CTVâs not trying very hard latelyâŠ
Context: This was on June 24, the night of the pivotal 7th game of the NHLâs Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers - broadcast on Sportsnet, CBC, and Citytv. Most of the country was watching that game that night. So CTV figured it wasnât worth doing much.
Wow. There wasnât anything else in the cupboard they could use?
Why not just list it at 7:30 and not make it so obvious lol?
Czech broadcaster TV Nova is rebranding today, concluding its year-long 30th anniversary celebration, and in time for the start of the fall TV season. The new look brings back the networkâs original logo (part of a package which featured music by Jan Hammer of Miami Vice fame), redone as an âinfinite loopâ symbolising its âconnection with the viewersâ, whilst also retaining its existing branding elements (including the custom Organica fonts by TomĂĄĆĄ Brousil for Suitcase Type). The new look was designed by Loyalkaspar.
The rebrand is now on air, with their startup still using the old ident. Also featured: New ad break bumper and cross-channel promo.
I think the spiral looks a bit similar to Globoâs TV Futura in Brazil, albeit animated differently:
Around Europe, Portuguese cable channel TVI Ficção relaunches as V+TVI, focusing on general entertainment and soaps. It also has its own morning programme (Bom Dia Alegria) and namesake news bulletins and shows.
This is TVI Ficçãoâs final goodbye, before handing over to V+TVIâs sports show, V+ Futebol:
The launch lineup can be seen here: https://static.iol.pt/frontend/presskits/PressKit_VMAISTVI.pdf
New TV season, new looks:
Coinciding with them relaunching their streaming service, the Irish Virgin Media Television channels all received a new look.
This is one of the idents on Virgin Media One, formerly TV3:
Promo on VM Two:
Ident on VM Three:
And that over on VM Four:
Over in Spain, Telecinco just received a new graphics package, with new accompanying fonts, a cleanup across their promos and DOGs, plus a ânight modeâ in dark teal after 9.05pm. New bumpers featuring the channelâs celebrities are unveiled too, shot in slow motion.
Details for the rebrand can be seen here:
https://www.eldiario.es/vertele/videos/actualidad/telecinco-cambia-imagen-corporativa-logo-principal-unifica-color-blanco-nuevo-noche_8_11618005.html
Your name is Dim?
The strange figure beside the Jim wordmark is in relation to the network being a part of Nelonen Media, which is one of the main TV networks in Finland. It is owned by the newspaper and publishing company Sanoma.
Alongside its namesake primary network Nelonen (The Fourth), a mainstream general entertainment network (which relies heavily on American series, reality shows and docos, and local versions of popular entertainment formats; they previously had a news service, but historically low ratings and budget cuts led to the news service being downsized from 2015, then being dropped altogether after lobbying for dropping the news programming requirements as part of their license renewal in 2017) and Jim (which means in English âsomething completely differentâ, a male skewed network focused on reality TV), it operates the female skewed Liv (which airs lifestyle programming and trashy reality and unscripted shows) and the series channel Hero (which is entirely based on American imports).
Nelonen Media also operates three national radio networks and many other ones with coverage in the major markets: Radio Suomipop (which exclusively airs music by and from Finnish artists), Radio Rock (AOR), Easy Hits (easy-listening targeted to women), Loop (a pure CHR network), HitMix (Hot AC), Groove FM (which airs jazz, blues, country and funk), Aito IskelmÀ (classic hits with emphasis on Finnish music), Classic Hits (also oldies but a bit more mainstream than the former), and Kantriradio (a local station broadcasting in Vaasa, in the north of the country).
Nelonen competes with the public broadcaster Yle and the Telia-owned MTV for viewers. However, they are also having stiff competition from smaller networks which have been able to launch and attract a sizeable viewership, including the WBD-owned TV5, Kutonen, Frii and the Nordic feed of TLC, plus the Disney-owned Star Channel and the Nordic feed of National Geographic. The DVB-T service is entirely FTA-based and in SD, with the DVB-T2 mux being mostly encrypted (featuring the MTV premium networks and a sizeable number of subscription TV channels) and is sold by a variety of providers, including Allente and Elisa, and directly through Digita, which operates the FTA transmission network. The FTA DVB-T channels are transitioning to the DVB-T2 network by 2025.