yeah they wouldn’t be hard to recreate themselves haha
If I was running 7, I wouldn’t want them to unless we got some editorial control or some steps to improve the output.
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Agreed. Using the name with no editorial content is a recipe for disaster. Bad calls impact the news brand as well as legalities in some cases
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If Seven would hurry up and buy TNT then that would solve the naming and control issue. With everything going on with SCA right now that may be a possibility sooner rather than later.
The average viewer probably already thinks Seven owns the station anyway.
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i wish someone would tell that to 10, with them letting SCA use their theme, now outdated graphics, and bastardising the name/logo of the updates.
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They didn’t have a problem with sending them most of the graphics package in 2018 though. I wonder what’s changed?
Different news directors, different brand/marketing managers, different designers…any number of things.
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They probably have but Tas is always many years behind in updating haha
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Something like this might be better?
This largely followed their new social media templates, moving the logo to the top left (with shadows to improve legibility) and using the white tab in subheadings for denoting a live event.
Some other stupid stuff… Swapping styles with Nine lookalikes:
Turns out Nippon TV in Japan had a similar nine-dot symbol in the early 2000s, and I found a signoff clip with it in 2001.
I recreated the dotted Australia map at the bottom of the first image, making it the centre of the screen, and swapped the NTV symbol and slogan with 9’s.
Meanwhile, Nine’s 2001 ident used the same piece of stock music as some of the ITV stations’ millennium idents.
So I took a frame from the latter that’s easier to superimpose the dots into, giving it some faux motions lines, and tried to make it look like it’s in widescreen (probably would’ve done better with Photoshop’s AI expand…).
Some other, other stuff…
I wasn’t really a big fan of the new flat corporate ITV logo, so I recreated the gradients and added drop shadows in the overlapping segments (partly inspired by 10’s symbol and the three-segmented logo in their 2019 promo endboards).
I also read from Pres Cafe that France 3 and France Bleu (of Radio France) are being rebranded to ici, the common brand for the news programmes on both sides. This is knocked up to visualize what the ‘new brand’ can look like, in their respective typefaces and not.
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Would not say “stupid”, this looks super cool and the compressed effect is very believable!
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That’s better 
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Gosh, who does Nine think they are… CNN?!
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Left field idea… with content commonly repurposed on socials what if broadcast supers were in the centre to reduce time taken to edit/caption before uploading? Used 10 as an example for its youth demographic and is probably due a gfx refresh soon.
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Great idea. Not so keen on the angular style, but I think that’s just my own personal taste. Lots of potential here, though.
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A mock, certainly of the highest calibre when it comes to being “random”, roughly done on Google Slides via my iPad, an idea I’m playing around with 
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Following on the discussion in the sunrise topic about the 5am news theme, here is the opener with
The Latest/Seven News theme music: ‘Year in Review’ version
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Works well! Nice work
What if ITV NZ, a brand new subscription channel from ITV plc, joined Sky as a rival to BBC UKTV and designed to cater for the New Zealand audience when it comes to British programming?
All images: Supplied. No copyright infringement intended.
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My idea for a fictional Nine Network affiliate in Orange, New South Wales.
The CWN-9 channel was founded in 1984 before affiliating itself with the Nine Network two years later. Since then, it remains affiliated with Nine to this day.
Logo history:
The original logo used from early 1989 to 30 January 2006. A variant with only the “CWN” wordmark was used in its early years.
Logo from 30 January 2006 until 14 January 2008, as PBL (now Nine Entertainment Co) adopted a widely criticised rebranding.
Current logo since 14 January 2008, when Nine brought back the dots (excluding Adelaide and Perth thanks to WIN).
Trivia:
The channel’s callsign is an initialism for “Central West New South Wales”.
In 2000, CWN rejected a $46million takeover from WIN.
The channel’s signal range covers the entirety of the Central Tablelands.
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“Still the One in the Tablelands, this is CWN.”
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