squash the text, due to the eye still being in the 4:3 safe-area.

Some North Korean TV shots from today, from various sources on Twitter, they almost entirely ignored events on the border


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NK moved to HD I see.

According to experts appeared in this Business Insider report, the North Korean state media fears the unpredictability of live broadcasts, and they want to show the ordinary people what they want, like Kim Jong Un's image. Similarly, the North's Korean Central TV did not show this year's Winter Olympics held in South Korea live, probably because they did not want to show the positive images of the South to ordinary Northerners.

Anyway, North Korea's state news agency KCNA reported about the outcome of the summit on this Saturday morning North Korean time, and so did KCTV this Saturday afternoon, all according to CNN.

Yes, KCTV launched HD broadcast on December 4, 2017.

Here's KCTV's news coverage of the meeting, translated into English:



And eve though it's a bit off-topic for this thread, here's an interesting video about KCTV's entertainment and sports programming:

This is really incredible. Since it’s “international” to me. This is the handover to the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. All six minutes were done in a single take with a single camera and two Technocranes (50’ and 75’). Apparently a special mount was designed for the MoVï rig to the Technocranes easily mount/dismount the RF Sony P1 Camera.



That morning they did two recorded run throughs playing out incase of anything.

They only started on Thursday with rigging and off camera rehearsals. Friday were individual rehearsals. And Saturday was the full rehearsal.


More here

https://everyaxis.com/superhuman-camerawork-a-6-minute-one-take-live-shot-d12d9573aaee

Also, (may have asked this before) why is it that Korean and other languages not broadcast English characters typically have a English abbreviations in their logo and openings.

One example is KBS having it on their signage on their outdoor set.

One reason may be that a lot of display technologies - like 5x7 and 14-segment LCD/VFD matrix displays - display Roman characters better than they display non-Roman characters like Kanji, Hangul, Arabic, Farsi etc. Some broadcast standards may also dictate Roman ASCII characters being used in channel names etc.?

However I suspect the use of Roman characters pre-date this - so may not be an original cause, but a continued reason.

Even boring things like SPG idents for colour bars may need to be in basic Roman. They also work far more effectively internationally as Roman characters have become a defacto 'standard' I guess?