Here is a rare one Allbritton Television productions logo whenever WJLA-TV wanted to syndicate a show outside Washington D.C. area for the rest of the country they use the Allbritton Television name prior to Sinclair taking over WJLA-TV in 2014.
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Here is a rare one Allbritton Television productions logo whenever WJLA-TV wanted to syndicate a show outside Washington D.C. area for the rest of the country they use the Allbritton Television name prior to Sinclair taking over WJLA-TV in 2014.
Speaking (again) of WMAL/WJLA, their early '70s star logo was truly unique:
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A 1995 ID for the pan-European NBC Super Channel, created in 1993 when GE bought Super Channel, one of the original English-language European cable and satellite channels launched in the 1980s.
The channel was later rebranded NBC Europe and referred to on-air as just "NBC":
The channel's pan-European feed was shut down in 1998 and was replaced with National Geographic Channel Europe. A German version of the channel lived on for a few years.
Most of the channel's prime time programming was produced in Europe, but after 11PM Central European Time on weekday evenings, it showed the Tonight Show and Late Night. Most NBC News programs were also broadcast on NBC Europe, including NBC Nightly News, which was aired live. Today was also shown live in the afternoon for a while, but was later broadcast the following morning instead, by which time it was more than half a day old -- meaning all news portions had to be replaced with European updates produced by ITN in London. ITN also supplied the network with the main European newscasts before and after the NBC takeover. The European weather was done by the BBC at first, but was later taken over by WNBC.
NBC Europe carried virtually no prime time entertainment programs shown by NBC in the U.S., because those shows were distributed by other studios and sold to broadcasters in individual countries. NBC didn't own the rights, and would have had to buy the rights for each country in order to show it via satellite -- something that would have been far too expensive. That was probably the main reason why NBC Europe was ultimately a failure..
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A 1995 ID for the pan-European NBC Super Channel, created in 1993 when GE bought Super Channel, one of the original English-language European cable and satellite channels launched in the 1980s.
The channel was later rebranded NBC Europe and referred to on-air as just "NBC":
The channel's pan-European feed was shut down in 1998 and was replaced with National Geographic Channel Europe. A German version of the channel lived on for a few years.
Most of the channel's prime time programming was produced in Europe, but after 11PM Central European Time on weekday evenings, it showed the Tonight Show and Late Night. Most NBC News programs were also broadcast on NBC Europe, including NBC Nightly News, which was aired live. Today was also shown live in the afternoon for a while, but was later broadcast the following morning instead, by which time it was more than half a day old -- meaning all news portions had to be replaced with European updates produced by ITN in London. ITN also supplied the network with the main European newscasts before and after the NBC takeover. The European weather was done by the BBC at first, but was later taken over by WNBC.
NBC Europe carried virtually no prime time entertainment programs shown by NBC in the U.S., because those shows were distributed by other studios and sold to broadcasters in individual countries. NBC didn't own the rights, and would have had to buy the rights for each country in order to show it via satellite -- something that would have been far too expensive. That was probably the main reason why NBC Europe was ultimately a failure..
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By the way, here's a 1997 promotional presentation for NBC Europe showing the channel's unusual mix of programming:
When I was in Germany (Aachen) in 2010, CNBC Europe carried Jay Leno's show, IIRC in more or less the same late-night time slot as in the US. Pretty sure they carried the Today show as well, I don't recall NBC Nightly News. It was pretty much the NBC lineup minus scripted drama and comedy shows.
It's interesting to see NBC return to Europe as Sky Network in the UK via when it's parent company Comcast inc took over Sky Network from the Murdochs in 2018. But those airchecks are instances when NBC attempted to expand outside the US prior to Comcast taking over Sky Network.
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Yes, CNBC Europe continued to carry some NBC programming after NBC Europe went dark. In fact, it continues to air select episodes of The Tonight Show and Late Night on the weekends, as well as Meet the Press.
