PBS Identities: 1962 - 2002

[AwesomenessVidStudio]

Aha haha hahaha! They..a ahahahah... They just kept coming! Hahahahh!

[CapitalNick]

Is this PBS?

[ntaylor97]

1:38 I remember that one...

[thetoolbox112394]

@ntaylor97 so do I! I love that one!

[PixieStixxandAdderal]

1:00 was pretty goddamn trippy.

[wiithepeople2]

Some one needs to put up a Leonidas head on this and insert "Sparta" where "PBS" was.

"this is SPAAARRTAAAAAA"

[TheWeatherMaster]

@wiithepeople2 thats a good idea ...

[wiithepeople2]

@TheWeatherMaster Of course it is. Why wouldn't it?

[grands1am]

I'd recognize the Orange Kid font anywhere!!!

[archie977]

how do u get tv in tv antenna tv?

[lughnagh]

At .51-.57, it sounds kind of like Morgan Freeman.

[Ulisesbroos]

P-Pals?

[Kobra750]

You missed one that all are missing in these things. The "And On" variation of the pre-1989 logo.

[thetoolbox112394]

1:38-1:43 FTW!!!!!!!!

[TKGB2006]

I feel so nostalgic looking that the old identities, and I wasn't even born in that era.

[Bestmanme08]

The one at 1:02 is the one I remember from the early 70's! I didn't know what it was!

[ARCTICCUISINE]

at the very beginning...is that Mr Rogers?

[NickWilliam89]

@ARCTICCUISINE That is the good ol' Mister Rogers.

[67nairb]

1:42-231 Lauren Bacall is the one who is saying: "This is PBS."

[unknownsources3000]

this is PBS on youtube

[Akira625]

0:53 Hey! That sounds like Paul Frees!

[aiboluver]

0:11 sounds like mr rogers lol

[Kohntarkosz]

Oh I remember the one at 1:05! Another great example of analog synths on TV!

[AdiRudi]

My favourite's definitely the one at 1:20

[MisterEvasion]

The one at 1:15 seems to me the best or the one just after it with voice. simple and unintrusive.

I guess I consider PBS the GNU software of television. Good quality and publicly licenced.

[Treyskywalker77]

You should see Skoneer2007's videos.

[Treyskywalker77]

You should see skyoneer's videos

[greenma201]

this is pbs not sparta

[Fangarius]

The one at 1:00 I recall a lot since they used to show this after Sesame Street and the Electric Company on local television, before PBS ended up getting their own stations.

[AZAZAZA002451]

Does anybody know, what the music is? 2:16 (on the backgorund, or without his voice) Thx

[MrSirosis]

I remember 1:00 (which is my favorite) on. From watching Mr. Rogers, and Sesame Street in the early 80's

[myronfalwell]

Technically, NET became WNET-TV though a merger with WNDT in New York.

PBS was founded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting one year earlier with very limited responsibilities, but it assumed NET's programming distribution service with that merger.

[kbrinks]

1:11 and 1:21 are the one's i grew up to.

[jtomally9681]

@kbrinks 1:00 through 1:42 is what I grew up with. At 1:11 is the Logo that use to scare the living crap out of me as a kid.

[WinterWeatherII]

I knew PBS from a very young age, I watched it on WVIZ and WNEO/WEAO it brings back a lot of memories seeing these clips.

[WinterWeatherII]

I remember from the 2nd "PBS" logo on up, don't know why I remember that one because it was probably before my time, but maybe it was on some old runs of seasame street or Mr. Rogers

[darkshiv]

1:45 - 2:37

[muzzher]

Wow, great to see these. I remember all of them (and I feel really old right now!), so brought back some memories. Thanks!

[ElasticMinds]

i think I remember the one at 1:11, but I know for sure the one after that around 1:17 and beyond. All of these take me back to my childhood.

[Meiscochan]

1:22 to present day Is what I rememeber

[stevenalexsmith]

Did you watch any PBS in 1989?

[Hollywood49]

My favorite was always the one at 1:00 , I remember it from my days of watching Sesame Street in kindergarten in the early 80s. I never get tired of seeing it...

