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Sky 996 - Channel Line Up Audio. (May 2012)

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Inspector Sands
JAS84 posted:
Surely it's common sense that they're talking about the market the chat show originates from? Same goes for Internet sites.

The talk show is just one example and with the internet you don't know where someone is posting from.

It's just basic practical naming - different services having different names to distinguish them. As I say it's the same as having a 'BBC1 Scotland'

Brekkie posted:
I suspect in the BBC's case they're probably not allowed to call a BBC Worldwide channel just "BBC" - or anything which could be confused with a UK BBC channel.

Like BBC Knowledge?

91 days later

DA
David
Universal (Sky 113) are currently showing a programme called Lie to Me but the EPG (at least on Sky) shows the programme as being called 'test'. Universal +1 (Sky 150) is shows the proper name. What does the Universal HD EPG say?
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edmund
David posted:
Universal (Sky 113) are currently showing a programme called Lie to Me but the EPG (at least on Sky) shows the programme as being called 'test'. Universal +1 (Sky 150) is shows the proper name. What does the Universal HD EPG say?


The HD displayed 'Lie to me'
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bilky asko
David posted:
Universal (Sky 113) are currently showing a programme called Lie to Me but the EPG (at least on Sky) shows the programme as being called 'test'. Universal +1 (Sky 150) is shows the proper name. What does the Universal HD EPG say?

It took me a while to realise you were talking about what was called Hallmark. I had no idea it had gone so far up the EPG, either.
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Worzel
Thinker posted:
Inspector Sands posted:

What's pointless about the name 'BBC America'? It has to have a name of some sort, it can't just be 'BBC'


I've thought names such as BBC Canada, BBC America and BBC Japan where a bit odd, as viewers are likely to know which country they are in and few others are doing it. The only examples I can think of in the UK would be CNBC Europe and the Food Network, which insists on calling itself "Food Network UK".

But I take your point that the BBC brand can't stand alone as a service name. One alternative would have been to call it "The BBC Network", but only use the BBC blocks as the logo (although that is probably against some guideline). Obviously, it is too late to change that now.


British Eurosport?
GM
Gary McEwan
Worzel posted:
Thinker posted:
Inspector Sands posted:

What's pointless about the name 'BBC America'? It has to have a name of some sort, it can't just be 'BBC'


I've thought names such as BBC Canada, BBC America and BBC Japan where a bit odd, as viewers are likely to know which country they are in and few others are doing it. The only examples I can think of in the UK would be CNBC Europe and the Food Network, which insists on calling itself "Food Network UK".

But I take your point that the BBC brand can't stand alone as a service name. One alternative would have been to call it "The BBC Network", but only use the BBC blocks as the logo (although that is probably against some guideline). Obviously, it is too late to change that now.


British Eurosport?


But when FX changes its name soon, will that be called FOX or FOX UK?
JA
JAS84
Just Fox. FX has always used UK only as a disambiguation term. I see no reason for that to change.
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Thinker
Worzel posted:

British Eurosport?


When British Eurosport launched back in 1999 there was very much a need give it a separate identity, as its schedule differed from the Pan-European version on Astra that most people were watching at the time. They even included the Union Jack in the British Eurosport logo.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100226130214/logopedia/images/thumb/7/73/British_Eurosport_old.svg/300px-British_Eurosport_old.svg.png

I've also seen specific logos for Eurosport France and Eurosport Nordic from the time they were splitting up the feed, but they eventually dropped the region-specific branding. The analogue version was eventually transformed into Eurosport Germany and is probably watched by very few people in the UK today. But I suppose Eurosport still see some value in telling its viewers that their content is specifically tailored to British viewers and not some Pan-European crap.

8 days later

DA
David
Rocks & Co are not currently live as they are carrying out 'technical upgrades'. They are showing bloopers instead, it's mainly people talking about jewelry but it sounds a little like they are talking about their sexual organs.

A ticker along the bottom of the screen constantly says "The content is not intended to cause offence. The material is all in good jest, enjoy."

29 days later

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gottago
The Sky channel line up audio channel on 996 has a rather bored sounding work experience teenager reading out the guide with plenty of hysterical mistakes that keep you hanging on his every word including "Sky Living I-T", "AlJazeera England" and "Question Mark TV". I'm looking forward to when he gets to the adult channels, hopefully there'll be plenty of sniggering at some of the titles. What a thrilling start to 2013 I'm having.

I'm sure David will appreciate this.
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Stuart
gottago posted:
What a thrilling start to 2013 I'm having.

Unless you're typing that from a laptop in a secure facility, then I would suggest that you need to get out more!
JA
JAS84
How can anyone think that Sky Living It is called Sky Living I T? The "it" is styled as joined up writing! Unless it was a failed attempt at an ITV joke?

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