[DavidHemsley]

We touched on this at the JingleMad mini-conference last Saturday, and got all excited that Coronation Street used to have Key103 jingles and programmes in the background.

Question though. Technically the jingles were being rebroadcast on TV – so I assume Granada would have had to have paid JAM a licence fee?

I doubt if Granada paid Key103 anything to use their service though – it would be a pretty HUGE big free plug for Key to have it on national TV !!

[mbMember]

It was around 1990 / 91 and Granada werre very fair as i seem to remember they gave equal vbackground airplay to Key 103 and GMR. There were several times that GMR jingles were also clearly heard.

The Kit Curran radio show had its own Radio Nrewtown jingles which I have and will get round to posting.

Hollyoaks always plays the same MFM clips, they all seem to be pre GWR although not heard an ALFA MFM jingle for a while.

When thingy from Emmerdale was a student in Leeds 1989 / 90 ( filmed in the next street to where i lived ) they often had Radio Aire on the radio ( although had an Atlantic 252 poster on the kitchen door )

In Neighbours during the mid 80’s in Madges house they always had a station called fox FM on which had one jinglesd that got played loads and loads of times.

Then of course at the cafe in eastenders alwways used to have Tony Blackburn and GLR on, when he left they seemed to switch to Radio 1.

[MartinS]

Yeah.. always loved the Corrie Key103 clips around 1991, made it that bit more authentic! Seem to remember Steve and Andy MacDonald having their pirate radio station at similar time. Shame we never hear any ‘Radio Weatherfield’ cuts.. I wonder what style of package they would have, perhaps Norris might know! 😆

London’s burning sometimes featured the odd ‘95.8 Capital FM.. London’ jingle or two in the early to mid 90s, often at the start of the episode.

96.9 Viking FM jingle (JAM Celebrate) on a mid 90s documentary about Pirate radio. (Obviously not Viking, but their jingle was played as an example of a legitimate station in the area).

There was also a Yorkshire TV documentary about Alex Hall’s late night phone in on The Pulse, around 1996. I think this featured some JAM nrj resings that they used for her show.

There must be loads more? Would love to hear ‘Radio City 96.7’ on Brookie!

[stacey_harris]

Couple I can think of off the top of my head – there were at least a couple of episodes of the Sweeney that used LBC jingles – the original Jeff Wayne package IIRC. The last one I saw was the Christmas “Only Fools and Horses” Episode – “To Hull and Back” featuring a David Arnold “Radio Humberside” jingles..

[Inferno]

stacey_harris wrote: The last one I saw was the Christmas “Only Fools and Horses” Episode – “To Hull and Back” featuring a David Arnold “Radio Humberside” jingles..

I remember that one now!
There was a programme called Splash in the mid 80’s and they did a feature on Metro Radio. This girl viewer wanted to be a dj so Splash organised a visit to her local ILR station. Lots of jingles but not sure who did them. Might of been Cath Baxter but i’m not sure. :
Really bad jingles awards in tv programmes goes to Radio Grange Hill and the Denton Radio jingle on “A touch of Frost”!

[danjamesuk]

The Beeb aired a drama mini-series called Thin Air back in the mid-80s which featured JAM jingles for a fictitious station called Urban Air.

Also, Barry Hines’ nuclear war drama “Threads” featured an old Radio 2 news cut and also a couple of Radio Sheffield idents.

There was an episode of kids’ TV series “Freetime”, where they visited Carl Kingston at Radio Aire in Leeds, where we heard a cut from their brilliant Muff Murfin package. I also remember a feature on ILR (also on a kids’ programme) filmed at Coventry’s Mercia Sound, using cuts from their second David Arnold package.

A WLS cut from JAM was featured in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, right at the beginning of the film.

Oh, and going back to EastEnders, as mentioned in an earlier post, they used to also air the old BBC Radio London traffic cut in every other episode.

That’s all for now!

[bigdave1]

There are a couple of cuts from Nothing But Class in the Howard Stern movie “Private Parts” . Also listen closely in the Oliver Stone Movie “Talkradio” and you’ll hear John Wells doing the commercials !

As for jingles on TV , I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Music Box and James Whale yet ….

[GrahamCollins]

My Dad had a Sony telly and I figured a way of recording decent albeit mono sound from from the earphone socket and in 1977 BBC1 showed a programme comparing a home service fifties radio announcers job with a top forty radio disc jockey and the show they chose to film was Noel’s R1 show on Tuesday 18th January 1977 starting at 07:00hrs. Noels pieces run to about 12 minutes.

The 1976 Jam package is in full swing and ten jingles are heard including the weather bed, news in, 30″ image song and the handover to Tony Blackburn at 09:00.

Great stuff and one of the reasons I got into these little ditties.

Did anyone else see it ?