[LaddyDongdegs]

According to Kris Starring, there was a variation of the B&W NET logo where the antenna rotated, but no footage exists of it.

[v19d]

I remember the 1:21 to 1:26 from my childhood because I also watched PBS.

[devulboy1]

From 1:40 onward, the female announcer is famous or familiar: was it Maya Angelou or Whoopi Goldberg? Angelou was a book author, TV show announcer/narrator and was involved in PBS. Whoopi was an actress, but was into public and political causes, esp. liberal activism, feamle empowerment and the African-American community. She was PBS material alike Angelou and PBS is the sociopolitical opposite of neo-con Fox News TV (LoL). +

[UmedaRaton]

Try Lauren Bacall!!

[devulboy1]

The very first logo, you hear a man's voice saying "I was among the first to start WQED" I believe it was our television "neighbor" Mr. Rogers, his show was based in WQED of Pittsburgh. WNET 13 was the New York City's public TV station, although I remember KNET Los Angeles (was that the early KCET 28? or channel 15 of San Diego?). Nowadays, PBS is seen as the imitator of BBC TV from Britain, a government-funded "public" high-brow culture network, but not all of BBC is like that.+

[vzeu019j]

It WAS Mr. Rogers whose voiceover was in the first NET logo. He actually was one of the first people to start WQED in Pittsburgh as to the reason he had his long-lived show based in that city area.

[linkinparkrocker44]

u do know that Mr. Rogers was the best american sniper right

[WhatsAYak]

Not true...just a rumor, there was no time he could've concievably served in the military, since he did his show w/o interruption for nearly 40 years.

And the rumor he wore those sweaters to cover his military tattoos? Also false...in one ep, they showed him showering @ a public pool, and not a single tattoo was visible on his bare arms.

[MrSirosis]

You do know that urban legend about Mr. Rogers being a sniper in the vietnam war is the bigest load of shit ever, Right?

[MrSirosis]

He started working in Kids programing as early as 1954, well before the US had troups in Vietnam. He became an ordained presbyterian minister in 1963, the same year he started Mr. Rogers neighborhood on Canadian PTV, His U.S. version of Mr Rogers neighborhood started in 1968 right about the time the vietnam war was going into full tilt, not to mention he was 40 yrs old in 1968, well beyond the median age a U.S. soldier in the vietnam war would be.

[wiithepeople2]

@MrSirosis But him and the guy that made Night of the Living Dead used to work together.

[johnson1095]

@MrSirosis

That would be hilarious though to see Mr. Rogers flip out on live tv outta nowhere lol.

RIP Mr. Rogers

[yellowdiva21]

what year was the logo on 1:22 released?

[themaritimeman]

I believe 1993.

[yellowdiva21]

the logo on 1:22 reminds me of the days when I used to have no cable

[bigfalcor]

i remember it from my childhood!

[Sabored]

Is this pbs?

[BornTV]

zoommmmmmmmmm, This is "Bull-Shit!!!!"

[tamspeci]

I wonder when exactly did NET become PBS.

[bigrene2]

October 5, 1970.

[asphil78]

@tamspeci On October 5, 1970, NET was replaced by PBS.

[Childist2]

@tamspeci 1970

[asphil78]

@tamspeci October 5, 1970

[67tr876]

@asphil78 I was told 1962 ! ?

[ThePolerbearproducts]

@tamspeci I think it was around 1970's ish or so idk but that's what i think.

[PixieStixxandAdderal]

@tamspeci Late in the seventies.

[frankd1965]

@tamspeci in 1970.

[xRAMxDOD]

@tamspeci in late 1970

[whattheheck1000]

@tamspeci on October 5, 1970

July 12, 2011 7:56 pm

[brittany7890]

i think the one that starts from 1:00 to 1 09 sounds cool and trippy lol, which decade was that one from ?

[Gavin2002]

That was the logo used from 1971-1984 (longest time span for a PBS logo, they usually haven't lasted past 5 years or so, save the current one, which has been used since 2002).

[brittany7890]

thanks

[EnigmaAkkida]

I lol'd at 2:05

It looks like Zarok from Medieval

=p

[fdpoiuy]

The ident after the PBS Glass Elipse ident scares me!

