BBC News Channel 2008 countdown, 90 second version, plus hold

This happened live on air, on the BBC News Channel, leading up to the simulcast BBC News at Ten.  Because Children In Need on BBC1 was overrunning, the whole countdown was played, even the whole 30 seconds of hold at the end of the countdown, which is not usually seen at all.

Stay tuned.  More to come from Ident City

TVNZ 7: Countdown, opener and more, 2008

TVNZ has it’s own news channel of sorts.  It’s called TVNZ 7, and it’s commercial free.

Here’s how the channel works.  From 6am to 9am, 3 hours of rolling news.  The rest of the day’s schedule is made up of 10 minute news bulletins, called TVNZ News Now, and documentaries and information programming for the rest of the hour.  The exception is at 8pm when you have an hour long “TVNZ News at 8”.  From midnight to 6am, TVNZ runs an “overnight information service”, which I must assume to be text based information.

Anyway, here’s a little sample of how the channel looks.

I notice they’ve borrowed the BBC News idea of a countdown to the top of the hour.  Looks quite good.  Shame there’s no facility to watch the channel or at least the bulletins online.

Stay tuned for more after the break.

The Classic BBC News 24 countdown

This has gotta be one of my all-time favourite pieces of presentation. The classic BBC News 24 90 second countdown to the top of the hour, from 1999. It managed to air in its entirity just once, on BBC1 just before they joined BBC News 24 to fill in the overnight hours. On that occasion, they managed to plan it so that they joined the channel at the top of the hour, hence the use of the full countdown.

One of the all time greats, and I’m so glad I’m able to present it here.