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Hart Van Nederland, Dutch SBS6’s tabloid regional news programme, ditched the virtual set after 4 years.

This is the late edition:

Its early morning and evening counterparts get a new desk in their sepatate studio - say, the traffic ticker in the morning edition looks eerily similar to the ABC News mock @pulsesradar07 did a few months ago :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::

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For comparison, this was the before:

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Franceinfo revamped on Friday. According to a now deleted press release, it was done by Gedéon, who redesigned the France 2 bulletins last year.

It largely aligned the news channel’s presentation with their prior project with rounded rectangles, plus programme bugs now doubling as in-programme promo cards (that can be a bit flay at times, as it jumps between the previous programme and the current one).

This is what La Matinale looked like:

And a compilation of the new openers. 6h Info, produced by Franceinfo on France 2, also updated. Some of the landscape ones look similar to the France 3 bulletins too - I wonder if they’ll update their supers as well?

They picked a bad day for revamp, as an Édition Spéciale on the new PM pick ran from afternoon to 8pm without an opener. After the new PM was announced, the headline turned into the same shade of red as France 2 Info.


(that’s the new PM speaking on the right - whoops!)


Maybe a bit of a hot take, but I quite like the previous openers - the flat colour background looked a bit dry, but the animation made the colon more flexible while being consistent across programmes.

The new lower thirds look a bit samey, especially when rounded rectangles are used around the world in the past year. TVNZ’s ‘updated’ graphics in July came to mind when I saw the empty space without the ticker, which itself looked terrible…

And I’ve never looked at the channel that closely, but man are there lots of talking heads!

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