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Favorite Local Television Logos of the Past/Present

Cleveland Favorites:

WJW-TV 8:

A lot of good ones, but my favorite is the stylized "ei8ht" logo from 1966-77 (After which they became WJKW for a few years..)The "dot" in the i was the "CBS Eye" logo.


http://www.clevelandseniors.com/photos/franz/wjw-tv-8.jpg

The logo was revived in 1996 when their news was titled "ei8ht is News"..


http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2794/4183375205_a45fe9797e_z.jpg

Found later that WGHP-8 High Point, NC also used the "ei8ht" logo for years..

http://f33.yahoofs.com/mapann/1000/sr_abc8f3fe0876a7.jpg?lc_____DAPewoopk

WEWS-5 "Circle 5" used from 1968-2005 or so, then revived a couple years ago..Patterened after the "Circle 7" used on the ABC Owned and Operated stations ..


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_peeR9iRIXvI/TFG1qzLxZjI/AAAAAAAADKw/gMNTT9vx7uc/s320/WEWS+Logo.GIF

Another nice on-air logo was a rendering of their Then fairly new studio building..From the late 50's through the 60's

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zhGDMDQ2osM/TLY8E4P_sTI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/OrBkhh_pQ6c/s400/WEWS+ID+1950's.jpg

(This is a remake done for a Comedy special in 1980-It looks older because it's a screen capture)

Channel 3-My favorite is the Westinghouse logo from 1963-past 2000 (from 1965 on in Philadelphia)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zhGDMDQ2osM/Rs0uQL-5_rI/AAAAAAAAAFo/ddVmSeRFKx0/s400/scan0003.jpg

Also like the WKBF era Channel 61 Kaiser Logo

http://static2.dmcdn.net/static/video/207/945/14549702:jpeg_preview_medium.jpg?20110829163337
 
I liked WDVM/WUSA Wash. DC's boxy looking "9" from the '80s-early '90s. It looked like it was smiling. They ought to have created a mascot named "Wusa [WOO-suh] the Nine", with an eye in the loop of the 9.

ixnay
 
Tim L said:
Cleveland Favorites:

WJW-TV 8:

A lot of good ones, but my favorite is the stylized "ei8ht" logo from 1966-77 (After which they became WJKW for a few years..)The "dot" in the i was the "CBS Eye" logo.


http://www.clevelandseniors.com/photos/franz/wjw-tv-8.jpg

The logo was revived in 1996 when their news was titled "ei8ht is News"..


http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2794/4183375205_a45fe9797e_z.jpg

Found later that WGHP-8 High Point, NC also used the "ei8ht" logo for years..

http://f33.yahoofs.com/mapann/1000/sr_abc8f3fe0876a7.jpg?lc_____DAPewoopk
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I believe many other stations used a version of "ei8ht" in their logos -- such as KFMB San Diego, WMTW Portland, and currently, KAET in Phoenix.
 
I find it odd that Westinghouse used a different logo for its broadcast ops (the "Group W" and before that the WBC "triangles") than its corporate logo (the electric W).

RCA used its classic logo on the ID slides of the stations it owned.
 
I wanna say that ch 8 New Orleans used the "ei8ht" also, but don't quote me.

cd
 
I've never seen the "ei8ht" logo for WVUE; I do remember one where
the "8" was separated in the middle by a blank space where a line or
curve would normally go to separate the two circles that make up an 8.

WGHP, OTOH, used the "ei8ht" for most of the '70s, and it's still the logo
I remember best for that station; nowadays, they use their version of the
Fox stations' logo, even though it's no longer a Fox o&o.

Another favorite of mine is WEAR Pensacola's from the early '70s: a giant
"3" and next to it, a large star with the lower-case wear-tv inside.
 
It sure did. We had some very distinctive logos here in Rochester once upon a time. WHEC had a very distinctive "10" logo made up of parallel horizontal lines. WOKR used a roman-numeral "XIII" in its early years.
 
I liked the last logo WKRG-TV (in Mobile, Alabama) had when the station was branded "WKRG-TV5" or "TV5" rather than "WKRG News 5" or "News 5". Here is the address to the logo:

http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/e/ec/WKRG_1997.png

I liked the WALA-TV logo with the NBC peacock feathers behind the number 10 (I would like to see WALA-TV and WPMI-TV switch network affiliations again. WALA-TV is currently affiliated with the FOX Broadcasting Company):

http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/0/09/WALAfall1986ChannelTen.png
 
desertv said:
Mario-500 said:
I liked the last logo WKRG-TV (in Mobile, Alabama) had when the station was branded "WKRG-TV5" or "TV5" rather than "WKRG News 5" or "News 5". Here is the address to the logo:

http://images.wikia.com/logopedia/images/e/ec/WKRG_1997.png
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I take it WKRG is Meredith-owned...
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Actually, Media General owns WKRG, which bought it with the other Spartan Communications stations in 2000. The station was locally-owned by the Giddens family until 1998, when Spartan bought it. Ergo, Meredith never owned the station, and, very likely, Giddens simply borrowed the "5" for their logo.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRG-TV

Along the same token, WRGT in Dayton also had a logo that is similar to the Meredith style, yet Meredith never owned that station.
 
