Comments on: Sky’s One Two Three…

By: Kevin Wilyan

Kevin Wilyan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:36:29 +0000

The Sky3′s typeface is very similiar with BBC Three’s current logo…

By: itvhearts

itvhearts — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:20:56 +0000

you got to put new sky1 sky2 and sky3 idents now.

By: Space Cat

Space Cat — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:16:35 +0000

This is an ‘interim’ rebrand – it’s just glossing up the existing look. Late 2008 will see the launch of a brand new identity for Sky One/Two and Three. I can’t wait to see what it is and hopefully we’ll see the last of that horrible typeface used in the logo that is practically illegible!

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:53:19 +0000

I found new screenshots of Sky Three
http://www.ic-zaps.net/zap.php?nr=3400
http://www.ic-zaps.net/zap.php?nr=3399

http://www.ic-zaps.net is nice site for satellite freaks

By: Pieter

Pieter — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:32:30 +0000

I’m not really fond of their old urban look. *That* look felt cold…

By: Edmund

Edmund — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:39:13 +0000

I think these new indent are terrible against the 2005 ones. I don’t like them because 1 the music is positivly terrible. 2. They are too clinical and cold.

By: WT

WT — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:51:35 +0000

The ident seems an improvment but I just wish channels would take away the on screen logos and just leave the Idents for ad breaks ect. Sky usually isnt the worst culprit though as at least they do put some thought into their idents.

By: Jugalug

Jugalug — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:12:05 +0000

Sky One and Sky Two also received a new look, similar to this, with their own colours however.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:18:02 +0000

In response to Melissa Adkins, they’re different companies altogether.

By: Ornsack

Ornsack — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:11:14 +0000

I like the new look. The last Sky idents looked a bit plain. Good to see some good old fashioned CGI idents.

They’re still NOTHING compared to the Sky idents of the 90′s. They were all just so big budget, epic and exciting. A bit too American, but I suppose that made them original in amongst the UK networks of the time

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/skytv/index.html

By: Melissa Adkins

Melissa Adkins — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:00:02 +0000

looks really nice, though I wonder why all of the other sky networks in the world look diferent from one another.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0000

I really prefer the new look over the old one.

By: Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:34:56 +0000

Unfortunatly because Sky are so terrified of Freeview they want to take Sky Three, Sky News and Sky Sports News off the platform and launch a subscription service with four timeshifted channels (pointless and a waste of money). An Ofcom investigation into the public’s opinions of Sky’s plans have been overwhelmingly negative at the idea of the subscription service but despite this, it could well go ahead since News Corp and Murdoch have such control over the government.

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:45:47 +0000

You’re right on Sky Three, but probably worth explaining it:

Freeview: “digital tv through your aerial”. Free, around 50 channels. Includes Sky Three (but notably not Sky One or Two); and also Sky News, which is a rather fuller service than that in Australia.

Sky: “digital tv through a minidish”. Most channels are subscription: Sky Three is a subscription service here (though free if you get Sky One). Sky News is free.

Sky Three never gets any programmes first (that’s Sky One), but does carry a good amount of reruns of many, but not all, of Sky One’s major programmes.

So why do they make both these channels available for free on Freeview?

Sky is in less homes than Freeview. Sky News and Sky Three, I’d wager, have less paid-for ads than many of their channels. However, they fill their ad breaks with ads for Sky Movies, Sky One, Sky Arts, and all the other Sky brands they have. Sky News promotes, like mad, their (quite good) interactive news service, which is only available on digital satellite. Sky Three promotes, like mad, what’s on the other Sky entertainment channels. And while I don’t know how much it costs to get on Freeview if you’re a TV service, it strikes me that this is some of the best advertising and marketing money they could possibly spend.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:14:05 +0000

You are correct on what SKY Three is mate

Also FOX9 wouldn’t be called that would it since the only reason its called FOX8 since there is no Eight Network?