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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
- Thread starter Ed Nielson
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Let's start at a ski resort in Vermont:
What are the odds that "MS NOW"'s flag design would just be "Mount Snow"'s flag reversed (with different colors inside)?
And given NBC's prior history....I'd expect some caution and exhaustive research.
Beyond that, if I said to you "I have MS now", you'd assume I have Multiple Sclerosis.
It is a VERY bad idea to name your network with the initials of a well-known disease. Especially when you have a clean sheet in front of you.
Could have been worse. If they'd decided to go with "Versant Digital" for the first two letters, it would be "VD NOW".
True but then again I was thinking this prior to Versant renaming MSNBC to MS Now being revealed as part of the move to separate itself from NBC News Now that Comcast kept as part of protecting the Peacock brand.
America's Talking - Wikipedia
The former name of MSNBC/MSNOW was America’s Talking Network back in 1994-1995.
America's Talking
About Us
America’s Talking Network is a podcast hub launched in December of 2021 to fulfill the need for civil, balanced content across the United States. Our platform focuses its efforts on
But that name Americas talking went to a podcast operation not related to Comcast or Versant in 2021. That name went to the Franklin News Foundation. Then again the priority at the time was to Protect the MSNBC name and integrate it to Peacock app when that happened.
MS Now sounds like a public affairs show brought to you by the Multiple Sclerosis Association. (Could be part of the Sunday morning Public Affairs block.)
The NBC/Nebraska Educational Television debacle was brought up early on in this thread... looks like nothing has changed.
VD Now:
Yep. I'm the guy who brought you the logo's current use---at a gelato shop in Bogliasco, Italy:
VD Now:
For all we know, it was on the shortlist...
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Keith Olbermann made the same point in his "Countdown" podcast this morning.
That name certainly seems to get incorporated into a lot of callsigns. Jim Kampschroer, who created KTEA in Cambria, named it after his granddaughter of the same name.
History is best experienced by the paragraph, not the tweet. I for one appreciated the detail.
KBET-TV Sacramento circa 1950's then the areas CBS affiliate. As of 2025 it's currently known as KXTV Sacramento as the areas ABC affiliate currently owned by Tegna Inc.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Based on the first line in the copy, this ad appeared sometime in 1955.
Gray owned CBS affiliate KXII gets a new logo.
I watched bits and pieces of the New Zealand Nightline video, and one thing that jumped out at me, accents were all over the place. Were these all native New Zealanders? Some of the accents sounded almost American, in fact, whomever that reporter Denis Murphy is, there's no other way to describe his accent. The gray-headed guy around 10:54 almost sounded like he could be either Southern or Appalachian.
Dennis Murphy (his name is misspelled on the Chyron) is American. That report was taken straight from NBC News. Some other packages were done by Australian reporters; the Australian accent is similar to the New Zealand one but renders many vowels differently--and it tends to vary according to the socioeconomic class of the speaker.
And here's a 1985 Australian edition of Nightline from Nine Network (albeit with the packages removed). The ABC News graphics and music are all there:
Okay, it's ringing a bell now, I was thrown even more by the spelling on the Chyron, possibly more common in other English-speaking countries than in the US. I do know that New Zealand English tends to insert a long E where we would use a short one, such that the word "leather" becomes "leether". That, too, may vary from speaker to speaker, it's just something that jumps out at me. Jacinda Ardern would be an example of such a speaker.
It’s interesting how the 1980’s cut for ABC’s 20/20 got used for the Australian edition of Nightline.
Here is the KNBC-TV Los Angeles logo modified as “NBC 4 America” in 1996. Yes in this Station ID they remove the local call letters and cities for the NBC O&O’s like KNBC, WNBC and WRC which share this logo for their local OTA’s and repackage it as a Satellite feed for areas that did not have a local NBC affiliate on cable and satellite at the time of the clip.
But it doesn't appear to be the same kind of show. ABC's Nightline was more in the nature of a newsmagazine, or a show that focused on one or two topics in-depth, whereas the Australian version seems just to be a straight-up nighttime network newscast.
In many ways, Australia comes across as being a kind of parallel universe, where things seem superficially almost identical to the US, but when you scratch the surface, it is quite different. Pull up some random street scenes in Google Street View and you'll see what I'm talking about.
True too and also I seen the residential areas on Google Street view of Australia and it looks like anyplace in the US. Also places like downtown parts of Sydney and Melbourne looks like places where you can compare to in the largest cities in Canada and the US. But then again in Australia Nine Network has the name "60 Minutes" as it's Newsmagazine and it's named after the version on CBS.
Meanwhile, Network Ten stations once used the Eyewitness News brand, along with WPVI's Move Closer to Your World theme:
The one difference that will jump out at you, is that the cars drive, and are parked, on the opposite side of the street. Aside from that, suburban neighborhoods in a lot of Australia look like southern California or Florida.