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Best/Worst/Most Interesting TV Station Logos
- Thread starter Ed Nielson
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KCTS in its Univ. of Washington era. Shocked it wasn't called KUOW-TV instead.
Here is the former WTCG logo during the time the Late Ted Turner managed that station and he made it the launching point of SuperStation WTBS, TBS, CNN.
Note the Cable Channels are currently with WB and the former WTBS-TV went to Gray Television as current CW affiliate WPCH-TV Atlanta.
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Note the Cable Channels are currently with WB and the former WTBS-TV went to Gray Television as current CW affiliate WPCH-TV Atlanta.
Ted Turner, cable television pioneer and CNN founder, dies at 87
Turner launched CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network.
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I'd say that ad predates the launch of WTCG on satellite by a few years. At a guess, this looks like it might go back to shortly after Turner first acquired the station. But do you have a date for that ad?Here is the former WTCG logo during the time the Late Ted Turner managed that station and he made it the launching point of SuperStation WTBS, TBS, CNN.
Note the Cable Channels are currently with WB and the former WTBS-TV went to Gray Television as current CW affiliate WPCH-TV Atlanta.
Ted Turner, cable television pioneer and CNN founder, dies at 87
Turner launched CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network.
Probably from its WJRJ days, as I recall seeing that ad on an online newspaper archive from around that time frame.
History of UHF Television
1970 was the date of the ad on this page over WJRJ/WTCG/WTBS history.
Got to wonder if those calls are a highly creative way of rendering "Georgia" (JRJ).
History of UHF Television
KCNS San Francisco 1990's. I remember this station when they aired Chinese and Filipino programming back when they competed against KTSF for that audience in the Bay Area. However prior to the 1990's the station was known as KVOF-TV owned by Pastor Gene Scott whose program originated in Los Angeles from KHOF-TV (Now known as KPXN-TV). Currently KCNS San Francisco is owned by RNN and associates.
LA18 To Replace Local Asian TV Programs With English Infomercials
Popular programs produced by LA18 slated to be canceled on July 1 include "Tsou LA," a program aimed at introducing Chinese speakers to Los Angeles, and "Kababayan Today," a Filipino-language talk show.
www.cbsnews.com
Eclectic TV : KSCI's Programming in 14 Languages Offers News, Entertainment, Comfort to Ethnic Communities
Standing beside banks of television monitors and control panels, Parvis Afshar waved his arms furiously, like the conductor of a recalcitrant orchestra, as he directed assistants switching between videotapes and live broadcasting for his morning Persian-language news show.
www.latimes.com
Here is KSCI-TV Los Angeles in the 1980's to 1990's back when it was one of a few TV stations in the US to air Chinese, Korean and Japanese programming in the country. It was branded as "The International Station" around this time. Note KSCI-TV is currently owned by RNN Associates and is a Shop LC affiliate. Yes its all because of where we are now with shows and news programming in various languages moving to Youtube and various TV apps. But at the time KSCI-TV ran multiple languages its because the demos that station targeted cable was then a luxury for their audience.
KSCI has a fascinating history. The "SCI" in the call letters stands for "Science of Creative Intelligence" -- the station originally signed on under ownership linked with the Transcendental Meditation movement, and was intended to promote meditation and would be limited to "positive" and "uplifting" programming. I'm guessing that didn't really work out to well, hence that transition after a few years to "The International Station".
I loved KSCI in its prime. All the English-subtitled Japanese soap operas and historical samurai dramas. And the original Iron Chef!
The closest it gets to that vibe today are the grand sumo highlights on NHK, and NHK's domestic evening news program when it airs with live English overdubs at 2 in the morning. (There is other worthy programming on NHK, but all of it is visibly for foreign consumption.)
The closest it gets to that vibe today are the grand sumo highlights on NHK, and NHK's domestic evening news program when it airs with live English overdubs at 2 in the morning. (There is other worthy programming on NHK, but all of it is visibly for foreign consumption.)
History of UHF Television
KSCI origins has some of it origins as KCHU-TV of San Bernardino before that station went dormant until 1977 when KSCI-TV got the Channel 18 spot.
Here is a rare one when KTSF was starting out their local San Francisco newscasts in Chinese. This is from the 1991 Oakland wildfire as a news brief from this clip.