3Sat Ident

A little bit of history here. … This ident from September 1990 name-checks the four organisations participating in 3sat at the time – including the shortlived involvement of DFF (Deutscher Fernsehfunk), which was the East German state broadcaster until German unification on 3 October 1990 and would replaced by regional state broadcasters SFB, ORB and MDR at the start of 1992. … The very start of the clip shows postal addresses for all the 3sat broadcasters with DFF noticeably missing a country-code on its postcode (the 1199 postcode was still from the East German system, but East Germany was about to cease to exist). … As a result of DFF's participation, there was talk of changing the channel's name to 4sat, but 3sat stuck. … Yet the 4-triangles-in-a-triangle ident animation attempts to recognise the four participants' contribution to make up the channel's output. Here, Wolfram Böhme's got some help for those indecisive people who still don't know what to do with their day: the solutions mainly involve programme offerings from 3sat, of course!