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UNC-TV logo meaning

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I've long been interested in the meaning behind the unique logo used by North Carolina's public television network, UNC-TV. I actually asked on a tour at the station 21 years ago what the logo represented and the tour guide didn't know for sure, only that it was designed by the same folks as the CBS "eye" and that the consensus around the station was that it was either a hurricane or quotation marks. I wondered if maybe it represented an abstract "4" representing flagship station WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill--on channel 4 from 1955 until the DTV shutdown two years ago. New Hampshire Public TV's logo obviously represents the letters "NH" and an "11", and their flagship, WENH-TV in Durham, operated on channel 11 (and may still...I'm unsure of their DTV assignment)

http://www.unctv.org/pressroom/unctv_logos/images/bugdeluxe.jpg
 
firepoint525 said:
Kinda reminds me of the Screen Gems logo...
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Didn't WFMZ in Allentown used to have a logo similar to Screen Gems, which they changed around the same time SG restarted as a film studio?
 
Well, the center of the logo is the same teal blue that the Tar Heels from the University of North Carolina uses on their uniforms... ::)
 
The first number I think of in the UNC TV logo is a 9...although I can see the 4 too. Could even be a 6 or a 0.

My point being, I can't see it having anything to do with any number.
 
The logo's teal coloring is a fairly recent modification. For most of its history, it was two slightly different shades of orange.
 
I think that logo's been around since the mid-80s? Seems like there were a couple of other logos out similar to this "hurricane" back then, when desktop publishing and computers were becoming an industry. There are some "flame" logos used today with that motif, mostly in ministry communications.

It's abstract enough to mean something to everyone who looks at it...

The "hurricane" is probably just designed to make you think of motion. May have some counterclockwise ("alternative" "not like the other stations") aspect to it.

To me, it looks like something designed to draw your attention to the center point, like a "hurricane eye" or maybe "the center of a 45 rpm record." Actually with some of the adapters I remember, it looks more like that.

Or it could just be symbolic fingers holding something in the middle of the letters? Perhaps it's symbolic of Bob Garner's fingers wrapped around any of a number of tasty NC food products before he chomps it and says "Yumm, good eats," then swallows and takes another bite over and over until there's enough footage for the segment? :D
 
Reminds me of the logo for the NHL Carolina Hurricanes.

Having a friend who lives on the Outer Banks, I fail to see why North Carolinians
would embrace the hurricane as a symbol of their state. It would be like Kansas using
a tornado or California showing a building crumbling during an earthquake.
 
I see what you're saying, but "hurricanes" isn't really a symbol for the state. It's only for the NHL team.
Most all sports teams have fierce-sounding, fierce-reminiscent names that are generically evocative of some aspect of their region/city/college.

I doubt UNC was thinking "hurricane" when they came up with that logo, even though Hazel and Hugo and a couple of others are well-known and respected here... :)
 
Gosh, yes, I would just be tripping over penguins everywhere as I was
growing up in Pittsburgh! ;D
 
The design in the middle of the UNC-TV logo might just be something akin to a recycling symbol motif, because 19 times out of 20, when I check out WUNC-TV, it's a rerun. They've been running the same episodes of the same British comedies for ten years now. Same goes for all the cartoons on UNC-KD and most of the shows on UNC-EX.
 
quadraphonic said:
I doubt UNC was thinking "hurricane" when they came up with that logo, even though Hazel and Hugo and a couple of others are well-known and respected here... :)
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Weren't the Charlotte Hornets lucky the hurricane that hit the city was called Hugo?

Then George Shinn and Ray Wooldridge got greedy and the city built a new arena anyway ... :mad:
 
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