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TV channels with sung jingles - James2001 - 04-03-2022
Hatton Cross post_id=71566 time= user_id=1471 Wrote:How can we not discuss this topic, without the high watermark (or very low bar) that was the BBC One Christmas promo from 1993?
https://youtu.be/pBkvm1daYBM
God, that promo used to drive my dad nuts, he threatened to smash the TV whenever it came on.
Then CBBC made a parody of it that was just as annoying...
TV channels with sung jingles - Transmission - 04-03-2022
Whataday post_id=71460 time= user_id=1029 Wrote:dmch82 post_id=71344 time= user_id=1369 Wrote:Not sure if it counts but all of the original Channel 5 idents from 1997 featured the word five being sung/whispered often in a sultry tone...
If we're talking Channel 5...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpcxeuNdok
(This was ridiculously exciting at the time).
Not wanting to take this too off-topic, but "Welcome to Channel 5 on satellite"? I know it was put on analogue sat because of the various issues with its terrestrial signal but never knew it had its own launch sequence when it arrived on there.
TV channels with sung jingles - Markymark - 04-03-2022
Transmission post_id=71598 time= user_id=1522 Wrote:Whataday post_id=71460 time= user_id=1029 Wrote:dmch82 post_id=71344 time= user_id=1369 Wrote:Not sure if it counts but all of the original Channel 5 idents from 1997 featured the word five being sung/whispered often in a sultry tone...
If we're talking Channel 5...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpcxeuNdok
(This was ridiculously exciting at the time).
Not wanting to take this too off-topic, but "Welcome to Channel 5 on satellite"? I know it was put on analogue sat because of the various issues with its terrestrial signal but never knew it had its own launch sequence when it arrived on there.
I can't remember if that video was just part of the promo loop that was running on satellite for a week or two. I seem to recall that it just suddenly started showing 'normal' output on satellite one morning.
My local terrestrial transmitter came on line a few months after the station had launched. The test transmissions started with those C5 Colour Bars (not a proper test signal at all) and tone between 8am and 5pm Mon-Sat (to allow VCR retuning to be conducted), then a month or so later, actual programmes, but with promos in all the ad breaks. Followed by ads and programmes from the official launch day
TV channels with sung jingles - Neil Jones - 04-03-2022
Markymark post_id=71645 time= user_id=1078 Wrote:Transmission post_id=71598 time= user_id=1522 Wrote:Whataday post_id=71460 time= user_id=1029 Wrote:If we're talking Channel 5...
(This was ridiculously exciting at the time).
Not wanting to take this too off-topic, but "Welcome to Channel 5 on satellite"? I know it was put on analogue sat because of the various issues with its terrestrial signal but never knew it had its own launch sequence when it arrived on there.
I can't remember if that video was just part of the promo loop that was running on satellite for a week or two. I seem to recall that it just suddenly started showing 'normal' output on satellite one morning.
My local terrestrial transmitter came on line a few months after the station had launched. The test transmissions started with those C5 Colour Bars (not a proper test signal at all) and tone between 8am and 5pm Mon-Sat (to allow VCR retuning to be conducted), then a month or so later, actual programmes, but with promos in all the ad breaks. Followed by ads and programmes from the official launch day
The Spice Girls video was the first "thing" aired on Channel 5, March 30 1997 on terrestrial launch. It wasn't AFAIK part of the promo loop that went out for a few days beforehand. Not sure about Channel 5 on satellite, I was under the impression it just popped up one day.
TV channels with sung jingles - W. Knight - 04-03-2022
Nigel post_id=71419 time= user_id=1449 Wrote:And then there was this from Sky.This has a similar tune as ABC/Nine Network' "Still the One" campaign, which Sky borrowed directly the next year...
https://youtu.be/a_yB7vdJ-K4
TV channels with sung jingles - Markymark - 04-03-2022
Neil Jones post_id=71685 time= user_id=961 Wrote:The Spice Girls video was the first "thing" aired on Channel 5, March 30 1997 on terrestrial launch. It wasn't AFAIK part of the promo loop that went out for a few days beforehand. Not sure about Channel 5 on satellite, I was under the impression it just popped up one day.
Yes. I don't think The Spice Girls featured at all until the launch evening. I do recall them being used in stings for a week or two afterwards though ?
TV channels with sung jingles - VMPhil - 05-03-2022
There's this clip evidently recorded at the same time, featuring Jack Docherty. Wonder if there were any others?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_2F6BfUOY
(Also what's up with the strange aspect ratio on some of the stuff from that sequence and the above clip - looks almost like 16:9 squashed into 4:3?)
TV channels with sung jingles - Whataday - 06-03-2022
Markymark post_id=71698 time=1646419380 user_id=1078 Wrote:Neil Jones post_id=71685 time= user_id=961 Wrote:The Spice Girls video was the first "thing" aired on Channel 5, March 30 1997 on terrestrial launch. It wasn't AFAIK part of the promo loop that went out for a few days beforehand. Not sure about Channel 5 on satellite, I was under the impression it just popped up one day.
Yes. I don't think The Spice Girls featured at all until the launch evening. I do recall them being used in stings for a week or two afterwards though ?
They definitely featured in a promo before launch, saying "Channel 5, Easter Sunday, 6pm".
TV channels with sung jingles - madmusician - 06-03-2022
Oh, is this where I get to share again the most inappropriate news broadcast opener EVER…?!
https://youtu.be/kcCsv_ZNeZo
TV channels with sung jingles - Rexogamer - 06-03-2022
Without the pre-intro headlines, this would genuinely seem like satire
TV channels with sung jingles - Neil Jones - 06-03-2022
madmusician post_id=72077 time= user_id=947 Wrote:Oh, is this where I get to share again the most inappropriate news broadcast opener EVER…?!
Hmm, reminds me of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diIauUYJgZY
TV channels with sung jingles - Rdd - 07-03-2022
[quote="W. Knight" post_id=71686]
This has a similar tune as ABC/Nine Network' "Still the One" campaign, which Sky borrowed directly the next year...
TV channels with sung jingles - Sky303 - 09-03-2022
madmusician post_id=72077 time= user_id=947 Wrote:Oh, is this where I get to share again the most inappropriate news broadcast opener EVER…?!
https://youtu.be/kcCsv_ZNeZo
When that station(KWGN) was rebranding to that look, which was a great look , they don't use that anymore, they held a contest for local viewing area bands (Denver and other parts of Colorado) to make a new theme for their morning show that was the winning song, eventually, they switched to an instrumental version before this look was killed off. The group was called Ken K. and the Thump Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enlPMbo6ZM0
I'll add some for the thread too
Here's some American ones, the same song on 3 stations ( I can only find two examples though)
KPDX -Portland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PbMrja_SI
KBCW in San Francisco/ Bayarea has a long running jingle, where they sing their channel numbers "44 cable 12"
https://youtu.be/ssOBs9tf1bY?t=69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTLBPVjnHE
In the UK, Central let's get together
TV channels with sung jingles - BrandonHTVYT - 09-03-2022
You can’t forget the jingle that played when ITV returned after the strike of ‘79!
TV channels with sung jingles - Markymark - 09-03-2022
BrandonHTVYT post_id=72543 time= user_id=2085 Wrote:You can’t forget the jingle that played when ITV returned after the strike of ‘79!
Well, you seemed to have, because it was posted on the first page of this thread 8-)