To add to that, this is an ad break on TVR Folclor. TVR Sport is reportedly next in line to be a dedicated channel.
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(12-09-2022, 09:31 AM)W. Knight Wrote: TVB Finance, Sports and Information Channel, Hong Kong, 5/9/2022. Following the shift of racing and lottery rights from their sibling J2 (DTT Ch. 82) to Ch. 85, the channel relaunched to show its new focus on sport.
Over in Hong Kong, a year after the TVB J2 (Ch.82) and FSI Channel (Ch.85)' relaunch, they are to be condensed into one "TVB+" channel. This came after rumours in firing personnel in charge of the latter's real estate programmes. The request is filed to the authority and is expected to commence in 1st quarter 2024.
The new channel would be consisted of "a diverse range of young audience content (including dramas and variety shows), sports, and informational programs", plus being more interactive with TVB's online offerings, while financial programming are redistributed with Jade (Ch.81). It's not certain how the lottery and racing rights will be handled.
This is the investors' release:
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Now it's probably a good time to take a look back at the youth channel, from at the start of digital TV...
Test broadcast ident (2008): Thank God they didn't use that for long! Not shown here was their working name - "TVB Jade 2".
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Ident/Sting (2008): One of their celebrity stings with a Taiwanese TV drama star. They ran a campaign to invite audience to submit their own versions of the ident online too.
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Continuity (2010): J2 in the 2010s was famous for not using idents - just a caption and straight into the show. This was shown before Japanese anime Sailor Moon.
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Continuity (2012): Identity updated with a new orange and blue colour scheme.
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Initial graphics package (2016): This video, seemingly from the design house, shows the station graphics with a slightly different ident soundtrack. This was the time when lottery and racing awkwardly appeared on the channel, following ATV's demise.
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The current ident (2022): I've talked about it back on TVLF (
tvliveforum.com ). They tried to establish themselves like an independent brand, but failed. This was also the time when the channel's jewel of the crown - Japanese anime and Korean variety shows - started to disappear from the station lineup.
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