Comments on: It begins with 1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:39:00 +0000

About time they steped into the future, but, will they remodel the abc2 logo to match abc1 and 3?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:00 +0000

While I agree the current logo is well recognised, this easy recognition is largely derived just from being the ABC's logo for such a long time, rather than being an actually good logo. I've personally disliked the logo since childhood, and have longed for the ABC to drop the squiggly lines.

If the ABC1 logo is real, then they've done a good job. It's simple but distinctive, and easy on the eyes.

Nothing wrong with the enlarged 1, I think it's required to distinguish it from the "ABC" portion, which it does quite well.

(Apologies if my praise of the new logo makes me sound like a member of the ABC's marketing division.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:34:00 +0000

I love it, It looks awesome,

Will ABC ever be able to play shows e.g Simpsons or Lost.

Like they should put shows Fox Classics or sumthing on it lol.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:46:00 +0000

what about this

http://www.abc1tv.co.uk/cms_res/logos/logoblue.gif

Copy the link into the Address bar to see it

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:01:00 +0000

I can’t wait to see where this takes us. Rebranding ABC-TV to ABC1 would make a lot of sense… I never felt ABC-TV and ABC2 sat well together from a branding perspective.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:41:00 +0000

No, Sillygostly, the “ABC1″ is used in the conjunction with the ABC logo. What you’re failing to realise is that ABC TV (or as it will be renamed ABC1) is only just a small part of the ABC (who will retain their logo)

By: Sillygostly

Sillygostly — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:18:00 +0000

Yuck. THAT’S the new logo? It’s so ugly and plain. The original ABC logo is iconic. They’d be downright STUPID to ditch it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:17:00 +0000

Actually, right now, TEN HD has the best HD watermark on Australian free to air.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:16:00 +0000

I think it looks good, it could have turned out much worse. Wikipedia has a high resolution version of the new logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ABC1.svg

By: J Bar

J Bar — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:09:00 +0000

I’m glad they didn’t get rid of the logo. If we get ‘ABC 1′ added to the watermark, then they have to reduce the size of the current logo and the size of the ’1′.

By: Barriet

Barriet — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:24:00 +0000

I agree the font is bland and the 1 is too big. It would be better if the ABC1 was the same size and font. Perhaps they will put the squiggle logo and the 1 next to it instead of ABC.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:17:00 +0000

I don’t understand… why is this a big such a big deal??

By: Neerav Bhatt

Neerav Bhatt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:02:00 +0000

I think its pretty poor.

I would prefer them to use something like:

LOGO1
LOGO2
LOGO3

etc

By: Sillygostly

Sillygostly — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:05:00 +0000

I doubt that the ABC would be stupid enough to plaster two watermarks across their network. Hell, I don’t think TV stations in this country should have watermarks of any kind (since there are so few of them. I mean how the hell can you possibly be confused between 5 TV stations? )

Only cable networks in this country need watermarks, and with today’s modern set-top boxes telling us which channel we’re watching beforehand, do we REALLY need these superfluous (and distracting) watermarks?

I was happy with TEN for sticking to their guns and not displaying a watermark for many, many years, but I was SEVERLY disappointed in them when they eventually did. They’ve quickly become the worst offenders in distracting watermarks (Ten HD anyone?)

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:55:00 +0000

If either of those are used as watermarks, it’ll be a disaster. If BOTH are used, I’ll have to get my download limit increased again.

By: bertrand

bertrand — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:31:00 +0000

Happy they haven’t changed the logo, but I think the ’1′ should be smaller. Or even better, replace it with the word ‘one’.

Secondly, this may have been discussed before, but anyone else think that instead of creating a new ABC3, they should revive ABC Kids? I know the only difference is the name (and watermark), but surely we’ll get another normal ABC channel sometime in the future that they’ll want to call ABC3 (or maybe, we’ll get ABC HD, but I highly doubt that)