Recent content by Francisque

And in HQ! Also, that Reality TV logo looked a bit cheap for modern standards (but even from those times' standards, to be honest), but of course, the channel was kind of cheap in general, to start with. Fast forward to 2026, True Crime is nothing but a crime channel Although something was...

It's not a nationalistic competition anyway LOL Nobody praises CN Italy, and I couldn't care the less, as that channel is not particularly exciting, and even if it were, I don't go feeling better because of where I was born. I only sometimes get annoyed at people expecting an Italian channel...

It's a channel, not a God or something after all :D . CN WE is only good for being an EMEA feed, that's the most we could wish from them

DC UK was much smarter, using as "idents* their Now/Next bumpers as there was such a ridiculously small amount of idents for Bounce anyway, while Spain clinged to these idents, showing the same idents over and over, while the most fascinating aspect of Bounce, the bumpers (like Dogs, Space...

Not that unbearable, but I've noticed the new Scandinavian trend is TOO minimalism, which is way too minimal for my tastes. They used to apply this with idents and colorful branding, but now the channels lack characters and are as bland as white bread @themidnightlore the problem is there...

Well, Italy used to do that with +1 channels, since they're mostly gone from everywhere. But yes, this is not going to happen (Speaking of which, NG+1 in the UK shuts down next month) @AllDayEveryDay so we can kind of assume DC Spain (and PT) never used the traditional Next/Now bumpers from...

To be fair, Disney has a renowned international brand, while DeAgostini is mostly known for publishing and so on, but within Italy. Said that, I know what you mean: if established brands are struggling, why Disney shouldn't? Although Disney is a very strong brand. Time will tell, but honestly...

I thought she sounded AI, but I now think she sounds like a real voice, to be honest. AI voices tend to sound worse. And no offense, but real dubbing (or official) Italian, with its 7 vowels and consonants doubled in the right contexts, tends to be hard, even among many Italians :D . I've...

About everything in this thread is vague and dystopian, to be honest :D

There has been no "buzz" with this relaunch, but it's hard to imagine one from preschoolers, so probably the channel is not going too bad and we don't know (although probably that's wishful thinking). If Disney Jr is struggling, since preschoolers watch more TV than older children, you could...

I remember rather well there were discussions about CN Nordic in a Swedish sub-feed existing back in the day, maybe not on satellite (definitely not on satellite, by the looks of it), but probably on cable and elsewhere. Probably satellite only had the Danish-Norwegian ad feed, though.

Didn't they at least have two? Something like Norway/Denmark and Sweden? Sweden being the main feed, maybe @zakawer2 because it made more sense, for the channel, to only air advertising directed to children? I know in the UK it is not that way, and so on, but in many countries it is or it was...

Summer Festival reminds me of something... (yes, I know another Summer Festival appeared in 2025, quite detached from this Comedy Summer Festival) :D

That's what we mean by a nice "update" to the EMEA look (although I know it is not a permanent look, but a Summer one), to make it more "playful". Good stunt idea, too

That's it: some operations can localise, but not all of them. Not enough eyeballs to cover all the "interests", so some pan-feeds are inevitable, better than not having the channel at all anyway. Pan-Iberian and Pan-Europe is better than no pan-no. I feel like that for a market like Portugal...