Staying in Europe…
BR, the ARD local broadcaster in Southeast Germany, finally rolled out their new corporate symbol to their TV channel (after debuted for their 75th anniversary last year).
The idents are very BBC1-esque with the perspective/shape on live action footage, but a nice touch in incorporating the diamonds (which are part of the state flag) in some of them.
3 years after the debut of the new branding system, the NRK TV channels finally utilized elements from the Anti project - as in using the formup animation and colour schemes, but the promo endboards in particular look different from the original design. A lot of the existing (old) elements retained too - the clock, the in-vision continuity, and quite a big push to their radio offerings on NRK2!
Not much changed on NRK Super though.
And the trend of governments s**tting over public broadcasters continues… Dutch public broadcaster NPO got their upcoming budget cut for 156 billion Euros, with restructuring of the membership system suggested.
They currently have 11 members targeting different demos and genres, plus two task-based ones; the government wants more mergers in the former, and cut the cultural/information/educational TV provider NTR in the next few years.
Employees protested in front of the NPO headquarters last month, in addition to member broadcasters airing bumpers that directed viewers to a petition supporting Dutch public broadcasting from late March to mid-April.
