The colour really is like I remember it. Really striking. The US had them in the sixties but most started getting them in the early seventys in the UK. My parents got our first colour set in the early seventys and I was so excited I ran home after school to see it
I remember a lot of these. I ALSO remember when TV Guide indicated if the show was in COLOUR, and in retrospect, it seems like people liked to wear bright yellow or light pink clothes "to show that the programme was really in colour".
The reason "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" went off the air in 1966 was NOT because of color, but due to the fact that Dick and creator/producer/head writer Carl Reiner decided they'd gone as far with the series as they could, agreeing to end production after the fifth season {"It's time to move on"}. That season, CBS began colorcasting about half of their prime-time schedule and news/sports programs [daytime, however, wasn't "converted" until about 1967].....
...ABC, on the other hand, FINALLY had the financial and technical resources to begin scheduling almost half of their evening lineup in color in the fall of 1965 (from 1962 through '65, they were only able to colorcast two or three filmed series, at the most, in prime-time). They finally joined CBS and NBC in 100% "all-color" prime-time telecasting in the fall of '66.
what the hell is all this bisness about these things scaring and creeping people out??!! i can understand if your little or high but any normal person can look at these and say, that was cool. there very happy. pbs dosentt sound scary, the nbc peacokcs just fine, so quit telling me how creepy it was. you creep me out.
Those logos were HORRIFYING to me when I was little. I'd wake up at 2 am with that NBC peacock music going thru my mind! Also the one that had this angry man's voice yelling "this is a screen gems presentation". That one just sounded so VIOLENT. Didn't like that one either.
@gwugluud I thought I was the only one but I too was scaredshitless as a kid in the 60's of some of these logo themes. Especially if I had to go to the restroom late at night and my dad was watching TV late. Chilling!
@OldMrMemories Funny you're not the only one, when I was a kid it sounded like "nightmare" music to me. I suppose I was afraid of a frightening image would leap out lol. Watching this brings back those old memories!
@gwugluud That is funny man. I used to get scared of the most ridiculous things growing up in the 90's but what you said just makes me think of how easily scared children get.
@gwugluud I just had to chuckle when I read your post. Until now I thought I was the only baby boomer with that chilling memory. Yes, that weird nightmarish flute noise when the peacock unfurled itself sometimes went through my mind too in the dead of night. sheesh...and that "screen gems presentation" voice reminded me of my dad when he was scolding me about something lol.
The B&W ABC ID used to scare me as a kid.. it sounded like something big was coming after me! Always loved the peacock, but we didn't have a color set until 1972. The CBS ID reminds me of Red Skelton.
I can remember the NBC peacock and the man saying in living color on NBC and then Walt Disney coming on we must have watched NBC a lot because I remember that so vividly.
I'm curious as to why a montage of American TV network IDs is titled "In Living Colour" (instead of "color") and uses a British "Radio Caroline" jingle as its opening instead of something from the USA.
I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
Quite frankly, the source of that particular logo was a web download, so it just well may be a creature of yours. I cleared the use with PBS, but they did not provide the media.
You know, I thought I was alone until reading these posts, the PBS logo (sound) was kind of creepy. It was the sound at the beginning or maybe just sadness that Sesame Street was ending for the day. At least I had a very normal and happy childhood and I didn't lose sleep over it. But seeing it just now brought back that little tingly feel. By the way, my wife and kids are normal, too! :)
@MIKEEILAND1...i'm with u on that one...funny how many of get and got the same or similar feelings from these short little bumbers...ah me....the good ole days... :) i happen to be a certified lunatic..but that's neither here or there...LOL!
I saw all these station ID's. The comments about the electronic fanfares that were vogue for a moment in the mid '60's are interesting. NET, CBS Color and PBS used them. NBC used a sort of chamber musical fanfare with the quasi-psychodelic color shifts...and ABC used the tried and true big band/jazz horn fanfare. The non-electronic scores seem to fare the best over time. The electronic scores, however, during their time were new and indicative of modernity. The Larime NBC was my favorite.
CBS refused to carry color programing until the mid 60's when it couldn't hold out any longer. That;'s because the color compatable system that was approved by the FCC was patented by RCA - owner of NBC! NBC had color shows since the late 1950's. ABC had a few color shows in the early 60's, but not many, since those shows were more expensive and ABC was cheap. When CBS went all-color, ABC had no other choice.
