LTSC1980 post_id=74091 time= user_id=848 Wrote:Star Premium channels was closed on February 1, 2022.
https://youtu.be/YVQcLYnezqo
This is part, no doubt, of Disney prioritizing streaming as its main broadcast method. Most of the content of these channels went to Star+, which essentially is the Star hub of Disney+ and ESPN+ combined together in a separate service (Disney+ focuses only on family-friendly content as in the U.S.), but some content, like that of Lionsgate, went to StarzPlay, and those from Paramount, well, you guessed it, to Paramount+.
And to continue this, by the end of the month, Disney will close an additional five channels region-wide: Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Kids, Disney XD, FXM and Star Life; they will additionally cease transmission of Disney Junior in Brazil, and substitute Star Life in Brazil with a new, Brazilian feed of Cinecanal. They also plan to close the Fox Sports channels in all territories later this year as they prioritize their ESPN channels, except in Argentina, sold to the powerful Mediapro, and in Mexico, sold to a consortium led by the Lauman Media Group and the family-owned Grupo Salinas (through TV Azteca).
Medianext.MX post_id=74092 time= user_id=1455 Wrote:LTSC1980 post_id=74091 time= user_id=848 Wrote:Star Premium channels was closed on February 1, 2022.
https://youtu.be/YVQcLYnezqo
This is part, no doubt, of Disney prioritizing streaming as its main broadcast method. Most of the content of these channels went to Star+, which essentially is the Star hub of Disney+ and ESPN+ combined together in a separate service (Disney+ focuses only on family-friendly content as in the U.S.), but some content, like that of Lionsgate, went to StarzPlay, and those from Paramount, well, you guessed it, to Paramount+.
And to continue this, by the end of the month, Disney will close an additional five channels region-wide: Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Kids, Disney XD, FXM and Star Life; they will additionally cease transmission of Disney Junior in Brazil, and substitute Star Life in Brazil with a new, Brazilian feed of Cinecanal. They also plan to close the Fox Sports channels in all territories later this year as they prioritize their ESPN channels, except in Argentina, sold to the powerful Mediapro, and in Mexico, sold to a consortium led by the Lauman Media Group and the family-owned Grupo Salinas (through TV Azteca).
The Great Disney Extinction. Quite sad.
Choice TV (NZ) closedown, 20/3/2022. By the next day the channel is
spun off to 2 channels: Rush for male programming and Eden for light entertainment and documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CqTYAIEsew
Rush and Eden's launch presentation. On Eden, not sure about the use of right-hand corner arrows in endcaps - seems like reusing the bits from the aborted Gusto rebrand.
https://youtu.be/As4n0oj8Mbk
(Off-topic: The opening tune to the Newsreader trailer sounds like a rearrangement of the distinctive Move Closer to Your World)
On the topic of Three (or +HR=E), a special breakbumper was used in the main channel, in support of the Ukrainians.
![[Image: Three%20Ukraine%20Ident%202022.png]](https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Knight%20in%20West/Three%20Ukraine%20Ident%202022.png)
(From
20/3/2022 broadcast of Newshub Live at 6)
Back to the so-called "Disney extinction", they are starting to phase out the brand in continental Europe. Disney Enterprises Inc. has registered in Spain the "Star Channel" brand, with the exact same logo used in Latin America. Burden of proof:
![[Image: StarChannelSpain.png]](https://up.metropol247.co.uk/BoveJobaMX/StarChannelSpain.png)
This could lead to a massive relaunch in the coming months Europe-wide with the Newlyn/Floppico brand identity, as opposed to the Star India brand style led by venturethree, which is being returned for the Asian channels (the recent example of Fox Taiwan being renamed back to Star World, with the same brand identity it had before Fox).
There will be exceptions to this, however. As [mention]benzj[/mention] said in the Neighbours axing thread:
benzj post_id=71941 time= user_id=1071 Wrote:[...] (in contrast to the other international versions of Fox) Fox in Turkey is a free-to-air general entertainment channel, featuring, among other things, a news service and a schedule comprised chiefly of locally-produced series. (The Turkish version of FX, on pay-TV providers, serves the purpose of showing US fare in the vein of the other Fox channels.) It originated as TGRT in 1993 before News Corporation bought it in 2006 and rebranded it to Fox (the TGRT name continues as news channel TGRT Haber).
As it is the ratings leader in Turkey, having beaten perennial leader atv thanks to its opposition-leaning news service and its slate of big-name local dramas, if they rename Fox to Star Channel or similar, they will be in trouble: one of Fox Turkey's main rivals is called Star TV (owned by a Turkish conglomerate, the Doğuş Group), as a result, Disney would suffer from a lawsuit from the owners of, among others, NTV, and viewers would be confused; eventually, the Mouse would need to find an alternative brand, either borrowing any other adult-skewed brand (like Freeform, Spark and/or ABC), creating a new channel brand for that service, or still licensing the brand from the Murdochs.
The other big exception is Australia: the Fox-branded channels are not owned by Disney, but by News Corp Australia, through the Foxtel Group. As a result, these channels, mostly exclusively to the DTH/fiber platform and their Streamotion OTT platforms, will retain the Fox brand safely. Disney only have now in its Aussie platform local versions of ESPN and National Geographic.
