International News

Was there any?

If I look at all of their affiliates that has the current US graphics, it seems all they really do is throwing assets to them and let them make any combinations they want.

What US created is neat and tidy, which is more than you can say for the rest.

Don’t expect somewhere to do CNBC+ data feed as a template though.

Mongolia has business? I thought it was all yurts and yaks? :rofl:

There’s been a Bloomberg channel in mongolia for over 10 years.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-01/bloomberg-announces-formation-of-bloomberg-tv-mongolia

Former Taiwanese news channel CTi News might be making a comeback, with the majority Parliament opposition passing amendments to the Satellite Broadcasting Act.

Under the new bill, DQ’d channels that are in legal appeal can keep broadcasting before the final decision, plus news channel licenses are to be renewed by default.

As CTi is appealing to the courts, while their former home - cable Ch.52 - has been reissued to public broadcaster CTS, some worried that CTi would ease their way back with the new clause - and be harder to get rid of.

In fact, CTi gloated about returning to the air after the law has passed (they’ve been relying on YouTube livestreams since 2020), though NCC, the telecommunications authority, said the bill isn’t retroactive and doesn’t apply to CTi.

Owned by Tsai Eng-ming’s Wang Wang China Times Group, the channel got their license revoked in 2020 due to multiple violations, failures in their internal management, and Tsai consistently interfering with the newsmaking process. It was also the subject of protests against pro-China media the year prior.


Meanwhile, Class CNBC in Italy refreshed their look with their new addition to FAST and DTT.

A promo campaign is also launched, done by Milan-based agency CB22.

Some new virtual set debuts…

TV Gazeta, the São Paulo-based network, revamped their afternoon schedule to boost their news offering, plus a new VR set for more immersive reporting.

This is the debut edition of the 1pm news:

Some more shots from the bulletin - the super is gigantic!

The 15-minute headlines at 5.45:

And the 7pm Jornal da Gazeta:

With it came a new look too, a bizzare G symbol that apparently took hints from their ‘toucan’ icon from the 70s.


The other SBS in Korea unveiled their XR extension for the 8pm news set. First in the nation, the setup utilizes AI with Gaussian Splatting - which can render 3D data from still images - recreating real-life locations more immersively and efficiently.

This is a supercut with the studio in action.

Full edition here

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On 30 March, Nikkei CNBC went live with the new logo, but not the new American graphics.

And, on the same day, another bunch of CNBC affiliates have adopted the new logos too — this time in India, with four channels having new logos. CNBC-TV18 and CNBC-TV18 Prime (English), CNBC Awaaz (Hindi) and CNBC Bajar (Gujarati) all have new logos, but nothing else has changed about the graphics — exept CNBC-TV18 Prime, where the new upward-triangle ticker symbol is used.

The Awaaz and Bajar logos are very awkwardly (in my opinion) placed on a white rectangle with a shadow-like gradient in the corner, while the CNBC-TV18 corner logo is weirdly stretched, and only the CNBC-TV18 Prime logo looks proper. More pictures at India’s DreamDTH Forums.

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Ahhhhh Indian news. If it doesn’t give you ADHD and nausea from all the big texts and spinning parts of the screen, nothing will.

Why is that? I’ve experimented with Indian IPTV, at least the English speaking ones, and boy oh boy is it over the top.

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That’s before turning on the sound.

Logos made in 4:3-formatted graphics stretched out to 16:9.

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Oh yes…they’re on a level that makes me sound like a mouse.

That’s a lot of the Indian style of graphics - are they sending out two versions on their transmissions - one for 4:3 and then the 16:9 version which is 4:3 stretched out?

Almost all of them are 16:9 formatted but just air broadcasts in split screens a lot of the time.

And their screen outlines can be squashed pretty horrendously.

Meanwhile the CNBC-TV18ers are the only ones left which still stuck with the 4:3 format.

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CNBC-TV18 Prime was an HD channel until 2025, when it was downgraded to SD. Unlike most other countries, Indian channels are sharply segregated into SD and HD, with the latter not having an especially large viewership — even in 2026 — due to broadcaster and regulator pricing schemes.

Apparently business news isn’t a genre where the Ambani-owned Reliance Industries — which runs the TV18 channels, and now also the JioStar conglomerate — found it sustainable to run an HD channel any further, even though CNBC-TV18 Prime HD was launched way back in 2011. Perhaps that explains the better graphics quality of this channel compared to its siblings.

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That’s the bottom half of their new afternoon lineup - the other being Market Compass, centering around tutorials and strategies for beginners.

Interestingly, the Japanese shows don’t seem to use the boxed openers, but with a channel ID and show bugs instead:


Indonesia and Turkey also updated earlier. The CNBC-e supers looks particularly thinner with the longer wordmark.


Speaking of new shows, TVP’s .30 strand of national newscasts expanded into weekday late nights with 22.30, a 15-minute roundup on their news channel.

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Following its transition of ownership and operations, Vietnam Television has updated the overall ident for its flagship 19:00 news bulletin. Beforehand, on the day of 25 March, Vietnamese highest administrators had agreed to change the ownership of Vietnam Television along with four government-owned academic and media agencies from the Government to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. This agenda would come into effect on 1 April 2026.

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New look for 5 News in the UK today - completely new music and a very American set of titles:

Wonder if any fill-ins will have to say ‘I’m [whomever], Dan is off tonight’? :wink:

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Going down the personality route.

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I hate it.

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It seems way to white and bright at the top of the set. Just doesn’t look that good.

Yeah.. The promo-like intro is cringe IMO.

Good - always found the teal look lackluster and bland. The supers are very Liquid Glass with the rim and shadows, sans the magnifying effect, but the W/M is really hard to see and the studio relights are too bright.


Designed by James Mobbs.

They might need to soon, considering:

Possibly the legal follow-up to the ‘tea’ Liza-Vanderpuije teased to spill on her socials before leaving the broadcaster in 2024.

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