Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:00 pm
Wikipedia wrote:An ident—also known as station ID—is a short-form for an identifier. Idents can be anything between 10 to 30 seconds long and are considered short ads used to brand a network or channel. Idents usually culminates with the channel's name or logo.
Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:10 pm
Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:09 am
Kend_Wire wrote:Fellow ident fan reporting in, and I'm a UK millennial so I grew up with these 90s/00s BBC ones. It's mesmerising watching them back to back in the compilation you posted and really emphasises the weird and not exactly inviting atmosphere a lot of them have.
I think it's a sort of yearning-based interest for me too. I like watching idents from before I was born as well as the ones I remember and I think a big part of the appeal is that they're part of the day-to-day texture of an era.