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Blake Connolly
Founding member
There was this unused concept for Channel 4, in the end fortunately they stuck with the originals with a new score:
There was a BBC "family" ident in the 1991 set designed for occasions when BBC 1 and 2 come together (i.e. obits) which was never used and was eventually replaced with the one seen when Diana died.
I've never seen it but it was described to me by someone working in Pres at the time - it had the 1 logo to the top left of the 2 and apparently made it look a bit too much like you were watching a channel called BBC ½.
There was a BBC "family" ident in the 1991 set designed for occasions when BBC 1 and 2 come together (i.e. obits) which was never used and was eventually replaced with the one seen when Diana died.
I've never seen it but it was described to me by someone working in Pres at the time - it had the 1 logo to the top left of the 2 and apparently made it look a bit too much like you were watching a channel called BBC ½.
DA
Best place to mention this (probably)...
When the BBC had it's 'South East' review in the late 90's / early 00's, the new news programme for London was to be called 'BBC London Live' (to match what the local radio station was called at the time).
The titles were produced - and appeared on the internet later on - but never saw the light of day generally, as the whole 'tri-media' operation became the BBC LDN brand we all knew and loved 😉
When the BBC had it's 'South East' review in the late 90's / early 00's, the new news programme for London was to be called 'BBC London Live' (to match what the local radio station was called at the time).
The titles were produced - and appeared on the internet later on - but never saw the light of day generally, as the whole 'tri-media' operation became the BBC LDN brand we all knew and loved 😉
MA
:-(
A former member
There was a new start up piece of music used for stv in 1985. Never got used. I can't think of any other music that never got used.
TC
The music - "Scottish Thistle" - was composed by Dave Cooke (who's married to ex-Blue Peter presenter Tina Heath, by the way) and is developed from the music that was used with the original thistle ident. It's not the only unused startup - Johnny Pearson composed and recorded one for Thames Television, but he wasn't happy with the financial deal and withdrew it. It had been based on 'Who Will Buy My Sweet Violets?' so Thames asked Johnny Hawksworth to rustle something up using the same folk tune, which he did, and that became the Thames Ident and startup music.
LL
There was a new set developed for Channel 4 intended to launch when the Squares did that seemed to combine the circle and square motif, but it was dropped after Channel 5 launched with a pretty similar logo.
GA
That sign with the wrong typeface annoys me enough in real life so it would have been extra bad having to see it on tv too.
A variant of BBC TWO NI's
Snap-Fish
ident from 2002 that wasn't aired.
That sign with the wrong typeface annoys me enough in real life so it would have been extra bad having to see it on tv too.