New Sky channels: Crime, Comedy, Documentaries, Nature

What's 'Sky History' - first I have heard of that?

I don't get what you mean about 'they just haven't chosen the colours' in reference to the Sky Documentaries logo. It exists, and it's black and white.

Where did you find the logo?

Here's where the logos came from.

They definitely look like placeholders.

Well, of course they have used them now for Sky Comedy, but they didn't ever use those colours before. The channels have always used various shades of red or blue for a lot of their channels. They have rarely used orange and don't think they have ever used purple. Grey and pink were used briefly as well. They have now used yellow for crime and green for nature.

Here: https://q7h8x4g8.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sky-Docs-sales-proposal-Feb-2020.pdf

Not in the current style. But both Sky One and Sky Movies were purple in the tombstone era.

Ah yes, I forgot about the tomestone colours. Back when Sky had a new look for their channels almost every year. It slipped under the radar.

They only really had 3 different tombstone versions between 1993 and 1997, the latter two were quite similar, but with the 'silk-effect sheet' revealing the logo in the second one.


The following 'egg' series was still quite a unified presentation package across the network, using different colours, but still lasted little more than a year.

From 1998 all the channels started to diverge for the next 13 years, but Sky One/1 was still updated every 2 or 3 years.

History is rebranding as Sky History (and Sky History2) and will still be a joint venture with A+E.

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/sky/ae-and-sky-rebrand-history/5147377.article

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/news/ae-networks-uk-and-sky-strengthen-joint-venture-with-launch-of-sky-history/

Oh so they’re not ditching the History brand, they’re just adding the Sky brand to it resulting in that mess of a logo.