International Presentation

To be clear, in week 1 ARD produce the show and it is aired on ARD and ZDF, in week 2 ZDF produce the show and it is aired on ARD and ZDF.

Indeed. This is what ARD's morning show looks like -- it's based out of WDR's studios in Cologne:



And this is ZDF's version -- also branded Morgenmagazin ("Morning Magazine") but broadcast from Berlin:



And it's not just the morning show that alternates between ARD and ZDF.

This week, ZDF Mittagsmagazin ("ZDF Midday Magazine") will be shown on both ZDF and ARD. Next week, ARD Mittagsmagazin ("ARD Midday Magazine") will be broadcast on both channels.



I suppose it's to save money by having the public networks share resources -- but why then keep two separate crews in two different cities? Perhaps ZDF and ARD feel that the simultaneous transmission on both channels helps them to compete against the numerous commercial channels, but neither wants to give up those hours completely and give the other one a permanent monopoly.

Here's more old continuity from ZDF -- this time a preview of the following day's programming (including ARD's primetime lineup) from 1984:



A major reason why ARD and ZDF spent so much time going over their schedules were their viewers in East Germany. The West German broadcasters were very popular in the East, but the Eastern newspapers and magazines did not provide any listings for the Western channels (until shortly before the Wall came down), which meant that blocks like this one were the only source of programming information for East German viewers of ARD and ZDF.

The odd situation comes from the fact that Das Erste and ZDF are two completely equal channels and the broadcasters behind them are largely autonomous. If you were to organise this in a "rational" way, you would obviously have morning news on one channel and something else (children's, reruns) on the other. But that would mean one of the broadcasters would have to give up the prestigious and popular morning show to air "alternative" programming on a permanent basis. The alternative would be to produce competing morning shows year-round, which costs too much and adds unwanted competition.

Morgonmagazin didn't start until 1992, before that Das Erste and ZDF only had occasional programmes in the morning. When it started, they were already simulcasting a joint service between 9 am and 1 pm, originally aimed a shift workers in the GDR. It probably felt natural to extend that cooperation to the rest of the morning.

The morning simulcasts seem even more odd when you consider that ARD and ZDF between them have about twenty additional TV channels that are on-air 24 hours per day. And all of them show different programmes in the morning, only the two flagship channels are affected by this arrangement.

From Italy, here are several Sky Cinema idents:



And a special ident for this year's Academy Awards:

The second wave of Globo's vem_aí promos for 2014, revolving around the "information", "entertainment", "emotions" and "movement" themes.








And the promos for this year's vem_aí special, which will air this Thursday night (otherwise known as "tonight"):








And since the channel where the videos of the teasers were posted was taken down, here they are again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-qZKw-d3t8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Go13TzldU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saGMraz-mH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3kYRRyw6IU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxs7Gbnn3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ugqm8TJfI

An update on DTT in France:

In France, pay-DTT has never been much of a success and many of the encrypted channels have struggled to break even, paying transmission fees for broadcasts that reach no-one. They have wanted to switch to free-to-air for years, but have been prevened from doing so by their respective licenses. Last year, the government finally gave up of pay-DTT and passed a law that allowed the CSA (french equivalent of Ofcom) to change the license terms.

TF1's news channel LCI and M6's cultural channel Paris Première were quick to file requests to allow their channels to go free-to-air. Hearings will be held in May, and decisions are expected in June.

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2014/04/02/csa-sets-dates-for-dtt-pay-channels-hearings/
A thread on the subject from Lenodal, the French equivalent of TV Forum:
http://forums.lenodal.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16105

Similarly, Canal+ has also announced that it intends to start a similar process to make their documentary channel Planète+ free-to-air.

Eurosport may have to leave the platform anyway, as it was recently sold to Discovery and there is a law in France that prevents foreign ownership in terrestrial channels from rising above 20 percent.

That only leaves the three Canal+ premium channels, which will probably remain encrypted indefinitely, and entertainment channel TF6 (co-owned by TF1 and M6).

Remember that new Globo logo, which was promised a year ago and leaked last October? It's real, and it's final. (About a year before the current Record logo launched, a preliminary version leaked - and the final logo was slightly different from the leak.)
And it will be effective this Sunday night, just before the premiere of SuperStar , the Brazilian version of the Israeli format, Rising Star (purchased in the UK by ITV - but the Brazilian version will feature bands as contestants, instead of solo acts and duos). Here's the final version of the logo evolution, culminating with the new logo, as seen on last night's " vem_aí " special:

Another example of this look is the spanish broadcaster MundoFox, which is co-owned by Fox International Channels and Colombia's RCN Television

Just so there's no misunderstanding: MundoFox is a Spanish-language U.S. broadcaster, not a broadcaster in Spain.

**N in Poland's ident in 2007-2012

Correction - This ident was used from 2nd of January 2008 till 31 of August 2013