There was a teacher somewhere who thought World War 2 (spelled with the Roman numeral for 2 meant 11. World War 11? Yes, I'm not kidding.
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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
- Thread starter Ed Nielson
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Here's another promo, from 1994, for what was still NBC Super Channel--it features some of NBC's leading personalities of that period:
A sampler of the then-standardized Fox O&O station logos in the the form of IDs featuring the 1980s corporate look:
This one, from WNYW, includes a news open (also a part of the standardized, corporate Fox style):
This one, from WNYW, includes a news open (also a part of the standardized, corporate Fox style):
Places outside the U.S. where Cool Hand Luke was used include Quebec:
...and Australia:
The theme was also apparently used in the Philippines, but I can't find any clips online.
...and Australia:
The theme was also apparently used in the Philippines, but I can't find any clips online.
I forgot Papua New Guinea, whose EMTV once had the same owner as Australia's Nine Network and still used one of Nine's remixes of Cool Hand Luke:
From 1994, here's a promo announcing a new name and logo for Germany's cable/satellite channel Kabelkanal: Kabel 1.
Germany's public service broadcaster ARD began legal action against Kabel 1 because of this logo. The public broadcaster claimed that people might be confused by the numeral “1” and associate Kabel 1 with ARD. Kabel 1 modified the logo and removed the “1” while the legal action was in progress (bottom image), but the old logo was reinstated after Kabel 1 won the court battle in 1999.
Here's the interim logo as seen in a three-minute Kabel 1 news update in 1998:
Germany's public service broadcaster ARD began legal action against Kabel 1 because of this logo. The public broadcaster claimed that people might be confused by the numeral “1” and associate Kabel 1 with ARD. Kabel 1 modified the logo and removed the “1” while the legal action was in progress (bottom image), but the old logo was reinstated after Kabel 1 won the court battle in 1999.
Here's the interim logo as seen in a three-minute Kabel 1 news update in 1998:
Audio logos can be as important as visual ones. Here, just uploaded to YouTube, is the legendary CNN Theme Package from 1990; it was used prominently in the '90s and (on occasion) even beyond:
Some examples of the semi-corporate NBC O&O look of the early 1990s:
Ron Sweed, aka movie host The Ghoul, also had his own rendition of the WCLQ/61 station identification that was used during his show.
Reminds me of how David Letterman used to sign off at WLWI:
Some examples of the semi-corporate NBC O&O look of the early 1990s:
By the way, when KCNC switched from being an NBC O&O to a CBS one in 1995, the logo still gave off NBC vibes despite the change of network logo:
Some examples of the semi-corporate NBC O&O look of the early 1990s:
KNBC-TV Los Angeles did the same in 1994-1995 season.
Of course, NBC O&Os already had a very standardized look back in the Trapezoid N logo/NewsCenter era--even the news sets were very much alike:
KRON-TV
KRON-TV originally signed on the air on November 15, 1949, the Bay Area's third TV station after KPIX-TV and KGO-TV. KRON's call sign and original logo were nods to its founding owners, the San Francisco-based Chronicle Publishing Company, which also owned the San Francisco Chronicle (KRON's...
KAMR-TV Amarillo, Texas (NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar) from 1992-1995 used a logo that came close to the current KRON-TV logo (CW affiliate owned by Nexstar) but in KRON-TV case the logo was based on the design of the Golden Gate Bridge. But this one not sure how KAMR-TV managed to get a design that came close to the KRON-TV logo from 1992-1995.
I've always liked KTVT's pre-CBS logo:
In the early 1990s, Chicago's WLS, an ABC O&O, and WSBT, a CBS affiliate in the neighboring South Bend market, used very similar Eyewitness News logos:
I might be the only one to talk about how I like this one! The "3" looks groovy and the three lowercase "i"s look like three people turned toward the station's channel number. I'll agree that it's dated, but I like the look!
This one irks me to no end. Folks in Pittsburgh have known the "KDKA" call letters for over a century! In an era where folks in broadcasting are trying to emphasize their "local" aspect, why de-emphasize the local elements? And trying to find local news on their website is a disaster when it's awkwardly integrated with the national CBS news website.
Did they bother to ask any local folks in those markets what they thought was best?