Here is a detailed explanation on how the striped globe was a part of ABC News and National Nine in Australia. Plus on how TV News themes became part of the media landscape in these links.
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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
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Here is a detailed explanation on how the striped globe was a part of ABC News and National Nine in Australia. Plus on how TV News themes became part of the media landscape in these links.
When I was a teenager in the mid-80s, I had a friend in Phoenix that I got to visit over Spring Break one year. I remember we watched KNXV 15 which was an independent station at the time. I remember they had a station ID that would run at the top of the hour that was very CGI for the time, featuring the 15 logo within a star and very synthesized stereo music that sounded so good on TV (stereo TV was still kind of new at the time). I have never been able to find that ID anywhere. I have found a couple of promo pieces (print and video) from that time, but never this straight, CGI ID - this would have been a year or two before channel 15 joined Fox. Does anybody have video of that ID? I think the star logo 15 rose like the sun from a series of CGI lines and then got bigger and bigger until it filled the screen, probably with a "KNXV-TV Phoenix" somewhere around the logo.
Here is one from 1985 when KNXV-TV was the Independent station for Phoenix. Yes it had promos for shows they had at that time of the id's. This is before they got the Fox and their current affiliation with ABC as of 2026.
Thank you - it's the right era and the right logo, but I saw this before. What I was looking for was the ID graphic that would show up RIGHT before the start of the show - like the top of the hour ID (or pre-show ID) - I can't seem to find that one anywhere. It didn't have any show promos tagged to it.
KNXV went on the air as the ON-TV station for Phoenix. ON-TV was a subscription movie channel that operated on KNXV overnight...starting at 7PM, with 15 running the standard rerun fare that second-rate independent stations had at that time (what KPHO used to show).
Until the mid-80s, cable was rare in the Phoenix area (except for parts of Paradise Valley, Sun City, and E Mesa). The alternative to OTA was ON-TV or American Super Channel/Dimension...which were special antennas attached to your roof. ON-TV was mostly movies, ASC was a mix of cable channels on one channel...mostly WGN/WTBS during the day and HBO at night. In the mid-80s ON-TV went defunct and Ch 15 expanded to full day/night programming (Elvira on Saturday Nights!) up to picking up Fox affiliation (which KPHO originally spurned) in the late 80s, Cox bought ASC/Dimension and started building cable throughout the PHX area - and buying the smaller cable operators in the fringes of the PHX area. It was around 1990 that the "Dimension" channel went off the air-cable was available throughout the PHX area by then.
KNXV was in those days the "secondary" independent station in town ..along with "tertiary" indies KUTP/45 and KUSK 7/27/whatever channel was in your neighborhood. Taking the programs that KPHO (who was considered one of the top indie stations in the country) and the network stations used to run/didn't want to run...and whatever was public domain at that time.
Here's a typical 1999 newscast of WAMI's alternative newscast with the station group's distinctive look in action:
Interesting format. A local newscast spending the first eleven minutes on the lead story, with thoughtful commentary from various people, and not even a local story at that, is an innovative approach, not unlike The PBS NewsHour.
A compilation of graphics used by Turner Broadcasting System channels in 1982:
Here’s one that been nearly 6 decades since KABC and WABC named their newscasts as Eyewitness News.
Now KGO-TV names their newscasts ABC 7 Eyewitness News to be in line with the other Disney owned stations like KABC and WABC. I remember for decades whenever KGO-TV would get segments from their sister stations like KABC the Eyewitness News name would sometimes slip through even though KGO was not allowed to use that name for local segments given that CBS had the rights to use that brand at that time for KPIX (now known as CBS Bay Area News).
The Eyewitness News brand made its way to Australia relatively quickly. It was long associated with Network 10, but as this 1970s clip of BTQ7 in Brisbane illustrates, it wasn't just Ten stations that used it:
You stay classy, Brisbane!
That look was quite common on TV news back then, and not just in the US.
WTHR in Indianapolis used unusual, hybrid Eyewitness NewsCenter branding during its walk-and-talk phase in the 1970s:
Here is the last time San Francisco heard of Eyewitness News and its because CBS held the rights to that name for KPIX. As of 2026 KPIX is now known as CBS Bay Area News.
I was thinking the Ron Burgundy Look which is a reference to how Harold Greene looked in the 1970's in San Diego and Los Angeles. Had no idea it was a style back then.
Here is one from KFSN Fresno in early 1990's they used the same open sequence as KABC-TV used in the early 1990's.
Here are some clips of KFSN-TV Fresno in 1985 when they switched from CBS to ABC.
Animated logos for the Post Newsweek stations in 1974, and this WFSB logo was introduced at that time.