(also note that the last station, Antena 10, in Teresina, Piau�, uses the BBC News theme, more on that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ephqyTsQyD0 - someone at the BBC should know about that.)
Russia's NTV had renewed their late-night bulletin
Ñåãîäíÿ (Segodnya; Today)
at 23:15. Currently, changes are being implemented only on +0 stream (as I told before, Russian channels broadcast time-shifted versions of their channels for various time zones; +0 stream corresponds to European part of Russia, including Moscow and St.Petersburg).
The new bulletin is called
Ñåãîäíÿ: Èòîãè (Segodnya: Itogi; "Today: The Summary"),
This name refers both to Segodnya and also to the famous current affairs programme Itogi, which was broadcast until 2001. This bulletin, unlike all other Segodnya bulletins, focuses on specific headline of the day.
Opener from the first edition, 24.10.2011 (in all other time zones, the usual edition was shown):
Note: the weather ticker wasn't seen before this start. As it appeared later during the bulletin, I guess that was the test of this ticker.
and the opening sequence to the last-ever Jornal das 24, the last-ever bulletin on RTPN (now RTP Informação):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5D46z7WMGQ (that's how the RTP Porto virtual set used to look like on RTPN before the relaunch)
Two new compilations of current news intros from around the world:
Thanks for posting that compilation Mr W.
Some points.
1) I wonder if, when putting the Greenwich Time Pips into the new BBC News theme all those years ago, David Lowe would actually believe that it would be copied (or be commisioned by other broadcasters around the world) so often and put into so many news themes?
2) Isn't it a bit brave of the Russian broadcaster NTV1 (@ 1.20 in) to rework the old 'Soviet era' theme tune for the current news broadcasts? Given how during the communist rule the main evening news was the official mouthpiece of the ruling government, it must have been a lively discussion to agree to commission an up to date theme and go with that to start the broadcasts today. Like the set by the way - and you think the Sky News studio is vast..!
3) The ProSieben opener (@4.00) is a classic example of style over substance, and I'm not sure what the idea of the opening titles of 'Le JT (@5.09) actually do, other than give the audience a headache with a lot of flashing red and white blocks!
4) Hasn't the Meet The Press set grown in size since the days of Tim Russert?
2) Isn't it a bit brave of the Russian broadcaster NTV1 (@ 1.20 in) to rework the old 'Soviet era' theme tune for the current news broadcasts? Given how during the communist rule the main evening news was the official mouthpiece of the ruling government, it must have been a lively discussion to agree to commission an up to date theme and go with that to start the broadcasts today.
I've often wondered about that myself, considering that the Communist-era Vremya was a textbook example of what broadcasting journalism should not be like. However, I also know that many Russians are nostalgic about some elements of the Soviet Union, so the theme may be reasurringly familiar to them. (After all, Aeroflot decided to retain its hammer-and-sickle logo several year ago based on market research.) Perhaps German will be able to tell us more?
I think it was purely a channel's decision to relaunch
Vremya
in 1994 with the familiar theme. As I know, there weren't any complaints regarding this choice of music.
Probably this theme was chosen just because it
became closely and completely connected with Vremya
(unlike other themes from 80s which, as you may know, were also used), not as a remainder of Communism and so on.