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(May 2019)

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WH
Whataday Founding member
WW Update posted:
Some interesting use of chromakey by Thames News back in 1980 -- similar to what several U.S. and French broadcasters were doing at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yD1Yu0ajL0


I'm pretty sure Not The Nine O'Clock News spoofed this at one stage during their 'news bulletins'.
WW
WW Update
In Denver, KUSA's 6 p.m. newscast purposely rejects the conventions of local television news -- and the (unusual, sometimes even odd) result has won the program considerable praise from critics.

Here's a sample newscast:

Last edited by WW Update on 26 June 2019 11:11pm

19 days later

WW
WW Update
WW Update posted:
Some years later, WGCL in Atlanta rebranded its newscasts as Clear News and adopted a version of I Can See Clearly Now (The Rain is Gone) as its theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKG6HWO9orw


Here are a few more news intros featuring pop tunes...

MacArthur Park:



Classical Gas (News intros don't get much more dramatic than this):

20 days later

WW
WW Update
WW Update posted:
But as we've seen in another thread, the BBC's Angela Rippon did a stellar job co-anchoring Antenne 2's news in French from London three years earlier. France 2 even adopted the BBC's look for the occasion.

My French is almost non-existent, but Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, the French anchor, mentions at the beginning how low-key the BBC look is compared to the French style, with no CSO backgrounds, and so on:



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Here's another oddity; Australian anchor Anne Fulwood on a station in Austin, Texas, as part of an anchor exchange program:

15 days later

WW
WW Update
Having bookcases as your news set backdrop is certainly unconventional. But is it effective? You decide:

OM
OrmeMac
WW Update posted:
WW Update posted:
Some years later, WGCL in Atlanta rebranded its newscasts as Clear News and adopted a version of I Can See Clearly Now (The Rain is Gone) as its theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKG6HWO9orw


Here are a few more news intros featuring pop tunes...

MacArthur Park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Xl-qxP4so

Classical Gas (News intros don't get much more dramatic than this):

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


Reporting Scotland used ELP's Fanfare for the Common Man for a number of years. Can't find the original title sequence but the music made a reappearance to mark their 50th anniversary.

MA
Markymark
OrmeMac posted:


Reporting Scotland used ELP's Fanfare for the Common Man for a number of years.


Fanbelt for the Commer Van Cool

Is that Ken Bruce's voice right at the start of the clip ? (He used to be a BBC Scotland CA)
CA
Capybara
Markymark posted:
OrmeMac posted:


Reporting Scotland used ELP's Fanfare for the Common Man for a number of years.


Fanbelt for the Commer Van Cool

Is that Ken Bruce's voice right at the start of the clip ? (He used to be a BBC Scotland CA)

Sounds like it to me, but it could just be another RP accent
GU
Gusan
OrmeMac posted:
WW Update posted:
WW Update posted:
Some years later, WGCL in Atlanta rebranded its newscasts as Clear News and adopted a version of I Can See Clearly Now (The Rain is Gone) as its theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKG6HWO9orw


Here are a few more news intros featuring pop tunes...

MacArthur Park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Xl-qxP4so

Classical Gas (News intros don't get much more dramatic than this):

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


Reporting Scotland used ELP's Fanfare for the Common Man for a number of years. Can't find the original title sequence but the music made a reappearance to mark their 50th anniversary.

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


And MacArthur Park !
https://youtu.be/HFsPRvzwdMA?t=710
Last edited by Gusan on 20 August 2019 9:27pm

35 days later

WH
whoiam989
On the day Thomas Cook collapsed, Norway's NRK gave an explanation of how the British company began its business back in the 19th century. Notice how the reporter is giving the presentation... in an unusual way for an evening newscast.

Arrow https://tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA21092319&t=168s

(Thomas Cook's Norwegian subsidiary was also affected by the bankruptcy, by the way.)

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