[kianworld]

Speaking from an American perspective, I remember as a kid channel surfing through the 60 or so channels that a cable hooked straight into a TV could provide and always noticing whenever a channel changed its presentation or DOG. I'd be like "woah Nick has a new logo? cooooool" or "woah Biography Channel became Bio, that's epic". Never had a negative opinion about changes when I was that young. It turned into a fascination for me, making fake TV networks and branding and DOGs of my own on paper (and still now privately on applications, I'm weirdly too embarassed to share it even with my closest friends). Then I started finding places like Logopedia online and watching old American network presentation videos on YouTube.

Eventually, I think around 2017 or so, I started looking more into British TV presentation and lemme say that you all have it made with the continuity announcers and all. No networks have that here, unless you count TCM I guess. So I started looking into British TV presentation a lot more. First BBC, then C4, then ITV past and present. I go off and on, sometimes I'm really into this stuff, other times I could care less. It's usually around the time of major rebrands or upcoming rebrands, in US or UK, that I pick up interest again.

Maybe a bit of an off-topic tangent here, but I love how much of an issue obnoxious DOGs are in the UK. Stuff like how people successfully got BBC One and Two to stop it on digital, or how the BBC Four DOG when the network rebranded in 2021 and at first had a slightly less transparent DOG. In America. DOGs are almost always very visible and obnoxious, I wish any network here had miniscule DOGs set to 25% transparency (only Adult Swim really does that). I just like how different reactions are to presentation in the UK, and how networks actually seem to listen to the feedback here and there. In the US it's like "yeah we're split-screening the credits now. Speeding up the shows too. Getting rid of the bumpers. Deal with it."