Name changes over the years.

dlofnep

All I can think of right now is:

Marathon - Snickers.
Opel Fruits - Starburst
Jif - Cif
Coco Pops - Choco Crispies (and back to Coco Pops again)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

courtney cox - courtney cox-arquette

Karl Hungus

AngelWhore > Karl Hungus

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

oh yeah, I remember that!

Dinner

dlofnep wrote:

All I can think of right now is:

Marathon - Snickers.
Opel Fruits - Starburst
Jif - Cif
Coco Pops - Choco Crispies (and back to Coco Pops again)

I prfer all of the original names rather than the new ones. Especially Coco pops. Choco Crispies sounds stupid.

Rugrats > All Grown Up

dlofnep

Mordeth wrote:

courtney cox - courtney cox-arquette

Never thought of that.

The artist formerly known as Jennifer Aniston Pitt.

Sarky

Karl Hungus wrote:

AngelWhore > Karl Hungus

You're still in my phone as Angelwhore. Too lazy to change it.

And I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I stop calling them Opal Fruits.


Dagnabbit.

weemcd

they completly ruined opel fruits.
The lemon and lime opel fruits were the favourite sweets of my childhood and they have bastardised all the other flavours too.

opel fruits is a much better name too, starburst like?
what the fúck is a starburst?

Larianne

Dempsey's Den - The Den - Den 2 etc etc..
Prince - symbol thingy yoke - Prince

Coco Pops to Choco Crispies?? Which gobshiite......??!!! :rolleyes:

dlofnep

I remember when it was Dempsey's Den.

Kevin_rc_ie

i think the coco pops was something to do with the coco pops name being unpronable in asian countries.

think it was the same with jif. strangely enough, i find cif to be a lot less easy on the tongue.

i'd imagine opal fruits became star bursts because someone informed them that the sweets were in fact, not actually fruits.

Larianne

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

i think the coco pops was something to do with the coco pops name being unpronable in asian countries.

think it was the same with jif. strangely enough, i find cif to be a lot less easy on the tongue.

i'd imagine opal fruits became star bursts because someone informed them that the sweets were in fact, not actually fruits.

..but stars??

ozt9vdujny3srf

Karl Hungus wrote:

AngelWhore > Karl Hungus

Who the **** is Karl Hungus?

byte

Rover > Over

Daewoo > Chevrolet

ozt9vdujny3srf

Eircell -> vodafone

esat digifone -> o2

esat telecom -> esat bt -> bt ireland

RTÉ Relays > Cablelink > NTL
Princes Holdings > Horizon > Irish Multichannel > Chorus
RTÉ 2 > Network 2 > Back to RTÉ 2 again

Immac > Veet
Cadbury's Caramel > Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Caramel


A few more botched Kelloggs brands:

Fruit 'n Fibre > Optima > back to Fruit 'n Fibre
Bran Flakes > Healthwise > back to Bran Flakes

Seems like almost every rebrand that Kelloggs tried was undone later on.

aidan_dunne

Opel Ascona/Vauxhall Cavalier > Opel Vectra/Vauxhall Cavalier > Opel Vectra/Vauxhall Vectra

Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra > Opel Astra/Vauxhall Astra

Opel Corsa/Vauxhall Nova > Opel Corsa/Vauxhall Corsa

Lynx deodorant in this part of the world > briefly changes name to Axe in line with other countries around the world > changes pretty quickly back to Lynx here.

Quinnsworth/Crazy Prices > Tesco

KevIRL

Duma (tobacco) > Drum
Oil of Ulay > Oil of Olay
Good Sunday Game music > Crap Sunday Game music
Super Channel > CNBC
TnaG > TG4
EEC > EC > EU
Ecu > Euro

Sandals

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

i think the coco pops was something to do with the coco pops name being unpronable in asian countries.

think it was the same with jif. strangely enough, i find cif to be a lot less easy on the tongue.

.

Oh Kev you are hilarious! where is the logic there, they did not change the name of jif because We cant pronounce it!, and they were obviousely going to change it to a name we can pronounce, the fact that you find the former of the two easier to pronounce had no impact or validity on the change as the concerns of those discussing a change were firmly focused on changing the name to a name which when changed could be pronounced by all the people of the markets of the product, the aim was convergeance not divergence, in their minds what struck a core was the fact that certain races/peopi could not pronounce "jif"and so they concluded it must be changed as it happens it was changed to "Cif"


Have I made myself clear?

grimloch

Karl Hungus wrote:

AngelWhore > Karl Hungus

Ah, that explains that.

