JeeperOne
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How is it "Small market". To me, it doesn't look much different than the one WFXT had when it was an O&O
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Ugly TV station logos
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The 8 looks a lot like the 8 in the WGHP High Point NC logo from the early 80s. I happened to visit their building shortly after they changed that logo and the front door handles still looked like that.
What about the Hearst statons?! All of them call themselves by their call letters, WPBF, WESH, WYFF, WCVB, you get it, even the newly Hearst-owned WJCL in Savannah!
Don't forget the other Hearst station in Sacramento KCRA the NBC affiliate in the area. Hearst stations tend to use call letters and use network logo attached to their channel logo.
I remember KHON the Media General station in Hawaii used to use the Fox O&O look for their station back in 2002 as Fox 2 Hawaii. But in recent years they use the circle 2 logo and the KHON calls for some reason. Not sure why they did this though.
KGMB-9 Honolulu from the 1990s...hideous!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PzgCdwNX838/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PzgCdwNX838/hqdefault.jpg
What is that thing beside the "9" supposed to represent?
It's a sailboat, and honestly it's not a bad logo.
That's why I said all of them, which includes KCRA with the exceptions, why does someone think that Hearst has ugly logos, which have call letters in almost all of them, with a few exceptions I listed in my 1st comment.
That nine is nein! So is this one:
This is the current issue from KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids IA. Looks somewhat like a tow hook off the front bumper of a Jeep. A nine that looks like the beginnings of a 2, not what I think you'd be shooting 4, rather for, when your crosstown rival is channel 2.
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Also a nod to Hawaii's cultural heritage.
Speaking of Hearst, some of the station logos have been around since the seventies, like WISN/Milwaukee (going back to 1976) and WTAE/Pittsburgh (unchanged since 1973).
Around the time that KCCI was still using the forementioned incarnation of their "8" logo (late '70s), their "Venetian Blinds" reception partner in parts of eastern Iowa, WQAD-8 Moline, IL (ABC), changed their moniker to "Active 8" (IIRC in late 1978). With a new station logo in order--which growing up between (and in reception range of) Peoria and Quad Cities stations thought was cool as a kid, but I can see some people thinking that WQAD's "8" of the early "Active 8" era (1978-ca. 1984) would look ugly:
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/File:Active8WQAD1971.png (the file says 1971 but that is incorrect): http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/File:Active8WQAD1971.png
Around fall 1984 the "Active 8" logo was redesigned: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net...QAD1978.png/revision/latest?cb=20110904025602 (yes I know the file says 1978 but that logo wasn't used until 1984 at the earliest):
I do not recognize that music. Seems like a drum intro for some rock band, but can't place it.
One interesting example of news intros in the 70's was Mason Williams "Classical Gas", used in Seattle at KIRO and in Minneapolis, (I think KMSP, then ABC, but could be wrong, in circa 1976, and likely in many other markets).
Here is the theme...you have to go in a minute or so to get the actual theme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREi_Bb85Sk
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Starts off like the intro from the Moody Blues' "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)," but quickly turns into a pretty amateurish-sounding drum mess. I'd wager that it was something bought cheap from a distributor of such program music, or maybe even locally recorded just for that purpose.
I read that it was because of ratings decreasing as a result of their switch to FOX from NBC in 1996, or maybe the FOX network ratings.
KHON's Wikipedia page mentions that the FOX 2 logo was used from 1996-2004. The other former logos can be found on Logopedia.
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Yeah, many of those are "creepy", perhaps a better word would be "cheesy". I would argue that this clip also showed atleast a couple of classics, "Screen Gems", and "WGBH Boston".
The 1971 KCET logo would look ugly by some standards today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGC4iQfDnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGC4iQfDnY
Other when the ABC dot was added in the late '90s, Philly's WPVI has used the same "6" logo since around 1970 when it was still Triangle-owned WFIL.
Baltimore's WJZ-13 has used the same Westinghouse font (Westinghouse bought it and relettered it from "WAAM" in the late '50's) probably since it was developed in the early '60s, even though CBS now owns WJZ. I saw a 1966 Orioles team picture with the Westinghouse font WJZ banner on the mezzanine behind the team. KYW-3 used the Westy font from the time Westinghouse acquired it and relettered it from "WRCV" through the CBS acquisition until 2003 when the logo went Arial(?). KYW-AM still uses the Westinghouse font.
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Baltimore's WJZ-13 has used the same Westinghouse font (Westinghouse bought it and relettered it from "WAAM" in the late '50's) probably since it was developed in the early '60s, even though CBS now owns WJZ. I saw a 1966 Orioles team picture with the Westinghouse font WJZ banner on the mezzanine behind the team. KYW-3 used the Westy font from the time Westinghouse acquired it and relettered it from "WRCV" through the CBS acquisition until 2003 when the logo went Arial(?). KYW-AM still uses the Westinghouse font.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqjVI9Pd8CA
KRON San Francisco although their intent is to make it look like the Golden gate bridge its ugly by its own right.
KRON San Francisco although their intent is to make it look like the Golden gate bridge its ugly by its own right.
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