Current news opens from Canada:
And here’s the news from La 1ère, the France Télévisions station in French Polynesia:
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Really like Your Morning and The Morning Show’s openings. Look really fresh
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Current news opens from RTL stations around Europe:
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The new national newscast is set to premiere on September 1.
Here’s a look at the set:
https://twitter.com/GerardJebaily/status/1284254237904506882?s=20
Literally every country in the world has better news sets than Australia.
Even Belgium, Antwerp, Luxembourg, Poland…
Antwerp is not a country. 
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I know
Good.
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Speaking of Antwerp, here is a compilation of Belgian news opens – national, regional, and local:
Yes, some of the sets based in Antwerp are incredible
Smaller city than Adelaide
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vtm and VRT serve about 7 million potential viewers in Flanders and the capital region. It’s five Adelaides’ worth in population and area.
A little bit less dense if you include the Dutch-speaking minority of Walloon, but yeah, Antwerp doesn’t a Belgium make.
Moving from the tropical Pacific to the frigid North Atlantic, here’s the news from La 1ère in St. Pierre and Miquelon, a tiny French archipelago of just 6000 people off the coast of Canada – the sole remnant of what was once New France in North America:
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Incredible that they produce content of that nature for an island of thousands, it would be like if the ABC produced a news bulletin for Christmas / Cocos Islands or Norfolk Island here!
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Nightline reports on the upcoming launch of CNN, the world’s first news channel, in May 1980. Founding President Reese Schonfeld, who devised CNN’s look at format and is seen in this clip, died a few days ago:
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Friday’s edition of Our News from Our TV in the Bahamas as Hurricane Isaias approaches the island country:
An impressive 1998 local news promo from KING in Seattle, WA, U.S.A.:
Current national, regional, and local news opens from Switzerland:
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That’s amazing. Is that all presented locally?
France Televisions, it seems, makes a lot of effort for its overseas territories. This is one very cold and rough swim from Canada.
Yes! It’s all done locally. You can see a photo of their building here:
This compilation of France Télévisions’ overseas opens was posted upthread, but for those who missed it, it really gives a good idea of how extensive these operations are. Just note that the opens are from the period between 2013 and 2018, so some have changed in the meantime:
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