@proken58: Columbia had a mechanical form of color TV, involving a spinning color wheel, inside the TV sets, but that format only lasted a couple of years (1949-50).
@proken58 I think thats the reason Dick Van Dyke went off the air, because Dick wanted it in color and CBS refused to let it. I think NBC was the very first beginning with Bonanza, and ABC was broadcasting The Flintstones in color too, they had to because I watched it as a child every afternoon and I still watch it as a 46 year old.
I grew up in a love/hate/love affair with TV (a rather looooonnng one), and i remember all the color icons, most especially the nbc peacock. And i don't see what could be so scary about cbs' eye(it never did anything to me, it just looks cool--'specially when put next 2 the logos of their affiliated stations). This has been a long time youtube fave 4 me, it brings back a truckload of memories.
It reminds me of the days when only one family on each block had a color TV. We got our first one in 1968 (I was 11). No matter what was on, I watched it. On another note; the first PBS music sounded like the music for SCTV (the comedy show).
I remember the PBS & NBC ads the best, loved that NBC peacock and chimes! I grew up in the 60s and getting a color TV--one of those big ones--was a thrill. But just as good was playing with the box it came in!
Thanks for posting and sharing that, a part of mid-century Americana with the 1980's era PBS logos. You should get the "CBS special presentation" bumper when they aired Charlie Brown/Peanuts cartoon specials. And why not get out the FOX network logo from the 1980's had a more 20th century FOX theme? Go for it. +
I think it would be cool if networks still used some of those old logos, especially the NCB peacock, before current shows in prime time today, Just for the nostalgia.
Thanks..no question is was brilliant marketing...RCA owned NBC and It owned the patents that became the NTSC "colour" standard by which all TV stations in the US Canada and Mexico broadcast and receiver patents used to decode the colour signal.
This is the BEST compilation of classic network logos I've seen so far. It shows how creative each station tried to be to outdo the others, though the NBC peacock and xylophone chime top them all. I also loved the "NET" logo, and recall how disappointed I was when the boring PBS logo replaced it in the early '70s. The "we do the job and do it right" jingle is a perfect clincher, recalling those radio station ID inserts on The Who's 1967 "Sell Out" album. Thanks for posting this!
And notice how the trip down mac memory lane dovetails with the essential them in the film.."going back intime on the sounds opf the nation, it's the caroline Flashback..."(radio caroline)
The second ABC logo, with the different music, was actually the first one that ABC used. There's no announcement, because at that time, not all affiliates were able to relay the network color. The stations that could made the announcement themselves.
@themightyjaybird You are correct,I remember those ABC logo openings,as well. In fact,there's a third version with different music. It was often heard at the top of THE BULLWINKLE SHOW.
There is one previous NBC peacock logo, with different music, and a different announcer. The one you have is the one I grew up with. It is called the Laramie Peacock, as it first appeared before the old TV show, "Laramie". Also, the music used at the very end of your video appears to be an old Radio London bumper, as heard on "The Who Sell Out".
I grew up in the early 90s when Stereo TV was the newest thing. I still remember on screen text saying that almost every program was avalible "In Stereo Where Avalible".
Love this..I remember watching some prime time shows in the late 60s and early 70s with my parents as a kid...everything seemed to always be prefaced with "in color"..."The FBI...in color", etc.
@Lakeview312 ABC started doing this once all affiliates were able to broadcast their programs in color. "Batman" was the first program to do this. Our local ABC affiliate had always carried all of ABC's color, and never took credit for it.. Before ABC started making the announcement themselves, WLBW always followed the network's guidelines for handling this. Some ABC stations made it sound like they were locally originating it.
I must have been an optimistic youth. We didn't get a color TV, until about 1971, and whenever I saw the NBC Peacock, I thought our old B/W set was in color. I was told that TV wasn't the same as reality, anyway. (e.g., One shouldn't do the same stunts as the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.)
I recently showed this to an elderly man in my building and it made his day seeing all the old station id's. He of course listen to radio as a child, but he remembers getting his first tv when he got married in the late 40's! He wants to thank you for being interested in the history of old tv. It made his day!
