Moskito Television

Background

Since 1999, Moskito Television has been at the forefront of the independent television production in Finland. They produce creative TV programming and audiovisual content for all platforms. Their output covers more than 30 series per year in all main genres, from entertainment to drama, from factual to sports. Moskito Television has won the prestigious Prix Europa award for the drama series Pioneer, plus numerous awards in Finland, including the best TV-series, the best comedy series & the best script, to name a few. Their formats like the factual shows Politically Incorrect!, entertainment reality series Not Born To Rock and drama series Easy Living all have been optioned for production internationally. With investments in commercial films production and facilities, Moskito Group is the market leader in Finland. "Together with our Scandinavian partners we are nice, an independent and creativity driven entertainment group in the Nordic region". Moskito also have its own sport division "Moskito Sport", and also owned the subsidiaries Crea Television, including its divisions Crea Sport and Crea Filmi, Cape Sound, Van Der Media, Production House, Grillifilms, Pure Scandinavia and Angel Films. It was originally owned by media company Talentum Plc through Varesvuo Partners until 2008, Moskito was later acquired by CapMan in the same year, Moskito was acquired by Nice Entertainment Group through This is Nice Studios Finland Oy in 2013, Nice was formerly known as Northern Alliance, Nice Entertainment Group was owned by Modern Times Group's content arm MTG Studios. In 2018, Nice Entertainment Group was integrated into Nordic Entertainment Group. Later, in 2021, Moskito was acquired by RTL Group's subsidiary Fremantle.

1st Logo (1999-2016)

Nicknames "The Helicopter", "The Ember"

Logo: TBA.

Variant: TBA.

FX/SFX: Live-action footage with great animation.

Music/Sounds: TBA.

Availability: Rare. The long version of the logo is found on the DVD releases of Isänmaan toivot, as it replaces Media-Active logo from season 2 onwards. It is also found in reality shows like Stiller and Saari. Later in the mid-2000s, the abridged variant is used more commonly on every show aired at the time and it can be found in DVD releases of shows like Uudisraivaaja and Helppo Elämä.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2016-present)

Nicknames: "The Ember II", "The Golden Ember"

Logo: On a red, green, or violet background, many golden scale-like shapes are seen forming many different shapes. After the giant thing formed by the shapes, it then cuts to some of the shapes forming a comet-like shape. It then cuts to the company name as the gold shapes fade to a solid golden ember. From 2016 until 2018, the animation of the word "television" is changed to the byline saying "a nice company" was shown. From 2018 until 2020, it was changed to "part of" with the Nordic Entertainment Group logo. From 2020 until 2021, the byline was changed to just the words "Part of Nordic Entertainment Group" instead. From 2021, the byline was changed to "A Fremantle Company" with the Fremantle logo in its script font.

Variant: On sport programs, the background is dark cyan, and the word "sport" replaces "television".

FX/SFX: The scales, which look good.

Music/Sounds: Shining sounds.

Availability: Current.

Editor's Note: None.