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…and finally

I think others have covered it all more eloquently than me...

Just to add my word of thanks for creating something so well established - an impressive achievement in its own right - and something that will be much missed in my daily routine. I'm another one of the originals who stepped into the shadows more recently, but I continued to enjoy reading the insights and knowledge of others. It's been fun watching the drama and in-jokes unfold, and 20 years on I'm still unsure how I'd explain all of this to anyone outside the community.

I think Larry said it well: "I can't quite believe how emotional I'm feeling because I won't be able to discuss TV logos with a bunch of strangers on the internet".
DA
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Steph's Packed Lunch

Looks like they're using one of the units on Leeds Dock that had previously been (or still is?) a bar - Dock 29.

In fact, the "kitchen" bit is pretty much where the actual bar was/is!
DA
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New Sky channels: Crime, Comedy, Documentaries, Nature

Yep, that's the new style that will be appearing over the next few months for all channels.
DA
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#NotreDame | Breaking News Coverage

sigma421 posted:
Bail posted:
It's interesting seeing this feed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-47941756/live-coverage-of-notre-dame-fire (brandless, but the same content as the News Channel)

Would be fascinating to know what's pumping that out. Info on the graphics is the same as on the NC but not in Breaking News mode.


Very intriguing indeed - just watched the top of hour at 22:00, the red BBC News logo in a box appeared on the end sting for Outside Source, then stayed on for the duration of the headline sequence of the Ten (though not on BBC One), then faded out on the opening shot of Sophie Raworth. Then the “web” BBC News bar at the bottom wiped in.
DA
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Sky - Comcast takeover complete

Inspector Sands posted:
rdd posted:
Always struck me as an odd one, it’s a sport Sky has hardly any rights to. Presumably the thinking was that cycling fans would be unlikely to already have Sky and were worth advertising to.

It was James Murdoch's baby, he's a keen cyclist:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/23/james-murdoch-sky-tour-de-france


Well... sort of... (“Sky's link with cycling dates back to 2008, when the broadcaster was searching for a sport on which it could have a wide-ranging impact through sponsorship... Robert Tansey, who chairs Team Sky, says: "If the question is whether we did this because James is a cycling fan, then the answer is no.")

The genius was finding a sport that had headroom to grow in popularity and adoption (i.e. it wasn’t something you’d talk about at the pub like football), easy access for people to get involved (low cost, little expertise required, easy to get the equipment) and potential to grow at a national level with funding. Sky owned and essentially backed the team being built rather than just being a straight sponsor.

I think it’s been on the cards a fair while - easy to assume it’s down to Comcast and/or drug controversies, but these things always move on, and 10 years is a lengthy period. I suspect that part of the thinking behind Ocean Rescue being set up a couple of years ago is to become a natural successor - similar hallmarks around growing awareness and adoption, easy access and a national platform?
DA
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BBC World News | 30th October 2017 Onwards

Mouseboy33 posted:
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BBC Kenya.
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from Kenyans.co.ke





Well that's weird... the picture in the middle is of the council office in Southend-on-Sea... Confused
DA
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Channel 4

http://www.channel4.com/media/documents/commissioning/PROGRAMME%20MANAGEMENT/_C4%20End_Credits_Style_Guide_v2.pdf
DA
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Can't speak for Broadcast, but the wider business tends to launch bigger stuff on a Tuesday for safety (in other words... don't launch on a Friday in case something goes wrong at the weekend, and don't launch on a Monday or else you need to make sure stuff is lined up over the weekend). I assume going with Tuesday allows all the different moving parts to align.

London Lite posted:
I'd speculate a full dry run, in effect two sets of teams running a dual service, with the normal output from Sky Centre using the B-Team on the Monday to iron out any issues.


That's been going for a few weeks already... not sure the extra Monday helps too much in that sense, although I suppose it does to a point, as above.
DA
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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

Don't know if you want to count me as one, but the lowercase logo goes live on 16th.
DA
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Sky Sports Revamp

Neil Jones posted:
Not sure how new it is since I don't subscribe to any sports channels myself (what I do catch of them is at my parents house when I'm there) but I spotted that the score bars on the football matches today seem to have had a five-bar colour tag stuck on the top of it and I don't think it was there before.


It's part of Sky Sports's Rainbow Laces campaign
DA
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Sky's Branding

Next week if I'm not mistaken
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Sky's Branding

By the way, based on what I saw a while back for Atlantic and Cinema, don't expect a radical change - instead of white world, you'll see more channel colour on the reveals in the idents and the trailer endboards. Unless of course things have moved on since, the main part of the exercise is logo alignment. (Not sure what happens with the Sky One idents.)