Malaysia’s NTV-7 English-language news service 7Edition 2019 opener.
Does the ‘7’ look familiar?
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I wouldn’t surprise me to where they got their inspiration from.
NTV-7 has been known for, uh, “borrowing” its logos from overseas:
The animation before the logo appears in this clip should also look familiar:
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Seven’s movie opener from the late 80s?
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Which was itself based on NBC’s movie intro:
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Which was also used by TV3 in the early 90s.
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And, with a different theme and some minor modifications, by the Movie Channel in the UK:
A part of the animation–and a modified version of the original theme–was also used by Le Cinq in France:
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The historical evolution of news opens from WLII in Puerto Rico, the Spanish-speaking U.S. territory in the Caribbean:
NBC News Overnight didn’t last long – it premiered in 1982 and was canceled in 1983 --, but it was intelligently written, surprisingly literate, and it featured video essays, whimsical features, and reports from various foreign broadcasters (not just the BBC, which you might expect, but also subtitled reports from the likes of NHK and ARD).
To get a taste of the program, you can watch the beginning of the very first edition from 1982:
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pretty sure it was still on in 1986, i have coverage from Channel 7 of the Challenger explosion and i’ve seen the NBC News Overnight logo a few times
Nope, axed in 1983
Are you perhaps thinking of Seven’s News Overnight? It had a similar logo:
By the way, here’s the final NBC News Overnight from 1983:
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ohhhhhh that must be it! cheers!
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Here’s an excerpt from co-anchor Linda Ellerbee’s memoir on how Overnight used reports from foreign broadcasters:
And here’s how the American public responded to the program’s cancelation:
And finally, their moving farewell:
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A historical compilation of local news opens since the 1960s from French-language station CBFT in Montreal:
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Another excerpt from Timothy Green’s aforementioned 1972 book, this time about the Netherlands’ unusual television system:
And here’s a compilation of Dutch idents from the 1970s featuring many of the broadcasting organizations you just read about, as well as latecomers such as Veronica (which launched in 1975):
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An old advertisement from Buenos Aires’ LS83 TV Canal 9 (with the faces of its numerous stars and the names of its programs), published by various newspapers on Monday 1 April 1974, to promote the start of the new TV season.
The station was still enjoying some decent ratings at the time, owned by businessman Alejandro Romay; but in 1 August that year he was kicked out of the station at gunpoint when the government forcefully nationalized Canal 9 (along with the other commercial channels, LS84 Canal 11 and LS85 Canal 13) to imitate the state-owned TV model of Europe. This decade-long experiment failed and Romay was allowed to take over the station again on 25 May 1984, taking Canal 9 to the top of the ratings until 1990.
NOTE: Historically, the TV season in Argentina ran from March/April (coinciding with the start of autumn, when people tend to stay more time at home) to December (very close to the end of the year), but this rule seems a bit old today.
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What’s everyone’s favourite TV campaigns from overseas? I think my fave has to be ABC’s Start Here campaign.
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I’ve always liked the package ABC used back in 1981.
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And here’s a historical compilation of national news opens from Radio-Canada, the French-language division of the CBC:
An edition of NBC’s Today from the Pauley/Brokaw era. It’s 1979 and the Iran hostage crisis is the lead story:
A 1982 BBC documentary about a flamboyant television entrepreneur named Ted Turner. A few years earlier, he transformed his local Atlanta station into a national cable powerhouse and launched the world’s first all-news channel – the Cable News Network:
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