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NBC Super Channel ITN World News 1995 30th October 21:30

Audience: General, English speaking
Genre: Daily news
Anchor: Alex Thompson
Director: Martin Boyd
Production team: Brian Bryant, Chris Bryant, Rachel Corp, Alison Perry, Stuart Webb, Bruce Whitehead

ITN World News appears on NBC Super Channel twice a day: at 18:00 and 21:30 o'clock. It lasts thirty minutes. Each edition consists of several parts that differ day by day. The 30th October 1995 session has seventeen separate parts. All these segments are introduced by the anchor who says a few introducing sentences.

The anchor seats in front of a blue wall and the background constantly changes when the news changes.

The parts of the 30th session:

1. The failure of UN policy
Pictures are taken from Studio B, Belgrad. The reporter, Nick Gain comments through the report and at the end he himself draws the conclusion. The topic: Dutch UN troops are blamed for not handling muslim aids properly. Several documents are shown to prove the facts that the reporter claims. A computer-made picture is included to represent the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2. The Croatian election
Pictures of the NBC Super Channel are shown. The reporter, Alison Perry first tells the story of the Croatian elections and briefly the political career of Franjo Tudjman. She herself does not appear as the creator of this hard news presentation.

3. Catastrophy in Azerbaidzhan
Julien Marien reports through telephoning about an underground fire in Baku. The reporter is not shown but pictures of the NBC back up what he says.

4. Democratic election?

Lawrence McDonnell's report informs about the forcoming Russian election. The reporter appears in the middle of the report saying a few comments about the topic. The focus of the report is on how democratic the Russian election will be and how Boris Jelcin's illness affects it.

5. This part of the program shows the main title of NBC Super Channel and commercials.

6. Preview of other programs on the channel.

7. Serial killer
Robert Hose reports about a woman who killed ten women and girls. The lady's picture is only shown behind the anchor and after that painted pictures are to represent the trial: the suspect, the jury and the lawyers. It is a typical soft news.

8. Nuclear tests in the South-Pacific
Hard news about John Major's and Jacques Chirac's cooperance on nuclear tests. The reporter, Hew Pins does not appear but he speaks through the montage constantly and draws the conclusion finally.

9. Protests against nuclear tests
A short summery about recent demonstrations and a report about a new one in Wellington, New Zealand. The anchor is the one who tells the story.

10. Killing in Sri-Lanka
The anchor tells about the accocination of 132 people. Pictures of the killed people are shown.

11. Retired soldiers
Peter Lain - never appearing - informs about the fate of retired British army soldiers in Hong Kong. Several soldiers are asked about their future.

12. Storm in the Philippines
The anchor tells about the tropical storm in Visayas. A few minutes of pictures are shown about the disaster.

13. Election in Canada
The anchor informs about the election in Montreal, Quebec. Local pictures are shown.

14. US - Israel meeting
Warren Christopher meets the hebrew Prime Minister in Damaskus- reports the anchor. In the meantime the events are shown.

15. Fear in Israel
Peter Wilson's way of presenting a hard news: composite report with montages, questionned people, commenting. Some clips are transferred from TVM.

16. Friction in the Netherlands
The anchor tells about the accusation that the Dutch made conserning UN troops not handling aircrafts and aids properly in Bosnia.

17. The first royal flight
The anchor tells a soft news about the Queen of England. She flies on a scheduled flight for the first time. The monarch is shown for a few seconds.

Finally the anchor says good bye. The camera -from a different view- shows the image of the studio.

The anchor spoke at a high level of speech. He wore a suit and a tie. He seemed to be familiar about the subjects so he did not make mistakes.

No connection can be seen between the segments. Only a few soft news appeared and there were any investigative reports.