TV station bumpers

[Desert Man]

Like my earlier thread on radio station jingles, I came up on one of TV stations and networks' bumpers, logos and slogans. I start out by displaying the National Broadcasting Company of the USA (or we all know, NBC) has went through lots of changes. Also to add from my childhood of the 1980s/early 90s are saturday morning cartoon block bumpers (I vividly remember more of the late 80s). And my Shoutouts to KNBC 4 of Los Angeles and KMIR 6/36 from my hometown Indio representing the Palm Springs area, as well KYMA 11 of El Centro/Yuma Az. retrieved over the air on occassion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDvmFIcPcEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P85iYZx3RQ

[Desert Man]

The slideshow of logos of the local ABC affiliate, KESQ channel 3 (UHF 42), first went on air in 1968 as KPLM-TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQkZ5Tkm60

The tri-color scheme was awesome, but the station decided to go with a big golden "3" in the mid 90s.

[Desert Man]

TF1 have made a catchy disco-like "opening" and a groovy funky "ending" bumper in the 1970's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kbYMLgAok

This next one's gotta be made by someone on acid: Antenna 2 (now France 2) made a trippy bumper in the late 1970's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ITT3Z6fCyk

[Stephane Dumas]

Here a Holidays bumper then CFCF-12/CTV Montreal used in the 1970s and 1980s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdr77NgPdU0

I remember the CBS Special presentation bumper often used to air Charlie Brown, Fat Albert, Garfield special episodes for Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4_d_6A8nE0

Here the bumper of CJOH/CTV Ottawa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKqNMkxvzhM

One from CBVT-11/SRC Quebec City from the early 1980s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5xAJwPeTI0

[Desert Man]

In my wife's hometown of San Mateo, she recalls two ABC stations served the San Francisco Bay and Monterey bay areas. KNTV 11 of San Jose was the secondary ABC affiliate, but changed to become a WB affiliate in 2000 and by 2002, they became the only NBC affiliate for the entire San Francisco Bay area. In fact, when a CBS or NBC station in some metro areas broadcast a live sports game, another TV station by contract agreement carries the CBS or NBC programs on a delayed hour schedule.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6CRBcUKXSA

[Desert Man]

Glad I found this thread again (and I have something new to add), since it's been awhile I came to this forum. Almost 2016 already (where did the time go?) and I have here TVE1 bumpers from Spain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIfpzT7eU3c

[PHLBOS]

that NBC video you posted missed a very key one that ran from 1962 to 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPSI6tEvyE

I always like the one PBS had during the 70s and early 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klmmQ_5bGKQ

[SteveG1988]

One blends into the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBdyozNvJM

[Stephane Dumas]

that NBC video you posted missed a very key one that ran from 1962 to 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPSI6tEvyE

CBC/Radio-Canada used the Butterfly ident from 1966 to 1974 when they beginned to switch from black & white to color tv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvj2f_U5lA

CTV used this ident who became the basis to their current logo when they switched to color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxw4-KwDXQ

[SidS1045]

One of my favorites was the intro to the 4:30 Movie on WABC-TV/New York.

[SidS1045]

that NBC video you posted missed a very key one that ran from 1962 to 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPSI6tEvyE

The other two major American networks had their color logos too.

[Henry]

While we're on the subject, I may as well throw in some classic bumpers from Chicago.

WBBM-TV/CBS

WMAQ/NBC

WLS-TV/ABC

WFLD/Independent (now FOX)

[briantroutman]

I always like the one PBS had during the 70s and early 80s:

Me too–and created by one of my designer heroes, Herb Lubalin. And yet despite the respect I have for the man as a fellow graphic designer, I must admit he went through some truly awful candidates on his way to the P-head logo that finally graced TV screens nationwide.

Here's a segment that appeared on a PBS series series, Media Probes, in 1981 (the same year Lubalin died, incidentally). One thing that stands out to me is that the PBS brass seemed obsessed with the P-head facing left and that somehow subconsciously hinting at their supposed liberalism (an appearance they wanted to avoid). And when the logo was redesigned in 1984 by Chermayeff & Geismar, what did they do? Turned it to face right, of course.

