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After first being rumoured in February and reportedly delayed in July, French public broadcasters France Bleu (radio) and France 3 (TV) introduced a common brand for their regional and local programming, ici (here), two weeks ago. The name has been used in relaunching the latter’s news bulletins, 12/13 and 19/20, a year ago, as well as the joint breakfast show between the two.

These are the ICI regional idents on France 3, except the first generic one: According to the Lenodal forum, it was seen in the Rhône-Alpes region. Per the forumers there, upon launch, some regions didn’t take the branding and opted for the existing France 3 ones too. The DOG animated the same way from France 3 to ICI.

On the radio side, this is France Bleu’s announcement on the name change. Compared to the mixed use of France 3/ici on TV, they’ll entirely go by the new name by 2025.

France 3 workers feared that the longstanding FR3 name would eventually disappear and organized a strike on the relaunch day (4/11). France Bleu union found the rename pointless, but has yet to mobilize its members.
https://www.snrt-cgt-ftv.org/liste-communiques/1335-la-tele-regionale-en-aura-cest-pas-ici-cest-pas-ailleurs

Latina Televisión in Peru introduced a new identity, where the green and yellow palette from the 90s returns after a decade.

The new package, done by Lima-based Fahrenheit DDB, brand consultancy After and Latina’s in-house team, is a nod to traditional TV and the new portrait video format, and presents the broadcaster as a positive addition to viewers’ daily lives.

The programme break bumper utilizes the horizontal block of the L:

The L symbol, introduced in 2014 as part of a on-screen relaunch from Frecuencia Latina to just Latina, has undergone several changes in recent years, with the latest being in 2022.

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He’s no Oprah Winfrey.

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TRTÉ, the Irish kids TV block on RTÉ2, renamed to RTÉ Kids earlier this month.

It’s a more accurate name, sure, given that the T(een) in TRTÉ has been left out by the broadcaster or are leaving for streaming for a while. The idents, though, feels a bit ‘generic fun’ vibe - don’t get me wrong, they’re well-made, but you’ll still get a pretty nice package for the host channel if you swap the wordmark for a 2. Not to mention the logo formup at the end looks like Sky UK in 2010s…

TVMonaco and Monaco Info are shutting down in September 2025, citing the state’s incapability of running 2 competing state channels.

In their place, a new, ad-supported public station will be set up, with establishment work led by the state’s Director of Communication, Geneviève Berti. She’s also considering leaving the TV5Monde consortium, in which TVMonaco currently holds 5% ownership in.

https://lagazettedemonaco.com/en/news/politique/nouvelle-tele-informer-a-linterieur-et-resonner-a-lexterieur-en

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Albania’s ABC News with a very unique (!!!) logo.

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Those are old TalkTV (Fox News inspired) lower thirds too

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Saves money on logo design. :rofl:

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Romantic drama series Battle of Marriage premiered in Hong Kong on Monday night (December 30). In an unprecedented move, broadcaster TVB put up a viewer advice on screen before the start of the first episode. The message (shown below in Chinese) basically says TVB would like to pay tribute to families of victims of the recent plane crashes in Azerbaijan and South Korea, and that there is a scene in the episode which relates to an airplane incident, and viewer discretion is advised. It goes on to say that the entire series has been filmed prior to the accidents and that the broadcaster will continue to treat upcoming storylines with caution, and hope to deliver positive energy to viewers.

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In the scene, Wo Ping (Brian Chu) who is the manager of Ting Tsung Yiu (Edwin Siu), travels from Canada via Seoul to Hong Kong. In the cabin, Ping encounters Yiu’s wife Lam Choi Lam (played by Jinny Ng) who is also returning to HK to give Yiu a surprise. During the Seoul to Hong Kong flight, the plane suffers a malfunction with the landing gear, and Lam is so scared that she wants to write a message. The plane makes an emergency landing at Hong Kong International Airport and everyone is safe.

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A happy 2025 to all of you!

The first overseas rebrand goes to the government-owned NBT (National Broadcasting Services of Thailand) in Bangkok, as part of its ‘New ERA’ reform initiative. NBT2, its national channel, finally drops the France 2-lookalike trapezoid after 15 years.

As you can imagine, it was as well received as the BBC 3 years ago…
https://thainews.prd.go.th/nbtworld/news/view/783672/?bid=1

And Arte’s festive look this past Christmas was warm and fuzzy, in a literal sense:

Based on Christmas sweaters, it’s designed by 17Mars, who previously worked with France 2 on their festive packages. I guess this is what ITV1’s promos (the stamp-sized trees ones) envisioned to be?

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VTC Digital Television Network, the second nationwide television network of Vietnam, have ceased their broadcasting today, at midnight of January 15th (04:00 a.m AEDT), along with Nhan Dan TV, the television arm of the Nhan Dan (The People) daily newspaper. This followed major cutbacks decree from the Vietnamese government, in order to leaning the structure of its own mainstream media systems, which mainly rely on governmental budget. Before VTC and Nhan Dan TV, the Vietnamese National Assembly Television Service had closed their transmission on midnight, January 1st; and VOV TV, the television channel operated by Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV), aired their final programs on January 2nd. Other television channel, VNews, owned and operated by Vietnam News Agency, would also end their broadcast on January 16th.

Founded in the year of 2004, VTC TV was one of the most influential television network in Vietnam during the 2000s, thanks to their progressive digitalized television technology as well as their rights to transmit various European soccer leagues. Their fate in the years of 2010s until final closure, in some part, resembling Hongkonger Asia Television, which ceased their broadcast in 2016.

Footage of final transmission of VTC and Nhan Dan TV can be seen here:

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Asia Television (ATV) was a commercial station from start to finish and didn’t receive any government funding.

