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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From Tamworth to Pakistan: Daniel Pizarro now delivering news for AsiaOne
Former 88.9 Tamworth radio journalist Daniel Pizarro has embarked on his biggest career challenge to date, relocating to Pakistan as a presenter for the new global news channel AsiaOne.
Based in Karachi, Daniel will be among the hosts on the 24/7 English language channel, providing news, current affairs and entertainment for a global audience.
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how random
An all in war is happening in Argentinian TV news: two news channels are currently competing to become Latin America’s first TV news channel to broadcast in 4K UHD. The move is quite a surprise, considering that most news outlets don’t have the resources in production and news gathering to handle such a major undertaking, with the exception of some news organizations, particularly in Europe, that have produced coverage of major events with this technology; it is also financially expensive to convert regular production and distribution facilities to the format, and to regularly produce in the format (this is the reason more and more sports leagues and organizations, and broadcasters, have decided to downgrade their production facilities to 1080p, though leveraging the possibilities of HDR, improved picture quality and compression, and 60p). The only such move is the case of WRAL, which despite continuing to produce in HD only, they already have made some significant upgrades to prepare their own news programs to be broadcast in 4K UHD format, with studio production already filmed in UHD, though downconverted at the production and control room level.
Now, in a surprising move, in early December, Canal 26, which is arguably currently the only remaining serious news channel in Argentina, having evolved towards a world news editorial focus after the pandemic, had been announcing the network would be upgraded to a 4K UHD format in various promos broadcast on commercial breaks. The network reportedly has invested into adding 4K cameras to its main studio, and has switched to a Ross-based production system, including XPression super generators and Carbonite mixers. Finally, on December 15, the network announced the switch to 4K UHD would take place on January 5, coinciding with the start of its summer schedule. It is likely that the 4K feed will be exclusive to Canal 26’s co-owned cable company, Telecentro.
Eventually, on December 29, the network switched to the new production system, with the network’s graphics being retained, but looking cleaner than on Vizrt:
However, Artear, which once prided itself on being a step forward in technological innovation and developments in its own channels, decided to respond to this move, and decided to also launch an UHD feed of its own “news” (or rather infotainment) channel Todo Noticias. The feed is reportedly exclusive to Personal Flow, the cable/OTT company of Telecom Argentina (recently renamed under the name of its public facing brand Personal), and quietly began testing internally on December 23, but, unlike Canal 26, it looks like it will be an upscaled 1080p feed…
Finally, today Artear announced the launch of TN’s UHD feed for New Year’s Day, and today some of Personal Flow’s Android TV devices added that feed to channel 14, the normal position where TN is found.
After Artear’s reaction, now Canal 26 has counterreacted, and tomorrow morning will formally launch its own 4K feed. The press release distributed by Canal 26 was accordingly updated to reflect the change in the date.
Though a clear sign of unloyal competition, it is a sign that there might be an increased demand for 4K content in the region, with the few channels available in 4K UHD being foreign channels that don’t cater to local tastes; other than pop-up channels for special events and sports coverage, the only channel which features local content and foreign shows curated and dubbed for local audiences, AMC Selekt 4K, is only available in a Mexican provider. Now, Argentina might be ready for two 4K UHD news channels.
The question is, will other Latin American channels follow suit?
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C5N is wise to sit out of this losing battle. I don’t know what can be conveyed in 4K that hasn’t already been in 1080p 60fps.
Which is about where the 4K usefulness ends.
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Some other new launches and sets…
SBT Brazil (again!) started its own news channel, promising to be a factual outlet with over 20 hours of live coverage daily.
The channel launched with its 6.30 main news…
… which handed over to the late news 2 hours later, that ran up to 11pm:
Radar News rounds up the channel’s morning offerings (at 6 and 8.30) with a snappy look that reminds me of TVPatrol in Philippines somehow:
Afternoon news feels ABC Newslive-ish with the colour palette:
Meanwhile, América TV Peru’s newscasts moved into a new studio last month, as they opened their new production facility after 2 years of construction. A new branding is also out, dropping the serif shorthand.
This is the compilation of the last bulletins in the old set, and the start of the new branding:
And here’s an over-the-top new set (and graphics) on Greek ΣΚΑΪ TV since October - and they were not shy showing all the angles of it:
(headline sequence)
(virtual throw)
(in-studio interview)
(weather)
From the anchor’s Insta post, I think it’s a mix of physical set pieces/screens plus a lot of virtual magic?
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Well, after some minor technical hiccups in the night prior, also related to the fact Buenos Aires city suffered from a major power outage on December 30, Canal 26 has switched to 4K UHD. As expected, the feed is available domestically exclusively on co-owned cable company Telecentro, replacing the operator’s experimental UHD channel (which away from sports and specials, aired a series of test transmission films filmed in native 4K). The most ironic thing is that the service is part of a 4K UHD add-on that must be acquired separately from the main basic TV offering.
Fortunately, Canal 26 is also making the new feed freely available to everyone as a live stream in its own YouTube channel.
As for the production, only the studio cams and the graphics are clearly in native 4K UHD format, with footage and prerecorded shows clearly upscaled from 1080p.
We’ll see how TN will handle its own 4K UHD feed in a few hours…
P.S. Happy New Year to everyone here!
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And the live-all-night nature (because it feeds the main channel) has proven to be advantageous as the Venezuela story was broken before anywhere else.
Although I think they could have just recolored the lower third instead of slapping another box on the screen.
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Got recommended this, probably the most impressively low tech studio pan I’ve seen.
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PBS is canceling the weekend news programs as a result of budget cuts. This Sunday will be the last.
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Well, Nikkei CNBC is surprisingly switching to the new brand in late March, plus a new set and revamps to their website and afternoon programming. As this is their first big rebrand since its launch, they embrace it with a campaign about all the chances from changes too.
The same day also saw Versant announcing a new German-speaking affiliate across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, CNBC DACH.
Launching in 2027, the channel is a joint venure with upstart media company C-DACH, backed by CEOs of Austrian and Swiss investment groups.
Some more press shots with the co-founders:
And apparently they now also have a Mongolian affiliate, whose Cyrillic-language TV channel launched before the Versant rebrand in November. The graphics deviates from the official mandate, with a vertical news pushback a la Bloomberg:
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