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In search of the worst idents EVER

(June 2001)

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SE
Square Eyes Founding member
To start off, how about this ITV offering from many years ago.....

http://www.themacplace.btinternet.co.uk/images/itv/autumitv.jpg
BP
Big Phil
That's awful!

How about the first set of Hallmark idents? They were pretty dull. And I've never been a fan of Sky MovieMax's idents either.
GA
gateshead1
thats nothing - what about channel 3 north east all of them
RD
Robert De Rosa
I think that the old BBC Two ident Glass is the worst http://www.thetvroom.com/images-bbc-two/bbc-two-91/ident-ni-glass.jpg

It was sooooo boring!
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
You mean this one :

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~bognor/itvnortheastengland/idents/tynetees1996.jpg
CA
cat
Hmm tough one this.
I recon probably......
BBC Spotlight in the early 90's
This was a huge slab of stone coming out of a wall, it made the sort of noise a woman makes sliding her nails along the blackboard and actually made me feel quite sick.
The orignal Teledu Cyrmu idents were horrible but then again it was black and white.
And Harlech idents, perhaps the most shocking ident on tv ever?

Oh and the Yorkshire TV Orignal ident that YTV sent me in colour!

Here is a small sample....

http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv1.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv2.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv3.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv4.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv5.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv6.jpg
http://www.davistom.btinternet.co.uk/ytv7.jpg
CA
cat
Have you vomited yet?
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Yes just mopping up. The thing that gets me about the YTV ident is how it's practically remained the same throughout its entire history, ok done in 3D, and rotating etc, but the actual ident itself has never really changed.
CA
cat
YTV sent me a tape full of em.
I actually got so bored after 30 mins of constant YTV idents that I turned it off, they are all very similar.
CA
cat
Oh yes.
and Carlton kindly sent me a 2 hour tape of EVERY SINGLE 1997 IDENT THEY EVER USED.
Well, as you can imagine I was over the moon.
Sitting down watching 2 hours worth of possibly the worst idents ever to hit the ITV Network.
Oh what fun.
MV
Mr Voiceover
would the BBC give a video of their idents???

Balloons, 2's etc?
CA
cat
LOL no.
Only advertising funded companies give away idents.
Phone around, you will be suprised at what you will get.
Sky are prepared to give away many of their idents for school stuff etc.
But the key is to pretend you don't have a clue what an ident is.

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