[Inferno]

I also remember ITV’s “Never the twain” with Donald Sinden having a jingle on it. They had a fictional station on the radio called Radio Surrey and this jingle sounded very orchestral. I’d be interested to know where that jingle came from : It sounded like a David Arnold i.d but i’m not sure.

[BrammyMember]

I remember hearing the “Good Morning Manchester” bit from a Phoenix Sunset 102 jingle. It was a long time ago and was playing on the milkmans radio on his float!

[Boppinjohn]

This is going back quite a bit, but anyone remember the TV play “During Barty’s Party” sometime in the 70s. “Barty” was a (fictitious) radio DJ and had a pretty awful jingle that was played several times. The play itself was about an invasion of rats 👿 , quite suspenseful I recall!

[GEOFF]

Does anyone remember a programme which went out before the 5.45 news on itv , i don’t know if it was networked but it was made by TVS in Southampton and it was called radio and was about a fictional station called Radio Pheonix , one of the c.i.d inspectors from the Bill was a news editor in it , it was from about 1980 i think , there was a bit on tv ark with the theme tune.

[peejdj]

mb wrote: Hollyoaks always plays the same MFM clips, they all seem to be pre GWR although not heard an ALFA MFM jingle for a while.

Yeah I think it was Paul Griffiths on most, if not all of the links. Terry Underhill jumped at the chance when Mersey TV asked him if the station would do it.

[markyb]

I seem to remember Johnathan Ross had some ‘fake fun’ jingles made for one of his TV shows in the late 80’s it had some horrendous frequency like 92.7.8.463.0 (or something like that) and had a different one for each of his guests

[Brian]

What about WKRP In Cinncinati. great prog with Jam jingles if I remember rightly. it’s so long ago I can’t remember whether I videod them. By the way MB, no luck on those City samples you sent me my source doesn’t remember them, sorry.

MB said”The Kit Curran radio show had its own Radio Nrewtown jingles which I have and will get round to posting. ” Please Mike post them please,
I’ve got the single from the prog “ultrafantistico, hypermagnifico. 😡

[IanMember]

Showing my age now, but does anyone remember Trevor Eve in “Shoestring”?
He played a private detective who worked for a radio station (in Southampton I think).
Surely there must have been some jingles in that.
I can’t remember the name of the radio station though.

Also, an American programme called “Midnight Caller). That was about a dj doing the graveyard shift.

[cubwolfMember]

Ian wrote: Showing my age now, but does anyone remember Trevor Eve in “Shoestring”?
He played a private detective who worked for a radio station (in Southampton I think).
Surely there must have been some jingles in that.
I can’t remember the name of the radio station though.

From imdb.com
“The radio station was called Radio West. In 1983, shortly after the series had finished, a real-life radio station of the same name was launched in Bristol. “

[mb81uk]

mb wrote:
Hollyoaks always plays the same MFM clips, they all seem to be pre GWR although not heard an ALFA MFM jingle for a while.

Hollyoaks now use Chester’s local station, Dee 106.3 for clips now, heard a jingle in the background the other day!

[Prometheus]

On this subject does anyone remember the BBC drama programme “Thin Air” about a fictional station in London called “Urban Air – 104.9” (strangely just before Radio 1 took that frequency briefly)? I remember the jingles well “The City's Greatest Station…” etc. People were being murdered all over the place…

More to the point… does anyone have a copy of the programme?

[freq-ky]

One or two of Yorkshire Televisions programmes in the 1980s featured Pennine Radio jingles.
And if anyone remembers a mid 80s Granada Television programme called “Jobwatch”.That featured in one episode a section on working in the radio industry using Signal Radio (and the odd jingle)for the report.(The first series of Jobwatch included John Evington in the opening sequence).

[JingleMadMember]

i could be wrong but i`m sure i heard a pennine radio jingle played in a taxi office in the film `rita sue & bob too`. can anyone confirm?

[excelents]

On THE ROYAL on ITV1 (sunday nights ITV1) in episode 4.1 For Better For Worse (and the programme being set in the 60's and also Heartbeats sister show) there was a scene in a nursing home and on the telly you can clearly hear the old YTV Station Ident.

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http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1158098727_3069_FT820_tr_sample.mp3 filename:1158098727_3069_FT820_tr_sample.mp3

[Litic]

and the old signature tune to their news programme- calendar

[MikeBrown]

Prometheus wrote:
On this subject does anyone remember the BBC drama programme “Thin Air” about a fictional station in London called “Urban Air – 104.9”

Yes, I too remember this. It was a one off drama wasnt it? Although I remember the jingles I cant remember what they sounded like, I imagine they werent JAM!?

[Prometheus]

As sad as it is, I recall the jingles well… they were on 104.9 “The Music Masters” – just before Radio 1 launched in London on that frequency.

“A little bit of Joe Wright, through the Night”
“Urban Air- The City's Greatest Station…”

Anyone have a copy of the programme???

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