When I watched "Kids Say the Darndest Things" on CBS in the past, that CBS color announcement (exactly the one in this video) would come up before it began. I never knew why.
It was evoking the era when the original "Kids Say the Darndest Things" aired, during Art Linkletter's show. I can remember his program airing weekday afternoons in the mid-60's, and the CBS color announcement would have been widely used then.
There were a number of prime time television series filmed in black and white which ended production in the Spring of 1966, but had they returned to the line up during the Fall of 1966, which was the beginning of the 1966/67 season, they would have been changed over to color film, as that is when ABC, NBC and CBS made the switch. However, there were already a number of popular shows which were changed over to color prior to September 1966.
Talk of this had been going on since at least 1951!
Thank you for writing. I demur at being a diety (too much responsibility)but do accept your thanks for posting the movie. It was the very first video I ever man and It is by far the most successful.
I love these sign ons...but there is something rather scary about NET and PBS's sounds. It sounds like something is going to die! Yikes! But the last PBS is the one I grew up seeing. Perhaps the scariest sign on would have to be WGBH Boston. That one freaked me out the most! GREAT VIDEO!!
You are most kind. Thank you. It is true the NET logo is n ot only the lamest but also the most dour of the lot. I surmise thet NET (National Educational Television) wanted the public on notice that a new order of GRAVITAS in television had arrived.
These are the people who ultimately gave us Barney. It seems that PBS (nee' NET) learned that they have to swim in the same water as everyone else.
That is made of a bed from a radio jingle and the vocoder device is xalled a sonocox which pseudosynthesizes a "vocal" sound from a real person's input.
The lyric is
"At your service day and night; we do the job and do it right : ACME!" Performend by the Three Stooges and then repeated by the synthezised voicde oover the jingle bed.
Beautiful medley!! I concur with the comments about the logos' subliminal power. The NBC peacock (version 2, 1962) is the same age as me, so I literally grew up watching it on television. It's blooming colors and flute and harp glissando always made me think TV was a major event. And back then it was. A million thanks.
Love it! Gives you goosebumps, which is a strange reaction to simple station ID's? Mind you in the time these ran and I being a mere child, hearing these meant good things to come. Alas, not true today; lots of crap on the 300 channels now.
I particularly loved seeing the ABC colour ID. It brought back fond memories of "Wide World of Sports" and "The Odd Couple" etc.
For me the ABC color logo reminds me of when the network broadcast the Winter and Summer Olympics! And also watching American Bandstand when that show was converted to color.
Why didn't America upgrade its colour TV system from NTSC to PAL when the new sharper colour TV standard became available? Pretty much most countries use PA:L because it is greatly better. But I think NTSC offers more bandwidth so you can fit more channels on the airways. We had a taste of American style broadcasting when ABC started broadcasting in the UK but on Free View a Broadcaster needs a licence and the Network did not wish to pay for a prime time licence & so they closed after 2 years
It would have made no sense to do so. Changing over would have made every TV in the US obsolete, much as the switch from analog to digital is doing. As for PAL being demonstrably better than NTSC, it really isn't. It's different in how it works technically, but the quality isn't any better. And the difference between 525 lines and 625 isn't a huge difference, either. I spent two years in Germany, where PAL started, and it wasn't that much better.
It would have cost quite a bit of money. And the broadcast and cable systems would have to be changed. People would have to buy new, PAL-compatible sets. Look how long it's taken for digital television (ATSC) to catch on here in the US.
IMO, most TV shows today aren't all that great. Almost all reality TV. But hey, there's always sports. I used to watch ABC's Wide World of Sports, that show was cool.
I'm young and I love this stuff, maily cause I wasn't alive to see it.
My Dad was and so was my Grandpa. Dad said back in the early Peacock Days Grandpa would say while watching there old Black 'n White TV, "Doesn't Look color to me!" Ha, Ha.
When I was a kid, having a color set was a big deal, because not everyone could afford them yet, and the technology was still evolving into what we have today. My family did not have an Admiral as I first thought, we had a Zenith 'roundie' which lasted until 1970. Nice set, even had remote control. Got it through my Uncle Walt, who owned a TV dealership.
