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New details about 10's late news revival: It'll be on streaming first before going on the network. Plus, their flagship 5pm news is to return to the 1 hour format, plus a Queensland local bulletin from Sydney (they're currently simulcasting the Brisbane bulletin). Details are expected during the upfronts at the end of October.
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So, presumably the Brisbane edition - when it is done separately - will be fairly similar to that in Adelaide? (i.e. done from a tiny CSO setup with maybe the odd throw to their newsroom - I believe the old set is still standing at Mount Coot-tha but much, if not all of the studio gear has otherwise been stripped out)

RTBF has a new look for its news programming too. No more long opener (now a short AR sting), the voice is now a man (and located after the headline sequence, no more name strap too) and the long-time music has been remixed.

Feels like a back-to-basics approach, really - though at the same time, there's diminishing returns. You wonder how much more they can get out of the same look and feel (particularly with the set) that's been in place for over 12-and-a-half years.

Even their neighbours at the VRT have been through at least three big overhauls in that time.

What Rai needs is revolution, rather than the many evolutions that TG1 has had. The music is a big step backwards from renditions in recent years, maybe it's about time they scrapped it?

Even to the casual viewer, it seems tricky enough to get their house in order at Rai.

You have three national newsrooms, fiercely independent of each other by all means, across the three networks (plus regional news on Rai Tre sharing their own corporate-esque look) - and in terms of presentation and graphics, they all appear to share a habit of taking retrograde steps not long after the slightest move towards modernisation.

A case in point - the very rudimentary animation of TG3's current titles compared to the sequence it replaced springs to mind.

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In TG1's case, it can be argued there is a certain heritage to retain - the theme is, despite its many iterations, synonymous with Italian television (first used when the 'Telegiornale' began in 1954) and even the logo dates back to 1977.

But by the same token, TG1's on-air identity has repeatedly suffered from taking a step back quickly after taking two steps forward. One fairly radical attempt at a revamp was made in March 1992, designed to reinforce 'Telegiornale Uno' as the 'first' national news in response to the launch of TG5 on Canale 5.

It was ditched after just sixteen months on air.

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