Here’s that clip, by the way:
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A wonderful 1980 opening sequence from Yorkshire TV’s global travelogue series Whicker’s World (with a focus on California, the subject of this particular episode).
A YouTube comment explains how the amazing final shot in the sequence was filmed:
I’ll let you into a ‘secret’. The Concorde ground sequences were filmed at RAF Brize Norton, Alan Whicker really was just walking along side the runway when one took off beside him - it was used as the end shot in the title sequence.
The music is by Andrew Lloyd Webber:
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How West German TV covered JFK’s historic 1963 visit to a divided Berlin:
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In 1990, UK’s Sky Channel launched their new image campaign “We’re The One!”.
News and sign off from SABC South Africa 7/12/1977
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And to think that TV had only started two years before that because the Apartheid supporting National Party in charge believed that TV would import evil ideals of racial integration.
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Iranian TV commercials from before the Islamic Revolution:
And a fragment of the news in English from NIRT, the national broadcaster of pre-revolutionary Iran:
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An anchor walking around an open newsroom set and talking to reporters? For good or for ill, this 1977 newscast was way ahead of its time:
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Seems Iran was quite a progressive society back then.
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Compared to what followed, absolutely! Although it has to be said that these progressive attitudes were concentrated in the wealthier parts of Tehran and other urban areas. The uneducated, conservative masses felt alienated by the rapid modernization and Westernization of the country – and this dichotomy helped to bring about the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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Doesn’t surprise me
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Some more Apartheid-era SABC, this time from the late 1980s – an Afrikaans-language promo followed by an English-language newscast:
And here are some old South African radio commercials as heard on Springbok Radio, a national commercial station:
By the way, if that first commercial sounds vaguely familiar, this is probably why:
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CNN International’s first newscast from its new production facility in 1994 – includes a report about the state-of-the-art studios:
And here’s the 1982 launch of CNN2, later renamed Headline News:
Part 2:
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Come and see the bullfighting in Tijuana
Here’s a short excerpt about an unusual TV station from Timothy Green’s The Universal Eye (1972):
“The village of Pembina in North Dakota seems a strange place to have a powerful television station. Only a couple of hundred people live there and the nearest American town of any size is many miles away. But the advertisers who queue up to buy time on KCND-TV Pembina have their eye, not on Americans, but on the half a million Canadians living just north of the border in the city of Winnipeg. The investment pays off; the people of Winnipeg spend a fifth of their viewing time watching the Pembina station.”
Eventually, KCND ended up moving from the U.S. to Canada and becoming CKND.
This video explains the move:
An interesting documentary about the history of TV news in the United Kingdom (with an emphasis on the anchors):
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFftfRcTWw
And here’s another, longer, look back at Anglia’s history:
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ITN’s coverage of Australia’s Bicentenary in 1988:
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Just a note if you’re interested particularly in British TV presentation history, but also snippets from around the world in the International section, TV Ark is now reopen.
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