Kinda just leaves me scratching my head ... what is it? 🙄
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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
- Thread starter Ed Nielson
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It was, by the design firm Lippincott & Margulies.
There's an old movie called Colluses: The Forbin Project that shows a late 60s, early 70s KRON 4 logo on a van. I took a screen shot from the movie of the truck below.
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It's surprising Tegna has left this logo unchanged, but under McKinnon KIII was so dominant it made sense. Many of the visual trappings were shared in their station group: KUSI had a very similarly designed logo in the 1980s.
My avatar is another Texas logo oddity, one that was completely unrepresented until I found it. (Coloring is speculative on my part after I retraced it) It's the short-lived KZLN 60 Harlingen, Texas, the public TV station that started at the wrong time in the wrong place and only operated under that call sign for 14 months.
I've been fond of the WPIX-TV channel 11 logo from the Eighties, "11 Alive", using the shape of the World Trade Center twin towers. (The earlier "11 Alive" logo was, IMO, just meh.) The logo has a poignancy to it in the aftermath of the 9/11/2001 attack that took them down.
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It’s horrid. I’ve always found it ugly. The lower case calls add insult to it.
The Corpus stations all need a refresh. KZTV’s looks like someone made that in about 30 seconds in PowerPoint.
RTL2 in Germany used a very similar design, but with the proportions slightly modified to make the "II" look more like an on/off button. Here it is in action (but ignore the first, older ID with a different logo):
What's interesting about that one is that you see a 5 inside of another 5.It reminds me of the recent logo used by Mexico's Televisa-Univision Channel 5.
Similar, yes, but to my eye RTL's version resembles a pair of silver bullion bars. The PIX 11 logo was more 3-D, so it looked like the twin towers, especially to locals familiar with their iconic shape.
KPLR-TV
"Centre Television Network" and this "Eleven Tree" logo were used by KPLR-TV to promote its reach as a "superstation" on Midwestern U.S. cable systems.[1] This logo is similar to the one used by then-sister station WPIX in New York City. This logo was also shared by WPIX. Official website
KPLR-TV St. Louis at one point even used the Circle 11 Logo from WPIX-TV. But in KPLR-TV’s case they made the circle 11 under Koplar’s ownership mainly to promote their then Analog Channel on 11 in the 1980’s and 1990’s
As of 2025 WPIX-TV and KPLR-TV are managed by Nexstar.
Sorry, I meant the pause button.
Puts images of the devil in my head.
I never cared for their logo but channel 5 in Boston has been a force to be reckoned with in local television for half a century.
Does anyone know of any station on ch. 11 that used "e11even" with the two L's stylized as ones? A quick search only turned up some night club in Miami...
I have a confession to make...
Back around 1997, Ray Larabie, the Canadian typographer who created "Anklepants" did so after I suggested that the Group W logotype would make a neat font seeing that he had created fonts based on band and company logotypes. I sent some scans of various Group W station logos and he had it done within a few hours! Not the name I would have chosen but I just loved that it existed at all.
Somebody else created a font called "Westinghouse" that addresses some of the deficiencies of Anklepants.