International Presentation

It appears Portugal's government is seriously considering a partial privatisation of their public broadcaster. This would essentially mean giving a private company a concession to operate RTP1, while RTP2 gets closed down.

There are reports that Antena 3, the Portuguese Radio 1, will also be closed down. RTP1 will start showing as much advertising as the private channels, 12 minutes per hour instead of six.

I don't know if this is definite, or just a suggestion, but it seems serious.

http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=581570&tm=6&layout=122&visual=61
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2012/08/25/portugal-to-abandon-public-rtp2/

The presentation of MTVA.

Sky Channel closedown (including commercials and Sky's dual timezone clocks), followed by Music Box startup, 1984 (when Sky was still a pan-European cable and satellite service):

That would be a shame. This is entirely different from the France's privatization of TF1 in the 1980s. In that case, two of the "big three" French networks -- Antenne 2 (now France 2) and FR3 (now France 3) -- remained in public hands. Could Portugal be left without genuine, non-profit public television altogether? Wouldn't this go against EU broadcasting guidelines?

Love the new MTV (Hungary) look, reminds me of BBC balloons era.

BTW, listen to the first commercial above and then check out this commercial from 2010:



I really like it when TV gets all retro, especially when it's tongue-in-cheek.

Dutch channels RTL5 and RTL8 has new look..........
http://brandingsource.blogspot.tw/2012/08/new-logos-rtl5-and-rlt8.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/RTL5_logo_2012.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/RTL8_logo_2012.png

I liked the previous ones a lot more.

Why have they got two different font for "RTL"? Indeed why are both logos completely different? How daft.

Don't forget RTL4 using the old style and 7 which got a new look some time ago, again two different logos making 4 in total.

The guys at Lenodal have put together a marvellous blog article about the 1992 look for France 2 and France 3:

http://blog.lenodal.com/index.php?/archives/0211-France-Televisions-a-20-ans.html

(Google translate if don't know French)

http://blog.lenodal.com/uploads/actualitedelhabillage/2012/ftv20ans-ftv-logo-traceregul.jpg

Making of MTVA idents.........

.........and ident of M3D.
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Since Canal+ in Nordic renamed into C More, they got new idents.....