[dcbjms]

One of my favourites, from the mid-'80s (I think) on Radio-Canada.

"Vous méritez ce qu'il y a de mieux !" (FR) = "You deserve the very best from us!" (EN)

Then there's the myriad of promos Québécois chanteuse Véronique Béliveau did for the then-Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec, Quebec's answer to PBS) which you can find on YT.

[Desert Man]

America Television of Peru has a disco tune to their bumper from the early 1980s (wait, did disco died in 1980?) and the bumper indicates the entire Americas are represented, though the TV station is only in Peru, unless widely transmitted by satellite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFubIEbuK88

And KCAL TV channel 9, the only remaining independent commercial station in the Los Angeles area (formerly KHJ TV) in the 1970s/80s before renaming itself KCAL for "California". KHJ was also the call letter for a popular radio station on 930AM before switching to Spanish in 1990, then to sports in the 2000s and finally rented by a Christian religious group today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgwL1T3Bbg

[Desert Man]

From a TV station owned by a Roman Catholic university in Chile, canal trece (13) has a commercial format with a variety of programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vVP2fkEkc

And I remember some of the Disney Channel bumpers back when it was a premium (pay-to-view) channel in the 1980s and early 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehEfhx5yBY

[dcbjms]

Some old Telefé logos from Argentina.

Also, ATC/Canal 7 (now TV Pública):

^ Very interesting promotional video, too, from back when ATC was a new brand for Argentina's oldest TV channel (also keeping in mind that the video was produced under the junta).

[DeaconG]

One blends into the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBdyozNvJM

I remember coming home for a visit, seeing this and my head exploding.  So of course since I grew up only a few miles away from Bala, I had to go see for myself.
The entire time I'm swearing like a sailor and my younger brother is laughing his ass off.

No...just no.

[cwf1701]

One from WFLD and WKBD (Both was owned by Field Communication in the late 70s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7p2ZOzELA

[dcbjms]

Some old station IDs from what used to be Brazil's oldest TV network, TV Tupi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5grxPwU6Q

[Desert Man]

Nickelodeon (or Nick) bumpers, changing its logo for every generation of children watches the cable channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WowfDCvzl8

And from TVN Chile in the early 2000s, a TV network with its very thin-shaped national transmission area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPPgtnErEeo

[Desert Man]

Canal 9 (Andinia TV) of Peru's opening of the day. It's typical for TV networks have a channel number brand (i.e. channel 7 in Australia), but installed many translators across their country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMJ8wLgQs8

and my local NBC affiliate, KMIR. In 1968, both KMIR and KPLM (now KESQ) went on the air to bring major network television to the Palm Springs area other than from L.A. by cable. The Palm Springs area now has all the big 4, the CW and My Network stations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aCrgCNbqDs

[KEVIN_224]

KMIR-TV had been employing Geoff Fox as one of their weather forecasters. Some of his work was actually being done from his own garage at his Irvine, CA home. He uses that same "studio" for a TV client in eastern Nebraska now. From the early 1980s until a few years ago, he had been a Connecticut mainstay. He worked for WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 of New Haven for almost 27 years. He was then with WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford for close to 2 years.

Safe to say I wouldn't have known where the Coachella Valley was without him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjAvVLVTvUs (1985...trying to find a bumper now)

[KEVIN_224]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpUNt2C1GYs

From WVIT-TV (NBC) channel 30 of New Britain/Hartford. Today they use channel 35 for their digital and simply use the name "NBC Connecticut" on the air.

[PHLBOS]

One blends into the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBdyozNvJM

The Boston area TV market encountered a similar switch with Channel 4 (WBZ) & 7 (WHDH) around the same timeframe.  The reasoning behind the switch was due to NBC being a GE affiliate whereas the Group W NBC stations (3/KYW in Philly, 4/WBZ  in Boston at the time) were Westinghouse affiliates.

32 years earlier, Boston's Channel 5 and 7 swapped affiliates (ABC & CBS) as well.  5 switched its call letters from WHDH to the current WCVB letters and the 5 logo hasn't changed at all since then (1972).