Here's an interesting one WTEN an ABC affiliate in Albany, New York and KCBS-TV Los Angeles uses the same design and theme in the early 1990's.
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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
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Here's an interesting one WTEN an ABC affiliate in Albany, New York and KCBS-TV Los Angeles uses the same design and theme in the early 1990's.
A 1981 sales presentation for CBS O&Os showing what the stations had in common and how they differed, in terms of both visual elements and programming:
Part 2:
Part 2:
Back when the Emergency Broadcast System had a logo:
Here are some IDs for WNET and NET from the 1970's. Yes this was before PBS took over Public Television as a result of the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act.
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Download the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as amended, in PDF format. Subpart D — Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sec. 396. [47 U.S.C.
The CBS Eye logo as used by the long-since-defunct CBS Telenotícias in the 1990s:
P. S. Here's a promo 1998 touting a short-lived news partnership between CBS and Brasil's SBT network (whose logo, funnily enough, is loosely based on the ABC logo):
A few years later, SBT would introduce an ABC look-alike news open:
A few years later, SBT would introduce an ABC look-alike news open:
One would think SBT Brazil is owned by Disney if one isn't aware of this logo.
Here is a more interesting logo. The GE logo appears on the WNGE/WKRN logos from Nashville and the KOA/KCNC-TV Logos in Denver in 1982. Yes GE used to have other stations until they were required to divest some of their non NBC affiliates as part of the deal to own NBC in 1986.
Brazil's Globo, on the other hand, has long used a logo similar to the CBS Eye logo albeit with a TV screen in place of the eye shape:
The logo was also used by the Italian-language service of Tele Monte Carlo when it was owned by Globo:
Just by looking at the logos, it should come as a no surprise that Canada's TSN (The Sports Network) and RDS (Réseau des sports) are part-owned by ESPN:
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It's official: GE Appliances belongs to Haier
Haier, a Chinese manufacturer, paid $5.6 billion for the appliance division of General Electric. The companies announced the close of the sale today.
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Keep in mind GE as of 2025 is broken up to 4 different companies, The appliances division went to Haier where they hold the rights to the GE appliances name in the United States. GE's other companies are Aerospace, Healthcare and Verona split took place in 2024.
Here is something in common all these logo's have in common they use a silver ball at some point in their history in promos and station ID's like KTLA, WXYZ and Nickelodeon.
The logo used by Puls 4 in Austria has more than a passing resemblance to the one used by KFOR in Oklahoma City:
Some wild pre-CGI station IDs...
...from Mexico:
...and Monaco:
...from Mexico:
...and Monaco:
Who knows but then again it's all about leadership protecting the Paramount+ app because of money and median ages on the national levels. They are trying to prevent themselves from being killed off by Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+,Hulu and Peacock. Also Paramount has to deal with the Skydance deal.
WBBM-TV
WBBM-TV traces its history to 1940, when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, signed on experimental station W9XBK, the first all-electronic television facility in Chicago. On September 6, 1946, the station received a commercial license as WBKB (for Balaban and Katz...
As much as we miss the old era when local TV stations had displayed their channel numbers it's less relevant in streaming given that the major O&O's have to blend in with CBS News and Paramount plus apps on TV.
Interestingly WDJT Milwaukee uses the CBS O&O's design in 2025 even though they are owned by Weigel Media. Then again Paramount allowed them to use the CBS News graphics as long as they are affiliated with them in this case.
Jim Varney appears in this WBRZ-TV ID from 1986. However he is best known for appearing on ads in some parts of the country. Yes most notable is the Cerritos Auto Square ads in the Los Angeles area.
GTV Philippines/now known as PTV in 1977 yes the Analog 4 logo resembles the KRON4 logo of San Francisco around this time.
The only station we could get growing up. Some famous broadcasters worked at 96 16th Street, most notably Bob Orr and Faith Daniels, while Midge Hill had a cameo as a reporter on “Dallas.”
KPWR-TV Bakersfield, CA 1983 (then CBS affiliate, currently Nexstar owned NBC affiliate KGET-TV). Yes this is rare to find KPWR-TV given that those call letters are more associated with KPWR-FM Los Angeles.
I wonder if, like (the separately owned) WPWR in Chicago, KPWR ever used the tagline "Power XXX" as part of its on-air identity. (Although, to be fair, "Power Station" and "Power 50" just screams "independent/UPN station," rather than "network affiliate.")
WPVI recently produced a mini-documentary on the ill-fated revamp of the classic theme: