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". It was originally owned by media company Talentum Plc until 2008 when Moskito was acquired by Nice Entertainment Group in which the company was owned by Modern Times Group. 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.

FX/SFX:: Live-action with nice graphics.

Music/Sounds: TBA.

Availability: Extinct.

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 turquoise, and the word "sport" replaces "television".

FX/SFX: The scales, which look good.

Music/Sounds: Shining sounds.

Availability: Current.

Editor's Note: None.