Television Presentation From Defunct Countries and Regimes

Nice find! At the time, the various JRT-member broadcasters aired a common evening newscast, which was produced in Belgrade (in the Serbo-Croatian language), but with contributions from all the stations, a bit like Tagesschau in Germany.

This wasn't very popular in Slovenia because many Slovenians didn't fully understand Serbo-Croatian. (It was also felt that the Slovenian language, already dominated by Serbo-Croatian in terms of the number of speakers, was being further marginalized by not being heard on the main evening news even in Slovenia.) Therefore, RTV Ljubljana, the JRT-member broadcaster serving the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, began to produce its own evening news in 1968, a few months after this New Year's edition aired. It was now produced in Ljubljana, in the Slovenian language, but it went out at the same time as before, it was still called Dnevnik , and it was still national/international in scope (in addition to some specifically Slovenian news items).

Other JRT broadcasters followed suit, and by the mid-1970s, they all had their own editions of Dnevnik .

(By the way, the name Dnevnik survived the breakup of Yugoslavia and is still used by what are now otherwise unrelated broadcasters in seven countries from Slovenia in the north to Macedonia in the south.)

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For most of the 1970s, RTV Ljubljana's edition of Dnevnik even used the old JRT intro, but with modified titles:



That changed when color was introduced to Dnevnik in 1978 and RTV Ljubljana adopted a brand-new intro:

BTW, this is what Dnevnik looked like in independent Slovenia...

...circa 2003:



...and a couple of caps of what it looks like today (note the globe motif):

That's from the following night, I don't think - sadly - the coverage from the night itself is on You Tube.

http://vimeo.com/12463053

Here is what TV Ljubljana looks like in 1989.

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ATV Diamond (now ATV World) in Hong Kong.........

.....looks like TV2 in NZ.

Thanks for the clarification, UKnews!

The site http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/tv-start1.htm is in German, but it contains all kinds of caps and logos from various eras of East German TV.

A sampler:

http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Logo07.jpg http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Wurfel03.jpg

http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Test07.jpg http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-AKFeldmann01.jpg

http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-AKParteitag.jpg http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-AKLogo04.jpg

http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Vorschau03.jpg http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Logo15.jpg

http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Gorisont01.jpg http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/DDR-F-Kanal02.jpg

Images: http://www.husfl.net/DDR-F/tv-start1.htm

Love the classic DFF closedown show. It's worth noting that MDR runs dozens of shows very similar to this to this day. If you're German and you enjoy schlager music, MDR is the regional broadcaster of choice!

Here's a portion of RTV's Cantonese-language news from 1982:

Slightly ropey VHS transfer of an ARD programme covering local elections in the DDR in 1990.

And another film showing preparations for the broadcast of the Volkskammer elections in 1990s

That clip is from DFF's youth programme Elf 99 (derived from Berlin's postal code 1199). With my rather bad German I could understand that there were over 50 broadcasters from all over the world covering the elections and that DFF alone had set up 30 cameras and tens of kilometers of cable in and around the Palast der Republik. We could also see a bit of Western technology, namely some Macintosh computers and a Quantel Paintbox unit in the clip. Quite interesting, as this is from the era when there was a small but still notable amount of political hatred and tension between the East and the West behind the scenes.

Two more apartheid-era South African commercials...

...for a life insurance company:



...and for American Express:

From the second channel of East German television, some "breakfiller," the news, and an in-vision continuity announcement, 1984: