New-look Headline News

CNN Headline News re-launched today. It looks wonderful! The graphics and music are excellent. There four or five presenters in the studio at once works great. The studio is excellent too. There's a neat flash tour on their website at CNN Headline News

They've also launched great new promos, they feature widescreen TVs - the channel isn't in widescreen, but ist must be 'adaptable' somehow. There are usually two presenters. The broadcasts are live sometimes, but they are recorded too.

On the bottom of the screen there are a whole bunch of graphics, featuring Headlines, the time/date, a weather map, MarketWatch, Sport News, and other stuff.

Sorry I can't get you any screenshots -- I still have to wait for compatibility for TV Cards. You can watch Headline News online I think though…

Sounds very nice. I saw the promos for the new look and it looked good.
I still think CNN has the best studio in the world! Of course, my mind may change once September 3rd arrives...

I've uploaded the CNN Headlines News open. It's here: http://www.geocities.com/hintonews Look for 'Re-launched CNN Headline News 2001 Open.' Please notify me if it doesn't work.

(I can't directly link to the file cos of Geocities' remote loading restrictions.)

BTW That was Andrea Thompson's debut.

I do think that the new set and graphics are quite nice, but that ticker thing's too large! Takes up half of the screen. Can't get a good look of the set on the solo-anchor shots. The new Stephen Arnold music's not bad, but it wasn't that extraordinary either.

Is CNN international getting a relaunch? The only thing I like about it at the moment is the BREAKING NEWS.

The ticker thing is really big, but it suits what Headline News is about.  It's pretty 'clean' though, not really messy or cramped. They do not have the ticker on screen before and after breaks.  The music is okay, not great, but a big improvement.  

I can watch Headline News now without it being a 'painful' experience!

Andrea Thompson isn't that bad imo.  


I haven't heard anything about a CNNI re-launch -- but ti would make sense that there is one coming in the near future -- CNN are re-launching all of their networks. CNNfn is being re-launched as CNN Money later this year too.

(Edited by alekf at 8:32 pm on Aug. 6, 2001)

Now, I like the look of the studio!

I hope Sky News have something like that, but maybe with not so many desks for different aspects of the news.

Although its a good idea, I think it would only suit the Headline News channel.

The studio looks great! I really like the idea of the 'just in' presenter with a big video screen - although I'd imagine that it would be pretty pointless on slow news days.

Out of interest, are they still running with the 30-minute self-contained bulletin format (like ITN News Channel), or has this changed too?

Just read the chat transcript on the Headline News website, and Miles O'Brien was saying that headline news is often pre-recorded. How exactly can a news network provide up-to-the minute coverage when it's taped???!

I've just watched a bit of the new look HLN on the CNN video website (which seems to alternate randomly between Headline News and that crappy QuickCast thing!), and I got a chance to see the multiple anchors in action. It actually works really well - the main presenters hand over to the 'just-in' anchor right at the start, and she 'tosses' over to the health presenter a few times (they were talking about Stem Cells). Then she hands back to the main presenters, who do the rest of the news. I absolutely love it - it really is as fast-paced as they made it out to be! The set looks amazing too.

The only thing is, the news bar (that fills practically half the screen) really doesn't need to be that big, as only the top half of it actually had anything on it when I was watching! And some of the puns in the headlines are dreadful...

And I've just noticed that I seem to be the only person who cares about this, as no-one else has posted for ages!

mark
having been on the CNN studio tour in Atlanta, I can tell you that the presenter often records each link into a package or LVO as it is written.
A producer can then digitally compile a running order - which can then of
course be broken into if a story breaks.
Radio stations here use this technique - particularly when providing regionalised versions of news for different areas of a patch, from the same central studio.
Incidentally has anyone else been on the CNN tour??? What an amazing complex. The tour was much better than anything BBC or ITV/ITN could offer here.

obviously not