Has the watermark on Nine gotten bigger today? It looks massive.
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No change - but the w/m in the lower right is larger than the sports one used in the top right earlier in the day.
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This will probably be the watermark on 9 after the Paralympics end.
(I used object eraser on my Samsung phone to get rid of the Paralympic elements.)
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That tape they’re playing tonight looks so old, supposedly high def, grainy or foggy or something as, probably from when it first aired in digital widescreen and HD, circa mid-2000s. Usually I’ve seen them show this with the opening logos (also an old and rare 20C Fox - the very first of the modern era one around 1994/1995) removed, say when m/c 7mate and 7flix, and would just start with that banger “Summer in the City” tune from The Lovin’ Spoonful. Originally this first ran on Nine (when Roadshow handled the defunct Cinergi), then rights reverted to Fox > Seven (also aired on Ten).
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Talking Footy on Seven Adelaide, 20th March 2000. Every time they showed clips they added a watermark to the top right even though the bottom right watermark was still present.
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Happens often during this era
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3D Nine bug on Tipping Point on Nine NBN this afternoon.
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Looks like they have updated it to the Paralympic watermark in the bottom right now.
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New 10 Sport watermark:
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TVB’s watermarks are interesting when they were introduced in the 90s - for a brief period of time, Cantonese TVB Jade used a full-colour, calligraphic symbol. It was placed at the bottom right corner during the news (left: recorded at the beginning of the 6.30 News, 11/1/1994), and at the top right in other shows (right: recorded during a singing contest, 16/1/1994):
Perhaps realizing the legibility is terrible, they changed it into a white symbol with a blocky typeface, at the top right at all times pretty soon after (it became more transparent into the 2000s) - this is from late March:
(From here)
They used this until 2006, when they switched to a colour one with a horizontal lockup.
TVB Pearl had a similar script symbol (with Chinese and English variants) and was seen in some promos, but I’m not sure if they went over the same process as Jade before rolling out the serif watermark.
Update Yes, they did - the e and a became a white smidge:
Credit: VCRBase on Facebook
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