The "first air date" for WKRG-TV in the Wikipedia article is not correct. The correct date is September 5th, 1955.
 
Growing up in two markets, though mainly NYC, I have lots of logos.

WABC...circle 7...NUFF SAID!

WOR--dotted nine in nine

WWOR--the one that was after the italicized "9" later used as Universal 9 then channel 9 again pre-UPN

WPIX--11 Alive 70's and early 80's, circle 11 before joining WB; their current "PIX 11" is sort of a nod to back then

WCBS--1970's-1989 or this

WNBC--The die cut 4 in the 1980's and the "4" New York which looked liked the "4" from the mid-late 70's

WNET--"Thirteen"

WNEW--Any of the big 5's...red or gold done after "The Choice" era in 1977.


In terms of CT...

WTNH--The Boxy 8, as seen here. This was before cable came to my area 1982.

The others are thanks to cable.

WFSB--1995-2004

WVIT--The Big WVIT letters with "Thirty" in script during the mid 1980's as seen here.

WTXX--Their WB20 logo was pure class. There also was the "Great Times 20" logo. What they are today...I BEG NOT TO EVEN SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And prior to 1990, WSBK-TV Boston was on cable, so the old TV 38 logo ranks as one of my all time faves.

Staying in Boston...from the times I visited that city...

WGBH...nothing more said about that

WCVB...what I call The Funky 5 or Arrow 5, which this year turns 40. Basically this logo has been that way since WHDH became WCVB

WLVI...The Field 56

WBZ...From a visit to my aunt's place on Cape Cod in 2001, the circle 4 and one of WBZ'S best news themes. One this New Yorker loved and one that should come back.
 
RobertAnthony said:
WCVB...what I call The Funky 5 or Arrow 5, which this year turns 40. Basically this logo has been that way since WHDH became WCVB
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With all due respect, WHDH didn't "become" WCVB; the original license-holder for Channel 5, WHDH Inc. (owned by the Boston Herald-Traveler), had its license yanked by the FCC after a long and brutal license challenge and left the air for good in 1972, while a new firm, Boston Broadcasters Inc., took over the Channel 5 license for Boston, with WCVB calls in tow. Completely different license.

Speaking of Boston . . . the current WHDH on Channel 7, up to 1982, was known as WNAC-TV (calls that are now applied to a Providence, RI station on Channel 64); in the late 1960's they had a "7" logo that seemed, from the '70's to the late '80's, to make up the second half of the WNJU-TV logo. I also give thumbs-up to the logo they had in their last year of RKO ownership (1981-82).
 
I'd have to say WCSC's logo that they used basically from about 1975 till about five years ago. Very simple, square 5, either in yellow or red and black.

Forced to change because of the national owners getting it, but that was an icon here.

WCBD's logo also was an icon. They used theirs from the early 1980s, and continued it even through the early days of NBC (up till early in 1997). Simple blue or yellow 2. Was still on their studios until it closed in 2002.

WCIV has changed logos so many times it never developed an identity.

WPDE's blue 15 was also an iconic logo.
 
wbhist said:
With all due respect, WHDH didn't "become" WCVB; the original license-holder for Channel 5, WHDH Inc. (owned by the Boston Herald-Traveler), had its license yanked by the FCC after a long and brutal license challenge and left the air for good in 1972, while a new firm, Boston Broadcasters Inc., took over the Channel 5 license for Boston, with WCVB calls in tow. Completely different license.
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...as well as completely different studio and completely different transmitter -- the Herald-Traveler held a grudge against the FCC and WCVB to a point where they refused to sell any of its equipment and property to the new station, even though WCVB today claims the old WHDH's history as its own.
 
azumanga said:
wbhist said:
With all due respect, WHDH didn't "become" WCVB; the original license-holder for Channel 5, WHDH Inc. (owned by the Boston Herald-Traveler), had its license yanked by the FCC after a long and brutal license challenge and left the air for good in 1972, while a new firm, Boston Broadcasters Inc., took over the Channel 5 license for Boston, with WCVB calls in tow. Completely different license.
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...as well as completely different studio and completely different transmitter -- the Herald-Traveler held a grudge against the FCC and WCVB to a point where they refused to sell any of its equipment and property to the new station, even though WCVB today claims the old WHDH's history as its own.
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.....including "Candlepin Bowling," right? :)

cd
 
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