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Star Wars on Television : Idents, Bumpers, Commercials, Promos, Trailers, Station IDs, Adverts, Breaks, ??? Thread
Overview
As kids of the home recording generation, many people grew up watching the saga through a Beta or VHS recording from their local public or pay-tv broadcast. And for many the HBO, CBS or other local station logo, jingle or montage are as crucial to the Star Wars experience as the 20th Century Fox Logo. Please use this thread to dredge up all those local tv networks which played the Star Wars movies at one time.
The first 20-25 years of the Star Wars saga on television did not fair well in the ratings. Blame it on shotty programming (Holiday Special) or the over saturation of the marketplace.
In the US with each of the Original Trilogy films, there was a process of premiering on a pay system, then cable, finally public airwaves. In the dead period between the end of the OT and the SE, the films could be watched on a wide variety of channels. Later on the Prequel Trilogy films would by-pass pay and cable systems and premiere on Fox’s own network.
Don’t have a clue how it worked in the rest of the world. Please enlighten.
The phun of these could be listening to all the announcers and the copy they were asked to read. Graphicly, some stations incorporate the movies into these short presentations others just montage the movie, and some just dump their logo on top. Depending on how big they thought the ratings would be, each channel has a different set of pieces. A full commercial which aired before the broadcasts, a short 2 second indent which aired between breaks, a 10-15 second bumper at the top of the hour, each channel has done it differently.
Great Article which partially inspired this thread:
Television Obscurities >> Star Wars on Network Television
http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/starwars_tv.php