History means nothing to my Generation just something to study and take time from your Video games. I just love this stuff thats all. My Granpa tells me all about when he was a kid, so I've heard it all. My Dad remembers the Kalidiscope Peacock before his favorite kids show FLIPPER. He use to wish they had a color tv so he could see how blue the Ocean was and what the Peacock looked like.
Because they do not associate it with their own childhood, usually the period of time when making impressions is more easily done. These "logos" and "jingles" don't "bring them back" to any romantic or carefree period in their lives. To younger people these logos are just passing historical curiosities. 30 years from now, however, play Nickelodeon cartoon intro or commercial for them and I'll bet it has the same effect these logos have on us!
You can see the ABC color emblem in action in the video "1965 Batman ABC Network Pres." As for the Peacock, there's an even older version than the one here. It's from 1957, and it's on the site as well.
I wonder if anyone has put HBO's 80's era movie opening, with the miniature town. I think that particular open is cool, and I think they had a documentary about how they created it.
Analog color television in the late 1950's was very labor intensive to keep the (when RCA's NTSC color system was introduced) Early Broadcasts often looked smeared like watercolors dropped in a pool
I like the NET logo, It's quite thrilling. The 80's PBS logo is a little out-of-place though. BTW, Could you upload the second (Non-Announcer) ABC-TV "In Living Color" logo by itself.
The PBS bumper used to scare me to death when I was little. I always loved the NBC chimes, especially on their news radio broadcasts in the 70's and 80's.
Want to hear something funny? When you remember the original three networks, it goes like this. NBC- Colorful Peacock; ABC -the Pool ball; and CBS- Your Classic Eyeball.
I wonder why CBS didn't revive and re-animate its old camera lens id from the 50's with color shutters instead of the very disjointed color ID seen in the clip. NBC and ABC definitely did a better job.
Kinda weirds me out to see that NBC peacock logo and hear that fruity fanfare done with flutes and clarinets... takes me right back to my small childhood in the mid-60's.
Interesting that only a handful of local NBC affiliates had the Peacock on their cameras. The NBC network usually did not. The TK-41's had the 'snake' logo, and the earliest TK-44's had the words 'NBC Color' on them. But NBC's mobile u
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SuperDogbrown 1 week ago
Thank you very much. May you present us with more classic TV tidbits like this.
tvorknowtv 1 week ago
You all know what NTSC really stands for... "Never Twice the Same Colors."
madamerotten 4 weeks ago
the prelude of a good show.
Memories.
GORDITO1000 2 months ago
thank you for posting this.
atvrider7 2 months ago
HOMEY DON'T PLAY DAT!
illuminatioracle 6 months ago
Great memories! Thanks!
Also for the radiocaroline .co .uk
FSTOPDR 6 months ago
Wow...it must've been a revolution in television programming history...
NASCARFAN160 6 months ago
I REMEMBER THIS VIDEO
lulzsmartalex1 7 months ago
ba ba ba ba ba baa p b s
regressing2apes 8 months ago
There goes my childhood - IN LIVING COLOR!!
letticiarsd898 10 months ago
i was born in 1998, and almost none of these were around, and yet i love watching these old things. what they should be showing us in history class
theotherguy245689 10 months ago 4
Growing up all i watched was PBS...
Sad at 1:17 that was how it was... and i remember it! God im fucking old :{
viper19861986 10 months ago
I love all these bumpers! Thanks for uploading, my friend :)
jackwolf131 1 year ago
QUIET NUMBSKULLS I'M BROADCASTING!!
DeviousTelevision 1 year ago
The colour really is like I remember it. Really striking. The US had them in the sixties but most started getting them in the early seventys in the UK. My parents got our first colour set in the early seventys and I was so excited I ran home after school to see it
2002ibiza 1 year ago
I remember a lot of these. I ALSO remember when TV Guide indicated if the show was in COLOUR, and in retrospect, it seems like people liked to wear bright yellow or light pink clothes "to show that the programme was really in colour".
shmuli9 1 year ago
that radius logo and intro are way too creepy and long.....change that.....didnt any of the classy logos and such rub off on you?
italy4blktop 1 year ago
The reason "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" went off the air in 1966 was NOT because of color, but due to the fact that Dick and creator/producer/head writer Carl Reiner decided they'd gone as far with the series as they could, agreeing to end production after the fifth season {"It's time to move on"}. That season, CBS began colorcasting about half of their prime-time schedule and news/sports programs [daytime, however, wasn't "converted" until about 1967].....
