New look: KIKA

KIKA is the children's channel from Germany's public broadcasters, the second most watched children's channel in Germany. Back in February this year, it launched a completely new look, created by broadcast design agency DMC Group in Münich.

The on-screen look is built around "the fusion of a real world with an exceptional, playful, surreal, fantastic world". The idents feature children in an active environment where the KIKA logo suddenly appears. They all conclude in a simple "audio logo".
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More on: ORF III

Back in October, the Austrian broadcaster ORF launched a new TV channel called ORF III, which is dedicated to programmes on culture and information. The on-air identity was created by the broadcast design agency DMC, who posted a case study on their website some time ago.

At the heart of the identity is the logo, consiting of three bars for the roman numeral III. These bars are extended into a presentation device used for trailers and schedules. The channel has three identifying colours. Grey is used for the logo, while purple and olive green represent the channel's two main topics, culture and information, respectively. Whitney and Mercury where adopted as the channel's typefaces.
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New logo: Nova Television Bulgaria

Nova Television, one of the major TV broadcasters in Bulgaria, introduced new looks across four of its channels yesterday, September 12. This means new logos for Nova TV (one the major commercial channels in Bulgaria), Diema, Diema Family and KinoNova (previously called Diema 2).

Previous logo for Nova Television.

Nova became the third TV channel to receive a national broadcasting license in Bulgaria in 2003. In 2008, Nova was bought by the Swedish Modern Times Group (MTG), who previously owned 50 percent of a minor multichannel broadcatser called Diema. The Nova Television group in its current form was created in 2009 when MTG consolidated its Bulgarian assets into one integrated company. Diema's music channel MM has since been replaced by a sports channel called Nova Sports, and Diema's primary channel has been positioned as a channel for men. This latest rebrand sees the secondary Diema channel, Diema 2, replaced by a movie channel called KinoNova.

An official release from Nova Television credits two broadcast design agencies for the new look, DMC Group from Austria and Dream On from France. They don't specify who did what, but given these two agencies have dones for MTG in the past, one can perhaps assume that DMC are behind the new logos and that Dream On created new channel idents.

The previous logos for the Diema channels were adopted back in September 2007, some months after the channels had been acquired by MTG. They were also created by DMC, and their style was similar to the logos used by MTG's Viasat channels in other European countries.
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New logo: Kabel Eins Classics

Kabel Eins Classics is a German pay TV channel which broadcasts classic TV series and movies. It was launched on June 1, 2006. It belongs to the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group, a the name is derived from one of the group's free TV channels, kabel eins. Today it celebrated its fifth birthday by launching a completely new look for the first time.

Previous logo.

The new logo put emphasis on the word "Classics", while the kabel eins symbol sits as an approval mark from the free TV channel. The colour scheme is orange, black and white, which is used a lot in the on-air graphics. IDs and other on-air elements show scenes from genres relevant to the channel in this colour scheme.

Some examples of ID spots, posted by Kabel Eins Classics:
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