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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
- Thread starter Ed Nielson
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On first view, the logo is confusing. The arrow subjugates the "5" so that the main purpose is fuzzy at best.
And also WROC in Rochester!
Also KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo. in the mid-to-late 1970s. I was there!
The KTVU and KRON logos in the San Francisco Bay Area have been enduring classics.
A favorite from earlier on, as you'll be able to tell from the call letters, is from St. Louis' KMOX-TV. The static image doesn't do it justice; the ID was actually a short film where a strip was folded to make the "4":
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Later versions took the different colors out.
(St. Louis local television in the 1970s was really competitive; CBS used KMOX-TV as its laboratory for new technology and KSD-TV and even KTVI had to run hard to keep up. That made everyone better.)
A logo that I can't find online was from WHO-TV in Des Moines in the late 1960s, also an animated film. The film zoomed in on one of the eyes of a stylized owl. When the eye was in close-up, showing the WHO-TV call letters, the eyelid went down. When the eyelid opened, the number "13" appeared, which was WHO-TV's channel number.
A favorite from earlier on, as you'll be able to tell from the call letters, is from St. Louis' KMOX-TV. The static image doesn't do it justice; the ID was actually a short film where a strip was folded to make the "4":
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Later versions took the different colors out.
(St. Louis local television in the 1970s was really competitive; CBS used KMOX-TV as its laboratory for new technology and KSD-TV and even KTVI had to run hard to keep up. That made everyone better.)
A logo that I can't find online was from WHO-TV in Des Moines in the late 1960s, also an animated film. The film zoomed in on one of the eyes of a stylized owl. When the eye was in close-up, showing the WHO-TV call letters, the eyelid went down. When the eyelid opened, the number "13" appeared, which was WHO-TV's channel number.
The ABC7 Logo it has to be one of the most recognized logos within Disney has used once they took over ABC and their owned stations three decades ago. Prior to the mid 1990's ABC O&O's had this variant where it was then known as the circle 7 logo without the ABC Logo attached to the circle 7 by G. Dean Smith. Also this widely recognized logo was originally meant for KGO-TV San Francisco prior to ABC spreading its use to the other O&O's and affiliates whose ABC affiliate is on Analog or cable 7 in their respective markets.
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KRON's is awesome simply because of the Golden Gate Bridge reference connecting it to something local.
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Then there was the Nebraska ETV/NBC debacle.
A quick summary: In 1974, Nebraska ETV adopted a new logo in. A year later, NBC adopted a new logo. NETV sued and it was eventually settled out of court, with NETV allowing NBC to keep using the logo, but contributed equipment to NETV.
A quick summary: In 1974, Nebraska ETV adopted a new logo in. A year later, NBC adopted a new logo. NETV sued and it was eventually settled out of court, with NETV allowing NBC to keep using the logo, but contributed equipment to NETV.
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"Anklepants?"
Group W used that font for all their radio and TV stations.
You can see more Anklepants than thought possible in this early '80s Group W orientation tape:
KTVK in Phoenix used the same logo in the late 1970s--and dropped it in 1980, probably thinking it looked outdated!
Was the original font designed specifically for Group W?