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
...ABC, on the other hand, FINALLY had the financial and technical resources to begin scheduling almost half of their evening lineup in color in the fall of 1965 (from 1962 through '65, they were only able to colorcast two or three filmed series, at the most, in prime-time). They finally joined CBS and NBC in 100% "all-color" prime-time telecasting in the fall of '66.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Wait....They have COLOR TV now?!
Billinois78 1 year ago
nice three stooges stuff
theotherguy245689 1 year ago
i also have to ask that am i the only person who knows that NET later became pbs? i mean im 12 and yet i know that.
theotherguy245689 1 year ago
what the hell is all this bisness about these things scaring and creeping people out??!! i can understand if your little or high but any normal person can look at these and say, that was cool. there very happy. pbs dosentt sound scary, the nbc peacokcs just fine, so quit telling me how creepy it was. you creep me out.
theotherguy245689 1 year ago
Those logos were HORRIFYING to me when I was little. I'd wake up at 2 am with that NBC peacock music going thru my mind! Also the one that had this angry man's voice yelling "this is a screen gems presentation". That one just sounded so VIOLENT. Didn't like that one either.
gwugluud 1 year ago
@gwugluud I thought I was the only one but I too was scaredshitless as a kid in the 60's of some of these logo themes. Especially if I had to go to the restroom late at night and my dad was watching TV late. Chilling!
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
@OldMrMemories Funny you're not the only one, when I was a kid it sounded like "nightmare" music to me. I suppose I was afraid of a frightening image would leap out lol. Watching this brings back those old memories!
thylacine95 1 month ago
@gwugluud That is funny man. I used to get scared of the most ridiculous things growing up in the 90's but what you said just makes me think of how easily scared children get.
osaji922 7 months ago
@gwugluud I just had to chuckle when I read your post. Until now I thought I was the only baby boomer with that chilling memory. Yes, that weird nightmarish flute noise when the peacock unfurled itself sometimes went through my mind too in the dead of night. sheesh...and that "screen gems presentation" voice reminded me of my dad when he was scolding me about something lol.
thylacine95 1 month ago
These are so stylish!
LeoDeGrand 1 year ago
The B&W ABC ID used to scare me as a kid.. it sounded like something big was coming after me! Always loved the peacock, but we didn't have a color set until 1972. The CBS ID reminds me of Red Skelton.
jln55 1 year ago
NBC peacock scares me to death(when I was little) however, it stills scares me now!
loveisok 1 year ago
If you ask me the NBC "living color" logo was the best.
belladeballe 1 year ago
One could make and ENTIRE CAREER of doing NOTHING but making crafty and eye catching logos.
mtfune 1 year ago 3
NET is now PBS!
PenafilmStudios 1 year ago
I can remember the NBC peacock and the man saying in living color on NBC and then Walt Disney coming on we must have watched NBC a lot because I remember that so vividly.
Sheri451 1 year ago
I'm curious as to why a montage of American TV network IDs is titled "In Living Colour" (instead of "color") and uses a British "Radio Caroline" jingle as its opening instead of something from the USA.
hebneh 1 year ago
yes, these are all creepy!
spectacularprincess 1 year ago
Am I the only one who find these Idents to be creepy?
notyourbroRB 1 year ago
@notyourbroRB That NBC peacock scares the hell out of me, just like it did the first time I saw it as a child in the very early 70's.
seawind0721 1 year ago
I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
stevekosareff 1 year ago
I remember the PBS logo at 1:14 from long time ago
v19d 1 year ago
AWESOME..
Djteedoe420 1 year ago
The new tv of today have red blue green and yellow!!!
penrox1 1 year ago
@radiusny what is the pbs logo at the end? the PBS Glasses or not?