[bherring49]

why did you do that one over and over

[SpitballSparky]

Different variations.

[Kargaroc286]

STOP postin g all of the 1999 ones. when you do that, they take up a quarter of the video

[Strasburg1991]

can you please do them in year order

[DourifGirl]

Although the logo at 1:22 is most familiar to me, I remember all the ones from 1:12 onward, except for that random one that looks like a big purple smudge. The logo at 1:00 is scary! I'm glad I never saw that as a child.

[txtumbler]

The logo at 1:00 is the one I remember the most. I can't say it scared me, but I do remember it always got my attention...like a weather advisory or something. I was probably 3-4 at the time.

[auerstadt06]

That one creeped me out too, like it was a tv station run by aliens.

[devulboy1]

I loved the logo, but the music is strange and "futuristic" for the 1970s still used well into the early '90s. The most recent logos, IDs and bumpers have more people & indeed creativity, whenever PBS had enough "public" funding to hire more artistic minded people to create those ident bumpers. I grew up admiring the tranquil simple styles used at 1:11 & 1:23 , and don't forget the PBS logo "Square one" version available on youtube. "It's on...on...on..." must been done on acid. +

[vzeu019j]

The version of the Infinity PBS variant(From "Square One TV") is pretty funny. They're actually saying "And on...and on...and on...!".

[HBKanedge818]

:10 was the voice of Fred Rogers.

[noahf67]

yikes..I'm that old? My earliest Sesame Street recollections include ID's for "NET"

Pre-PBS....(!)

[michigandon]

On some early Mr Rogers episodes, during the closing credits when the "model railroad" houses and cars were being shown, wasn't there a house at the very end in the shape of the NET "roof with the TV antenna" logo?

[noahf67]

Indeed there was.

[Hondo20132]

The slanted roof was kept after PBS was established.

[ardalsgirl]

Wow I never knew that PBS was originalley called NET, National Eduacation Network, very interesting thankyou for posting this! :D

[michigandon]

Seems as though I remember a few PBS shows still having the NET logo in the early '70s. Musta been reruns?

[ardalsgirl]

Wow really at the same time they switched it to PBS? Wow yeah I guess it must have been reruns, very interesting.

[hpmc8]

it's always stood for hammer and sickle

[VoltzCartoons]

at 59:00, you can actually hear the music playing quietly before the real one plays.

[Hondo20132]

It was pretty common for that to happen back then.

[SpitballSparky]

Wow...I gotta say when I uploaded this video, I didn't think many people would watch it. Old logos...but I'm glad you all like it. Isn't nostalgia lovely?

[VirgilB01]

MY GOD!!That old NET indent from the sixties i barely remember that one from public television i was about 2 or 3 and i still remember it!! Where did you get that one! Thanx for this.

[sereneceline101]

;/

on the 1959-1968 net logo had 2 vioceoer say "so i was the first to start the logos" and revercd sied "lol i was killed on crack lol lots of spigiti" lol

[focusFR200]

what the...?PBS was previously known as the National Educational Television network?tell me MORE about IT

[sc4reactor]

You forgot PBS DVD 2000 and PBS 2003.

[SpitballSparky]

I don't have the DVD/VHS ones. If you know where I may find them, please let me know. As far as I known, 2003 used the current ident.

[wwworldclique]

1:00 is the one you grew up with if you were a kid in the 70s and 80s.

[huggyface]

That was my fave one..the one that seems to scare the crap out of most people, LOL

It was called the "Tri-Colored P-Everyman" logo..

[carebearsfan]

johnsesame28, Those logos are:

NET color ident

First PBS ident

First PBS P-head ident

[gobii81]

Dr.Phil's first Televised appearance (see 1:43-1:48) Well, it's not really him but it looks like him.

[88HJS]

Interestingly, Dr. Phil became a mainstay on Oprah Winfrey's show around the same time that logo debuted.

[messinwithit]

the first guy who holds up the P sign looks like Dr. Phil

[sharpTH]

Viacom:This is madness!

PBS: THIS...IS....PBS!!!!

lol,gotta make a spoof

[88HJS]

"1 minute before 10"? Is that the one I saw at the end of a Sesame Street closing from the 1980s that someone posted?