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so as the VTC, but VTC is state-owned. (Most bigger TV broadcasters in Vietnam are state-controlled but financially independent.)

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Public broadcasting in Taiwan is in peril, as the opposition party proposed a budget cut of NT$23 mil to Public Television Service (PTS), with another $570 mil frozen as part of their sweeping cuts to the government.

More bizarrely, the original proposal was to cut the broadcaster’s entire $2.3 billion budget, which was retracted after receiving public backlash.

Taiwan Plus, PTS’ ambitious English-language service, is also to have its budget slashed for $200 mil (originally 100 or 200, as two opposition parties presented their own bills), citing low viewership and, interestingly, calling US president Trump a “convicted felon” in its election coverage. The latter is obviously making resident foreign journalists very, very unhappy.

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“Now that the budget has been finalized, I’m gonna be blunt here. When the news of a public media is not allowed to tell such basic facts, where is the freedom of the press? The so-called ‘glory of Asia’ is really ridiculous. I believe that the international media is now seeing through Taiwan’s true colors.”

In Belgium, after briefly changed into the Santa costume as VTM Xmas, VTM Non-Stop 90’s rebadged again into VTM Life, boasting reality, romance and drama. It uses the same teal as its predecessor.

This comes as one of the many guises of the former VTM Kids channel - it became VTM Non-Stop Doktors in 2023 as the home of House MD and co. It was later renamed to Non-Stop 90’s, adopted the corporate rebrand, before changing into a festive pop-up channel:

And in Canada, as the WBD channels moved from Bell to Rogers, 3 new CTV-branded channels (Wild, Speed and Nature) were launched, in addition to porting Oxygen and USA Network to the country. This is the promo for all of them “on free preview” (so there’s a timeslot where they can be watched for free, and other time scrambled?):

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I find it hard to believe that opposition cited calling Trump a “convicted felon” as one of the reasons for the budget cuts. Isn’t that an accurate description? Bizarrely the call to slash the budget of PTS and Taiwan Plus came from KMT not the ruling party (DPP).

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Because they want Trump to help protect them from China. Remember, he’s a fragile individual. :rofl:

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Watching National EMTV News via YouTube - pretty interesting.

Do PNG TV networks have affiliations with Australian networks? EMTV seems to use ABC, which is interesting given their history with Nine.

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With the year of the Snake sneaking up, let’s take a look at the Hong Kong broadcasters’ Lunar New Year packages…

TVB Jade’s ident is finally all new since 2022, with its animation done in 3D and a fresh background tune. Its English counterpart, TVB Pearl, got their own variant after 2 years of absence.

Some other bits of pres (the Pearl break bumpers worked better than the junctions for some reason):

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It’s business as usual over on HoyTV/Hoy IBC, who updated their programme junctions with the festivities.

ViuTV/ViuTV6 arrived a bit later than the two, with a more blocky and louder take on the New Year:

That leaves RTHK TV 31 - but judging from last year, they’re probably switching to it at midnight sharp on the first day of the year. It’s much more generic than last year too:

As part of their 35th anniversary celebration, Antena 3 in Spain debuted a new graphics package and redesigned typeface. Designed by their in-house team, the main symbol returns to all sharp corners and uses its outline as motion device. This is the graphics reel:

More here:

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I’m surprised not that much talk of this has shown up here, only one mention by @Medianext.MX [who is also where I got the vast majority of this information, thanks in advance], but there is a big change coming to the French TV landscape.

Arcom, the media regulator in France, has somewhat regular hearings to decide if channels should have their licenses renewed. Last year, they held hearings for 14 of the original channels that launched with TNT [French DTT]. 2 channels, C8 [owned by Canal+, and home to right-wing evening show “Touche pas à mon poste !”] and NRJ 12 [owned by NRJ Group, who also own Chérie 25 and radio station NRJ Hits] lost their hearings, and will be removed from TNT at the end of February.

In their place, 2 new channels, T18 [formerly Réels TV/CMI TV, owned by Czech Media Invest, whose main shareholder, Daniel Křetínský, owns famous French magazines, like Elle, Télé 7 jours, & Franc-Tireur, though this will be ran independently from those] and OFTV [Ouest-France TV, owned by Ouest-France] will launch, with T18 launching on June 6th, and OFTV launching on September 1st.

Separately, Canal+ has announced that they will be removing Canal+ [the channel, TNT channel 4] off of TNT, as well as their other pay TV channels Canal+ Sport, Canal+ Cinéma(s), and Planète+ [TNT channels 42, 43, & 45].

Since all this is happening, the channel numbers on TNT will also be reshuffled on June 6th. France 4 will move from channel 14 to channel 4, taking Canal+'s space. Similarly, LCP-Public Sénat [a parliamentary channel] will move from channel 13 to channel 8 [taking over from C8] and children’s channel Gulli will move from channel 18 to channel 12 [taking over from NRJ 12].

There will also be a block of news channels, with BFM TV moving from channel 15 to channel 13, CNEWS moving from channel 16 to channel 14, LCI moving from channel 26 to channel 15, and France Info moving from channel 27 to channel 16.

For the new channels, T18 will launch on channel 18 [currently Gulli] and OFTV will launch on channel 19 [currently vacant, former occupant France Ô closed in August 2020, with Culturebox launching in February 2021, before moving to evenings on France 4 in May 2021 [with France 4 now just being the linear channel for Okoo [children’s content] & Culturebox full time, with all young adult programs formerly on France 4 moved online], where the space has been vacant since the closure of Culturebox as a full channel]. All other TNT channels are unaffected.

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