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International News Presentation: Past and Present

(February 2007)

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As mentioned here a long time ago, in 1977 a group of Communist aerospace unionists (protesting New York's ban on Concorde flights) occupied the studios of TF1 in Paris just as the headline sequence of the 8PM national news was getting underway.

This report about the studio invasion aired the following day -- it shows how the protesters startled the anchor, how the director then cut to a slide, and how the negotiations continued behind the scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BKtg4U12xo&t=2m29s

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/tf1-invasion-1a_zpsd1bcd5b4.jpg


And here's another in-studio protest -- AIDS activists interrupting the beginning of the CBS Evening News in 1991:

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The signature tune of that programme, starts with the Pompey Chimes, which as any resident of South Hampshire will tell you is used in Portsmouth by everybody from the city's football supporters, the Royal Navy, and even (to remain reasonably on topic) the city's 1970/80s ILR station, Radio Victory

http://www.thisisilr.co.uk/rv/rv2theme.mp3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKPankas_k

Quite how the NOS ended up using it is beyond me, but the whole title sequence seems to be the product of smoking far too many 'substances'.


Or the first bars of the top of the hour chime of Big Ben - but then I would steer you away from the Pompey connection, being a lifelong Southampton Fc fan Very Happy


Fair point Laughing (Ask someone from either city, what's the best thing to come out of the other ?
and the answer will be the same, the M27 Very Happy )


That said, the loose jazz arrangement did work better for a news programme opener of the time than I thought it would.


Rather like LWT's morning start up sequence from the IBA years Cool
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A couple more news intros from Tvcl's collection...

DW, Germany; news in English, 2014:



Arise News, from London, 2014:

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That is just a really nice backdrop.

And here is Richard on TEN Early News:
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WTF is Arise News? How on Earth do these minuscule peripheral news channels come anywhere close to profitability? Surely they're all just shouting into the abyss with an average audience in the dozens.
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NYTV
WTF is Arise News? How on Earth do these minuscule peripheral news channels come anywhere close to profitability? Surely they're all just shouting into the abyss with an average audience in the dozens.

Arise News launched in February 2013 http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/arise-news-38977/ with studios in London, New York, Johannesburg and Lagos. Arise News was founded by Nduka Obaigbena, owner of the Nigerian newspaper ThisDay . Arise News would later run into financial troubles in August when talent and behind-the-line employees were not getting paid.









Arise's SD & HD feeds were later off the air and removed from EPG http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/arise-news-hd-air-39389/.
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WTF is Arise News? How on Earth do these minuscule peripheral news channels come anywhere close to profitability? Surely they're all just shouting into the abyss with an average audience in the dozens.


They don't! They're usually either Politically Motivated, A vanity project, or worst of all someone who's mad enough to think that they can launch a profitable international news service with only millions in the bank.
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ARD (Das Erste), Germany; morning show, 2014:



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And here's the ZDF version of Morgenmagazin . (As we talked about in another thread, ARD (Das Erste) and ZDF have an unusual arrangement in which they produce their morning shows on alternate weeks. Each broadcaster's version of Morgenmagazin is then shown on both channels.):



And speaking of Germany, here's the last-ever edition of ARD's week-in-review program from two days ago, with a look back at its 61-year (!) history -- note that it used the same branding as Tagesschau :

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Ebru TV, Ebru Africa News 14 February 2014. Ebru, a subsidiary of the Istanbul-based Samanyolu Broadcasting Company previously had a morning show "Ebru Today" and the Ebru Afternoon News but were all cut and by August 2014, only the Ebru Evening News remains. All of Ebru's American operations is located in Somerset, NJ. The Ebru Afternoon/ Evening News shared the same open featured in this video. I should also note they have NO affiliation with NBC despite the NBC chimes featured in the open. This is also the final "Ebru Africa News" broadcast that was uploaded to Ebru Africa's YouTube page.
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For those interested in the history of U.S. television news, here's an article about the "Golden Age" of American broadcast journalism. It's actually a book review of a recent Cronkite biography, but the article's author, Charles Ponce de Leon, is also writing a book about television news, and his article contains some interesting analysis:

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-most-trusted-man-in-america

Here's an excerpt:

Quote:
Comfortable with their authority as professional journalists, [the network news teams] resolved to provide viewers with news about things that they ought to know—on the assumption that this would make them more informed citizens. This unabashedly “elitist” mission informed the content and format of the CBS Evening News and its competitors throughout Cronkite’s tenure. Cronkite and his staff identified the stories they thought were most important and then reported them in ways that would enable viewers to see how they were connected to the “drama” of our national life. It was an ambitious, distinctly educational project, directing their audience’s attention outward, beyond the provincial and familiar, to encourage understanding of a distant and complex public world. Often this meant making viewers aware of things they might not know about—for example, the extent of white resistance to the civil rights movement in the South, the prevalence of industrial pollution, or the economic and social problems plaguing American cities.
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TF1, France; 1 P.M. news, 1981 -- very trippy in the French style of that time:



TF1, France; 8 P.M. news, 1985 -- the launch of a brand-new look:

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