SRF 1 is the main channel of SRF, the German-centric broadcaster part of SRG SSR. It was launched in 1953 as SF DRS, and was renamed in 1997 to SF1 with the launch of its 2nd channel, SF2 (now SRF zwei). It gained its current name in 2012, after SF and DRS were merged together.
Visuals: On a cloudy sky background that moves over time, a reflective floor is seen on the bottom of the screen reflecting the sky, albeit in a more saturated tone. A chrome, bevel-edged version of the SRG SSR logo at the time, which is a double-layered diamond shape split into 4 sections each, fades in and zooms out to the center, where a large ping appears and overtakes the logo. Coming from the ping is the tall text "DRS", styled like the diamond logo, which zooms in and stops a comfortable distance from the screen. A large ping appears on the "S".
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Technique: A mix of 2D animation and live-action.
Audio: A heavenly synthesizer tune with a few piano notes, which is actually "Antarctica Echoes" by Vangelis.
Visuals: Flying over crystalized lands, 7 glowing bars in the color of the rainbow come down from the bottom edge of the screen and shift about constantly as the camera dives down into a ravine made from larger crystals. As the camera flies through the towering crystals, the bars rotate to a flatter angle and the camera flies in-between them as well. It also reveals a blue/white gradient sky above the range. By the time the camera flies over a small lake, the bars disappear one-by-one, flashing the crystals in their respective colors before turning all of the crystals into a smoky translucent grey and brightening the sky with multi-colored splashes, and eventually flies through an opening to reveal a small central crystal, materializing the SF DRS logo in grey while clipping through. The text "Schweizer Fernsehen" fades in below in white, along with a smaller version of the logo also in white, as the background changes colors.
Variants:
Technique: Early '90s CGI.
Audio: A dream-like synthesized tune with several louder notes for the bars disappearing and a small jingle at the end. The prototype version has a different, more ambient version of this tune, with the jingle being a variation of the first 4 notes. The intro variants used their respective theme songs.
Visuals: While many different idents of this type exist, they all involve at least black and white footage and 3 blocks in some form, 2 red and 1 in a different color. The bars either form part of the background at first with the footage superimposed in front of it, or they come in and form themselves up in the middle, forming an odd arrangement of the blocks in the center of the screen. At this point, "SF DRS" fades in on the rectangle, with "SF" on the left side and are large, while "DRS" is located on the smaller red rectangle. The footage also is superimposed over the logo like its nothing.
Technique: Live-action and CGI.
Audio: A unique arrangement for each variant used, but all of them have a 4-note motif when the logo forms up, with the text appearing on the last held note.
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