Which part of Canada do you live in? Curious about which stations you see in your part of the country.
RTP relaunched its news channel from a 3 to a News suffix.
Since launch, the channel has had to deal with all special coverage, from municipal election last night (concluded 2.27am local time) to the hostage release today.
Here’s the first few minutes.
The election opening & call, taken from RTP1.
And the opening of the breakfast show, also taken from RTP1.
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I’m sure we’re all familiar with the “voice of:” moniker when a person is speaking but the video feed is showing B-roll.
Al Jazeera one-ups that today.
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Telejornal also got a new look:
Regional newsmagazine Portugal em Rede is launched to replace Portugal em Directo after 10 years (with the presenter, Dina Aguiar, retiring after 47 years last Thursday).
It came from the renovated studio in Porto - built to look the same as Lisbon’s:
Regional titles remains unchanged, but newscasts on RTP’s African continent channel did:
As did the news on RTP2, bringing it in line with the main brand:
RTPN now brands their newscasts more by the hour, like 360 at night carved up into Notícias.21 at 9 and 2 editions of Notícias Noite at 10 and 11pm:
Full lineup here.
The logo looks similar to TVP Info in Poland with the _, but the graphics was much better. The RTP wordmark is slightly different with rounded ends too - maybe a corporate revamp?
Set - see? You don’t need to video wall every corner of your studio to try out different form of storytelling.
Titles - it’s nicely done, but equally good as its predecessor. The moving grid reminds me of Sky UK’s recent promo, and a bit ITV News with the changing portraits too. Just felt the 2021 design was more distinctive, versus the ‘edge of the globe’ and blue/orange hue that were in news intros in early 2000s (Sky and German RTL came to mind).
Supers - okay, for all the crap CNN got on its current supers, you can’t deny it has its own imitators - currently just bad ones, see also RAI. The layers need more work on this one - the white watermark almost vanishes into the headline, and the presenter name was overlaid on top of the bug sometimes:
TVI also updated their graphics last month, with the logo taking on a frosted glass effect, instead of an old FNC-esque rotating box.
These are openings from Jornal Nacional near 8pm and TVI Jornal near 1:
Their morning show Diário da Manhã and afternoon crime report, Em Cima da Hora, also used the same supers.
I think the headline supers in the former were especially a downgrade, as it looked more colourful and wouldn’t have derailed from the aesthetic too much!
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Some happenings around South America… New set and name for TV Azteca Mexico’s news-intensive station, ADN Noticias:
Behind the scenes:
SBT Brazil’s revival of old news brands continues… Their investigative programme, SBT Repórter, returns on Tuesdays late-night after last appearing as a year-end special in 2017. It debuted in August, reflecting on the 80th year since the Holocaust.
Full episode here
Meanwhile, AA was previously moved to a national broadcast and now back to São Paulo only, at a later time and is presented standing up in a new set. One of the initial presenters moves to the field as a result.
They still lost to Band for the distant third place in the ratings despite all this - feeling a bit of deja vu?
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Apparently last Saturday, BFMTV headquarters had to evacuate for a credible bomb threat.
Eerie similarities to CNN 2018. But unlike that incident, there weren’t live on-the-street broadcasts.
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And it’s Franceinfo’s turn this past Saturday.
The moment when the evacuation alarm went off:
Per the Lenodal forum, the newsgathering was done in a nearby hospital during the evacuation. France 2’s 8pm news returned to the usual set afterwards.
Something interesting: There’s a daily global news roundup on NHK’s General channel, named Catch! (キャッチ！世界のトップニュース).
It features reports from their worldwide broadcast partners and translate them into Japanese, including ABC:
Other broadcasters are also seen, often with a glimpse of their respective intros and sets too:
(Direct snapshots from my hotel TV - apologies!)
It’s a fascinating watch to me, even with nearly no knowledge of Japanese. One for news geeks to look out for when in Japan.
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This was taken from the 7.30pm news on TVB Pearl. It is the channel’s main bulletin.
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