Discovery channels changes

Real Time closed

http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/real_time_close.jpg

Discovery Travel & Living closed

http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/travel_living_close.jpg

A new look to Discovery Home & Health

http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/new_home_health.jpg


And a few teething troubles with H&H +1's dog — with live, on-air positioning:

First without the logo (around 6.50am) - http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/hh_dog_no_logo.mp4
And then with the logo at 7am - http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/hh_dog_with_logo.mp4

There was a special CA over the credits of Cowboy Builders just before midnight - would anybody appreciate a cap?

Yes please William.

One of these days they'll settle on a consistent way of writing the word 'Discovery' on their logos.

Well my capture equipment sucks. Need to get something to do it digitally - anyway - here's my best shot for now:



Anybody know what he means by "Bristol's finest" and "the best of Bolton's"?

In Latin America, all but two of their networks with "Discovery" in their names have the Discovery Communications logo (the exceptions are Investigation Discovery and Discovery Kids), which is also used on TLC, but more as an endorsement rather than being part of its name.

Here's the last Real Time ident, and the last junction - again, apologies for the ropey picture:

How apt that the last programme on Home & Leisure, sorry Real Time be The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, I'm more amazed its still being shown.

It's held that slot pretty consistently since 2009. In fact, I remember watching it on Home & Leisure about that time in the morning on a sleepover at a friends house - which would have been *thinks* 12 years ago. Crikey.

Nice of Discovery to arrange a special announcement. Can anybody work out the significance of Bolton and Bristol, though?

Is the CA we hear from Bristol and does he have CA mate who is from Bolton? Maybe regular viewers would know this?

David,
I'm glad you've tuned in to the challenge, you're generally good at getting to the bottom of these things.

As far as I know, since the last look came in a couple of years ago, all the pre-recorded announcements have been by this lady: http://www.theidentgallery.com/player.php?id=DISCRT-2011-ID-SOFT-1 - neither she nor he sound particularly Bolton, I don't know about Bristol.

I should said. In Asia we don't really care about logos. So former logo of Discovery Turbo, H&H and Science are still using, makes former logo of Discovery still used. Wondering will they change logos...... Asian versions of TLC didn't use Discovery logo however, and they treat TLC as "Travel and Living Channel"....... don't really like that.