Television Presentation From Defunct Countries and Regimes

East Germany's main evening news (Aktuelle Kamera) on the day of that country's first democratic elections, March 1990 (Pro-unification parties won the vote and the country was reunited with West Germany later that year):

From South Africa, the first twenty years of SABC TV -- only launched in the 1970s, ostensibly modeled on the BBC, but in reality a government mouthpiece:

East German television, 1983, with a...

* Weather forecast
* Program preview
* The famous "spinning cube" ident (very poor audio quality in this section of the tape)
* News
* In-vision continuity (poor audio again)

First Russian (Possibly Soviet?) TV Ad.

A documentary about advertising in East Germany from ZDF (BBC take note: ZDF's media library is available worldwide):

https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/reklame-fuers-volk-werbewelt-der-ddr-102.html

A short feature about Aktuelle Kamera, East German TV's flagship newscast:

An extended ident, possibly the start-up sequence, from Estonian Television in the Soviet era, 1980:



The beginning of the news on Estonian Television (Aktuaalne Kaamera) from the same period:

Vesti from the day the USSR dissolved:

Apparently, this 1979 Eurovision logo from JRT in Yugoslavia was the first animated one ever:

Staying in Yugoslavia, this 1986 spot explained how Swedish-made TV detectors were used to track done license fee evaders:

East German TV was one of the first broadcasters with a custom on-air font. Here's an interesting read:

http://ilovetypography.com/2013/04/06/socialist-tv-typeface-videtur-finally-freed/

http://cdn.ilovetypography.com/img/2013/04/Picture-4-5-original-screenshot.jpg

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From Hungary