Big changes for TV 2 Denmark’s news service: from today, the newsrooms servicing the network (TV 2 Nyhederne, based in Odense) and its news channel (operating from Copenhagen) have been unified into a single operation named TV 2 News; all news bulletins on TV 2 and the TV 2 News channel will carry the name, as well as its digital platforms.
The changes mean the TV 2 bulletins, “18 Nyhederne”, “19 Nyhederne” and “21.30 Nyhederne” get renamed “18 News”, “19 News” and “21.30 News”. Additionally, TV 2 News will now simulcast the network bulletins from Odense in the evening, whilst continuing to broadcast from Copenhagen for the rest of the day (and for news magazine shows for both networks).
Another change is the relaunch of the 10pm news bulletin as “Newsroom”, which is taking on an in-depth hour-long format; it will air from Mondays to Thursdays, starting on TV 2 News around 10pm local time, and then the main TV 2 channel will join in at 10.20pm after the regional news.
The changes also mean the news programming designs have been changed to unify them with the new TV 2 brand from Kontrapunkt; however, unlike Kontrapunkt’s more Danish-style, ubersimplistic design and presentation, TV 2 News has a much stronger design, made by Stupid Studio, taking the design language and colouring in a new way, with lots of cues to the BBC (the red and cream colour palette, the 2008 globe, the current ring animation…). Music was done in-house TV 2 Lyd. The sets (from Mads Hage Thomsen, dated from 2016 and 2019, respectively) have been retained.
A montage of some elements used so far (with a big teething problem: the old news ticker, aired and generated at MCR-level, hasn’t been changed).
The change was teased earlier in mid-August, when its weekly analysis show Presselogen (a sort of a mix of Media Watch with the American political talk shows) got a new intro with the new TV 2 Sans typeface now used by the brand.
