LivingTV rebrands as it chases Sky One for sixth spot

LONDON - With a British version of 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' set for the summer, LivingTV has unveiled a new channel identity as it chases Sky One to become the sixth channel on UK television.

LivingTV has been steadily improving its output with first runs of popular US shows including 'Will & Grace', 'Charmed', 'CSI', 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and Alicia Silverstone's 'Miss Match'.

The new identity, developed by creative agency Karmarama, has been created to reflect the channel's development into a mainstream entertainment channel. To be unveiled on air on May 6, the rebrand will see "LivingTV on…" adopted as the channel's strapline.

Richard Woolfe, LivingTV's director of programming, said: "LivingTV has evolved into a highly successful entertainment station. It was high time the look reflected the diversity of incredibly popular programming available. The new identity is crisp, it's classy -- it rocks."

LivingTV conducted two sets of research in July and October 2003, which found that the Flextech-owned station needed to confirm its positioning and signal a consistent identity to viewers.

The research led to the identification of three core values -- diversity, vibrancy and realism -- which will now be reflected at the heart of LivingTV.

Ben Bilboul, managing partner at Karmarama, said: "LivingTV is a great product and developing an identity was simply a case of reflecting its strengths. We were also lucky enough to be given a great brief: to create and implement a new brand identity everywhere from the on-air identity to the channel's business cards."

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