[88HJS]

I thought that was just an announcer from a local PBS station (IIRC, the music behind the logo was quieted over the announcer's voice), and that may have been the reason why they added the "this is PBS" voiceover on the next ident.

[mimitchilove33]

@88HJS Where can I see the "1 minute before 10" PBS ident? Can you possibly give me a link to the Sesame Street closing with that ident, please?

[carebearsfan]

And this is PBS!

[carebearsfan]

cool!

[carebearsfan]

The ident at 1:33 is a still ident. There is no and on idnet in this video.

[carebearsfan]

You forgot the And on logo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ally525]

aaaaaaaaahhh this is pbs yeahaayehahaaaahh

[Skyoneer2007]

yes, we are pbs

[guttongue]

i really have nothing better to do right now.

[fieldsfan336]

There was a second version of the logo at 1:12 that was used at the end of the first episode of Square One TV. Started out the normal way, but then multiplied to forever with the backing vocal "And on, and on, and on"

[cmarlow330]

JESUS CHRIST.. LOL the ones with the people covering the faces at the end got annoying

if I hear..... AND IS PBS..... LOL im gonna scream hahahaha

good video though!!!

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

How Many Idents Did They Have

[muddyplanet]

yea im with u gavin lol

[GavinRoskamp]

those last few got annoying... lol

[filburt50]

Can you do the PBS Kids identities?

[SpitballSparky]

I just uploaded the PBS Kids identities today. Enjoy!

[Skyoneer2007]

you did not use this one

watch?v=VtOXmjBB9so&mode=relat­ed&search=

[fauxuser416]

Is that James Garner who says "This is PBS" on the '89 logo?

[dolphin1701]

Good job.

Question: when and under what circumstances was the ident at 1:33 used?

[Skyoneer2007]

that just might be some retarted parody

[SpitballSparky]

From what I have gathered, it was used after News Hour and after some episodes of Square One. I got that clip from a now defunct website dedicated soley to it. It was supposed to begin blurry, then sharpen as the music ends. Unfortunantly, I have never seen a high-quality clip of it. If anybody has one they would be willing to share, please do so.

[dolphin1701]

Thanks for the info. I actually kinda like the ident; it has a Picassoesque look to it. I actually have recorded the ending to a NewsHour episode from 1997(I used to record Bill Nye eps and NewsHour came before it), but they used the normal window/telescope ID. BTW, does anyone else love the NewsHour theme:

ba da bum bum buuuuuuuuuuum bum BUM bum

[SpitballSparky]

There were specific years that the ident was used after Newshour, but I forgot. I know some in 1995 used it though.

[88HJS]

I think the logo was first used in 1990, which means it should've gone between the Transparent Blue P-Heads and the Orange CGI P-Heads.

[carebearsfan]

That was the test (also known as prototype) logo!

[Skyoneer2007]

P.S. you forgot the 2003 peoples logo

[88HJS]

No, she didn't. These are PBS idents from 1962 to 2002.

[Skyoneer2007]

the one that says, we are pbs

[robosapiencam]

The PBS ident was from 2002(Somewhere 3rd quarter) to 2007 you must mean. Also you left out the And On PBS logo, the PBS Kids logo (1996-1999) and the second PBS logo(1999-2003)

[88HJS]

That one is still used today. Only logos that premiered before 2002 are in this presentation.

[Skyoneer2007]

OH I see, its only retro logos, but thoes people holding the pbs bord over there head still comes on reruns of old shows

[SpitballSparky]

I would like to eventually add the new logos, (We are PBS, I am PBS, etc.) but I can't find all of them as of now.

[Skyoneer2007]

its okay

[animegal2686]

I loved the logo at 1:27, and the logos from 1:44 - end. I didn't always like the fact that those people covered there faces with the PBS logo, But I loved the backgrounds and the music that they used so I was willing after a while, to accept the rest of it.

[mcy919]

You are correct, not to mention that I was the one that recorded those idents. The 1989 and 1996 idents also still appear on reruns of old shows on UNC-TV, although they are not nearly as common as the 1998 ident.

[mcy919]

I meant to specify that the 1998 idents were the ones I recorded.

[Skyoneer2007]

love the quality