I am asking this because if it's not the glasses logo it's a scary logo of mine...
fdpoiuy 1 year ago
Quite frankly, the source of that particular logo was a web download, so it just well may be a creature of yours. I cleared the use with PBS, but they did not provide the media.
radiusny 1 year ago
@radiusny I didn't mean for PBS Glasses, I have meant to the PBS Glass P-Heads.
fdpoiuy 1 year ago
What's the logo on the end? PBS Glasses or not?
fdpoiuy 1 year ago
congratulations!!!!!!!!!
entradaprincipal 1 year ago
@devulboy you are right the charlie brown/peanuts shows dont feel the same now that they are on abc
brickchruch 1 year ago
You know, I thought I was alone until reading these posts, the PBS logo (sound) was kind of creepy. It was the sound at the beginning or maybe just sadness that Sesame Street was ending for the day. At least I had a very normal and happy childhood and I didn't lose sleep over it. But seeing it just now brought back that little tingly feel. By the way, my wife and kids are normal, too! :)
mikeeiland1 2 years ago 2
@MIKEEILAND1...i'm with u on that one...funny how many of get and got the same or similar feelings from these short little bumbers...ah me....the good ole days... :) i happen to be a certified lunatic..but that's neither here or there...LOL!
keybobrob 2 years ago
Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!
mig189189189 2 years ago
I recall all of these; thanks for posting this collection.
edybeast 2 years ago
I saw all these station ID's. The comments about the electronic fanfares that were vogue for a moment in the mid '60's are interesting. NET, CBS Color and PBS used them. NBC used a sort of chamber musical fanfare with the quasi-psychodelic color shifts...and ABC used the tried and true big band/jazz horn fanfare. The non-electronic scores seem to fare the best over time. The electronic scores, however, during their time were new and indicative of modernity. The Larime NBC was my favorite.
2441822831 2 years ago
I recall when color was a draw to television programs. I think many people have forgotten that there was a time when all shows were monochrome.
awaseniu 2 years ago
CBS refused to carry color programing until the mid 60's when it couldn't hold out any longer. That;'s because the color compatable system that was approved by the FCC was patented by RCA - owner of NBC! NBC had color shows since the late 1950's. ABC had a few color shows in the early 60's, but not many, since those shows were more expensive and ABC was cheap. When CBS went all-color, ABC had no other choice.
proken58 2 years ago 2
@proken58: Columbia had a mechanical form of color TV, involving a spinning color wheel, inside the TV sets, but that format only lasted a couple of years (1949-50).
Teflon65 2 years ago 2
@proken58 I think thats the reason Dick Van Dyke went off the air, because Dick wanted it in color and CBS refused to let it. I think NBC was the very first beginning with Bonanza, and ABC was broadcasting The Flintstones in color too, they had to because I watched it as a child every afternoon and I still watch it as a 46 year old.
Sheri451 1 year ago
Well done! Thank you!
mikey42 2 years ago
I grew up in a love/hate/love affair with TV (a rather looooonnng one), and i remember all the color icons, most especially the nbc peacock. And i don't see what could be so scary about cbs' eye(it never did anything to me, it just looks cool--'specially when put next 2 the logos of their affiliated stations). This has been a long time youtube fave 4 me, it brings back a truckload of memories.
kennyrocksable 2 years ago
I remember the "THIS IS PBS" indent well. I never realized how much PBS I watched as a kid until recently.
jaredgetsacookie 2 years ago
I remember both PBS logos being a regular viewer of Sesame Street in my adolescence :)
kitten112481 2 years ago
The NBC Peacock is still cool. I miss it.
I'm surprised I've never noticed the CBS eye in any of the "scary logo" collections. Really, the eye is kind of scary.
racookster 2 years ago
It reminds me of the days when only one family on each block had a color TV. We got our first one in 1968 (I was 11). No matter what was on, I watched it. On another note; the first PBS music sounded like the music for SCTV (the comedy show).
ftsjr 2 years ago
I'm tearing up, really--from the nostalgia. I feel like a robot...
nauort23 2 years ago
I remember the PBS & NBC ads the best, loved that NBC peacock and chimes! I grew up in the 60s and getting a color TV--one of those big ones--was a thrill. But just as good was playing with the box it came in!
wlhardy 2 years ago
It's funny, but these commercials make me feel excited about color broadcasts, even though, for me, TV has always been colour.
bobbobato 2 years ago
After Ihear most of these, I think a Christmas Special is going to be on.
