The situation you’ve mentioned already happens in the case of most commercial channels (ANT1, Star, Alpha and Open TV), as seen below; in these cases, it makes more sense to use an English branding. Skai TV uses Ειδήσεις branding, whilst Mega Channel uses its longtime Gegonóta (Γεγονότα, Facts) branding. In the opposite, Makedonia TV, a national superstation based in Thessaloniki and Marousi (Athens outskirts), no longer airs news programming.
It’s quite interesting how much English has affected the Greek language in everyday life and media. Even when they’re using Greek letters or words, they can be referencing something English. You are probably aware of these but for those who are unfamiliar.
ERT (1965) was the public broadcaster with a number of channels had no competition until the late 80s. The first commercial channels ANT1 and Mega were only introduced in 1989 and were foreign owned and influenced.
ANT1 (1989) involves wordplay in Greek ena (ένα) is the Greek number 1 (one), thus ‘ANT1’ is pronounced the same as ‘Antenna’ (Αντέννα) .
MEGA (1989) even though it is a word of Greek origin, it has always been spelt the English way but pronounced the Greek way me-yah (μέγα).
Alpha, again a Greek word for the first letter of the alphabet A alpha (ἄλφα), but spelt the English way.
Skai TV (1993) usually uses the Greek letters in it’s branding (ΣΚΑΪ) but it’s a word from English origin, Sky.
Star (1993) is just the English word Star.
Open TV was formerly Epsilon TV (2013) which is the Greek letter E epsilon (έψιλον). Strange rebrand because I don’t think the English word Open is a better name for a TV channel.
It is on channel 1019.
During February of this year, NHK announced a schedule change in its channels from next week ahead of the merger of its satellite channels, BS1 and BS Premium, the latter of which airs dramas and cultural programming, into BS2K from 1st December following the decrease of its license fee.
One action is Catch! Sekai no Top News (which is mentioned in my previous post) will move from 8am on BS1 to its flasghip channel General TV at 10.05am. As a result, a World News, a program that is similar to SBS WorldWatch, bulletin will air in its place from that time.
The broadcaster also removes its 5am bulletin on Tuesday to Friday, but not on Saturday.
Another move is the merger of two of World News’ bulletins, World News Asia (which airs updated reports from KBS, Al Jazeera Arabic and CCTV) and World News America (which airs ABC America’s This Week on Mondays and PBS NewsHour and ABC’s Nightline from Tuesdays to Fridays) into one program, with Nightline no longer airing.
Update: The working title ‘NHK BS2K’ is now confirmed to be just ‘NHK BS’.
I guess it doesn’t bother them too much, beyond what you’ve suggested with the part use of English in the other channels, too - after all they see, for instance, “EPT” on screen but viewers (a lot of which would be the vast diaspora like here) have been typing in “ertnews.gr” to access their news online for years now. Most would understand the Greek → Latin script transliteration.
RTL info in Belgium debuted a new studio and a new symbol (foregrounding the imminent rebrand after the buyout from RTL Group) back in January:
Malaysia’s RTM rebranded its news offerings yesterday, as the state broadcaster celebrated its 77th anniversary on that day. The changes involve new intros, graphics and music for all broadcasts, as well as a new format for Berita Perdana (Prime News). The main evening newscast was shortened to just a half-hour duration and implemented a faster-paced format with more in-depth reporting.
Berita Tengah Hari (midday news):
Berita Wilayah (early evening news):
Exiled Russian independent news channel Dozhd (TV Rain), based in the Netherlands since the start of the year (after being forced to leave Latvia due to non-compliance of local media laws), has rebranded with a more conventional design:
NHK is rebranding (once again) its newscasts tomorrow. All newscasts will now have unified graphics and supers branded under the NHK News brand.
The first stage of the changes happened at the start of last season, when all NHK TV news broadcasts were unified into a box-style brand system, with all shows adopting a frontcap before airing their shortened openers.
The new look is on-air. Most newscast didn’t had their intros altered, but their main newscast NHK News 7 and News Watch 9 got new intros and theme music.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at News Watch 9’s new theme music:
Over in Chile, Canal 13 relaunched their news channel, T13 en vivo, on DTV space previously occupied by Canal 13.2 and promising a stronger programme lineup besides T13 repeats.
The on-screen pres is basically the same used in main newscasts since last year, with ‘en vivo’ added in the T13 box:
Anyone recognize the beginning?
They’re also trying to copy American news outlets. They stole “The Public Square” logo from The Donlon Report and Banfield on NewsNation, the World News Tonight name from ABC and their Graphics from CBS, etc. It’s too much to mention here, but at least they actually try to copy them unlike Global News in Romania.
Reminds me of the 7NEWS opener from 2004-2010.
reminds you? It’s clearly a rip off of that haha
Care to elaborate?
I’d say his graphics are more like NBC Today’s.
And the flying National Nine News logo
And isn’t that the 1999-2003 7 News theme?
Yes.
A low budget TV channel that doesn’t attempt to copy the Canadian Global News. The Romanian one has a globe in the middle of the O and it doesn’t have the “boomerang”.
