One of my softest of soft spots, as soft as a baby’s skull, is for overwrought, extended television jingles that serve to connect a TV station with some kind of greater cultural meaning. Australia has the best ones, because it has that Commonwealth aesthetic, but tends to involve really folksy, silly montages of people hugging, drinking beer, running around in speedos, etc. This one for “Channel 0″ in 1980 is a real classic; the first time I saw it, I simply consumed it as a hunk of processed cheese, but upon further viewings it’s actually given me quite a warm feeling inside, a shiny piece of unbridled optimism that’s absent in today’s aesthetics.