International News Presentation: Past and Present

Jornal Nacional anchor William Bonner on SPTV and Jornal da Globo:

I feel the contrast of other countries (like Germany's Tagesschau, Poland) which prefer to "broadcast" news from many years ago than France which prefers to publish old news broadcasts online.

Staying in France, but going five years further back in time, here's the news from ORTF's First Channel on today's date in 1972:

Those Antenna 2 intros are works of art. Moving a shot and focusing a camera at the same time is hard!

I can’t stop watching these. That music!!

Fourty years of TF1 JT intros. The 1975 music may go down well with all new Phil!

Good to know: the theme from 1981 to 1985 inspired the theme for sister news channel LCI launched in 1994.



Also worth noting that LCI used to provide short news updates (in the night) for TF1, which explains why, in the video above, you can see an intro with the "TF1" logo.

What's the point of TF1 launching LCI?

Well, the Groupe TF1 wanted to create a news channel. So they created it in 1994 and it was broadcasted on cable television. LCI is actually the first news television channel created in France.

I guess TF1 saw the success of news channels abroad, as well as the success of the news public radio station France Info.

WTOP, Washington D.C., 1978:

Here's Haiti's Téléjournal, broadcast on channel TNH (Télévision Nationale d'Haïti) on October 23, 2017. You can notice the intros and stings have no coherence, and also the Météyo (Weather) sting took its music from France 24.

And this is the news from ORTF's Second Channel from this week in 1973. (The newscast would have aired in color.)