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Its a little different to the morning news, also included the entire weather, with its 3D forecast prediction.
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The new opener to the morning news, judge for yourself.
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Given that potentially everything could change on Monday with the arrival of Jessica Rowe to the Today show I thought I’d upload a collection of stuff I grabbed from the Friday’s last pre-Rowe show.
I’ve never liked the graphics on the Today show, especially the weather which has a horrible blue-to-orange gradient in place of the ocean.
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The networks all have their own take on how to present weather, SBS do the whole world in a minute while Nine barely get past the suburbs of Sydney on their ‘National’ broadcast. ABC seem to take the longest, with a weather report that can at times top three minutes. Ten and Seven insist on sending out weather people to locations around town, Tim Bailey on Ten is far more annoying then Seven’s Nuala Hafner though.
From a design perspective ABC and SBS are at the top of my list. Ten is by far the worst with its depressing little sunshine icons. Nine waste too much time with scroll bars at the bottom of the screen and moving the map around from left to right, and Seven’s map looks OK, but is a bit cartoony.
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The ABC changed its news opener and theme on Australia Day this year along with new sets and wide screen broadcasting for the bulletin. Given the ten months I’ve now had to digest it, I’d have to say I like it a lot more then I did then, I think the opener is pretty cool, I like how the city names appear and fade as the “ABCNews” banner covers the globe, and while the music isn’t as dramatic as the old theme its not the travesty I probably once thought it was (on a side note, Triple J’s remix of the old news theme remains my ringtone).
I think Virginia Hausegger does an excellent job, and with only Win News to compete with locally she doesn’t have much competition.
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And now for something slightly different, this footage is the ABC news opener without any actual news items or voice overs.
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The new SBS weather..
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The new weather shares the same colour scheme as the rest of the broadcast, the maps and animation are cool and seamless, I’m just not sure about the colours.
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The new SBS…
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SBS has relaunched its news broadcast with new graphics and a new set… I think the video speaks for itself.
Opening sequences for news broadcasts of the three commercial networks in Australia.
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Anchor: Mark Ferguson
Time: 6pm Weeknights (or 6.30pm in some parts)
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Anchor: Ian Ross (ex Channel Nine anchor)
Time: 6pm Weeknights
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Anchors: Jessica Rowe and Ron Wilson
Time: “First at Five”