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TnaG / TG4 name change.

  • 17-08-2020 09:50PM
    #1
    Hangdogroad
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    Does anyone know the date that the station changed names? I know it was sometime in late Autumn of 1999 but there seems to be no info on a specific date.


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  • #2
    Insect Overlord
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    It looks like the name change was announced in August of that year - https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0801/634623-tnag-rebranded-as-tg4/

    ...with plans to make the rebrand in September - www.irishtimes.com/news/tnag-becomes-tg4-in-revamp-1.213220

    I might be able to find a more exact date through Twitter or Facebook tomorrow.


  • #3
    icdg
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    Very hard to date this one - it was towards the end of September 1999 - possibly Monday 27th September 1999. The difficulty in dating it arises from the fact that they began using the TG4 DOG some weeks previously, in a somewhat odd move, and the media began referring to it as having already rebranded.


  • #4
    Insect Overlord
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    There was a book published in 2017, "Súil Eile" by Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí, that might have the definitive answer.


  • #5
    Hangdogroad
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    Speaking of TnaG does anyone remember something that was either an ident or promo that they would run in the early ish days which used the opening chords of Marquee Moon by Television?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA


  • #6
    icdg
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    This was the original startup sequence and a shortened version (just the lighthouse bit at the end) was their original ident.

    https://youtu.be/klTM2WDJC-Q

    Although dropped as an ident fairly quickly the startup sequence continued in use and actually survived the change to TG4 (but it got a purple grid slapped over and the lighthouse itself was cut). Lasted well into the 2000s and not sure when it was finally dropped.


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  • #7
    Hangdogroad
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Speaking of TnaG does anyone remember something that was either an ident or promo that they would run in the early ish days which used the opening chords of Marquee Moon by Television?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA


    Found it, a promo for the station. There were a series of these I'm sure. Used an arrangement of MM on fiddle. It didn't give an option for embedding.

    https://vimeo.com/29951635


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