International News Presentation: Past and Present

This is how France 2 announced the winner (at 8PM CET, based on exit polls):



And the same from TF1:

Was thinking that earlier on - the countdown reveal varied from the typical (TF1, France 2) to the overtly cheesy (M6) but Canal's one was by far and away the more original and just quite pretty to look at. Although I did like the horrific mutant faces of TF1.

And here is video of that cheesy M6 countdown:

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=12104

Someone must have watched too much Star Trek .

Right on cue, the Eiffel Tower shimmers and sparkles beautifully for the 2100 TOTH on BBC News from Paris.

Canal+ presentation has always been original, to say the least. They did the same thing with the countdown for the first round results, but 20-11 were spoken out loud by the candidates themselves.

http://medias.lenodal.com/video.php?id=12027

Two weeks ago when Sopel was commenting in detail on how nice this was, he suddenly added as an aside that this was normal and not a celebration of Hollande's victory.

And this is how the victory of the Fifth Republic's first Socialist president was announced on Antenne 2 (now France 2) in 1981:

And here's CNN announcing Bill Clinton's reelection, 1996;

From 1981, bits and pieces of Good Morning Australia , including a local news update from ATV10 in Melbourne and the national news from Sydney:



(Via bambbbam at MediaSpy)

A compilation of news intros from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1989:



(via Raymie at TVNT)

Here's some highlights from Ten News' special bulletin on Australia's Federal Budget:




Airing at 10:15pm, it was quite different from Ten's usual news product. It was broadcast from the networks morning television set, used Pink Floyd's 'Money' rather than Ten News' theme, and focused heavily on social media.

Portugal's TVI has revised once again the on-air look of its Jornal das 8 . The headline sequence now comes from a virtual set and they have new music (a downgrade, IMO).