Overseas Television

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CTV’s not trying very hard lately…

Context: This was on June 24, the night of the pivotal 7th game of the NHL’s 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 wasn’t worth doing much.

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Wow. There wasn’t anything else in the cupboard they could use?

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Why not just list it at 7:30 and not make it so obvious lol?

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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 network’s original logo (part of a package which featured music by Jan Hammer of Miami Vice fame), redone as an “infinite loop” symbolising its “connection with the viewers”, whilst also retaining its existing branding elements (including the custom Organica fonts by Tomáš Brousil for Suitcase Type). The new look was designed by Loyalkaspar.

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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 Globo’s 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 Ficção’s final goodbye, before handing over to V+TVI’s sports show, V+ Futebol:

The launch lineup can be seen here: https://static.iol.pt/frontend/presskits/PressKit_VMAISTVI.pdf

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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 ‘night mode’ in dark teal after 9.05pm. New bumpers featuring the channel’s 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

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I’m in Finland where I have my own channel.

About time. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Your name is Dim?

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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 “something completely different”, 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 Iskelmä (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.

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SkyShowtime will launch an ad-free channel SkyShowtime Premium in more than 20 countries across Europe, on October 29.

Some news around the kids TV world…

Okoo from France Télévisions updated their on-screen identity, with rounded boxes and the < in K as main devices. The smile underneath the eyes, originally intended for younger ages only, is now applied to all blocks.

This is a selection of the new package on France 4:

France 5, with sign language translators in one of the promos and the old style in another:

And the closedown from France 3/4:


Meanwhile, Belgian VRT’s Ketnet unveiled a new symbol, as the main site moves into their streamer, VRT Max. Ketnet Junior remains as a separate app with an updated symbol and interface.

This is how they looked like:


And after relaunching Disney Jr. in June, the main Disney Channel is updating the wordmark, with the Mouse Ears symbol taking a back seat. This is a selection of continuities and promos using the new style (mostly promoting their upcoming Halloween programming), though the old ones can still be seen.

The celebrity idents are recently updated with the new logo formation too:

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Dr Phil’s TV network “Merit Street Media” is starting to crumble.

PBR (Professional Bull Riding) stating that Merit TV failed to “pay right fees”

Dallas Morning News saying -

But in August, the network announced layoffs of 38 employees.

And last week Merit’s Morning program anchor and Youtube Influencer Dominique Sachse announced she has handed her resignation. Many of her followers saying her different political views are the reason why.

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