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Atlantic Satellite Network (now "A" Atlantic) late 80s/early 90s clips, with Hello News: 1988 Weather Update 1988 Atlantic Pulse Promo 1988 Sports Update 1992 Atlantic Pulse 10 Preview CFAC 2&7 (now CICT/Global Calgary) late 80s clips, with Hello News: 1989 Sunday Movie Promo CFCF 12 (CTV Montreal) mid-90s open, with Total News (version with better audio):

Yup, they're on their new set as of Monday morning.

CKCO (CTV Kitchener) open fail: third time's a charm... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH8lPcItq-s

Edmonton's way overdue for a new set. Hadn't they been on the same set since the mid 90s? I like the camera angles they're using, but it's slightly unnerving to see Vassy Kapelos without so much as a shadow while backdrop is reflected on the floor... Just checked Global Calgary. They're using the new graphics now, but still on the temp set.

CFCF Montreal 2010 6pm Open/Recap/Long Credit Close:

CFMT Toronto "Chinese Journal" 1994 Open: with the JC Burns/TVbD open and WBAL's custom theme WKBW Buffalo "Eyewitness News at Noon" 1991 Open: from the "NewsChannel 7" era

Turkey-based Samanyolu TV is using High Velocity and graphics from Giant Octopus (clip at 3.39).

I actually assumed it was an in-house job by TVThai. What I find with foreign stations using American news themes is that they tend to use very few cuts out of the whole package (sometimes even just one). ThaiPBS/TVThai using a wide selection of cuts from Extreme and Signature seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Doesn't seem to make sense to pay for the whole package just to use one cut; I dunno if they are somehow licensed under different terms. Case in point, that news magazine on China's state TV network which uses a cut from B Package as the pre-show bumper, Advantage as the show open, and Newschannel as the close. I really don't see CCTV paying for 3 packages only to use one cut from each, so I'm guessing those cuts were licensed from Gari as some form of production music. As for the NBT anchors... the male anchor started talking pretty much after you stopped watching. I really don't know what the deal is with them. I'll guess they're just long-winded and verbose in their newswriting, judging from the absurdly long pre-show bumper (which also seems to be a recurring theme among the other Thai channels)...

Over in Thailand... ThaiPBS apparently rebranded as TVThai in January, and dropped Extreme for Signature. Ident and Open: Another Thai channel, NBT, began using Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfhaCNCj_Q (open at around 1:32 mark)

News Series 2000 Plus has returned to Hong Kong Cable News. March 2, 2009: 7.30pm Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_kBNuMIbE&feature=channel_page 8.30pm Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVxWAziLnw&feature=channel_page 9pm Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBE0WhPQAeA&feature=channel_page

Retired GTV-9 Melbourne anchor Brian Naylor is among one of the victims in the Australian bushfire. Nine Network coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3J30VKIdw&feature=channel_page (via NBN Newcastle) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNHZcgBx68&feature=channel_page (TCN-9 Sydney) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYhSSu0gJI&feature=channel_page HSV-7 Melbourne coverage (special late news bulletin): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGfhNDJWyLk ATV-10 Melbourne coverage: Sky News Australia coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNF5R6arjf8 Naylor anchoring Melbourne's National Nine News: 1990 Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fvQhfRRNM 1993 Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5DpH5YGBA

Didn't disappoint... My favorite cut of The One and Only. Wasn't that open syndicated? I've seen it on KMOV.

Gari's "Pride Inside" promo on CHCH Hamilton:

Croatia: RTL Televizija 2006 Open, using a "News Line"-esque theme (of course, its German sister used News Line in the 90s): And the clean version:

I've heard that cut as a closed-caption sponsor promo on WPRI. More from Hong Kong Cable News: 2001 Open, with NS2000+ and the Novocom/Belo Northwest graphics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpHllCiK4A0 2002 Montage (last newscast with the NS2000+ open and the Novocom graphics): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C19lC_xDrp4

Hong Kong Cable News: 2008 Morning Open http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo7It8H_F5I&feature=related Using Gari's Eyewitness News. They use it only for the morning newscast, I think since around 2000-2001.

CITY-TV Toronto: "CityPulse Tonight" 1984 Open (w/ Terilyn Joe): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiBS4Qp2l14 "CityPulse" 1989 Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUJ4_ckr6yE

Some clips from China: Huaian: HATV News current (?) open, sounds like This Is Your News. Chongqing: CQTV News 2007 Open, seemingly a rip-off of the open to Pro7's "Newstime" (Germany). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CXSet9hupk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8MlVC0rLA (also includes the Pro7 open) Sichuan TV News 2008 Open, ripped off from GlobalNational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeF9ziYn8O4

A montage of the current news opens from ThaiPBS in Thailand, using Arnold's Extreme. ThaiPBS signed on in February 2008, taking over the frequency of the former commercial broadcaster iTV following the 2006 coup. New look Nuevos Tele13 from Chile. Is it just me, or does it sound like a ripoff of 615's Newstime? http://youtube.com/watch?v=deITEkIP_ko&feature=related

ATV Hong Kong, 1986 Open, using "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piR--Tu6kzE CFCF Montreal, 1985 Open, using Cool Hand Luke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joYxMbBTOjI

Here's Hong Kong Cable News from 1997, using News Series 2000: Ident/pre-show bumper/open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHB5tcZONlo End of Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSeKWEfNZwo Start of Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiGgYHlIOI

The DW news theme reminds me a bit of the old ABC (Australia) news theme. As for Reporting Scotland... I assume that's the new Pacific Quay studio. Looks okay, I guess they could've used blue instead of red on the desk to match the titles. I know the titles are getting really old by this point, but I still prefer this one over the updated ones used on the other regions.

A couple of clips from Germany's RheinMainTV, which broadcasts in the Frankfurt area. March 2007 "RheinMain Aktuell: Das Journal" Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOKH2QO0tQ&mode=related&search= May 2007 "RheinMain Aktuell" Open: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasSORFwHWI They use the old news theme from Britain's ITV.

TEN10 Sydney, 1979: A 3-minute recording; the last 10 seconds feature an incomplete open to Eyewitness News, complete with "Move Closer". NTD8 Darwin, 1996: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4GPsvqOibk Customized version of Nine Network's ident and news open (w/ Cool Hand Luke). TVB Hong Kong, 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rje_gZHz-xE Open to News at 9.30. Also, TVB's station sign-off from around the early 80s (the black-and-white film's probably an old film from the 50s); they actually played God Save the Queen and showed a picture of QE2. I think they quit doing that long before the handover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GJqj_s62Yk

Channel 5, Singapore, May 2007: ("News 5 Tonight" - English newscast open) Channel 8, Singapore, May 2007: ("Channel 8 News at Ten" - Mandarin newscast open)