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Christmas Presentation - All Channels

(December 2008)

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TT
Tumble Tower
This was th situation with Christmas preentation yesterday (New Year's Day),

CBeebies opened at 6am with its Christmas video "Happy Christmas From All Of Us To All Of You".
BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four were still using their Christmas idents.
ITV1 were back to their usual idents (I noticed that at the start of The Krypton Factor).

I didn't check out Five, Fiver or Five US yesterday, so am not sure whether they were still using their Christmas presentation or back to normal idents.

Today, without a shadow of a doubt, all channels will be back to normal pres. That said, CBeebies opened this morning with "Happy Christmas From All Of Us To All Of You" when I'd have thought they'd have opened with a non-Christmas opening song. Are BBC One launching a new "regular" ident today, they tend to introduce new idents on 2 January (wasn't that the day they launched "Helicopters" last year)?
CY
cylon6
Sky are continuing with their Christmas pres. I saw the snowmen today on Sky Sports.
TT
Tumble Tower
Well I can already confirm, BBC One used the Magical Forest ident before the start of the news a few minutes ago, so evidently BBC One is back to normal pres today.
KA
KA_UK
Five and its digital channels still have the Christmas idents running as does the Sky channels.
GE
George12345
SKY 2 dont know about 1 or 3 have reverted from christmas idents now
AJ
ajd72
Just watching You've Been Framed on ITV 1 and they're still advertising the Christmas Films for ITV 3. They've done this twice in 2 different ad breaks. A bit lazy and / or disorganised don'tcha think?
NT
NorthTonight
Despite STV being the Scrooges of Christmas when it comes to presentation, they are still using their " snowy / star " break bumper
DB
dbl
I don't understand why STV didn't just use the sparkle idents they had for last Christmas.
JO
Johnny83
I'm sure I saw the "Christmas Movies on ITV3" trailer this morning, could have been yesterday though
DA
David
Johnny83 posted:
I'm sure I saw the "Christmas Movies on ITV3" trailer this morning, could have been yesterday though


I think it was shown during Harry Hill this evening (Sunday) too. There is an XBox advert still running that refers to 'this Christmas' too.
BR
Brekkie
The Guitar Hero ad and one of the charity ones still refers to "This Christmas" too.
DG
DonnyGuy
EllasDevil posted:
In Greece we have the following:

ERT (ET1, NET & ET3)

Some of you may remember a thread on here about the ERT channels being rebranded by Red Bee Media back in June of this year. I don't know if the Christmas ident was designed at the same time but a big well done to whoever is responsible.

ET1 and NET are both using this Christmas ident. It is used before each program and uses the following slogans: Καλές Γιορτές (Seasons Greetings), Καλά Χριστούγεννα (Merry Christmas), Καλή Χρονιά (Happy New Year) and finally Χρόνια Πολλά (Many Years).

Just a little background in case you're thinking why a boat. The boat is a Greek custom of Christmas and a lot of homes decorate small Christmas boats as well as Christmas trees (which are considered an imported foreign custom).

ET3 (based in Thessaloniki, not Athens) are not using the ident but along with the other ERT channels have decorated their on screen logo for Christmas.

ANT1

ANT1 have a range of Christmas idents including this one. The others are the same but replace the raindeer with other symbols of Christmas including a Christmas boat, a Christmas tree and an elf. ANT1 have not decorated their on screen logo this year.

Mega Channel

Mega have one Christmas ident this year which is Elvis Presley singing Christmas Megalicious . I'm not impressed to be honest and Mega also haven't decorated their on screen logo this year.

Star Channel

Star Channel have added snow to their on screen logo and have added snow to all their program trailers. They also have this ident.

Other Channel

ALTER have added a star to their on screen logo but no seasonal idents or break bumpers. ALPHA have added a Christmas tree to their break bumpers but have not decorated their on screen logo. MAKEDONIA TV have added Καλά Χριστούγεννα (Merry Christmas) to their idents and break bumpers but have not decorated their on screen logo yet (they usually add a Santa hat around New Year as that is when Santa visits Greece). Finally SKAI have made no effort this year.
All the Greek channels returned to standard presentations during the early hours of Wednesday 7th January.

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