05-04-2021, 05:56 PM
BBI45 post_id=3052 time=1617628441 user_id=1008 Wrote:Yet another Georgian knockoff.
https://youtu.be/b4l5cK-D_pM
Georgian television (specially Imedi TV) have a long history of ripping off branding styles from other European broadcasters. For example, this is the former intro of Imedi's main news, Qronika 8 Saatze (8 O'Clock Chronicle), ripping off both the idents of Sky Atlantic and the TOTH of Sky News into something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv3IZ00cDqc
This opening compilation features a lot of knockoffs, from ABC News (Australia) 2005, to even a poorly-imitated Sky-BBC mix of graphics and music (even a BBC-like countdown):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtE3mErYiAs
Even the First Channel has fallen out in favour of plagiarism: in 2013 they knocked off the VTM Nieuws 2012 look from Gédéon and Jago Design. This also includes a even poorer imitation by the ERT shortly after they relaunched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOGJYn79PY