New look ABC World News Tonight: Ohhhh! Big Screen!

DR

dramzan 13 January 2004 1:28am

New titles, new graphics and the newsroom was "repositioned" for a very wide screen behind Jennings. Think of the fake newsroom setting on the BBC national news, except wider. Otherwise the red/blue theme of WNT is still here. What a bad time to have no money for a capture card!

DV

dvboy 13 January 2004 1:52am

AP

AdamP 13 January 2004 1:58am

Peter Jennings mentioned the 'new surroundings' at the end of the programme. He said they hoped it would help their ability to communicate, not distract from it.

DV

dvboy 13 January 2004 2:01am

Maybe they looked at the new look BBC News 24 and thought "anything you can do, we can do bigger... and in nicer colours too".

DR

dramzan 13 January 2004 3:28am

Basically all of the screens are new, and the main newsdesks have been pushed to the side. Other news shows like World News Now come from a seperate studio (for the time being) which looks like the old one, and i belived is shared with the online newscasts on abcnews.com. Can't wait to see a giant WNN logo on tht screen. Also thanks to Lee Stanley for posting pics.

MQ

Mr Q 13 January 2004 3:51am

Apart from the big screen, it looks a bit plain, doesn't it?

BB

BBC unTALENT 13 January 2004 3:25pm

Mr Q posted:

Apart from the big screen, it looks a bit plain, doesn't it?

It does.... it looks very British actually...

Finally they've caught up!

IN

intheknow 13 January 2004 3:45pm

Some would probably say that ABC have just done a rip-off from channels like Sky News and CNBC, although rather than a videowall with lots of small screens as such, they have just gone for one massive projection screen.

At least ABC News now have a larger presentation area, rather than that *tiny* little set perched at the end of a newsroom (before they moved to another studio presumably to allow these changes to be done in the main area. I was wondering why for the past few months the background was very static, I think they just moved the old background and desk into another studio).

MD

mdtauk 13 January 2004 3:46pm

Looks like abc like the Newswall...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/r.hardy63/lee/stuff/abcwnt8.jpg

IN

intheknow 13 January 2004 3:49pm

Just imagine, that if BBC News 24 had that amount of space available, they may well have gone for something simular to ABC's "newswall".

SN

Snu 13 January 2004 6:36pm

I hope they've kept the fantastic World News Tonight headline bed. One of the finest of its kind!

(I'd love a copy by the way if anyone has one?)

:-(

A former member 14 January 2004 2:36am

Does anyone have a video clip of the titles by any chance?

New look ABC World News Tonight

Ohhhh! Big Screen! (January 2004)