Damn 10 pays $400k and it still gets lumped with a CBS watermark?
I wonder if it’s ViacomCBS insisting that.
I doubt ITV will have a CBS watermark tonight in The UK
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It’s WIN we are talking about here.
They HAVE to have the loudest watermarks possible.
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I hope whoever they sign with later this year (Ten or Nine) tells WIN to cool it with their watermarks and branding in general.
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As I mentioned a few days ago, it’s a similar situation to the late shows - they record the dirty feed in order to turn it around faster. It’s just an old fashioned procedure.
Seeing as 10 are also owned by CBS, I doubt they’re in any hurry to change the procedure to remove the branding.
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What’s that logo in the top right?
Looks like + H R = E or something?
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Ah thanks, didn’t realise they had changed their name.
Wished more Australian networks had more subtle watermarks like that one.
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It’s nice but I would hate to be the graphic designer working with the THREE logo. It’s a really unique shape and really hard to work with. It would be difficult to do things like this -
Imagine trying to create news graphics with that mess of a logo. Thank god for Newshub.
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I agree it’s not a great logo, I was more referring to it being smaller and less intrusive than most for a watermark.
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Correct. It was reported in The Australian on Monday that ViacomCBS when negotiating the licencing gave a strict set of requests that must be abided. And you could clearly see them (e.g.) embedded ad break bumpers from Harpo, the program description, promos with credits, social media with credits. All of which were mentioned and indeed occurred.
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Wonder why ITV was CBS watermark free then?
Adjusted for population and viewership/ revenue - 10 Paid far more than ITV
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Fair enough.
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That suggests disaster recovery resources were in use.
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Yes part way through tonight’s encore of the interview 10 glitched for a fraction of a second and was then in SD recovery mode.
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Which is very appropriate as WINs watermark/logo is a disaster itself.
WHY have solid Mappy as a watermark on one day and then as a blue circle on another day? Makes no sense. They have NO consistency when it comes to a station logo.
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