(01-01-2024, 11:54 PM)Medianext.MX Wrote: It didn't close strangely. It was announced already in March, when DW Director General Peter Limbourg announced it would cease broadcasting the German TV channel, due to its small global viewership (Limbourg estimated around 250k viewers regularly). Additionally, due to budget cuts and a focus on targeting audiences in regions where access to independent news is severely restricted. Therefore, DW is focusing on targeting these regions, but also switching to digital-first content provision, emphasizing its DW.com website and its social and mobile offerings (which were recently relaunched with a new design and interface) and reducing infrastructure and broadcasting equipment costs. DW would also continue to produce its German-language talk shows and discussion programmes, plus documentaries and lifestyle programming.
Then, in September, DW announced the two-fold strategy to wind up the German feeds it operated. First, DW Deutsch, which operated a 24-hour schedule in German for Asia Pacific viewers (which offered not only programming produced by DW, also offering selected shows from ARD and ZDF, including a simulcast of the Eurovision Grand Final every year), was merged with the DW Deutsch+ feed (serving the Americas, with four hours of selected English DW News programming inserted within the all-German schedule) with immediate effect that month. Then came the outright closure of the German TV feed.
Going back to the situation in Japan, NHK has temporarily changed its overnight broadcasts. Normally, they'd go off air for a couple of hours in the early hours of the morning. Instead, they have been broadcasting a live camera feed from Suzu, one of the towns closest to the epicentre with music over the top, and updates every 30 minutes. On at least one occasion, you have been able to visibly see the pitfall that I mentioned in my previous post that areas that are very close to the epicentre will receive no warning.
(22-12-2023, 02:02 PM)W. Knight Wrote: Leaving the TVP fiasco, looks like Nine News is reintroducing the globe to their graphics next year, at least in Melbourne: www.youtube.com
An update: Nine News' new look is also teased in Sydney, Queensland and Gold Coast. Seems like Queensland are in two minds about it though, as seen on the differently-textured symbol at the end of their local promo: www.youtube.com
(17-12-2023, 05:14 PM)W. Knight Wrote: Over in Germany, ARD-Mittamagazin, ARD/ZDF's lunchtime newsmagazine, is to be rebranded as MIMA next year, the same name used by the ZDF alternative since 2018.
It also marks the change of its production from RBB in Berlin to MDR in Leipzig, as well as an extended length to 2 hours.
This is the new MIMA on ARD. Not too fond of the opening, to be honest: www.youtube.com
And an interesting side-by-side, showing how ARD and Tagesschau 24 cut into ZDF's version of the lunchtime magazine. www.youtube.com
(10-01-2024, 12:31 PM)Lec_Ver16 Wrote: I remember that a few year ago, DW had news bulletins every hour. Seems like they abandoned the approach to try to be a international news channel.
It depends of the feed. Spanish DW still has frequent news updates across the schedule on weekdays, and the debate programme (called "A Fondo") is shown on key hours during the day.
In the midst of Poland's political (and public broadcasting) troubles, Polsat launched Polsat News Polityka on cable and satellite platforms, moving Wydarzenia 24 to terrestrial-only.
The relaunched channel has a heavy focus on political debates around the Polish parliament, in their own words (www.polsat.pl ):
Quote:Polsat News Polityka offers viewers, among others: direct broadcasts of the Sejm and Senate sessions. Broadcasts of the meetings of all investigative commissions are also planned.
The proceedings of the new Sejm undoubtedly arouse incredible interest among Poles who follow what is happening there with almost the same emotions as the best cinema, TV series or sport. And that's great, because it increases society's awareness of how the state functions and civil society is created. We respond to these trends by investing in the development of our offer of information channels. Hence our idea for the Polsat News Polityka channel and a large dose of the best journalism - adds Piotr Witwicki [Polsat's Director of the Information and Journalism Division].
New programmes fronting the channel: Studio Parlament, broadcasting live from the parliament; and Debata Polityczna, a panel discussion programme. These are their openers: www.youtube.com
And an abrupt cutoff from one channel to the other. www.youtube.com
Noticias 4 Visión, the newscast on El Salvador's Canal 4, has a new opener and graphics, taking the short form instead of the 3-decade-old full name. www.youtube.com
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