Gif---->Jif or the other round, I can't remember.

aidan_dunne

KevIRL wrote:

Super Channel > CNBC

Just a quick correction, KevIRL. It actually went Super Channel > NBC Superchannel > NBC Europe > CNBC, I believe.

Reminds me of a few others:

Sky Channel > Sky One

The Children's Channel > TCC > Trouble > Don't know where it went or what it became after that!

Screensport on BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) which was transmitted on the old Marco Polo satellite > Think this was integrated with Eurosport when Sky bought out BSB (someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

Sky Television > British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) after Sky bought out BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting)

I know there's been loads more renames and rebrands of various television channels over the years, especially on the Sky/Astra network, but I can't remember any more of them off the top of my head right now. I'm sure someone else here with a better memory than mine will point them out, though.

Trouble and TCC were two seperate channels from the same company (Flextech). The two did co-exist from 1995 to 1998.
Screensport were bought out by Eurosport alright. It used to be owned by WHSmith TV (as was Lifestyle). It was transmitted on Astra though, BSB had "The Sports Channel" which later became Sky Sports.

Here's some more:

Sky Movies - Sky Movies Screen 1 - Sky MovieMax - Sky Movies Max - Sky Movies 2
The Movie Channel - Sky Movies Screen 2 - Sky Premier - Sky Movies Premier - Sky Movies 1
The Family Channel - Challenge TV - Challenge
TLC - Discovery Home & Leisure - Discovery RealTime
Fox Kids - Jetix

Ro: maaan!

I still say Jif, Opel Fruits, AngelWhore...

grimloch

Did Amp used to be Pam?

grimloch

grimloch wrote:

Did Amp used to be Pam?

Yep.

Pam
and her five sisters

Capt'n Midnight

Calder Hall / Windscale / Sellafield :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

dlofnep wrote:

Marathon - Snickers.

July 19th.

Nissan - Datsun
2RN - RTE

nunch? - star bar

A particular WiFi Card
Orinoco / Wavelan / Lucent / Agere / Avaya / Proxim
(also rebadged as Entrasys / buffalo / truemobile )

Easily_Irritated

dlofnep wrote:

I remember when it was Dempsey's Den.

me too. Iano wore very woolie jumpers.

aidan_dunne

I do, too. And he had a bit of a mullet-type thing going on on his head there for a while as well!

I even remember 'Dempsey's Den' pre- Zig and Zag! :eek: Christ, that makes me feel old!

Just thought of something else:

Radio 2 > 2FM > RTE 2FM

(On the old 1053 and 1089 MW frequencies) BBC Radio 1 > Talk Radio UK > TalkRadio > TalkSport

Long Wave Radio Atlantic 252 > Atlantic 252 > Some short lived sports station that I can't remember the name of > RTE Radio 1

LCR (Laois Community Radio - now that's really showing my age, if anyone else can remember that! ) > Midlands Radio 3 > Midlands 103

billy the squid

Karsini wrote:

RTÉ Relays > Cablelink > NTL
Princes Holdings > Horizon > Irish Multichannel > Chorus
RTÉ 2 > Network 2 > Back to RTÉ 2 again

Immac > Veet
Cadbury's Caramel > Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Caramel


A few more botched Kelloggs brands:

Fruit 'n Fibre > Optima > back to Fruit 'n Fibre
Bran Flakes > Healthwise > back to Bran Flakes

Seems like almost every rebrand that Kelloggs tried was undone later on.

they used to call chorus "westward cables " here in liemrick,

i think quinsworth used to be called "five star " before it was quinsworth

corporations became city councils

the health board became the health service executive.

post and telegraphs became an post and telecom eireann

telecom eireann then became eircom

music box ->super channel -> nbc super -> msnbc

lite FM ->? q 102

radio Limerick one -> radio Limerick 95 FM -> limerick 95fm -> limerick 95 -> radio limerick one

radio ireland -> today FM

IRTC -> BCI

talk radio UK -> talksport

yellow pack -> KVI

Radio Rentals -> Thorn

londis -> londis top shop

KevIRL

Regional Technical Colleges > Institutes of technology

toiletduck

Ucg -> Nuig

byte

aidan_dunne wrote:

Long Wave Radio Atlantic 252 > Atlantic 252 > Some short lived sports station that I can't remember the name of > RTE Radio 1

The sports radio channel in question was TEAMtalk 252! I think they do the premium sports numbers too,

Dinner

Did it go Oil of Olay -> Oil of Ulay or the other way round.

