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
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.
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
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
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
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
Quote from: Mike D boy on May 15, 2013, 02:59:35 PM
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
One blends into the other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBdyozNvJM
Quote from: PHLBOS on December 29, 2015, 05:52:11 PM
Quote from: Mike D boy on May 15, 2013, 02:59:35 PM
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
One of my favorites was the intro to the 4:30 Movie on WABC-TV/New York.
Quote from: Mike D boy on May 15, 2013, 02:59:35 PMthat 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.
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)
Quote from: PHLBOS on December 29, 2015, 05:52:11 PM
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.
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.
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
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
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).
Quote from: SteveG1988 on December 29, 2015, 06:13:20 PM
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.
One from WFLD and WKBD (Both was owned by Field Communication in the late 70s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7p2ZOzELA
Some old station IDs from what used to be Brazil's oldest TV network, TV Tupi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5grxPwU6Q
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
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
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)
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.
Quote from: SteveG1988 on December 29, 2015, 06:13:20 PM
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).
Philadelphia was on Sunday, September 10, 1995. The Boston switch with those two networks was at the beginning of 1995. Providence/New Bedford would see their ABC and CBS switch some time later (but had nothing to do with Westinghouse). There was also a bigger network reshuffling in Baltimore. All of the then-Big 3 changed channels.
KMEX-TV 34 of Los Angeles is among the first Spanish-language TV stations in the mainland US after Puerto Rico, and a co-founder of Univision, formerly the Spanish Independent Network in the 1970s and 80s. KMEX is the highest rated local TV station in the L.A. metro area TV market and according to Nielsen ratings experts, in the entire country. Los Angeles does have the largest Hispanic/Latino population in the US and being on channel 3 in most cable systems, KMEX has very high ratings since the cable channel is where TVs or DVRs are set on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeGMo6wlso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWygGsyCyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLgZBEiNHo
Around here, this WGBH-TV sign-on is very classic. One of my favorites. (OK, so it's not strictly a bumper per sé, but it's one that I could not pass up, considering most 'GBH 2 and 'GBH 44 bumpers are easily forgettable. Unfortunately.)
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM
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.
The reasoning behind the switch had nothing directly to do with NBC. Westinghouse and CBS had just merged and CBS had no desire to own NBC affiliates. As soon as the opportunity arose, KYW-TV and WBZ-TV dropped their NBC affiliations for CBS. At the same time, former Group W station WJZ-TV in Baltimore dropped their ABC affiliation for CBS.
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM32 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).
The end result of one of the longest cases in US regulatory history. The original grant of the Channel 5 license to the Herald-Traveler Corporation was tainted from the start, mostly by an ex-parte communication between one of the applicant's officers and an FCC commissioner (the former took the latter to lunch) while the case was pending. It took from 1957 (the date of the original grant of the license to the H-TC) to 1972 (when the FCC and the courts awarded the license to a new company, Boston Broadcasters, Inc, and the US Supreme Court refused the H-TC's petition to stop the license transfer) to resolve the case. BBI's pitch to the FCC indicated that they would not necessarily stick to the network's programming schedule and would fairly often run locally produced programming in prime time. CBS wanted no part of that and signed with 7 (at that time, WNAC-TV) and ABC moved over to 5, effective on the date and time of the transfer of 5's license.
I was in college in Boston at the time, and was involved in helping produce a few programming proposals for WCVB (which stands for Channel 5 Boston) with one of my TV production instructors. It was an exciting time to be studying broadcasting and to watch this regulatory case reach its climax.
KMEX-TV's competitor KVEA 52 in Los Angeles, a Telemundo station. Their first promo in the mid 1980s has the music popular at the time. In the 1990s, CBS bought Telemundo which was later sold to NBC in the mid 2000s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg2yuVMVt10
KVEA bumper circa 2000 highlights it's call sign, channel number and city where it's based (and serving L.A.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGclTPBPWgU
And most recent bumper with their network's new logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4Z66rpPrU
From Antenne 2 (now France 2) in the 1980s used as the day's openings and closings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfMJ1jP5Jpk
The Italian network RAIUNO is notably well-renowned since Italy itself is grandeur in making art, music and media. Even the high artistic style used on short TV bumpers accompany commercial breaks or "Pubblicitas."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzeHN5QMFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecE-PMPslg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sdgt44YTw
East German television (1980s) during the cold war, the country's diplomatic relations with neutral countries like Finland and reports about the USA or its involvement in the cold war world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTakKON8E2I
On the day the Berlin Wall fell (Nov. 9-10, 1989).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doj4ERQNcgc
From Costa Rica in Central America, the bumper promotes the TV station's owner runs a radio station and daily press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGa_Rsr5Ye0
Extended bumper collection of TVN Chile in South America, from its (late) start in 1969 to today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLvAoi5uPQ
East German television day intros (1970s? 80s?), both in B&W and color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7DthDV400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cFe8fil3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46XcElHqW2A
Hometown NBC affiliate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOA2unZdSF8
Also, on Cable, I loved Nickelodeon, and YouTube has a wealth of stuff from Nick during the 80's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAIX96v1mI
Wow, I've never been much of a Doo-Wop, Barbershop or acapella guy, but those Nick bumpers sound fantastic. I especially like the ones with the dinosaurs. I certainly remember the visuals of most of them but forgot how they sounded over 30 years. The '80s and '90s were very good with color, which is something I didn't really notice or appreciate until things started getting really dull-looking around the early-2000s with all the white, gray, dark red and black.
