International News Presentation: Past and Present

[WorldWide Update]

From Canada, the CBC's coverage of the election in Nunavut (in English and Inuktitut):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2JAPawqx80

[Mouseboy33]

From Canada, the CBC's coverage of the election in Nunavut (in English and Inuktitut):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2JAPawqx80

So awesome they include Inuit throat singing into the theme. Really meaningful to the viewing audience in Nunavut region. Nice touch.

[WorldWide Update]

The newly launched Fox Weather in the U.S.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCKssP0pn7o

[Internationalman]

RTP3 (Portugal), 2021. Last Saturday, coinciding with their 20th anniversary of its launch as a Porto-based local news channel called NTV (which RTP bought in 2003, relaunching it one year later as a national news channel called RTPN, to compete with market leader SIC Notícias), the channel’s graphics were completely revamped. Not only RTP3’s programmes were affected, but also RTP1’s Telejornal, which debuted the changes today, and even dropping the 2016 theme music in the orchestral re-recording premiered during their 60th anniversary (RTP3 still retains their music). Additionally, Ana Lourenço (a former SIC presenter who joined RTP in 2018) is leaving RTP3’s late night news analysis programme 360º, joining José Rodrigues dos Santos and João Adelino Faria as one of Telejornal’s alternating presenters, mostly anchoring on weekends and public holidays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxmuSxmgOuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAVzNwxOyFQ

As unfortunate it is so see the old Telejornal theme go, as it has since been one of my favorites, I am LOVING the graphics here. It fuses a clock, radar, 2D and 3D, as well as gradients. Quite lovely.

[WorldWide Update]

But like KCOP Los Angeles it wasnt done very well and it never took off.

Speaking of that... KCOP's attempt was called Real News, which was the brainchild of former KTLA news producer Jeff Wald. The newscast wanted to differentiate from its competitors by going for in-depth reports and newsmagazine elements, which made the pace sluggish. Additionally, the two-story newsroom they built, looked really garish. They even bought ENG vehicles, an helicopter, and even a large trailer to transport journalists to overseas stories. The news team expanded from what was a shoestring operation to a 100-piece team, and two new anchor teams: Ross Becker and Vicki Liviackis on weekdays, and Ellen Leyva and David Gonzales on weekends, as well as beat leaders Tony Hernandez (sports), Renee Hamblin (features), Garry Franklin (entertainment) and commentator Bill Press, who left shortly after the launch to lead the California Democrats. Liviackis left shortly thereafter to become one of the reporters of Fox's failed attempt to dethrone 60 Minutes, Front Page, as a result, Leyva moved to weekdays with Becker and reporter Wendy Walsh began co-anchoring the weekend edition with Gonzales. The programme lacked any meteorologist, instead, it relied on a Skyscan Forecast backed by pieces of pop music, which also accompained results and stock market recaps, and to which the anchors acknowledged at the end of each show. With ratings looming, the newsmagazine elements were gradually phased out, and a more conventional style followed suit, with the headline sequence, originally composed of selected sound bites with no VO, was replaced by a more conventional open, right into the top story.

Here's an edition from April 1994, with Gonzales standing in for Becker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0kLRtm95o

Shortly after this edition, KCOP management shortened the duration of the newscasts to 30 minutes, and dropped the weekend newscasts altogether. Walsh and Gonzales remained principal fill-in anchors when either Leyva or Becker (or both) were away. It came with a complete redesign of the graphics, making it brasher compared to the previous look. Here's an edition from January 16, 1995, the day UPN launched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4Lc_VtWds

With continued low ratings, the newscast went to a more conventional style and format that spring, with anchors now in a desk. This more tabloid/conventional format would be a transition to a more generic brand of UPN News 13, which would occur that summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auvXH0N2pIo

The other attempt to ape CityPulse came from Seattle's KIRO. In 1993, they merged their newsrooms into a single operation, promoted under the KIRO News Network. All operations, including radio news, came from the expansive newsroom studio designed by Robert Bovill, which alluded to Mount Raniere, with an assignment desk with a nine-screen video wall which ressembled a ferry boat, and a rotating platform with soft sets. They even asked the Pacific Northern Ballet director Kent Stowell to help anchors roam around the newsroom, and even they had paintings in the newsroom walls. The music, composed by Mark Haffner, was performed by the Seattle Symphony, under conductor Gerard Schwarz. They even began simulcasting the morning drive radio show on the current KZJO (KIRO had a news share agreement with the station, known as KTZZ). Viewers quickly complained about the moving anchors and the constant distracting in the newsroom, helping KING and KOMO in the process. Reporters from radio and the anchors even complained they felt uncomfortable with the new settings, with one threatening to resign. Andy Ludlum and Carrie Krueger, the minds behind the changes, promptly resigned and Gail Neubert was replaced by veteran Bill Lord, which quickly undid the changes, a process which concluded with the UPN switch in 1995.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rcDiq6hROc

Here's a similar format used by WLII in Puerto Rico in the 1990s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V1O43PoCsc&t=274s

[JayTV]

Al Jazeera's original Arabic channel celebrates its 25th anniversary today.

At 6pm (Doha time) they launched their new look with long-time presenter Khadija Ben Guenna.

