TV pres inspired by other designs

[Inspector Sands]

To be really fair the idents you found were from 1990s and 1997, when public Internet was not as widespread as it is today, so they decided to flat out copy them because they considered that the risk of Channel 4 and the BBC actually finding out about their idents was extremely low

Yes, the only way anyone would have known is if they'd have visited those countries and watched TV.

Not that the lack of chance of being caught justifies their use of course

[Roger Darthwell]

To be really fair the idents you found were from 1990s and 1997, when public Internet was not as widespread as it is today, so they decided to flat out copy them because they considered that the risk of Channel 4 and the BBC actually finding out about their idents was extremely low

Yes, the only way anyone would have known is if they'd have visited those countries and watched TV.

Not that the lack of chance of being caught justifies their use of course

Yeah, I completely agree with you

[IBM]

...I remember Channel 9 News in New Zealand and a local news programmed in Russia used ITV News’ mid 2000s graphics and theme tune for a time too.

Hadn't heard of that. I know Prime in NZ had presentation similar to Prime in Australia at launch in 1998 and from 2002-2006 Prime NZ's presentation was virtually identical to Nine in AU due to an agreement between Prime and Nine's parent company. This ended when Prime was purchased by Sky in 2006

I'd prefer not to link to them directly as they aren't my images, but the similarities between Prime and Nine can be seen here:
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Prime_(New_Zealand)

[VMPhil]

Here's two idents 'inspired' by some British ones

https://twitter.com/IdentEveryHour/statu...2065250313

If you're going to rip off the logo anyway, why bother making a poor copy of the ident?

[JAS84]

Probably couldn't get hold of a broadcast quality version of any of the 1982 Channel 4 idents.

[Brekkie]

Here's two idents 'inspired' by some British ones

https://twitter.com/IdentEveryHour/statu...2065250313

If you're going to rip off the logo anyway, why bother making a poor copy of the ident?

Probably so when they do get caught they can argue it is not the same and people couldn't possibly confuse the two.

[W. Knight]

Thought this 2004 TVNZ2 ident (at 0:06)
https://youtu.be/86NCIBXLRlw
looked kind of similar to a BBC Two Window ident, especially on the highway light streaks, reflective objects and the 2 symbol:
https://youtu.be/uy6nvplM3Vw

[Joe]

Good spot that. I think BBC Two's is a lot nicer, side by side!