TV channels with sung jingles

[W. Knight]

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

Accompanied by another campaign "Tyne Tees People", featuring the station's faces instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJUXIfxwTE

[Inspector Sands]

Children's BBC used to have a sung version of their ident sung by its presenters, I think Josie Darby was one of them

[TravisM]

Two well known examples from Australia (well, the closest we really have had...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJZ4pTj89Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHLkdolOmY

And Channel 9 news used to use a jingle for its news service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCuRylSi9g

[Hatton Cross]

https://youtu.be/3SQ2xwNKKZ8
David Letterman had a whole bunch of JAM jingle resigns done, once.

[madmusician]

Children's BBC used to have a sung version of their ident sung by its presenters, I think Josie Darby was one of them

Ooh, is that the one at 1:08 in this video? I'd never clocked that it was sung by the presenters, but it might well have been! There's a load of 1996/7-era CBBC continuity on YouTube these days, and it seems as though they often played this off the back of the main ident to kick off the afternoon sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43AoNcHkn4

[IdentFan101]

Early Pop and Tiny Pop idents had a chorus singing the channel's name at the end of them.

Pop:
https://youtu.be/gmlvGmYea5o

Tiny Pop:
https://youtu.be/d6GErCk63T0

[Steve in Pudsey]

Pointless had some jingles resung for its Radio DJs special

http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2014/10/pointless-jingles/

[Inspector Sands]

Ooh, is that the one at 1:08 in this video? I'd never clocked that it was sung by the presenters, but it might well have been! There's a load of 1996/7-era CBBC continuity on YouTube these days, and it seems as though they often played this off the back of the main ident to kick off the afternoon sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43AoNcHkn4

That's the one, sounds like Josie Darby and Chris Jarvis to me.

[Michael]

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

I don't care what you say. My post, my rules.

[Jexedback]

There’s the TV-am ‘Your With Friends’ promo from ‘87
https://youtu.be/AF5Gt4FLFhg

[Whataday]

I think the TV-am promo is one of my earliest memories. I remember being fascinated with the water pouring out of the TV set like a shower.

Here's the full version:

[Neil Jones]

I have a feeling it was created to fill time during the strike.

They went through a phase of playing the song over the end credits each day.

I'm sure I read somewhere it was also to do with being a "feature" of Australian TV, seeing as Bruce Gyngell hailed from the country, so it was a concept he bought over (apparently).. A cheesy promotional piece of VT, which presumably fitted in with the mantel of keeping it cheap when Gyngell came on board.

[Brekkie]

[quote=TravisM post_id=71124 time= user_id=1023]
Two well known examples from Australia (well, the closest we really have had...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJZ4pTj89Y

[dmch82]

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...

https://youtu.be/-RflZRmH_xU
https://youtu.be/r45Any5KqPw
https://youtu.be/PnwxEbr9kf0
https://youtu.be/2Z_-0Hj3ETM
https://youtu.be/9eDUGQ1-9uM
https://youtu.be/W57_v2lPass
https://youtu.be/cWwW5KFBcv8
https://youtu.be/d_EYhpAvOJs
https://youtu.be/p3zSe6PV9Eo
https://youtu.be/gaOPBNicB3E

[Night Thoughts]

In a similar vein to the Tyne Tees promo... franchise auction time at LWT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_G4M8JUf-s