Medianext.MX post_id=74352 time= user_id=1455 Wrote:(like Freeform, Spark and/or ABC)
The "Spark" brand is not necessarily Disney's;
ABC Spark is a Canadian television channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Due to media ownership regulations in Canada, Disney (or any other foreign conglomerate) can't directly operate in Canadian media; thus they make licensing agreements with Canadian conglomerates (chiefly Corus, Bell, and Rogers) for them to operate the Canadian versions of their US and/or international brands.* Thus, Corus
licenses the ABC name (and pre-2021 logo) for the channel instead; at the time ABC Spark launched in 2012, it was launching as a local analogue of what was then ABC Family in the US, but the "Family" name is used by well-known kids' TV network
Family Channel, owned by a different media group (who'd sell it on to yet another media group the next year due to media concentration concerns after its owners were acquired by Bell). ABC Family was rebranded as
Freeform in 2016, but the ABC Spark name and licensing arrangement remains (though it would take on Freeform's subsequent branding packages).
That said, there's nothing necessarily stopping Disney from using the "Spark" name in Turkey (Pixar has their
SparkShorts series on Disney+, for instance), but its usage would be unrelated to the Canadian channel, if that's what you were referring to.
(*There are exceptions to this: American broadcast networks and their affiliates are widely available, though their primetime programming and some daytime fare is subject to
simultaneous substitution rules widely exploited by the major Canadian broadcast channels; some US pay-TV channels [chiefly AMC and Paramount Network] are directly available in Canada under different regulations because their formats did not compete with existing domestic channels under "genre protection" rules in place until 2016; and the major US cable news channels are also available under a different part of that same regulation.)
Antenna has rebranded today its Sony-branded channels in Hungary to Viasat. Sony Max is now Viasat 2, whilst Sony Movie Channel is now Viasat Film. Both channels received logos ostensibly based on those of the standard 2000s logo style used by Viasat channels all over Europe. The AXN channel remains as it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRW5QTDH80
Medianext.MX post_id=74748 time= user_id=1455 Wrote:Antenna has rebranded today its Sony-branded channels in Hungary to Viasat. Sony Max is now Viasat 2, whilst Sony Movie Channel is now Viasat Film. Both channels received logos ostensibly based on those of the standard 2000s logo style used by Viasat channels all over Europe. The AXN channel remains as it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkRW5QTDH80
A look at the launches of both Viasat Film and Viasat 2 yesterday morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igWeri-RB9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sud0pQTo6rw
Both channels have very striking and original brand looks, loosely taking the basics of the old MTG Viasat brand and pushing them into entirely new directions. I don't really like how the "F" in the Viasat Film logo looks, though I'm more forgiving of the quirkiness of the numeral in the Viasat 2 logo. It seems like it would bode well if Antenna decided to change the looks of Viasat 3 or Viasat 6 down the line, both based on designs that are about a decade old now; though, the Viasat 3 look is still used on TV3 in Denmark as well. If it ain't broke...
TheIndianPianist post_id=75051 time= user_id=2506 Wrote:Idents used on Australia's ABC2 (now ABC TV Plus) between 2005 and 2008 featuring the "Big 2" in various locations around Australia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsxys9xQuA
Wikipedia compares them to the mascot of BBC2:
Quote:The "Big 2" was somewhat similar to the on air mascot of BBC Two in appearance.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_TV_Plu...ng_history
Its more like Channel 4 from that era than BBC 2. The only similarity is that its a big 2
I am going to take this opportunity to describe how the German TV channel RTL has applied its redesign pretty well. Some people have criticized the design as being too barebone and lazy, but to those people I say: That's not what they are trying to convey. What it is doing is making the new logo the center of your attention, and the text is to be more direct. After years of the Red-Yellow-Blue colors, and in reflecting on the design before the current one, I realized that the new design is very clean and flexible. And the word lockups are fantastic! It all feels like it trying to play it safe and roll back the bad rep that it gains for most of its shows. Overall, I really like it.
Story Television, 2022.
The new channel is another addition of Weigel Broadcasting, owner of MeTV. It focuses on documentary and historical content, with each day having a specific theme.
Two of Pro TV's thematic channels have been renamed Monday. This partly undoes a massive rebranding process made in 2017 by the broadcaster, owned by CME, a process which was consulted by fellow Czech broadcaster TV Nova, and which mirrored a similar process made a year earlier by the broadcaster.
Two of Pro TV's channels were renamed to address some woes in audience reception of the unified brands: Pro X, its male-focused channel, featuring action-themed shows, comedy programming and many hours of sports, has been renamed Pro Arena, partly to reinforce its focus on the latter; Pro 2, its female-skewed lifestyle channel, has been renamed back to Acasă TV, the name the channel had for many years. Both channels received new logos, but still in the line of the current Pro TV brand.
After a massive promo blitz which began in early March, the channel's websites receiving the new logos by the end of the month, and the rebranding being authorized by the Romanian media authorities at the same time, both channels relaunched in the early hours of Monday.
Prelaunch promos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJeU6u-LSQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgWv3KrloFs
Transition to new brands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7zjewKZN04