General International TV Channels Thread

[Francisque]

@Francisque I checked the Hungarian Disney-owned channels. They don't have Spanish age ratings displayed either.

I think for children's content (with a Spanish licence OC) channels can individually choose whether to have them or not .

While AFAIK more mature type of content can't.

 

[themidnightlore]

Welcome back to another Sony-centric post made by themidnightlore.
This round, it's a post for talk about the (very slow rolling) rebrand of their TV channels going on since August 2019.

USA - Sony Movies and Sony Cine got it in Febraury 2021. I joke with myself all this delay was for Sony Cine, change my mind.
Latin America - Sony Channel got it (it was the first one to recive it in August 2019), AXN not.
UK - The channels (minus POP and the late Sony Crime Channel) got into a global rebrand in September 2019. Also, they will be gone the 25th of May since Narrative got them for launch Great!
Germany - (Sony) AXN and Sony Channel got it in October 2019, the elusive Animax VOD still has the classic logo.
India - AFAIK, only Sony LIV got the rebrand and the entire family of linear channels have the usual logos.
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CEE - Nothing rebranded
Hungary - Nothing rebranded
Poland - Nothing rebranded
Russia - Nothing rebranded
Spain, Portugal - Nothing rebranded, but I remember catching some months ago a new presentation set for the channels a bit more in line with the style used for Sony AXN's idents.
Turkey - Nothing rebranded (Turkey still has the Sony channels? Unsure, to be honest)
Japan - Nothing rebranded, unsure if they will ever do that here if the channels manage to not close.

Yeah... Not a good look.
Also not counting the Asian AXN and Animax as they're not Sony anymore.

 

[Francisque]

Sony AXN was a ghastly idea, to start with

 

[RegularCapital]

I expected this.

No matter how successful the channel is.

Now, it should be the same date as the Fox Crime Italy's closure

Disney does seem to have an odd pattern where they close channels on the same day. The end of FOX is another loss to pay-TV and with these streaming deals Sky has, they're funding their own demise.

Meanwhile, Virgin is too stupid not to put Disney+ on their boxes to mitigate the loss, instead they wasted their time putting the Hopster app on their boxes when Disney Channel UK closed, they will have to launch Disney+ when Fox goes. I'll be interested to see what happens with this Telefonica partnership, as least they've got a mobile and broadband network, Sky doesn't own any satellites or phone lines, they're pretty much just a service with some content they produce.

 

[themidnightlore]

Sony AXN was a ghastly idea, to start with

It's more funny when you realize that somehow still exists only in Germany. I mean, rebrand the Latin American one to match Sony Channel is too difficult?

 

[Francisque]

FORUMS.lenodal.com • Consulter le sujet - TF1 et M6 ne veulent plus fusionner

Apparently TF1 and M6 are merging!

 

[J10]

Today, there are two merges being confirmed. The Discovery-Warner Merge, and the French Merge between TF1 and M6.

 

[Francisque]

The TF1 and M6 merger is much more shocking, but it's still subject to CSA, which will likely and wisely have something to say about that

 

[Francisque]

According to what appears to be an insider, Nat Geo's death in the UK (and likely in Italy too) has been announced internally at Disney

 

[BlooCNBoy02]

12+ rating ident from Filmmúzeum, 2005.

 

[SpongeBobFan2004]

FOX will be closing in the UK and Ireland on 30th June, content will be moved to Star on Disney+:

Fox shuts UK linear channel

Walking Dead broadcaster to be subsumed into Disney+

www.broadcastnow.co.uk

Fox Channel To Close In The UK, With Shows Like ‘War Of The Worlds’ Moving To Disney+

Fox channel is to close in the UK after 17 years as Disney continues to withdraw from linear TV. The Walking Dead moves to Disney+.

deadline.com

The final remaining FOX channels are in Asia (+ South Asia) and Turkey…….which FOX TR operates on a FTA license in that country.

 

[RandomMe]

According to what appears to be an insider, Nat Geo's death in the UK (and likely in Italy too) has been announced internally at Disney

I'd keep the main channel and maybe Nat Geo Wild like Asia.

With this Disney is set to close all linear channels in the UK/Irish markets

 

[BlooCNBoy02]

I'd keep the main channel and maybe Nat Geo Wild like Asia.

With this Disney is set to close all linear channels in the UK/Irish markets

I would keep both of them. I will post a rethinking of the portfolio to Palk Áron 2002's Arts in a few minutes.

 

[themidnightlore]

Voyage was just the beginning. It was the warning sign of Disney wanting to close all the old Fox-owned channels.

 

[BlooCNBoy02]

TV2 Hungary technical difficulty from 18 June 2011.

TV2 couldn't remove the "live" logo by the time the Ezo TV titles stopped, so we see a blackness with a Telemedia InteracTV broadcast server testcard inbetween. The logo was finally removed after almost 2 minutes.

 

[RegularCapital]

According to what appears to be an insider, Nat Geo's death in the UK (and likely in Italy too) has been announced internally at Disney

I'm more surprised that Nat Geo hasn't closed before Fox, but it's probably because of that last remaining sponsorship campaign contract I guess.

I'd keep the main channel and maybe Nat Geo Wild like Asia.

With this Disney is set to close all linear channels in the UK/Irish markets

Except for BabyTV and the Utsav channels, all the major brands have gone or will be gone.

 

[RandomMe]

A change to BVN, starting July 1, due to a strategy announced in April, VRT programming will no longer be seen and will be limited to the internet. This doesn't mean the channel will shut down, it will continue operating but limited to NPO programming.

BVN stopt gedeeltelijk met satelliet en gaat verder met volledig Nederlandse NPO-programmering. | BVN

www.bvn.tv

Back to square one? IIRC the channel initially meant Beste van Nederland and didn't carry any Flemish programming.

Voyage was just the beginning. It was the warning sign of Disney wanting to close all the old Fox-owned channels.

Actually the uncertain fate of Disney XD in 2018/2019 and the shutdown of its Australian feed was just the beginning, and that was before what happened a few months later.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The final remaining FOX channels are in Asia (+ South Asia) and Turkey…….which FOX TR operates on a FTA license in that country.

That's not true at all since there are still Fox channels in Africa, the Middle East and several European countries outside the British Isles.

 

[animegamer]

I don’t know what they will do to Fox Life India which is a lifestyle channel. Surprised it’s still around

 

[RandomMe]

That's not true at all since there are still Fox channels in Africa, the Middle East and several European countries outside the British Isles.

Portugal's channel is still successful