The Newsroom

International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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uktvwatcher
Pershi pro golovne, ZIK, Ukraine, 2019:
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WW Update
To mark today's mayoral election in Chicago, let's turn back the clock 36 years to the 1983 vote, as seen on the 6 p.m. news from WLS:

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Mouseboy33
Chicago Elected its first black mayor Harold Washington in 1983. And tonight 2019 it elected the first gay black female mayor.
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fox1
TEN News Melbourne 6PM - Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989

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WW Update
Now may be a good time to take a look at current Austrian news intros, including those from ORF eins. This compilation is from early 2017, but I think ATV is the only station that has had any substantive changes since then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbH-Z2QL-E



And on a related theme, here is another repeat; the evolution of ORF's Zeit im Bild intros since the 1950s:

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WW Update
CKSH, Sherbrooke; Quebec, Canada (French-language); news promo, 1986:



Télé-Metropole, Canada (French-language); news update, 1984:



Staying in Quebec, here's an Alan Parsons Project instrumental being used as a theme for a current affairs program in 1982:

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WW Update
Another preview of ORF's new set:

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Woodpecker
Another preview of ORF's new set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqMVQY2Qb4


The whole thing looks utterly fantastic - and if nothing else, I'll be glad to see the back of the awful set they currently have, and hopefully the music, too.
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WW Update
TV2 Nord; North Jutland, Denmark; 2019:

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watchingtv
For one day only North Korea gets a modern news bulletin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-47831570/north-korea-state-tv-goes-hi-tech-for-a-day
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whoiam989
Why? April Fool's Day was only 11 days away.

On a related note, here's a compilation from South Korea's YNA:
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WW Update
KING; Seattle, WA, U.S.A.; morning news (4:30 a.m.), 2019:

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