I could be mistaken, but I thought I read somewhere when the deal was struck, that Seven are the main player so to speak in this new agreement, rather than Foxtel (who also re-signed at the same time), namely regarding the 7Bravo channel / content? Wonder if that might be why?
There’s a promo for 7Life that is getting a good run on the channel:
And the Ident:
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I stumbled upon the “7Life” website the other day, when it was the re-direct for a 7News .com.au article on the new 7Bravo content. My immediate thought was could this be a Nine lawsuit waiting to happen RE: 9Life?
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Not much thought went into that!
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Well, that’s answers some things “7Bravo is not an internal Seven set-up” (Brook Hall, head of scheduling). Article interviews NBC-U’s head for this territory and the two companies are liaising very closely by the sounds of it, not merely just a content provider. Also talks about Bravo channel success in NZ since 2016.
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Doubt it, 7Life has been around for at least a year and would likely be registered in different categories I would think with one being a website, the other a tv channel.
Interestingly, 10 also trademarked Ten Living and Ten Life circa 2008 so not exactly an original name either.
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Nothing after breaks to identify the show. Just the same watermark.
Just watched the first episode of Judge Jerry, quite a rough watch, and looking back to the schedule I see it was the first ever episode produced. I wonder if it gets better later on…
On 7Mate during American Pickers, there was a super mentioning 7Bravo. I’m assuming it would be similar to the one above. The first ticker said something along the lines of:
“7Bravo: Now on Channel 75. Channel ?? in some regional areas”, with the second ticker saying “7Bravo and streaming now on 7+” like the one above.
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Yes, thats the one. Thanks for that 
Indeed. Almost confirms playout comes from overseas.
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M version of the classification super with consumer advice. Notice the low hanging letters get cut off. Bit dodge.
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And all they’d really need, is a Seven classifier to handle all the government/regulatory affairs side (classifition and what shows are allowed where and any editing, as well as appropriate promos and ads at certain times, closed captioning, and related manated warnings/bugs), someone to handle local sales/clients and someone in Seven’s broadcast team for any engineering/technical side of things.
Unless Seven have trained respective NBC-U staff here or abroad to do all of that.
It really is a new era in operating TV channels. I think 10 SHAKE was the first linear FTA broadcast channel with offshore playout (someone can correct me if I am wrong) and it looks no different to the other 10 channels. It sticks to the 10 stylesheet to a tee.
7Bravo on the other hand looks a bit hodge podge. It’s like a mix of US and AU standards and really it’s no surprise a PRG isn’t consistently shown - US playout staff have probably never had to deal with them too often!
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