The reason why I suspected that the Klan open may be a ripoff is that Albania and neighboring Kosovo tend to be rather notorious for basing their graphics on other European examples.
Klan itself once used opens clearly based on those used by RTL and Rossiya 1, both of which you can see in this compilation, which includes the ABC News-style open:
This article from 2013 has many examples of Albanian and Kosovar stations borrowing elements from French TV channels:
“Welcome Home” Nine’s slogan from 2009-2017 was borrowed from CBS’ late 90s slogan
Although without the smartness of the rest of CBS’s slogan at the time (“The address is CBS”) which added context to the “welcome home” bit over there, especially with their personalities using it in short idents.
Some elements from the 2012-2015 look was inspired from that era
The choose|9 package had the dots flying around similar to the CBS ident from 1997
Did they really draw inspiration from them or are you just posting about similar identities? I’m sure there are a lot of TV stations that have used flying dots or circles in some form
Channel 5 UK had the 5 colour bar ident in which 7 used from May 1999-December 31, 1999. 5 launched their version in March 1999 and lasted until September 2000
Apart from the vague “colour bars” motif i don’t think there was any common presentation between them? Also 5 used different colours to 7.
5’s version of the colour bar was blue-orange-red-yellow-green with 7’s version being red-orange-yellow-blue-green representing Passion, Evolving, Life, Fun and Energy
i don’t know the technical term but I think 5 also deliberately chose different tones for the colours. They didn’t use the traditional test card blue or green colours, for instance, but used deliberately lighter tones.
I recall the comparisons to Channel 5’s candy stripes at the time… although, 5 never really made the candy-stripe bar as front-and-centre of their idents so much until later in 1999 (some sources say as late as September) - where it mostly stayed until they became “five” in late 2002. They obviously used it in other presentation like program promos with the first set that stretched back to their opening in 1997.
Seven had teased the colour bar in sporadically-placed promos/idents well before (maybe even as early as late-1998?), mainly involving news events in history, before it became a full ident package in mid-1999 (while keeping the last set of “everyone’s home” idents the rest of the time) - and I wonder if some of the delay was related to that. It’d be hard for me to do any more than conject.
New Zealand’s TV2 look early next decade (example on YT) also drew similar distinctions, although their bar seemed to have fewer colours and actually move. (Also yikes, that “nzoom.com” domain that TVNZ was using is old school.)
As to Seven… the five-colour motif, which they dragged into the new logo era in 2000, did also provide Seven with the ability to actually borrow the little-coloured-men motif that NBC used in 1998/99 - except they had six of them (because six colours of the Peacock) to our five.
The 5 coloured men started just after the Sydney Olympics and lasted until mid-2002
It was even borrowed/plagiarised in Brazil, as part of a long-running SBT campaign:
For many years, SBT used various image campaigns and songs, which were mostly properly licensed from the networks itself, but were rearranged and had Brazilian Portuguese lyrics. First up, the well-known NBC “Be There/Let’s All Be There” campaigns, which SBT used between 1987 and 1989 as “Quem Procura Acha Aqui”:
Then, between 1990 and 1991, SBT used the “Come Home to NBC” campaigns, both in the 1987 and 1988 versions:
In 1992, SBT launched an in-house campaign, “Aqui Tem”, as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations as a network. Although the campaign was not fully borrowed, it had cues of the “Come Home to the Best, Only on NBC” campaign.
In 1993, the network came back to borrowed campaigns: “Se Liga no SBT” was based on the 1990 version of “Get Ready for CBS”, completed with a Portuguese version of the Temptations’ hit song (which inspired the CBS song) and an MV taken straight from the original CBS MV promo:
That era of borrowing American campaigns came to an end in 1994, with the “America’s Watching ABC” campaign (which Ten took inspiration for its “This is It!” campaign) from that year. SBT named theirs “O Brasil Ligado no SBT/Fique Ligado”.
The “QPAA” campaign was partly revived in 1996, with the campaign featuring a segment of it as part of an in-house campaign celebrating SBT’s 15th anniversary and the opening of its current studio complex in Anhanguera, São Paulo:
