International News Presentation: Past and Present

This is so right, I cannot give this enough love. This is applies not just to TV broadcasters, but radio broadcasters as well. The ones that know their areas that they're broadcasting to, know sources, know how to tell the story well, are the ones that I prefer over people merely reading scripts written for them off a screen, be it autocue or computer screen.

Its a pet peeve of mine really. When a story breaks and the presenter can barely put two words together and every other word is umm or uhh. Or they get very repeat-y. Or the halting speech starts. WE- ARE- HEARING- THAT-AN-INCIDENT- HAS-HAPPENED...whats with the robot speech. That's where you have to draw on what you know of a location or a place or situation. No, of course they cant know everything. These people's actual job is to talk on tv or radio. Breaking News shouldnt be a situation where they are given that much of pass. Im sorry to say. Yes its a confusing time and not everyone can do it well. But ive seen waaaaaay too many situations where presenters are on air literally for hours, days nonstop, smooth and un-flustered. Unflappable. No autocue in sight. So it can be done and done well. The job it to inform or warn. If you cant talk, then you've fallen at the first hurdle.

A 1980 promotional video for the world's first news channel, which began broadcasting on June 1 of that year:

TV One, New Zealand, 2008:



As was mentioned several pages ago, the presenter, Greg Boyed, very sadly died a few weeks ago.

And this is what RBB's news updates look like:

CBUT (CBC); Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 2018:

Mestnoe Vremya Voskreseniye (Local news for Saint Petersburg), Rossiya 1, Russia, 2018:

And across the international border from Vancouver, here's the news from KING in Seattle:

One thing I like bout the G3 2.0 graphics is how the network logo outline starts the open.

One thing I don’t understand about CBC is pre DTV transition all their networks were 1080i on the DTV transmitters. Once the switch occured they downgraded to 720p and the reason they gave was the conversion. The CBC transmitters in English speaking region only carry the single HD feed. The Ici Radio-Canada Télé Are also 720p and as far as I know no subchannels either.

And here's a historical compilation of Arte's news intros from 1992, when the channel was created, to the present day:

And here's the Persian-language news from IRIB, Iran's state-controlled broadcaster (the successor to NIRT), 2013: