*Updated on 18th Jan* New Zealand Televison Idents

Hey im very sorry I actually never took much notice in how the word was spelt! So how do you say IDENTS??

Or maybe just accurate?



Which trend is that? That they all have the three letters S, K and Y in them?

I'd say the British one looks the most stylish.

FYI: The third SKY logo is for Sky Channel Australia, a horse racing channel (one of the first satellite channels in Australia). It's owned by TABCORP (former government betting agency), and they also own a NSW radio station, Radio 2KY, which has a similar logo, replace the "S" with a "2".

Also, Prime TV NZ is pretty much an affilate of Channel 9 Australia, with some of their own imported programming (e.g. EastEnders (IIRC) and The Bill), and some programs produced by and shared with Sky (e.g. Prime News is produced by Sky News Australia...from Sydney, and some Sky Sports programs are seen on Prime TV NZ)..Prime TV NZ uses Nine Australia branding, replacing "Still the One" with "Turn It On"..,

The last sky logo is the new zealand logo and is now actually white does not have television in it anymore.

Prime TV now has Eastenders as TV One didnt want it anymore this was from May/June 2004 and Prime TV has the theme song "turn it on" but they use the slogan "Always Something Good."

I-DENTS - short for identifications

Most of those logos have a similar style joining in the K and the Y.

TVNZ Channel One and TV2 idents c.1998 featured their celebrities with a 'theme song' for each.

Channel One
"...Together we'll see New Zealand, greet a brand new day. Everyone! Together we're One" with a Maori phrase (probably 'together we're one' in Maori) repeated two or three times in the background.

Ident featured One Network News readers canoeing, a current affairs host next to a war memorial talkign with scouts and cadets, another pair of newsreaders drinking coffee at a late night cafe, etc. Resolved in to the stars of NZ's flags, some animated 'fireworks' effects, circles and sky background, finally the 1998 gold style One logo.


TV2
"I only wanna be with Two" sung by (I think, Bic Runga) to the same tune as "I only want to be with you" by Dusty Springfield.

Ident featured the 'TV2 bus' (a silver restored 1950s/60s bus decorated in TV2's then pink, purple and green colours) driving through the NZ countryside full of their celebrities as one of them sang the the song, bus arrived at a big party on a beach where a stage had been set up and all the celebrities were dancing and chilling out. Ident resolved on a cartoon hand giving the 'peace' gesture (with *two* fingers, obviously). This ident played in shorter form sometimes.

The song also played in a modified format in shorter idents that had a boyfriend and girlfriend (or sometimes celebrities, from memory) walking off together with the peace symbol sewn on their jean bum pockets "You'll only wanna be with Two".

I have a ident video of Sky One but for some reason I can't seem to get it onto this thread but I will keep trying.

Just noticed how similar Channel One's c.2000 onward logo is to SKY ONE UK's 1995 logo!

See http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/p-sky-one-past-a.shtml
and compare with the modern One logo shown earlier in this thread.

Channel One did have the letters linked in their logo prior to 1995.

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/tv_channels_copy1.jpg
http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1995/id-sky-one-1j.jpg

Hm. i can see the similarity.

I would say that Sky would have got the idea of TV One in New Zeland because tv one have used one logo for many years but have modified It over the years.

I'm thinking they got the idea independently of each other. It's not that unique of a design anyway.