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TV channels with sung jingles - Worzel - 01-03-2022
Upon stumbling across a clean version of the 2000s era QVC intro on a VHS cassette the other day, it reminded me that when the channel launched it had a sung jingle on some of their idents and when they closed the hour.
It got me thinking... what other UK TV channels have had sung jingles in their time? It could just be an American thing (see below from NBC) but they never really became a 'thing' over here. Why?
https://youtu.be/gD4fsfu_rwE
https://youtu.be/dh9wFimHHMg
TV channels with sung jingles - TVNerd - 01-03-2022
There was a promo in a similar vein to the NBC one that TVS made to promote their output in 1989 which contained a sung jingle https://youtu.be/4Dmc_eoL4AU
TV channels with sung jingles - Joe - 01-03-2022
Interesting examples! Tempting to say that they simply sound old-fashioned, but that doesn't explain radio having had them. They certainly sound old-fashioned to me, though!
TV channels with sung jingles - NancerOnTheLIVEForum - 01-03-2022
In fact, when have any of the main 5 channels had their own set-in-stone mnemonics?
...well, apart from Channel 4.
TV channels with sung jingles - JAS84 - 01-03-2022
Apart from when one of the two generic ITV looks was in use, Yorkshire Television always used a variation of a tune I think was called Ilkley Moor Bah Tat. But neither that nor Fourscore are sung jingles.
I don't know if it's still in use, but didn't Cbeebies at launch have a jingle with the channel's name sang a couple of times? "Cbeebies! Cbeebies!"
CBBC with it's green logo before the current one also had ident music where someone sang "CBBC!" at the end.
Of course there's the "Ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-nick! Nickelodeon!" jingle from the 90s too, but that's a US import.
TV channels with sung jingles - GraphicsMan - 01-03-2022
NancerOnTheLIVEForum post_id=70933 time= user_id=1794 Wrote:In fact, when have any of the main 5 channels had their own set-in-stone mnemonics?
...well, apart from Channel 4.
BBC One balloon idents, BBC One rhythm and movement idents, BBC One circles idents, Central television, Thames Television, LWT....
just a few to start off the list.
TV channels with sung jingles - NancerOnTheLIVEForum - 01-03-2022
GraphicsMan post_id=70945 time= user_id=1031 Wrote:NancerOnTheLIVEForum post_id=70933 time= user_id=1794 Wrote:In fact, when have any of the main 5 channels had their own set-in-stone mnemonics?
...well, apart from Channel 4.
BBC One balloon idents, BBC One rhythm and movement idents, BBC One circles idents, Central television, Thames Television, LWT....
just a few to start off the list.
True but none of them (except maybe the ITV ones) are as well known or identifiable as Fourscore.
TV channels with sung jingles - Michael - 02-03-2022
NancerOnTheLIVEForum post_id=70933 time= user_id=1794 Wrote:In fact, when have any of the main 5 channels had their own set-in-stone mnemonics?
...well, apart from Channel 4.
Channel 5 in the white "celebs pratting about with slogans" era.
ABC1's first lot.
Seem to remember E4's channel name being read out in a metallic / computer / robot voice on one set of idents.
TV channels with sung jingles - AxiosBrit67 - 02-03-2022
Anyone who guessing ABC jingle from 1998 until 2021 would sound familiar to CBBC audience, given that current CBBC jingle (since 2016) pretty similar to ABC one, particularly 4-note jingle that ABC used before 'officially' only used for CBBC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JzQ37pcjcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUIY0ScqxY
TV channels with sung jingles - James2001 - 02-03-2022
We're proud to present on the WB
Another bad show that no-one will seeeeeeeee
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TV channels with sung jingles - NancerOnTheLIVEForum - 02-03-2022
Michael post_id=71068 time= user_id=898 Wrote:NancerOnTheLIVEForum post_id=70933 time= user_id=1794 Wrote:In fact, when have any of the main 5 channels had their own set-in-stone mnemonics?
...well, apart from Channel 4.
Channel 5 in the white "celebs pratting about with slogans" era.
ABC1's first lot.
Seem to remember E4's channel name being read out in a metallic / computer / robot voice on one set of idents.
I did say "main 5 channels", so E4 and ABC1 don't count
TV channels with sung jingles - Steve in Pudsey - 02-03-2022
Plenty of one-offs over the years, notably
https://youtu.be/0Y--DC6ANyg
I daresay there are Kenny Everett and Benny Hill examples.
I'm going to suggest that this counts
https://youtu.be/AeROdRz8wxs
Toby Anstis era CBBC had a competition for kids to make jingles, with predictably cringeworthy results.
Within individual programmes, TV Offal is an obvious example. The Big Breakfast's intro for the various games perhaps, and I imagine the Sky One simulcast of Chris Evans on Virgin might have included some of the sung jingles. Oh, and this from TM Century
TV channels with sung jingles - W. Knight - 02-03-2022
Not to mention ITV's Get Ready campaign:
https://youtu.be/g5zM8mkltI0
The original Sky Channel, “Reaching out to you!”:
https://youtu.be/WTIck0weRJs
“K-Y-T-V, K-Y-T-V, KYTV!”
https://youtu.be/9nAyd70vMQs
TV channels with sung jingles - Rdd - 02-03-2022
BBC Three at (it’s first) launch used the Schoolhouse Rock song “Three is the Magic Number” - as did TV3 in Ireland, most obviously in its early years but it actually remained on their startup sequence all the way until the VMTV revamp.
TV channels with sung jingles - From The North - 02-03-2022
Off the top of my head, Central of course were very American in their 'bold' presentation style -
“It’s Chriii-iisstmaas!” From 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXJrPGNXcYY&t=17s
About 17 mins in
An early one - Granada on Channel 9 in 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8godOA7P48E
TSW - one of the best bits of TV ever made, so bad it's good - The Opening Show in 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bILspuKgfyM
Tyne Tees - “We are the People Of The North” from 1991. Toe curlingly bad in an earnest way -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMRjsvrLmag