[AaronLancs]

The BR music was apparently composed by the same company who did Hart van Nederland, so if anything that is a case of a composer ripping off their own work!

I think it's one of the reasons that we have to be careful necessarily calling 'plagiarism'. While there are some cases where somebody has clearly just ripped something off, it can often be more of a grey area - there are a lot of 'homages' and deliberate similarities in news presentation because a) certain composers, designers or design houses have certain 'styles' that they personally prefer or work to; b) it is not uncommon for broadcasters to explicitly commission things to be e.g. BBC-esque; and c) there are even some occasions where broadcasters in other countries do co-operate with each other ahead of rebrands.

Another case in point with this is Jim Mann / Lightwell Visualisation. Since 2008 with the background for BBC News with the video backgrounds for N6 / TC7 and then around 2013 with the ITV News backgrounds. Various broadcasters around the world have used him for their set extensions. With the various colour palettes that there are several have riffed others unintentionally.

A good example of work 'overlapping' for want of a better word is TV4 Nyheterna in Sweden. When that was unveiled and previewed a lot of people mentioned of the heavy BBC influence. Not only with the background that was expertly created but also with the physical studio as well. Done by Jago Design I believe, the same ones who did the BBC News 2013 'studio design' template which had only just been launched with the recent move from TVC to NBH.

Here is a picture of said studio:

(Image Source: Jago Design - Archive (jagodesign.co.uk ))

Plus looking at the archive there are a lot more possibilities with this sort of thing.