Editing ITV Channel Television (section)

== Identity ==
Channel Television's first on screen logo featured six hexagons, laid out five below linked together with one on top with a stylised cat's head inside it. The five hexagons below represent the five main channel islands: [[Jersey]], [[Guernsey]], [[Alderney]], [[Sark]] and [[Herm]]. The ident was animated so that each hexagon appeared in turn accompanied by one note of the jingle along with the name. This ident lasted until colour came to the region in the mid-1970s with only one slight variation in the positioning of the channel name.<ref name=TVARK>{{cite web|last=Frowen|first=Rob|title=Channel TV Idents|url=https://www.tvark.org/?page=989|website=TVARK|access-date=6 November 2020}} Contains videos of all Channels Idents.</ref>

The first colour ident used by Channel involved a striped CTV, which would serve as the station logo until 1999. The first ident featured this static logo made of orange stripes on a white outline against a blue background with a soundtrack of a [[Brass instrument|brass]] fanfare titled "Superstar Fanfare", composed by [[Keith Mansfield]]. This same fanfare was later used when Channel launched its next ident, featuring the lines of the CTV logo spinning into place, coloured gold against a black background. This was introduced around 1985 and was utilised for the station's 25th Anniversary in 1987, when each line of the CTV logo was drawn out before spinning back to be joined by a striped 25.<ref name=TVARK/>

In the early 1990s Channel aired its first computer generated ident, featuring the CTV logo, initially silver but turned gold by two sideways flashes, falling backwards onto the gradiented blue background. This logo was accompanied by a dramatic score which was later improved, along with the ident, in 1993. The improvements kept the theme and repositioned the logo, changed the background to a navy blue, made the logo itself bigger and gold throughout and, most noticeably, improved the music making it less dramatic and giving it a softer feel.<ref name=TVARK/>

Both during this period and before, Channel used an on-air clock. The other ITV regions in the 1970s up to the very early 1990s, commonly used a clock as well, but it had been gradually been dropped. Channel kept the clock up to 2002, using it to introduce news and, more unusually, announce the local temperature and tide times prior to the following programme (something not seen elsewhere in the ITV network).

In 1998, Channel adopted a different style of presentation. The CTV logo remained, both on end captions and as the company logo, while on screen Channel utilised the device of the word 'Channel' written in a variety of fonts arranged in circles and moving, spinning and pulsating to a tune of a simple jingle. This look was not to last as the [[History of ITV television idents#October 1998 – October 2002|second ITV generic look]] occurred in 1999, which Channel adopted. This look, based on the theme of hearts, also provided Channel with a new logo, featuring a globe with the Channel Islands on it being orbited by two comets whose trails make a heart shape. Channel used the generic look, albeit with its own soundtrack, until 2002. The generic look was used for network programmes with regional ones using a large Channel logo over the spinning hearts background. When the [[History of ITV television idents#October 2002 – October 2004|celebrity idents]] came Channel used a variation, where the left side of the screen was taken up by its logo. A number of idents were used featuring different celebrities and some local ones made by Channel themselves were used; in 2002 a special ident to celebrate the channels 40th Anniversary was introduced featuring former station logos.<ref name=TVARK/>

In late 2004 Channel used idents of scenes from around the [[Channel Islands]], with the logo in a stripe down the left side of the screen. Some elements of the network branding were also used.<ref name=TVARK/>

[[File:ITV1 Channel Television.svg|thumb|upright=0.7|The logo for ITV1 Channel Television used between 2011 and 2013. A version of this logo with a flat yellow box and white ITV wordmark was in use between 2006 and 2011.]]
In 2006, Channel, whilst being fiercely independent and regional, adopted a variation of the national ITV1 network branding and shared continuity, due to it receiving a non-clean feed of networked programming from [[ITV Meridian]]. While the branding was very similar to regions owned by [[ITV plc]] Channel Television used an older ITV1 logo with white letters on its idents supplemented by the wording 'Channel Television' and pre-recorded local continuity announcements are used at key junctions - including prior to national and regional news and on the handover from [[ITV Breakfast]] at 9.25am. Typically this is "This is Channel Television, ITV in the Channel Islands", or at the handover from ITV Breakfast, "It's 9.25 and you're watching Channel Television, your local ITV station". These idents also use music from the original [[History of ITV television idents#January – November 2006|emotion]] idents rather than the updated jingle and music. It was the only ITV company to take the network branding without being a part of [[ITV plc]].<ref name=TVARK/>

Following the takeover in November 2011, Channel began using ITV1's 2010 logo and updated its idents.<ref>[http://www.theidentgallery.com/channeltv-2011.php The Ident Gallery - Channel Television Current Idents (2011)]</ref>

On 14 January 2013, the station's on-air identity was changed to [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]], along with all other ITV plc-owned franchises. There are no specific idents stating Channel Television but the name is instead verbally referred to at the 6pm junctions before ''ITV News Channel TV'' and for a time it was used overnight.