Jingles documentaries

The number 1 choice for jingles is JAM Creative Productions! - Part 4

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Some of the Best Hospital Radio Jingles that I've ever heard.
These are for Whipps Cross Hospital Radio in east London

Whipps Cross Hospital Radio Cuts

The infamous JAM "LX" demo featuring North Coast vocals and was offered to small and medium markets for a cut rate.  

JAM - LX Series Demo

Here's another JAM jingle package not on jingles.com 

JAM - 55 Country - Demo

The simple B-B-C jingle used between every 5 or so pieces of testcard music as a tuning signal.

BBC jingle

The BBC Home Service's news at 10pm on 14 August 1967 reports on the closedowns of the offshore stations as the Marine Offences Act comes into force.

BBC Home Service on the offshore radio closedowns

In 1941, the BBC began prefixing their transmissions to the European mainland with 'V' in morse code, a practice that was so successful they kept it up long after the end of the war. http://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/07/16/dot-dot-dot-dash

BBC 'V for Victory' tuning signal

During my visit to Dallas in February 2014, I interviewed Jon Wolfert about the development of JAM jingles for BBC Radio 1 and 2. All other audio from the visit, plus photographs, is here: 
http://www.bobdinan.co.uk/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2014/2/17_Bobs_Jingle_Pilgrimage.html 


JAM and the BBC: 'Bob Dinan' talks to Jon Wolfert

BBC-1 on a Sunday afternoon in 1965 is repeating the imported US series "Arrest and Trial" when the sound disappears. Continuity put on a record and apologise.

BBC1 lost of sound during "Arrest and Trial" in 1965

We come out of The Sam Costa Show on BBC Radio 2 in 1968 into the Greenwich Time Signal - but not the one we're used to these days.

The Sam Costa Show into the old-style Greenwich pips

Opportunity Knocks says Goodbye to Didsbury on ABC's last Saturday - a complete show, minus adverts, that looks back at 12 years of ABC in the North.

Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

Opportunity Knocks: Goodbye to Didsbury (27 July 1968)

In the week of 22 February 1971, LWT teeters on the edge yet again and faces a takeover from Rupert Murdoch. Ludovic Kennedy and Barrie Penrose at the BBC's '24 Hours' stir the pot... or investigate the troubled broadcaster.

BBC '24 Hours' on the fall of LWT, week commencing 22 February 1971

From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1's 'Mailbag' interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station's use of jingles. With thanks to Jon Tarrant.

Johnny Beerling interviewed about BBC Radio 1 jingles

Broadcasting minister Christopher Chataway is about to decide how commercial radio will be introduced into the UK. David Lomax reports for the BBC's '24 Hours'.

BBC '24 Hours' on the Sound Broadcasting Bill, 14 January 1971

A special episode, celebrating almost half a century of jingles at the BBC, with former Radio 1 controller Johnny Beerling taking a look back at the history of JAM jingles at the BBC.

Plus a look at the more recent offerings from Dallas with Radio 2 imaging producer Chris Reay.

(Contains very strong language)

https://whatradiousedtosoundlike.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/jam-bbc/

Jingle audio (C) PAMS, JAM Creative Productions, AJ Productions, Groove Addicts, Music 4, Wise Buddah.

Additional audio courtesy of Stephanie Hirst and aircheckdownloads.com

40 Years Of JAM Jingles At The BBC (WRUTSL Special)

Launch night of the new BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Kenneth Horne takes us through what you can expect from the two new networks. Music edited out - in places, literally with scissors at the time. Also gone is the Michael Parkinson sports monologue. Sorry.

Spotlight 1 and 2, 30 September 1967

Op 23 februari produceerde Top Format Productions het eerste jinglepakket voor Radio 10, dat op 4 april '88 zou starten met uitzendingen via de kabel.
Op basis van de jingle serie "The Only One", een aantal jaar ervoor door JAM Creative Productions (Dallas,Tx,USA)  gecreëerd voor WNBC, zongen  Jody Pijper, Titia Ten Bosch, Edward Reekers, Max Werner en Pim Roos deze jingle in. De opname vond plaats in FEndal Sound Studio's in Loenen a/d Vecht. De productie werd namens RAdio 10 begeleid door Ferry Maat. Het pakket zou één van de langstlopende jingleseries in Nederland worden.

Radio10 23 - 02 - 1988

Jon Wolfert of JAM Creative Productions on Rewound Radio  (http://rewoundradio.com/instantonchromebook.html) with guest Trella Hart & Abby Holmes  (06 24 18  Edited)

Jon Wolfert On Rewound Radio  (06 24 18 With Trella Hart & Abby Holmes)

JON WOLFERT On Rewound  08 26 18

(The Original)Sean Martin Hallelujah Chorus acapella

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