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."
"To The Core." Kate from the Children's/Teenage strand "the Core" eats and apple.
"Looking After Kids." Or are the kids looking after her?
"That's totally Rad." RAD presenter watches on while there's some accidents on skateboards.
A special ident to promote horror programme "Urban Gothic".
"Cheggers Pops Out" for a special ident for Channel 5's "Naked Season".
A special ident marking the end of American soap "Sunset Beach".
"The Easter Rush". A special ident for Easter.
A special ident featuring Elvis Presley, well okay it's not *the* Elvis.
A special ident after the arrival of Andrea Catherwood as the new main presenter of 5 news.
All images donated by Asa Hicks.
