Happy 20th Birthday Channel Five

Isnt that the Core?

Of course BrainTeaser only ended because it became caught up in the Quiz TV scandal in 2007. Without that it may have lasted a bit longer. Apparently it paid for itself through the phone revenue for the viewer competitions and the so-easy-it-hurts questions they used

I'm pretty sure the announcer is the same one that fronted The Core. I remember this incarnation but I also remember The Core having a logo.

From ThisIsFive:

Not as strange as someone thinking that, by simply commenting that they don't watch Channel 5, that this is strange to them, and worthy of a post to state this. You seem to be pretty unwilling to tolerate other people's views/channel preferences (you know what I think of you ).

My comment was more aimed at the "Are they still going?" bit, but moving on...

Those initial Channel 5 idents were brilliant weren't they. I took them for granted at the time but they were perfect.

Just an attempt at humour. What's so strange about that?

The whole package was brilliant. The idents were cool without being cheesy. Some of them didn't even feature the logo (the fella dancing about just had the 5 colours I think) - talk about ahead of their time!

The channel might not have been a runaway success in terms of ratings or hit shows, but it's been massively influential on the TV industry in the UK as a whole.

Yep it was Kate McIntyre that hosted the slot. At first it ran for 90 minutes (approx) on Saturday morning and then for 2 1/2 - 3 hours in the afternoon airing either side of the sunset beach omnibus. Soon after becoming the core the omnibus was dropped and the slot was extended. The slot also aired on Sunday mornings and picked up a lot of the home grown programmes that had previously aired within the mag (the mag subsequently spun into its own 30 minute debate and discussion programme that aired in the Sunday unnamed slot).

With no name, the slot used kate@channel5.co.uk for the email address but oddly Channel5.co.uk/sadie/ for a website address. The core was a lovely way to fill the weekend slots with teenage/young adult programming with cheap continuity, unfortunately it ended soon after they revamped in the autumn of 2001 to a dual presenter format in a slightly bigger (but still tiny) studio.

I totally agree about the initial branding, I'd argue that idents and surrounding presentation are still the strongest that the channel has had. The idents were incredibly varied for daytime, entertainment, films, drama, etc. Something that the current set lacks in my opinion, and they not only featured the logo and different text variants of 'five' but the vocal representation within the ident audio, something that I hadn't heard before but it worked well to reaffirm the brand.

There is a point in the ident where he holds a piece of card with the logo on. All the original idents featured the logo in some form.

The 'unnamed teen strand' eventually morphed into The Core, then milkshake FM, and then Shake! NGA only ran on Saturdays and Shake! still went out on Sundays. It ended at some point, but was then brought back in 2010 (for a part with Disney)

There is still some sort of break bumper with the '5' pieces spinning around.