International Presentation

The making of Rede Globo's 25th anniversary logo in 1990.

First they make a prototype model made out of a transparent cylinder. Then they make a storyboard for the ident, made some test animations and complete the 3D animation until it's done. The cylinder looks more like a spaceship to me.

M6 Continuity (it's the Swiss French feed) - The idents are more like 2 second programme 'Now' slides, but the ad bumpers are more like idents (if that makes sense?):

TV Cultura, Brazil, 1992, partial continuity:


Notice Bayer being the supporter (apoio in Portuguese, similar to "underwriting credit" in American public TV) of the Bundesliga football match broadcast where a footballer named Jorginho was one of the foreign players of German football team.

Followed by an animated bumper and the first minutes of a late night music program, returning after a short break. Unlike American public TV, TV Cultura has breaks during programs but carry little to no adverts.

Followed by this closedown:


A pre-recorded announcement listing out tomorrow's programmes, an ident complete with callsign, the Brazilian national anthem and a few colourbars before the signal is switched off.

TV2 Denmark Continuity (Easter 2017)

That's TV2 in Denmark , not Norway.

Even the logos are different. TV2 Denmark is a public broadcaster and is written as "TV 2" (TV and 2 spaced in-between). TV2 Norway is commercial. They're launched 4 years apart.

Woops! That's what I meant. (It was late)

Similar to Ireland with the Angelus, the Philippines have a Roman Catholic prayer which is called the 3 o'clock prayer but it now airs on ABS-CBN only; this blog post tells what and why: https://fromthetube.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/the-declining-importance-of-the-3-oclock-prayer-on-philippine-tv/

GMA Philippines ident from 1992 promoting their "Rainbow Satellite", the "Rainbow Satellite" sounded more like a marketing term to me:

Indonesian TV continuity segment, 2005:

Even in an already boring TV market such as Hong Kong, the newest entrant's production value is still shockingly, depressingly low.

Say hello to Fantastic TV, linked to i-CABLE, a payTV broadcaster who's financially been in dire straits for some time now.

This excuse of an ident features Katy Perry's "Firework." Provided they do properly license their stuff, you do wonder where all that precious money's gone drip, dripping down the drain...


I won't even bother to snark at the rest of the presentation package.

Junction (up next)


TV-MA slide


Weather slide


Reception of the channel (LCN77 on local free TV) has not been without problems, as FanTV is transmitted as a free channel but only over i-CABLE's own fixed line network. FanTV even produced a handy video teaching prospective viewers to scan for the channel.


One ramification of this is that individual residential buildings or houses without i-CABLE lines in their TV systems cannot get the channel. This coverage problem is compounded by the failure of FanTV to provide a promised online live stream and any form of official catch-up service.

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In other news, ViuTVsix (whose March 31 opening has already been noted here somewhere) actually closes down between 2am and 9am. Partly since its owner's free TV licence didn't require a 24-hour English-language channel...


And over on the Chinese side, the late-night filler slow TV program "Driving in Hong Kong" has concluded its 14-month run earlier in May. ViuTV's Chinese service now runs repeats of prime time programming and dramas through the deep dark night till 6am instead. Here's a taste of what "Driving in Hong Kong" looked like: (the background audio is from corporate cousin Now News, who also simulcasts with ViuTV Chinese)