Quote from: SidS1045 on December 30, 2015, 11:08:35 AM
One of my favorites was the intro to the 4:30 Movie on WABC-TV/New York.
You know, I could swear I used to see the remnants of 1964 era WNBC TV 4 bumpers as recently as the early-1980's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsjMQNj63Sk
Chilean television bumper circa 1980 - pure propaganda to celebrate the country's economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmriFxzxY-w
And a directory of TV stations belonging to a network in Chile (the country has a really thin shape), while playing their version of Banana Boat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTUVKpVfC1k
In 1976, regular service television debuted in South Africa, the last major nation to have TV. The country was then under Apartheid, so you noticed the prevalence of white South Africans in the TV network's broadcast center. Most of the coverage is in Afrikaans, the language of Afrikaaners, the majority of the white minority. Afrikaans is descended from Dutch, as well some German and French (Huguenot ancestry) languages evolved apart from Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2aymzmRclM
TVN from Chile (2000-01?) montages - this one is a combo: there's one of beach, the other is forest and there's one of desert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILbYlELU1Q
KRBK Sacramento now known as KMAX CW31 a CBS Owned station
Interestingly CBS got KMAX 31 first to get a UPN station in the Sacramento Valley in 1998 before they got KOVR 13 the primary CBS station in Sacramento in 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDKyMPTeyE
Well Heres a KXTV clip where current KABC TV anchor Ellen Leyva was at Channel 10 in 1992 also David Ono at KOVR 13 Sacramento around the 1990's but these people may be forgotten in Sacramento but earned legendary status in Los Angeles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz2CjbJAZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRtwFoDgsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8EWpzvt7s
Heres another set of clips Pete Wilson and Gary Radnich on KTXL 40 in 1983 and in 1998 as KRON 4 talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijifagk-Y6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mizZxDAoUAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTYKY_x2DhI
Some Bay Area TV Id's in the 1980's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSduf52Mr8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VP62OfrlkQ
Detroits WXYZ using the KGO cut of News series 2000 in 1987.
Check out http://fuzzymemories.tv They have all this stuff from Chicago and Detroit area TV stations, plus local commercials, snippets of local shows, and more.
Quote from: SidS1045 on January 12, 2016, 09:58:55 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 04, 2016, 04:35:26 PM
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.
The reasoning behind the switch had nothing directly to do with NBC. Westinghouse and CBS had just merged and CBS had no desire to own NBC affiliates. As soon as the opportunity arose, KYW-TV and WBZ-TV dropped their NBC affiliations for CBS. At the same time, former Group W station WJZ-TV in Baltimore dropped their ABC affiliation for CBS.
Not quite. In 1994, Westinghouse and CBS agreed to a deal where the Group W stations would all become CBS affiliates. As a result, CBS moved from WCAU to KYW. Since WCAU was a CBS O&O station, selling it to NBC would have created a big tax burden. So instead they wound up trading it to NBC in exchange for stations in Denver and Salt Lake City, and threw in a Miami station to compensate NBC for the loss of the affiliation with KYW, which had been one of their strongest affiliates. Westinghouse bought CBS outright about a year after they made their affiliation deal. Because of the complexity of the trade with NBC, it took awhile for the affiliation switch to happen in Philly. By the time it happened, Westinghouse was already in the process of buying CBS.
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KMPH TV channel 26 from Fresno-Tulare county (Visalia), they're a FOX affiliate...and is received as far away as Merced and Bakersfield in the San Joaquin valley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diBYxACJ6rU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTfH97dYGcY
Nexstar Productions Logo for KRON San Francisco as of 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y33ZhENOjL4
Tribune Broadcasting Logo KTLA Edition late 1990's
Good morning (or good afternoon, good evening, Bon Jour, Bon Nuit, Buenos Dias, Buenas Noches, wherever you may be). Bumpers from the French TV network Antenna/France 2 I like to show you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFcgDNjkGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQDVteXTWuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9SVzetLYk
Raycom sports intro made for their stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_4q0uRo8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R859DAK5dcI
some KQED clips.
NHK Educational TV from Japan in the 1990s - with the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luz2u4NV2fE
Saudi Arabian TV channel 1...they also have a channel 2 & channel 3 (for employees in Aramco compounds in English).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGmkazvwTQ
South Korean TV bumper with their national anthem - 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1L9idUeQoM
Televisa of Mexico - Largest TV network in the Spanish-speaking world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yROGcseIzs0
Not so much a bumper, but the first 6 minutes of WFLD in Chicago's Keyfax Nite-Owl service...
Quote from: inkyatari on July 14, 2017, 09:04:49 AM
Not so much a bumper, but the first 6 minutes of WFLD in Chicago's Keyfax Nite-Owl service...
That screams 1980's
I have a bumper sticker that reads a positive message on it, but if I shared it may raise some controversy as the nature of station would upset a couple of users. But if I could the fonts used and the overall design of the sticker is so cool.
CFQC-TV Saskatoon bumperr from 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0RrbOzZ1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le6nnAQp2k0
Here is the KABC7 Clip that includes LA Roads.
Quote from: JJBers on July 14, 2017, 01:15:11 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on July 14, 2017, 09:04:49 AM
Not so much a bumper, but the first 6 minutes of WFLD in Chicago's Keyfax Nite-Owl service...
That screams 1980's
I just found out that of all companies the BBC still uses teletext as a service.
I also found a cool app on my phone that connects to it, as well as other teletext services worldwide.
Here's a few from Post-Newsweek stations that scream 1970's
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxpS-BygYU
KGO-TV circa 1992 promo.