Sky's Branding

DA

Dave Founding member 5 January 2011 6:34pm

(Images in public domain via Google)

What does this mean?

The images are from TV-Ark and The TV Room. If you are going to take the time to give credit for the images, why give it to Google?

Probably because that is where he got them from?

Google is like a phone book, it just directs you to where you can find the information you are after.

If I wanted to find the price of a TV in Dixons and I didn't have the phone number I may phone directory enquiries, but I wouldn't credit them for giving me the information I was after.

Anyway, back to the Sky Living channels you have to love that Virgin launched Living HD and kept it from Sky, Sky bought Living and got Living HD, they now launch Living It HD and you can bet Virgin won't get it.

Last edited by Dave on 5 January 2011 6:42pm

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WillPS 5 January 2011 6:35pm

Those images aren't in the public domain either, they're Copyrighted to BSkyB!

Stuart posted:

Larry the Loafer posted:

In fact, is Living TV Group going to be kept if all of the channels (bar Challenge, for now) are going to be Sky branded? Seems a bit silly having one lot of Sky-branded channels operated by Sky whilst another lot is operated under another name.

WillPS posted:

Newp - already their website redirects to Sky's.

If, as it appears, that 'Living TV Group' is to be fully incorporated into BSkyB Limited (rather than the plc holding company), then perhaps the delay was for corporation tax reasons.

I'm not sure when the accounting year end date is for each company, but they would need to be realigned for tax purposes: with perhaps the assets of the closed channels being written-off against tax due before they were fully incorporated.

I'm not an accountant, so I'm sure someone has better knowledge of these sorts of things. A company doesn't pay tax if they can avoid it.

No, the reason they weren't fully incorporated was that VM had already sold the advertising time to IDS until January; obviously with that came promises regarding programming and cross-channel promotion leading to the bizarre situation where Bravo programming was being advertised across the LTG channels only days before the channel's demise.

If it had anything to do with tax it would have remained until March/April.

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House 5 January 2011 7:24pm

Not sure why anyone would think something was in the 'public domain' - which suggests there is no current, legally-binding copyright in place - because they found it on Google. At the same time, I see no reason it should be necessary to credit a website that doesn't have copyright over the image, even though it is good courtesy.

NW

nwtv2003 5 January 2011 8:13pm

Dave posted:

Anyway, back to the Sky Living channels you have to love that Virgin launched Living HD and kept it from Sky, Sky bought Living and got Living HD, they now launch Living It HD and you can bet Virgin won't get it.

Well considering that Virgin isn't getting Sky Atlantic in SD let alone HD, then getting Living It HD would be something of a miracle. Which is a shame because Virgin seemed to be making good progress in getting the Sky channels available in HD, we'll have Sky 1HD and Sky Living HD, but no Sky Atlantic, for now anyway.

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Thomas 6 January 2011 5:06pm

Seems BT and Virgin aren't going to get Sky Atlantic, at least not for a while.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/rivals-miss-out-as-sky-launches-atlantic-channel-2177090.html

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Lightoftruth 6 January 2011 6:06pm

I see its just another way of sky been greedy. Put loads of adverts for Sky 1 HD on info for getting the new Sky channels including Livingit HD and Sky Atlantic HD/SD

JD

jdav 6 January 2011 6:35pm

Lightoftruth posted:

I see its just another way of sky been greedy. Put loads of adverts for Sky 1 HD on info for getting the new Sky channels including Livingit HD and Sky Atlantic HD/SD

Being greedy or using Business sense? Do you live on Government handouts?

PA

paul_hadley 7 January 2011 9:40am

Hopefully www.challenge.co.uk will get a new look - it's currently stuck in 2002.

FO

fodg09 7 January 2011 1:12pm

Sky Atlantic's website is now live,

http://skyatlantic.sky.com/

You can see the channels DOG on some of the trailers, its quite similar to the Sky Sports ones.

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WillPS 7 January 2011 1:40pm

No rebrand nor any new programming if this is anything to go by: http://data.skyprogrammeinformation.co.uk/wtv.php?chan=SCHL&week=387

(Although they show an HD version of Defectors going out overnight, mistake methinks!)

VM

VMPhil 7 January 2011 4:33pm

paul_hadley posted:

Hopefully www.challenge.co.uk will get a new look - it's currently stuck in 2002.

The favicon is even still using the previous logo!

MI

Michael 7 January 2011 5:27pm

Brings new meaning to the words Sky News...

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