International News Presentation: Past and Present

And from September 11, 1972, here's the first-ever (1 p.m.) edition of 24 heures sur la une. It begins with the news director's explanation of the 24 heures team's move from Channel Two to Channel One. A you can see, most of the presentation elements survived the move unchanged:

N24 Nachrichten, Germany (2011)

RTL TVI, Belgium (French), 2019:

VTM, Belgium (Dutch), 2019:


VRT, Belgium (Dutch), 2019:

I didn't think they had chairs in Germany.

And here's the late edition:

Staying in Belgium, a historical compilation of RTBF (French) news intros since 1973:

Very casual attire from the presenter there. I think certain types would probably wet themselves if a newsreader wore that here...



That 1997 intro (4:58 in the video) is certainly very unique; you can tell it comes from a French-speaking country.

Still staying in Belgium, here's a full edition of VTM's late news, 2 days before 9/11 (promo at 0:20, intro at 12:34, outro at 31:48 below):

And here's Intro Collector's compilation of BRT/BRTN/VRT (Dutch-language) news intros since 1953 -- including some very postmodern intros in the late 1980s/early '90s:



WARNING: You may end up getting the 1950s/'60s theme stuck in your head.

AAAARGH! I hadn't long gotten that '50s theme out of my head when I clicked on your video and then... let's just say it's now going round in my head like some sort of demented teacup!

That being said, I do think there are some great intros in that video. I especially love the ones from 2002 and 2008 (which changed colour depending on the time of day).

And while we are in Belgium, German-language broadcaster BRF launched a new intro for its newscast Blickpunkt :

IntroCollector has uploaded two new compilations of news intros.

NTS/NOS in the Netherlands, 1956-present:



MTV, Hungary, 1957-present: