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International News Presentation: Past and Present

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More fascinating US local news intros and promos from the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and 2000s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTaR4WJlJGk
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This compilation includes some Canadian intros:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXhYeeWZjUE
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Here's another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46KoFvVaizE

You'll notice that many American news intros in these compilations feature what are commonly known as "talent opens" -- opening sequences that include images of the station's news anchors.

Talent opens are rare in Europe, but here's an exception -- Wales Today from the BBC, 1988:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz_pPNfeCS8

And here's a 1998 Australian newscast also featuring a talent open:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23JvZhrr_c
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Here's another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46KoFvVaizE

You'll notice that many American news intros in these compilations feature what are commonly known as "talent opens" -- opening sequences that include images of the station's news anchors.


And here's a 1998 Australian newscast also featuring a talent open:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23JvZhrr_c

they were fairly common on the Seven Network until 2000, then they brought it back in 2004, then all but the perth news bulletin got rid of them again by 2006.
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OBN, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSNBnXWnuw0

Fox Serbia, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcVcAGUBIy8
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To celebrate New Year, here's the news from TF1 in France on today's date exactly 30 years ago -- a snowy January 1, 1979 (the clip takes a few seconds to load):

http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=CAA06010454

Note the thoroughly psychedelic intro and those wonderful2CVs!
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byron
The Nine Network of Australia went pink today to support the McGrath Foundation.
All on air talent had pink clothing (pink ties for male presenters) and the idents and cricket graphics also went pink.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/3169389367_5981c19c60.jpg
(cap thanks to Moe at MediaSpy)

Caps of idents and cricket graphics: http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=15851&view=findpost&p=549382

(The caps above have a different (ball-less) logo because they are not o&o by the network.
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TF1, France: Good Morning l'Amérique (US election special), 2008:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5220

BFM TV, France, QC, 2008:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5121
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TF1, France, first newscast in HD, 2008:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5172

And here's France 2, TF1's public service counterpart:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5116
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News intros from Taiwan's Era News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQZkCBLC4Y

I see most of Taiwanese news graphics are too-US-styled messy. Music and graphical intro goes out of the corporate look. Also, I don't know why they don't start a bulletin at the top of the hour.
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KSL, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1989 (this highly-respected station is owned by the Mormon Church):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8CEgFN2N7A
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This 1989 news intro from Cincinnati features anchorman Nick Clooney; he's actor George Clooney's father:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEf8720mYDE

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