A French news channel inspired by the BBC, and now France 2

Hello, I am French excuse me for my english.
I am absolutely shocked ! The first news channel in France inspire to the BBC in his new ident !

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8908/bbcbfmcn5.jpg

Video : http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5585

It looks like this channel has been "inspired" by British TV before. This is the day of its launch in 2005:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=3939

And this is a short clip of Sky News from the same year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY13zDH0HDA

Hardly copying no matter who was first imo

Still can't get onto that website for some unknown reason?.

Lenodal.com uses embedded RealMedia clips, unlike YouTube, which uses Flash. Do you have a RealPlayer installed on your computer?

Yes.

Commercial break
http://nsa03.casimages.com/img/2009/01/08/090108120350337454.jpg

They are also inspired by CNN for the QG.
BFMTV
CNN

After the french news channel BFMTV, it is the channel France 2 which copies the Australian channel ABC 2 !


France 2 :
http://images0.hiboox.com/images/0309/09b85cd3ed899b3fbda83afb98c4f900.jpg
http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=5601

ABC 2 :
http://images0.hiboox.com/images/0309/9fa292720be2a91b3457520dd231b91c.jpg
http://idents.tv/videos/newABC2citycountry08.html

The ABC-2 video ident looks at first glance more like somewhere in Quebec than in Australia.

Any idea where it was actually recorded?

That's obviously very similar!

Wasn't there a Chinese channel that recently had a legal issue for producing news titles very similar to something from Germany?

I think they probably were recorded in either Sydney or Melbourne, i'm not too sure