TV Adverts for Radio Stations

14 August 2008

The One Golden Square blog has just put up some of the old Virgin Radio adverts, all of which are bit, er, fail.

It's hard to find many decent commercials for radio stations, but after an email from Sam this morning about the new Radio 1 line-up I was trying to find the advert for Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems that's a some 'youths' in a car. I couldn't find it, so please leave a link in the comments if you can!

What I did find was a collection of the 'As It Is' commercials from Radio 1's Bannister-era re-launch. These are great!

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Paul Easton · 14 August 2008
How about these gems from the 80s for LBC?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CN_-LXf26-0 - this one uses the opening sequence of 'The Prisoner'. The caption at the end says November 1988 but it was actually several years before then (I was head of production at LBC when this was being aired - I left at the end of 1987).

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A8U-ub75TVw - another 80s ad for LBC
Adam Bowie · 14 August 2008
Matt - I can't believe that you don't love the dog ad!

I've got a few more kicking around which I'll certainly put on Youtube even if they don't end up on the blog.

I loved that Prisoner ad for LBC - I remember it going out - certainly prior to '88 as I'd gone to university in Bath by then.

I'd also like to see some of the shouty old Tarrant Capital ads.
Paul Easton · 15 August 2008
Adam (and anybody else who's interested),

Try these

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2uMMApy3uYI

Believe it or not, the ads were actually made in Nashville - by a company who specialise in producing radio station TV commercials.