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BBC One: Christmas Ident discussion

(November 2008)

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cylon6
I think they should debut the ident 5 days before Christmas Eve but almsot two weeks beforehand is ridiculous.
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Chie
I think Saturday the 13th is fine.
PT
Put The Telly On
Brekkie posted:
I kind of wish we'd go back to the days of them launching Christmas Eve.


With multichannel programming in this day and age? No.
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cylon6
George12345 posted:
Maybe not so news worthy with regards to the ident it's self but i've just found out that the BBC is also launching mobile activity, including a Gromit game and an animation that allows users to "throw" snowballs between phones.


They really are pulling out the stops with these idents aren't they? Screensavers, wallpapers, games. They'll be bringing out merchandise next.
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gregmc
cylon6 posted:
George12345 posted:
Maybe not so news worthy with regards to the ident it's self but i've just found out that the BBC is also launching mobile activity, including a Gromit game and an animation that allows users to "throw" snowballs between phones.


They really are pulling out the stops with these idents aren't they? Screensavers, wallpapers, games. They'll be bringing out merchandise next.


I think its more linked with the new W&G film than the idents. The idents are merely another promotional tool for the new film.
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Joe
cylon6 posted:
George12345 posted:
Maybe not so news worthy with regards to the ident it's self but i've just found out that the BBC is also launching mobile activity, including a Gromit game and an animation that allows users to "throw" snowballs between phones.

They really are pulling out the stops with these idents aren't they? Screensavers, wallpapers, games. They'll be bringing out merchandise next.

Hence they should be used, and not wait until Christmas Eve.
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Andrew Founding member
I also think the 13th is too early

Are they really going to say "and Christmas starts here on BBC1 so lets' bring on the wall" on the 13th

The whole point of the idents was supposed to be to make it special around Christmas itself, not 2 weeks before, we will be bored of them by Christmas Day

It means we will also lose the Saturday night ident during some of BBC1's most important Saturdays
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Noelfirl
Andrew posted:
The whole point of the idents was supposed to be to make it special around Christmas itself, not 2 weeks before, we will be bored of them by Christmas Day


There's a really bad echo in this place.
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SOL
I disagree. There's that many channels thesedays that the xmas eve launch of idents seems very late. I would prefer 12 days before and after, but the 18th of Dec is fine.
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George12345
well weither we like it or not the bottom line is its first TX is on the 13th, yes i must admit i will get sick of it before it gets taken off again but we'll need to see what the ident is like first
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cylon6
George12345 posted:
well weither we like it or not the bottom line is its first TX is on the 13th, yes i must admit i will get sick of it before it gets taken off again but we'll need to see what the ident is like first


Well the good thing is that it'll give me lots of opprotunities to record the idents and add them to my collection. It was much better than the dark days of the idents only being on from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day. And the really dark days in 1989 & 1990 when you had to wait until the evening on Christmas Eve to see the idents!!! Shocked
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Andrew Bower
George12345 posted:
, yes i must admit i will get sick of it before it gets taken off again but we'll need to see what the ident is like first


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