Channel 5

September 1999 to September 2000

Idents

In March 1999, Channel 5 launched it's first new look. The mainly white idents, still used the colour bar and had the channels "celebrities", "taking the mickey" out of the channel.

Jim Hytner, Marketing Director of Channel 5 said "The launch itself was successful in establishing it as a big brand or a big channel but I'm not sure that we the channel had a good enough feeling about what our programming was going to be and therefore it was quite hard to express that to viewers.

"Our new idents involve our channel personalities/celebrities who actually take the mickey out of the channel or take the mickey out of themselves which tries to express a confidence to the viewer that we have about ourselves."

Ident - Sarah Cawood A

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"I Love Channel 5, they just bounce".

Ident - Sarah Cawood B

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"I'm so shy."

Ident - Neil Fox A

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"Trust Me I'm a Doctor."

Ident - Neil Fox B

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Dr Fox with a tail?

Ident - Bradley Walsh A

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"This Man's Funny?"

Ident - Bradley Walsh B

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"Bradley Upstages Again!"

Ident - Bradley Walsh C

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"I Love Channel 5, They Think I'm Funny"

Ident - Gloria Hunniford

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"Queen of Chat."

Ident - Family Affairs

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Three of they younger characters from the channel 5 soap "Family Affairs".

All images donated by Asa Hicks.