Television Presentation From Defunct Countries and Regimes

Here, in its entirety, is the documentary from which the clips above were taken (German):

The documentary is available in English.

Thanks, Remlap!

From Hong Kong's soon-to-be-shut-down TV broadcaster, ATV's first ident when a Hong Kong-based company owned a half of the company, and an Australian consortium owned the other half:


(Cantonese version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyYlKG-hPg)

Someone pointed out in the English clip that the jingle, "Living Your Kind of Life", was originally used by BTV and GMV in Australia.



I discovered that those stations in Victoria were owned by ENT Limited at that time (before they were sold to WIN Television). Does that mean ENT was in the consortium? Exactly which companies the consortium was consisted of? Any details?

Edit: Just discovered that the logo above was a variation of such from the Hong Kong company that owned the half, Far East Group.

By the way, any clips of ATV's precedesor Rediffusion Television (like idents, jingles and junctions) other than RTV-2 Into the 80s?

(See also http://tvforum.uk/forums/post974911#post-974911)

There's this news intro from 1980:

No clips from the 50s to the 70s, then? Sigh.

An interesting documentary about the East German TV archives (in German):

ATV intro in Cantonese:

This compilation of Hong Kong television from the late '70s and early '80s includes some RTV-2 (Rediffusion Television) continuity, along with clips of TVB Pearl:

East German TV's "spinning cube" start-up ident:

A Yugoslav-era commercial for soy flour -- very politically incorrect to our sensibilities:

The first edition of the evening news from TV Novi Sad, the capital of the Socialist Autonomous Republic of Vojvodina in Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1975: