An update regarding Global News at 11 on Global BC:
As I write this, it appears that Global BC has reverted its 11 PM news back to a live newscast from its studios.
Regarding Global MMC, there are 4 MMC hubs:
East - based in Toronto with studios in Toronto, Peterborough, Montreal, and Halifax; providing newscast production for CIII Toronto, CHEX Peterborough, CKWS Kingston, CKMI Montreal, CIHF Halifax, CHNB New Brunswick, and the Global News national streaming channel. On weekends and holidays, Toronto puts together local newscasts for all stations except for CHAN, CITV, and CICT.
Prairies - based in Regina with studios in Winnipeg, Regina (AM), and Saskatoon (AM); providing newscast production for CKND Winnipeg, CFSK Saskatoon, and CFRE Regina
Alberta - based out of both Calgary and Edmonton, providing newscast production for CITV Edmonton, CICT Calgary, and CISA Lethbridge. Production for the weekly Ottawa-based political show “The West Block” is also done through Global Edmonton.
BC - based out of Vancouver, providing newscast production for CHAN Vancouver (Global BC), CHBC Kelowna, and the BC1 24/7 regional news channel.
The opening to Fréttir on Stöð 2 in Iceland, or what used to be… the name is no more on channel 2 after nearly 4 decades. The graphics got updated for the new brand.
Sýn, their telco owner, rebranded the station, its sports channels, streamer and the cell service brand (previously Vodafone) under the same umbrella.
A look back at the new ‘news channel block’ on the first morning of the French DTT shift:
BFM TV modified their logo slightly to incorporate their new channel number (13FM TV), plus a gigantic lower third reminding viewers of the channel change (LCI did this too).
Not much has changed on CNews with their usual breakfast show. Their ratings still led the pack despite all the changes after the first week.
Franceinfo promised to increase its news output with TOTH headlines and arrival of heavyweight journalists. Taking the channel spot from CNews, their pre-switch promos featured the slogan " L’information n’est pas une opinion [Information isn’t an opinion]", seemingly taking a jab at the partisan former occupant.
LCI, as previously mentioned, debuted a new graphics package for the occasion. It looks a lot more like BFM TV (which might be done intentionally to keep their viewers around?), especially with the blue/yellow colour palette and the newly-added pushback. Lenodal, the French media forum, has more on this new LCI.
And an honorable mention to LCP-Public Sénat, which moved to channel 8. In an interview with the two channel heads by La Correspondance de la presse, they will unveil a new common branding next January.
French news channel presentation is great. Sky News AU should look to this for inspo. It’s a nice balance of Euro design and more flashy American style GFX.
Agreed, it’s clean and modern but also dynamic and not boring. I think Franceinfo especially is one of the best looking news channels in the world. Wouldn’t mind the BBC or Sky UK imitating them tbh.
Combining the director Fabien Combe’s interview with Le Figaro before TNT channel switch, and the new press release issued yesterday, most of 13FMTV’s program schedule for the upcoming season has been filled in.
And here’s where things stand on that front.
4:30am - 6am: BFM Première (Pauline Pioche, Julien Migaud-Muller)
6am - 8:30am: BFM Première (Dominique Tenza, Perrine Storme)
8:30am - 10am: Face à Face & Apolline de 9 à 10 (Apolline de Malherbe)
10am - Noon: Parlons info !* (Marc Fauvelle)
Noon - 3pm: Le Déj info* (Christophe Delay, Roselyne Dubois)
3pm - 5pm: L’Aprèm info* (N/A)
5pm - 7pm: BFM Story (Olivier Truchot, Alain Marschall)
7pm - 8pm: N/A (N/A)
8pm - 10pm: 20H BFM (Maxime Switek)
10pm - Midnight: N/A (Julie Hammett)
Program names with an asterisk indicate the names currently in use for the 2024/25 season and may change for the upcoming season. Programs after 5pm will not air on Fridays.
MBC in South Korea brought back their late news after 7 years in February, now as News 25, a 15-minute world affairs roundup after midnight. The start of the jingle sounded faintly of Sky News UK for some reason…
They’ve been tinkering with some of their other news intros and supers: First their 2pm news in March, and most recently the 6am News Today (which had underwent a anchor change earlier in May).
Meanwhile, less than a year later, the Thai public broadcaster updated their news opens (except the BBC-esque world news) with a new jingle and a bit more depth in the animation in April. This is a compilation (from start to end: morning news New Day; daytime news Situation Today; 2 pm bulletin; 4pm Catch Up; evening news; and late news):
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:
The orange and blue in 60 Minutes Fauvelle looks good though:
Tá na Hora has been replaced by a second revival of Aqui Agora earlier this month, originally a monumental crime-focused bulletin in the 90s. With a bulletin that emphasizes break-ins, it felt apt that the first news item of their return was Bolsonaro’s house arrest:
Like the predecessor, it’s currently broadcast in Saõ Paulo only. A notable addition to the presenter lineup was Geraldo Luis, formerly from RedeTV, who was touted SBT’s ‘secret weapon’ to the show and was handled in top secrecy:
The revival is long speculated, from when Datena joined the station, to pilots apparently filmed in June, before SBT scrambled to find people to front the vacant newsmagazine instead. Despite all this, the show’s ratings still lags behind, with the latest being the show’s director has been fired two weeks into the job.
Ah yes, the concept of transparency last seen in election coverage. Pretty good that that has expanded to all BFM Première rundowns.
That probably is the point, believe it or not. Easy repackaging for promos may be the end goal.
Images en direct was a concept that stress the video feed with it is live in a split screen (the other screen may also be live). This is the correct use.
BFMTV isn’t the only European news getting a makeover for the new season…
ERT News rebranded with a more traditional red and circles theme. The lettering is very Rai Italy too.
Live Now, new at 1pm, has an Inside Edition-like symbol:
Also new is a political expose show, Off the Record, which goes off the primetime and resides on the midnight to 2am hours:
Meanwhile, Antena 3’s news refreshed their look in the new corporate font and symbol, waving goodbye to the blue palette after 7 years. Looks very sharp with the yellow, and quite smart in making the supers (sort of) centred in this vertical video age!
News 1 (afternoons):
And News 2 (at 9pm):
RTVE’s continuous butchering of the Telediario graphics pales in comparison. Instead of a half-transparent blue bar that sits flush at the bottom and on the news channel, they now opt for floating rounded white boxes instead, seen here:
Oh without doubt CTV will have more “generic” content from the main program filtered through the local versions. It’s cheaper and would allow for fewer resources to be allocated for each show.
Interesting they are pursuing the YM brand - I thought it rated terribly???
I assume weekend bulletins axed last year will not be returning this season too.
They used to years ago when Canada AM was the CTV morning show, but one of Bell’s regular budget cuts put an end to that outside Toronto. (I believe the same one that sent NTV Newfoundland to join Global)