Larianne

Arabel wrote:

Did it go Oil of Olay -> Oil of Ulay or the other way round.

other way around

also Rte 2 - Network 2 - back to Rte 2 jaysus make up your minds!!! :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

NIHED - UCB -- DCU

Phoenix -- Firebird -- Firefox -- FireSomething

grimloch

What about that Prince character, I won't even try to name all those.

Whateve John Wayne used to call himself too, Marion or somesuch.

billy the squid

Tayto LFCs became Tayto Honest ripples



NIHE - became UL

B+I Lines became Irish ferries

Madonna became Esther

Emerdale farm -> emerdale

The Title -> Ireland on Sunday

billy the squid

grimloch wrote:

What about that Prince character, I won't even try to name all those.

Whateve John Wayne used to call himself too, Marion or somesuch.

actually i think his real name was majella

guest31

Karsini wrote:

RTÉ Relays > Cablelink > NTL
Princes Holdings > Horizon > Irish Multichannel > Chorus
RTÉ 2 > Network 2 > Back to RTÉ 2 again

Immac > Veet
Cadbury's Caramel > Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Caramel


A few more botched Kelloggs brands:

Fruit 'n Fibre > Optima > back to Fruit 'n Fibre
Bran Flakes > Healthwise > back to Bran Flakes

Seems like almost every rebrand that Kelloggs tried was undone later on.

Yeah, and what was the story with that stupid new Kelloggs Corn Flakes box ... you know the one that was supposed to keep things fresher, but wouldn't fit back in the cupboard because the top was now in a couple of inches higher .. what a waste of money ... wonder how much they spent on coming up with that idea ... I never figured out how to work it either. IDIOTS !!!
Think they have since reverted to the old, slot device which is so much easier, the other drove me INSANE ..........

Draupnir

billy the squid wrote:

actually i think his real name was majella

John Waynes real name was Marion Morrison

Scarinae

Judy Garland's original name was Frances Gum
Marilyn Monroe's original name was Norma Jean Baker
Tina Turner's original name was Anna Mae Bullock
David Bowie's original name was David Jones
Cliff Richard isn't Cliff Richard's original name, but I can't remember what it was!

4Xcut

Rock 104(YEAH!!)>FM 104 (BOOO!!!)

Gary ITR

Cillut bang > cinnut bang

Hagar

Power's Supermarkets > Quinnsworth > Tesco
P7T > An Post
Pound > Punt > Euro
RIC > An Garda Siochana
Bono > God
God > Un-employed
Minerals > Soft drinks
Tinkers > knackers > travellers

Capt'n Midnight

Hagar wrote:

Power's Supermarkets > Quinnsworth > Tesco
P7T > An Post

P&T> An Post & €ircom

Gubay's / 3 Guys / H Williams

khmer Rouge > Democratic Kampuchea
OT Irish Politicians continued to recognise them as the official government despite the facts that they were no longer in power and that they put the country more or less back into the stone age , killing 30% of the population in the process.

Anyone care to do a tree of the Irish political parties starting in 1900 ?

Hagar

Paul Gadd > Gary glitter > Prisoner 56342

rogue-entity

Ah, Sky, We had it before it started scrambling.
Sky Channel (cable channel, then on BSB) > Sky One > Sky1 > Sky One. (and with so many idents too).

Movie Channel > The Movie Channel > Sky Movies Screen 1 > Sky Premier > Sky Premier 1-4 + WS > Sky Movies Premier 1-5 > Sky Movies 1-5

Sky Movies > Sky Movies Screen 2 > Sky MovieMax > Sky Movie Max 6-9 > Sky Movies Max 6-9 > Sky Movies 6-9.

Sky Movies Gold > Sky Cinema > Sky Cinema 1-2

The Learning Channel > The Computer Channel > .tv

Darrers > Londis (were they bought out?)

Channel Five > five

TnaG > TG4

ITV > ITV 1 <region name>

HTV > ITV1 Wales

That is all that i can think of right now.

sioda

Cash's Moon's Switzers all now Brown Thomas

Jet to Stat Oil

If your from Limerick Pat Graces famous kentucky fried chicken to pat graces famous fried chicken to The Chicken Hut (Trademark infringment me thinks)

sioda

Video City - xtra vision