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 
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This article has more details.
For comparison, this was the before:
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.
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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Into 2025, SBS6’s news programmes are accompanied by Nieuws van de Dag, a current affairs panel show that airs weeknights at 6.
A joint project between Talpa and Dutch populist tabloid De Telegraaf, it was pitched as an all-sides platform. Apparently, its initial reception - with 533,000 viewers tuning in - was the best the network ever had in the timeslot, but the latter’s competitor, NRC, panned the programme as “gut-wrenching” and a softer version of the channel’s controversial current affairs show, Vandaag Inside.
The TVE1 flagship newscast (and its weather forecast) updated its opener, graphics and newsdesk after 3 years.
Matinal:
Telediario 1 (3pm):
and Telediario 2 (9pm):
Kind of a downgrade with the titles TBH - the logo now looks like it’s plastered onto some stock animation…
Details here:
In Hong Kong, the English news bulletin on Hoy IBC got its anchor back since November 2023. Its graphics and branding are a carbon copy to the main Cable News one (bar clock and weather, with the former updated on night 2), presented in a brighter (and more sterile) virtual set.
Some studio shots (new clock in pic 3):
This was their set before going voiceover only:
And now, the Korean broadcaster seems to have reverted the titles to the 2023 one, with minor adjustments to the 3D lettering and keeping the '93 music:
CityTv in Canada has unveiled a new set for BT in Toronto. They are also announcing new hosts today.
Looks very stock standard, like something you’d see maybe 10-15 years ago and could’ve purchased the templates online.
What a truly original name for a breakfast tv show too.
What about the hideous outfits of two of the hosts?
I don’t make it a habit to comment on people’s clothing choices, though thought it might just be a Canadian thing
Been watching a bit of Canadian news with all that’s been going on - found Global National to be quite good, but the graphics are horrible. Even worse than the ABC’s attempts of slamming serifs into everything, but just not looking nice.
The National from CBC really is quite a different style of bulletin - rather than the style CTV/Global go for. I find I generally watch the analysis panel content from CBC, but there’s more succinct news from Global.
Handy most of the networks put the full bulletins on YouTube, at least the national ones.
Much of global’s presentation is shocking! The sets!
In Poland, Belsat, TVP’s satellite channel for Belarusians, split into three strands with Russian-language service Bot Tak and a new one for Ukrainians, Slawa TV, in March.
Newscasts for the latter two came from the former Wiadomości studio, which has been used by Bot Tak since April 2024. Bot Tak’s daytime news was extended to 2 hours because of Slawa’s launch.
Meanwhile, WBD’s TVN is refurbishing their set for both their news channel and main channel bulletin, Fakty, some time before the country’s forthcoming presidential election in May. A 100m by 4m screen wall is its main focus, according to the media’s sneak peek in February.
Before that, they have released a new layout to their website (with a new wordmark) and are to replace their streamer, TVN24 Go, with TVN24+ later this month. The latter promises new programmes, better integration with in-depth reporting, more playback functions - under a two-tiered subscription structure.
How creative of them going with yet another ‘plus’, and a similar bending arch like Disney…
The new Fakty studio was launched on Monday. It’s a highly American set, consisting of a 100 m² video wall, a system that can cross to 34(!) reporters at the same time, floating graphics and LED pillars that changes colours. Large standing areas are designed across the set, which may influence the future delivery of the newscast.
This is the debut bulletin:
And the new titles for weather, sport and its sister programme, Fakty po Faktach on TVN24, all using different parts of the set:
Other branded shows on the news channel have moved into the new set too.
The floating strip around the set is very over the top, and feels wasted just using it in programme logos and name tags. Maybe they’ll show a live news ticker when the studio is used for TVN24?
The set itself is very curvy, but the lights on the pillars look a bit garish and the vertical screen doesn’t work with every show. The blue portions of the flooring look like cycling paths too…
Meanwhile in France, to coincide with the shift of the DTT channel grid (and themselves moving from Ch.26 to 15), LCI is to debut a new “dynamic” graphics package on June 6.
Do we have a Canadian thread? Couldn’t find it if we do.
Anyway, here’s a great montage of the Canadian election on all networks;
2025 Canadian Federal Election - Television Coverage and Graphics Montage
Here’s fine.
Syria: 5 months after the downfall of the Assad regime (and the subsequent takeover and shutdown of the government TV channels), the Syrian News Channel was relaunched last week with a new identity - a pretty impressive one visually too.
Typical glossy wordmarks and 3D ‘branches’, under stock news music judging by some YouTube comments, but I think that’s the least of their concerns now given the state of the nation.
This was their re-introduction at 5pm local time:
And this is their ident and the opener to their 10pm news (this YT channel also has openers to breaking news, newsbrief and other programmes, all of which use similar animations):
It’s the first step in rebuilding the government broadcaster, ORTAS, with sanctions and outdated infrastructure causing them to do things piecemeal.
And now VRT is slightly updating their news after more than 2 years: The AR aspects of the studio are better utilized, as the headline sequence changed from shoulder graphics to a separate ‘panel’ at the front (as well as weather from a separate slide), tilted in the same way as the surrounding panels. The opening was modified to reflect the tilted screens too.
Looks like more cutbacks at Global News in Canada - saw a clip that looked like the late news in Vancouver has moved to their multi market playlist type bulletin.
Looked cheap and nasty (global’s keyed sets do look horrible as it is).
Wonder how they are holding up ratings wise?
Is it just Global Toronto that’s still largely live across all bulletins?
No, the only live newscast on Global Toronto is the weekday 6 PM news. All their other newscasts (including the new 5 PM news and the morning news) is in the multi-market content (MMC) format.
Global BC is still mostly live with the exception of its weeknight 11 PM and weekend noon. They also have their 24-hour regional news channel BC1 to fill, as well as putting together newscasts for CHBC Kelowna.
The MMC format has also been adopted at Global Edmonton and Global Calgary. The only live newscasts left are the weekday morning (5-9 AM) and 6 PM News Hour on both stations. The weekday noon, weekday 11 PM, weekend morning, and weekend evening news are in the MMC format produced from either Edmonton or Calgary.
The newscasts on the smaller Global stations are also mainly MMC shows now, with the exception of the weekday 5:30 Montreal news, and the weekday 6 PM Halifax news.
What is the multi market content format? Are they pre-recorded or packages pieced together for broadcast?
It’s essentially parts of the news used across multiple markets.
An article about when they won an award for it.
An article about the MMC format
