To South America now…
Commercial TV news in Brazil has undergone a lot of changes in the last few months - first, SBT News, the overnight newscast, was axed last November and came back a month later. It then underwent several more minimal branding changes, but has since been renamed to SBT Notícias (a name the network used on and off) in May. This was the end to SBT Notícias, handing over to SBT Manhã in early morning, both part of a new daytime lineup from the station:
They also debuted a new newsroom-adjacent studio with a giant screen back in March, after moving the whole department out of it last year. This coincided with them poaching presenter/politician José Luiz Datena from Band to do their evening newsmagazine, Tá na Hora. I’m not sure if other bulletins use separate studios, or the same one but with different set pieces - I wished they used the newsroom scene more though:
Datena’s tenure on SBT would be short-lived, as he terminated his contract with the station in May and headed to RedeTV to start a crime-focused programme, Brasil do Povo. He was previously under fire for scolding a reporter in a live cross.
The show is a lead-in to a relaunched RedeTV News, shifting from a double-headed format to a single anchor with a more dynamic stand-up presentation.
Meanwhile, to counter Datena, SBT named two reporters to front Tá na Hora, but one of them left after his first night, due to online criticism and mismatched presenting style.
As of July, it is now reformatted as local news in São Paulo, with its duration cut back in favour of Mexican soap opera. Some speculate it’ll eventually be axed.
A few months after the corporate rebrand, the news service on Canal 13 Chile got a graphics makeover.
This is how it looks on the 9pm news, T13 Central:
The square theme was used across their network bulletins, like their late news T13 Noche (whose clock looked particularly off):
The supers can get very busy, as shown in the live breaking news during the early morning show, 3x3:
Meanwhile, their news channel, T13 en vivo, took on a circular theme:
Not too keen on the supers - the nametags could’ve been on the main headline box, and the T13 bug looked not centred compared to the clock.