General International TV Channels Thread

[JulianRO]

There is indeed a noticeable delay, makes perfect sense.

 

[Markus]

I find it interesting how Rai 1 and 3 continue to use teletext-styled subtitles:
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Here some channels have the same thing but with white letters. I liked the regular white without the black box that was used for all channels years ago.

 

[JulianRO]

The subtitles here have varying colors, because there are different speakers in the shows, but also in this case, there are white colored-subtitles.

For some reason, on my Humax decoder, these subtitles aren't displayed, probably the decoder doesn't know how to decode them.

 

[Markus]

It depends on the channel here and who decide to use which. On the same channel there's no variations but just the same colored subtitles. For example MTV3 only uses white text inside the black box while Four (Nelonen) only has white text style and not inside the box.

 

[JulianRO]

State-owned channels here don't use that teletext-styled subtitles. They instead look like this:

 

[Markus]

The same half of the channels use here.

 

[zakawer2]

Most TV channels in Denmark (and also Sweden and Norway too) use white subtitles with black borders. This is pretty much the standard to my knowledge.

 

[JulianRO]

Documentary channels here use mainly the "Calibri" font (at least that's how it looks):

 

[Markus]

That's used on National Geographic over here so small amount of channels indeed do have a third variation over here. I forgot to mention.

 

[JulianRO]

Discovery's channels here use Arial:

 

[RandomMe]

State-owned channels here don't use that teletext-styled subtitles. They instead look like this:
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RTP uses Helvetica Condensed. In TVR's case it matches FF DIN, the corporate font.

 

[JulianRO]

MTV Global with Hungarian subtitles:

 

[RandomMe]

MTV Global with Hungarian subtitles:
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On my provider there aren't options to add such subtitles on any channel

 

[JulianRO]

Probably because Portugal is too far from Hungary and Romania.

 

[RandomMe]

Probably because Portugal is too far from Hungary and Romania.

No, not that. On TV Cabo/ZON/NOS I never controlled the subtitle language.

 

[JulianRO]

There are many channels in Romania that have local feeds but also have a Hungarian audio track.

 

[canyuksel97]

State-owned channels here don't use that teletext-styled subtitles. They instead look like this:
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Our Public Broadcaster TRT Is Also Using Subtitles On The Some Programmes Aired On The TRT Channels.
Hollywood And Other Movies Is Also Included For The Subtitles Which Are Aired On TRT 1 With Turkish Dubbing.

By Activating Language And Subtitles On The Remote Control, You'll Get Subtitles During Some Programmes.

However, TRT 2 Does Air Foreign Documentary And Movies
In The Original Language With Turkish Subtitles.

But Western Movies Remains Dubbed In Turkish Which TRT 2 Has The Tradition To Air It Every Sunday Mornings,
Following TRT 1 Was Not Airing Any Western Movies For A Series Repeats A Few Years Ago.

Here Is The Example Of Movies (Except Westerns Which Are Dubbed) Airing On TRT 2 With Turkish Subtitles:

 

[J10]

Sky is exiting its TV news joint venture with the United Arab Emirates, Sky News Arabia, which has been criticized for its coverage of the war in Sudan, with accusations of genocide denial.

Sky and its partner IMI; the investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the vice-president of the UAE and owner of Manchester City, have announced a new commercial deal in which the UK-based broadcaster will relinquish all strategic and operational ownership of the 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs service.

However, Sky UK has struck a multi-year brand licensing deal that will allow Sky News Arabia to retain its name.

The Abu Dhabi-based free-to-air channel was created in 2010 as a rival to Arabic-language TV news channels including Al Jazeera and the BBC World Service’s News Arabic.

The joint venture began broadcasting across the Middle East and north Africa in 2012.

“We are proud of what has been built through our partnership with IMI over the years and the significant presence built throughout the region,” said David Rhodes, the executive chair of Sky News Group. “The time is right for this change and we look forward to continuing our relationship in the next phase of Sky News Arabia.”

Internally, Sky executives have become increasingly concerned about the editorial position Sky News Arabia has taken on news in the region. Coverage of the atrocities carried out in Sudan by the UAE-backed paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has been accused of whitewashing genocide.

In November, the government of Sudan banned Sky News Arabia from operating inside its territory after the satellite channel sent a crew to El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, which produced a report claiming the security and humanitarian situation had stabilized. The reporter sent by Sky News Arabia is married to a senior official in the RSF’s parallel government.

The channel has subsequently filed news reports and online articles suggesting there was no evidence on the ground supporting satellite imagery and testimony from survivors of the atrocities.

Nakhle Elhage, the chief transformation officer at IMI, said: “As we enter this next phase, IMI will take full ownership of the platform’s future with the agility, focus and investment capacity to continue building the leading multimedia news destination for the Arab world.

“Sky News Arabia today stands as one of the Arab world’s leading media success stories. Over the past decade it has built scale, trust and relevance across television, digital, audio and social platforms, reaching audiences at a pace few media organsiations in the legion have achieved.”

The original joint venture deal was struck by News Corporation, which at the time controlled Sky.

The exit from news provision in the Middle East follows a similar decision in Australia.

US-based Comcast, which acquired Sky in 2018, opted not to renew a licensing agreement held by News Corporation to use the Sky News brand in Australia. Sky News Australia is rebranding as News24 later this year.

In 2020 a plan to launch a global rolling news channel to challenge CNN by bringing together Sky News and Comcast’s US-based NBC – called NBC Sky World News – was scrapped.

 

[JulianRO]

Wizja Le Cinema PL/HU continuities from 2001:

 

[qweqwe_]

Wizja Le Cinema PL/HU continuities from 2001:

The time by when Wizja Le Cinema arrived in Hungary on the UPC Direct platform back in late 2000, the soundtrack at the time were had the original Polish track, even though not all of those movies had an Hungarian audio track. The channel programme also had European (e.g. Hungarian) movies too aired with the original audio track