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…and finally

I have already posted here one or two days ago, but I want to reiterate my thanks to Asa, the moderators, and the members.

Before the screen fades to black: good night, good bye, thank you TVForum.

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International News Presentation: Past and Present

Strange choice at Radio-Canada Ottawa, where the local Téléjournal is now using a different music for the headlines and intro… but keeps the corporate music for the coming-next, stings, and closing.

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International News Presentation: Past and Present

And here's how the morning TV Avisen set looks like in action, + the intro:

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Big Ends

As a Frenchwoman it is naturally impossible for me not to recall the sad end of La Cinq, a generalist channel which lasted six years from 1986 to 1992.

La Cinq apologizes for the permanent interruption of picture and sound. It's over

(Link to the video of the last moments of La Cinq)
(or on Dailymotion)

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…and finally

I've been trying to find something meaningful to write since the news broke, but I think I'll just let the thoughts flow naturally.

I joined the TV Forum something like 4½ years ago, as a sort of extension of my interest in television branding, at the time of the launch of French channel Franceinfo. I contribute to the French website Lenodal, centered around French television presentation, and the TV Forum was a good place to exchange about television with a different (i.e. British) perspective, so I gladly joined!

I was, therefore, mostly posting in the "International News Presentation" and "French TV" topics, but reading the conversations about Newyddion, test cards, or Oneness was also very interesting to me. It has been a pleasure to share and to receive, and I learned interesting things here.

Dear Asa, I respect the reasons which led your decision to give the TV Forum a final closedown. I'm not sure I'll join the "purple successor" so here is my occasion to thank you, Asa, for giving us, and maintaining, this cozy place on the Internet to talk and share about television and about those who make television. I also wish to thank the moderators for their work, and all the members I had the pleasure to exchange with.

From me and teammates at Lenodal: salutations! Smile
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French TV

As this year's Figure Skating World Championship takes place in Sweden, France 3 strikes again:



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International News Presentation: Past and Present

Some typically minimalist Tegna graphics from KING in Seattle, WA, U.S.A.:

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

And today I learned that the musical identity for Tegna newscasts was crafted by the same company which created the French Railways sound logo…

https://www.sixiemeson.com/en/tegna-sonic-identity/
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

A new promo, from Slovakia this time, for a weekly programme which launched exactly one week ago on Jednotka, the public-service's first channel: Správy Bez Kravaty ( News Without A Tie ) which features positive stories from Slovakia and the world.

Certainly a refreshing complement to the torrents of worrying news currently.



Example of a full episode there: https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/17174/263273
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

A promo for newscasts on ČT3, Česká Televize's channel geared towards the elderly, created in March 2020.


It can be noted that the presenting style is very sober: a journalist reads the news behind a small desk, old-style.
An example of such a newscast can be found here: https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/13972804948-zpravy-ct3/221411000150308
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

Breakfiller, Breaking News intro and outro on TVNZ 1, from yesterday:

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Martin Lambie-Nairn has died

Aah very interesting, thank you for the link!
I hope it gets updated, I would absolutely love to see some of his contributions to Arte and EuroNews…
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

I apologize in advance for getting slightly off-topic here:

And some areas get inserts in minority languages, as in this Breton-language example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-3GT1fXXXw

Glad to see that the Breton language still exists, I thought it was near extinct!


Many regional languages and dialects in "metropolitan" France were affected by policies of "centralization" in the 20th century, which included imposing the Standard French into schools and forbidding the regional dialects and languages there. Some languages survived, such as Breton, Alsacien, Occitan, or Basque (though weaker than on the Spanish side of the border), and several of these are also shown on bilingual road signs for example; but many dialects are now only speaken by a few old people (such as the one in my region, Saintongeais).

It seems to me that because of that, regional languages in France are not as strong, present, and alive, than in Germany and Spain for instance (there are even regional television channels entirely in Basque, Galician, Catalan there, although it may also have to do with looser restrictions on free-to-air television there).

A news bulletin on Canal+ from 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtoCN7OTYcw

Unrelated, but I've always been a fan of Étienne Robial's branding work for Canal+


Ah, Étienne Robial… ♥ Not only did he create the whole branding for Canal+ in 1984 and then again in 1995, he also worked for M6, La Sept (ARTE's French ancestor), i>Télé… He has a sort of a "cult status" among French television design!

In a conference held last year, he told that the first elements of Canal+'s first visual identity were made by night, in London, using equipments belonging to Channel + and the BBC.

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