Sky Tombstone Idents - The Ident Review

Episode 9
This week on the Ident Review, we are taking a look at our first satellite/digital channel, specifically, Sky! And its Tombstone Idents from 1995 to 1997
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[@jdnm797]

5:52 Sky News’ best ever intro. So authoritative and premium.

[@k2playpedroariel481]

@JDNM Same thing. I just love the style of that introduction and the musical theme sounds very well-executed, triumphant and bold.

[@ChillyTheDog21]

9:31 That's the Most Blandest Clock on TV Especially in Both Europe and UK

[@LEGOGames1000YT]

I'll give updates: 1. In 1996, Sky launched more channels but the host decided to skip them and only include the channels available on both eras. 2. Sky One had a "Prime-time" ID on both eras, which was basically the main Ident but with a rectangle coloured red and blue placed below with the text "PRIMETIME" put inside.

[@TheRealMrTBA]

on number 1, what new channels? and number 2, cool!

[@bartoszpl4396]

MAI Boy! This Ident Review is truly strake for success.

[@img00]

Technically the tombstone idents started in 93, and those were far better and unique to each channel than these later revisions IMO

[@clarkejoseph49]

Since it’s likely Sky’s never going to bring this look back, maybe ITV’s next corporate rebrand could bring the Tombstones back and modernise them for the 2020s.

[@lja8857]

The Sky Travel 1st variant music is like something played on guitars in different countries.

[@ninkynonk5007]

This is very interesting. Also, can you do Dave's House of Fun idents?

[@richardgadberry8398]

Sky Soap sounds like something you'd find at Poundland.

[@battina]

I’ve never realised until now that the visuals, soundtracks and voice overs during this period are very similar to the Star TV channels in Asia during the same period - which is obviously not a surprise since they have the same owners, and periods were developed by the same creative agency. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaDQoWaEpNNrhtU

[@Sean-D78]

This is Sky What do we name this one?

[@tag4650]

The purgatory in the sky

[@vanessaolbertz5340]

I'm sorry, the *what* in the sky?

[@timgoodwin4424]

Please do BSB idents

[@markgenner1747]

British Sky Broadcasting.

[@itogi]

What about Sky Scottish? It also had this type of logo.

[@itogi]

If the style of the logo was the same as on the other channels, then it can be included this video.

[@Firthy2002]

@@itogi The original Sky 2 did use the tombstone logo and was similar to the Sky 1 version.

[@JASpiring]

@@Firthy2002 Sky Sports 3 was omitted too - that's actually why Sky Sports became Sky Sports 1 - Sky Sports 2 already existed when the previous idents were still in use.

[@finenebula]

Adam - I'm glad to see that my idents came in handy! ;-) You got them from 9th Chevron right? That was me in the old days. I recognise the order and the white bars from the recordings on sky when via cable televlision. I didn't bother with youtube for many years, lost the login etc. So started this new channel. I have actually put up much clearer and crip idents too recently, incase of interest. Interesting review though. You should have compared with 1993 set. They differ between every ident. This lot showed less effort with "groups" of music. After 1997... zero effort with all sorts of things displayed with "Sky One" wrote in the backround. Terrible!

[@nottimhortons]

I also think all second variants has different versions of the same jingle.

[@lja8857]

I think the Sky sports 2 2nd variant would be used Late May for the football finals

[@planesteve]

Love the Sky one 1990s great shows and tv movies

[@westsussexsounds]

Am I right in thinking there was a more somber Sky One ident over the death of Diana, Princess of Wales?

[@lucasprice4615]

i'd prefer the 1995 Sky soundtrack since the soundtrack is familiar to me. i can't seem to find it thesedays.

[@evonneokafor]

What about BSB if you can find any indents.

[@roundel52]

They're all available on KZbin. And I thought they just exuded quality!

[@oranim12]

Aren't there idents for Granada Sky Broadcasting as well? I think I saw one when I was watching a closedown video.

[@whatamalike]

Was "The Movie Channel" the one carried over from BSB before it went spectacularly belly up? I think it's the only thing that was carried over from that network because of all the film rights they'd managed to blag which Sky couldn't.

[@simu31]

Sort of. Technicall speaking, BSB's The Movie Channel carried over, and BSB's The Sports Channel was in effect renamed to Sky Sports. BSkyB dropped their participation in Eurosport at roughly the same time to focus on their fully owned own channel. Also, official wording at the time was over a "merger" between Sky and BSB. Although, it was only a matter of time before BSB collapsed, if it had carried on much longer, there's a fair chance neither of the services would have survived. Sky was losing about £2 million per week just before the merger, but at least they had about 1 million subscribers. I can't remember ever hearing the amount in losses BSB were making, but the number of subscribers was 10x lower

[@glitchyuniverse2970]

What's the music in the beginning of the video? I'm hooked on that music already! Gives off a 90's sort of feel to it.

[@sophie_drachen]

I believe it is called "Primary" by Murray Munro. Oh, would you look at that? I am two years late!

[@glitchyuniverse2970]

@@sophie_drachen Yep, that's it! Thanks for the help. Murray Munro's got some awesome music.

[@diaquallo]

Looks like I've died and gone to sky one heaven.

[@Notdaisykat789]

Yep I use sky because idk

[@hayleydennis5269]

cool when are you doing channel 4 1982

[@hugohann2250]

There's indents makes me feel like Gillette razors ads!

[@lawrancecooper]

Can you do the Sky egg logo idents? 😁

[@johnbevan3170]

Do you have any 1997 idents?

[@nemotube6313]

Rip all the Sky networks

[@Mr_Storm_22]

Why?

[@cdachesu7534]

2:55 rare sky sports

[@shaylaghodoherty2705]

Do the modern sky

[@bartthegamer1354]

These idents are aright tbh not the worse not the best My fav tho was the sky travel one It's great Alltho there not the best not the worse I like sky ones idents right now it's great It's great and changed I few weeks ago You should do them

[@salfordiandy4987]

The soundtracks and voiceover were too flat in the original batch, I much prefer the retweaked versions.

[@ms.antithesis]

Am i the only one who gets channel 4 and sky confused because they both are basically just Simpsons machines and not much else5

[@Matt78778]

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@DanBmthUK]

5:51 ident is the better one

[@jamesdelboy]

I was more a Sky 2 guy

[@jgdsgh]

Did sky one at one point air M*A*S*H repeats?

[@bartthegamer1354]

Jgdsgh St I think so but as far as I know they don't anymore

[@jgdsgh]

@@bartthegamer1354 they don't now but I read on a few fourms that they did

[@bartthegamer1354]

Oh all good

[@AerianTelevision]

soap? maybe sky was too out of context

[@castle6742]

Way don't you look at BSB idents ? Tharks

[@RobTheEnby]

I do feel like Sky is in its flop era. For what it costs, it's just not needed anymore. Everything it offers can be found on the internet for half the price or free. Why pay big £££'s for reruns of the Simpsons and modern family.

[@simu31]

To be fair, they're all fairly meh. But, in my mind, the 1990 era Sky idents were far more original, innovative, and well thought out

[@michaelocyoung]

Worst thing about the version 1 idents was their Bontempi/MIDI style soundtracks. News and Soap are especially weak.

[@k2playpedroariel481]

@Michael OC Young Thank goodness they had fixed them in later versions of these idents. Even the soundtrack feels much more acoustic and punchy than what it became before 1996.

[@SnabbKassa]

Tombstones are for when something dies. Sky News killed balanced journalism in the UK.