By the way, both the CBS and the Fox brands (of the "Big 4" networks) were formerly used in Europe for specialty cable/satellite channels with localized versions. A couple of examples:
Another example of the current status of the Big 4 Networks on the international level. In this case Fox outside of the United States is now renamed as Star on Disney+. Yes Disney was required to rename Fox outside the United States as Star+ (Hulu outside of the United States) as a result of Disney buying 20th Century Studios from Fox Inc. The Murdochs had something that require Disney to remove the Fox name from their properties due to the Murdochs Keeping the Fox Name for their properties like Fox News, Fox Sports in the United States.
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In the 1980s, the satellite that distributed Super Channel, the forerunner of NBC Super Channel / NBC Europe, would periodically be eclipsed by the Earth's shadow, during which transmissions would cease for several hours. The channel had a special eclipse logo--and even an eclipse sponsor (Philips):
(If you haven't been able to tell already, I'm not a technical person, so I'm not sure if my explanation makes sense.)
(If you haven't been able to tell already, I'm not a technical person, so I'm not sure if my explanation makes sense.)
WCLQ/61 in Cleveland adopted a similar logo to the Field stations when it signed on in 1981. The former licensee of Channel 61 was Kaiser Broadcasting which shut down WKBF and merged with crosstown WUAB/43 in 1975.
Two different "Channel 60" logos on the same channel? Here's the daily sign-off of Chicago/Aurora's English-language WPWR and, beginning at the 0:45 mark, the sign-on of Spanish-language WBBS when the two stations shared time on the same channel in 1984:
Here's some interesting background about share-time stations from K.M. Richards:
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Here's some interesting background about share-time stations from K.M. Richards:
History of UHF Television
By the way, this is what Chicago's share-time situation looked like in TV Guide's channel lineup:
Source: http://www.matthewsittel.com/tvg/cl/19850629_chi_cl.jpg
Source: http://www.matthewsittel.com/tvg/cl/19850629_chi_cl.jpg
Here is an interesting one WBBM-TV Chicago and WHTM-TV Harrisburg, PA uses the same design and the CBS Enforcer signature in the early 1990's. However in the past the CBS Enforcer signature was at one point syndicated to non CBS affiliates too before CBS wanted it to be on its owned and operated stations up to the 2022-2023 season.
KFDA in Amarillo also used an open based on the WBBM style above--but their version looked really cheap:
WBBM's subsequent news open design...
...also got a KFDA remake:
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We've mentioned Kaiser's and Field's station logos; Grant Broadcasting and the later, post-bankruptcy Grant Communications was another station group that came close to a corporate, standardized look for its stations' logos:
WBBM's subsequent news open design...
...also got a KFDA remake:
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We've mentioned Kaiser's and Field's station logos; Grant Broadcasting and the later, post-bankruptcy Grant Communications was another station group that came close to a corporate, standardized look for its stations' logos:
This reminds me of WGHP (Channel 8) in the Greensboro NC market. The g looked like an 8.
KLJB-TV, Ch. 18 in Davenport, IA was also owned by Grant Broadcasting at one point & also used the same kind of logo.We've mentioned Kaiser's and Field's station logos; Grant Broadcasting and the later, post-bankruptcy Grant Communications was another station group that came close to a corporate, standardized look for its stations' logos:
WLAX, La Crosse, WI & WEUX, Eau Claire, WI also used the same kind of logo after being acquired by Grant Broadcasting in 1996.
KFDA in Amarillo also used an open based on the WBBM style above--but their version looked really cheap:
WBBM's subsequent news open design...
...also got a KFDA remake:
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We've mentioned Kaiser's and Field's station logos; Grant Broadcasting and the later, post-bankruptcy Grant Communications was another station group that came close to a corporate, standardized look for its stations' logos:
That's interesting to hear the KFDA-TV open it sounds like they were trying to mix both the late 1980's-early 1990's cut of the WBBM theme and the 1985 cut of the KCBS-TV theme together and it sounds right to those that live Armarillo, TX at that time but sounds too parody like for those that were in Los Angeles and Chicago at that time of the news open.
Oh, middle 70s. That's why I don't remember it. I was gone by then.
A video on "America's Funniest Home Videos" had a girl learning to read who saw 11 and said "Pause".