Here's the first 10 minutes, including a look at the huge new studio and some of the branding for the channels flagship programmes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D4C9JbqLB0&t=3s
Credit Terminal Biss on YouTube

[Medianext.MX]

Al Jazeera's original Arabic channel celebrates its 25th anniversary today.

At 6pm (Doha time) they launched their new look with long-time presenter Khadija Ben Guenna.

Here's the first 10 minutes, including a look at the huge new studio and some of the branding for the channels flagship programmes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D4C9JbqLB0&t=3s
Credit Terminal Biss on YouTube

Amazing upgrade for them. Although Al Jazeera has had some sort of Americanised branding, the new look really puts them in the line of Al Arabiya and Asharq, with its OTT looks which have lots of Americanised and European elements. Their huge studio has Clickspring all over the place: dividing the space into two studios and an AR/virtual audience studio, lots of videowalls and video floors, and clean, versatile elements. And the music is, with no doubt, a Stephen Arnold Music work. Beautiful!

[Medianext.MX]

It looks like it is not the only world news channel changing looks today. The Spanish version of RT has gone flat today (no doubt soon the English and Arabic channels will adopt this look):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PttZXc6zX8

[London Lite]

RT en Español really does look better than the dated graphics the English service currently use.

Is that a steady cam in use for that bulletin?

[Medianext.MX]

RT en Español really does look better than the dated graphics the English service currently use.

Is that a steady cam in use for that bulletin?

Yep. Because their studio is way smaller compared to the main studio by the English, they tend to use a lot the steady cam.

[ArthurVX]

Last week, on October 27th, Jovem Pan launched its 24-hour news channel, TV Jovem Pan News (already seen as the Brazilian equivalent to the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN), available through major pay TV providers and also on FTA C-Band satellite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axv6rjL7fi0

[Medianext.MX]

Last week, on October 27th, Jovem Pan launched its 24-hour news channel, TV Jovem Pan News (already seen as the Brazilian equivalent to the likes of Fox News, Newsmax and OANN), available through major pay TV providers and also on FTA C-Band satellite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axv6rjL7fi0

Continuing on this, TV Jovem Pan News is the broadcaster's second attempt to launch a TV channel. The first attempt was in 1991, when Jovem Pan received a license to operate UHF channel 16 in São Paulo. The channel launched as a test transmission in September, airing 12 hours worth of movies, documentaries, some local programming and sports coverage, including some delayed Brasileirão games, commented by current Band commentator Milton Neves. However, disputes with management (which included educational mogul João Carlos di Genio and journalist Fernando Vieira de Mello) led to the channel selling a part of the shares to print mogul and raid investor Hamilton Lucas de Oliveira. It worsened, however, the situation: the station closed in 1995 after a parliament investigation which accused Tuta Carvalho and Lucas de Oliveira of fiscal fraud. The channel was replaced by teleshopping services, whilst its studios in Barra Funda were bought by RecordTV owner Edir Macedo (bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God) and promptly moved its national headquarters to that space.

Then, Tutinha Carvalho decided to launch a TV station once again, and announced on his Linkedin the launch of the channel, then under the working name of Jovem Pan 24:News. After a period of few information, by June, rumours surfaced in Brazilian media that Jovem Pan was considering buying the license of UHF channel 32 in São Paulo. which once housed the legendary MTV Brasil (owned by the Abril Group) and which was bought by a joint-venture of magazine publisher Spring Comunicação and the owners of Kalunga, a major stationary shop chain in the country. The channel was transformed in December as Loading, a pop culture/anime/K-pop channel which launched with much hype, but it closed in June marred by controversies over the firing of their news team and poor working conditions. Although the channel still is on air under Loading, a Brazilian jury issued a cease-and-desist order to the Ministry of Communications ordering the cancellation of the license due to irregularities on the transaction, which ultimately made the Jovem Pan deal void.

The channel eventually launched as a FTA C-Band channel and thru main TV providers, like Claro, Sky and Vivo. Part of its programming is also available through its AVOD streaming platform Panflix and internationally through the Jovem Pan YouTube channels. The channel broadcasts most of Jovem Pan's talk programming, like Jornal da Manhã (which still broadcasts two hours on History Brasil), Jovem Pan Morning Show, Pânico, Os Pingos nos Is, Três em Um and Pré Jogo, as well as specially produced programming, such as Jornal Jovem Pan, Headline News and Jovem Pan Business. Because of its strong pro-Bolsonaro bias (even more so than the other outlet as such, RecordTV, and other outlets which support him), it also airs partisan documentaries from Brasil Paralelo, an independent producer of content known for its strong pro-Bolsonaro bias and content with propagandist undertones.

Presentation side note: the music package they are using is the WTOP 2020 package from ReelWorld. Jovem Pan is a longtime user of ReelWorld, having using resings of their jingles for its news and CHR networks.

[WorldWide Update]

Salut Bonjour on Canada's TVA has a new look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEAnYdRbf0

[AxG]

Salut Bonjour on Canada's TVA has a new look:

Did they run out of budget for the lower-thirds?

[mark]

Also, was that a Halloween special or do they always use a coffin as a desk?