CanadaguyRudey 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting and sharing that, a part of mid-century Americana with the 1980's era PBS logos. You should get the "CBS special presentation" bumper when they aired Charlie Brown/Peanuts cartoon specials. And why not get out the FOX network logo from the 1980's had a more 20th century FOX theme? Go for it. +
devulboy1 2 years ago
I think it would be cool if networks still used some of those old logos, especially the NCB peacock, before current shows in prime time today, Just for the nostalgia.
starwars21 2 years ago
NBC peacock remains my favorite. It communicates the message *COLOR* --on every level.
YouzTube99 2 years ago 7
Thanks..no question is was brilliant marketing...RCA owned NBC and It owned the patents that became the NTSC "colour" standard by which all TV stations in the US Canada and Mexico broadcast and receiver patents used to decode the colour signal.
radiusny 2 years ago
That first PBS is still my favorite ident of all time.
agltbialik 2 years ago
They Have The 1929 Logo
brycemonaghan 2 years ago
The music is known as the "killer chord".
vividwatch47 2 years ago
This is the BEST compilation of classic network logos I've seen so far. It shows how creative each station tried to be to outdo the others, though the NBC peacock and xylophone chime top them all. I also loved the "NET" logo, and recall how disappointed I was when the boring PBS logo replaced it in the early '70s. The "we do the job and do it right" jingle is a perfect clincher, recalling those radio station ID inserts on The Who's 1967 "Sell Out" album. Thanks for posting this!
teletubetodd 2 years ago
it says "abo" :O bit racist imo
afuzzyduck 2 years ago
The first PBS one scared the hell out of me as a kid in the early 70s
whataburgerfan1 2 years ago 2
Amen to that. It scares the crap out of me!
Nevetsboy2 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this "blast from
the past".I was a little kid in the 1960s,
sometimes these logos were more
exciting that the shows were. :)
yockybunny 2 years ago
I loved seeing those old logos:)
meowfit 2 years ago
PBS had that old logo up and running for the longest time.
SteelCity1981 2 years ago 6
Classic PBS.
portbalto 2 years ago 2
1:06 - that sound bring back memories.
cagerat 2 years ago 2
Take the silly "Made on a Mac" thing off.
No one really cares anymore.
Macs are Intel now so it's just an industry awareness thing and that's all!
Great trip down memory lane, thanks!
deepfreezevideo 2 years ago
And notice how the trip down mac memory lane dovetails with the essential them in the film.."going back intime on the sounds opf the nation, it's the caroline Flashback..."(radio caroline)
radiusny 2 years ago
@radiusny what's the music at the end after the last PBS logo
LuigiMario98982 1 year ago
Great vid, but you can get rid of the Radius logo. Too loud and too long.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
The second ABC logo, with the different music, was actually the first one that ABC used. There's no announcement, because at that time, not all affiliates were able to relay the network color. The stations that could made the announcement themselves.
themightyjaybird 2 years ago
@themightyjaybird You are correct,I remember those ABC logo openings,as well. In fact,there's a third version with different music. It was often heard at the top of THE BULLWINKLE SHOW.
kokujin1014 1 year ago
There is one previous NBC peacock logo, with different music, and a different announcer. The one you have is the one I grew up with. It is called the Laramie Peacock, as it first appeared before the old TV show, "Laramie". Also, the music used at the very end of your video appears to be an old Radio London bumper, as heard on "The Who Sell Out".
Teflon65 2 years ago
It brings memories.
Soulthinker2007 2 years ago 2
SCARY SHIT
Blackedward 2 years ago
I don't understand how a logo can scare someone. You must be a big wuss
djrage70 2 years ago
I grew up in the early 90s when Stereo TV was the newest thing. I still remember on screen text saying that almost every program was avalible "In Stereo Where Avalible".
IAmNotAFunguy 2 years ago 3
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Colortiniz 3 years ago
good stuff, I grew up on most of these!
kscryan 3 years ago
Anyone else creeped out by the PBS one?
wakka922201 3 years ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
DarkPhantomMelody 2 years ago
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OMG! I'n color! What about HD?
KyleAshPhotography 3 years ago
I did a report on this!
Vespiquen452 3 years ago
Love this..I remember watching some prime time shows in the late 60s and early 70s with my parents as a kid...everything seemed to always be prefaced with "in color"..."The FBI...in color", etc.
Lakeview312 3 years ago
@Lakeview312 ABC started doing this once all affiliates were able to broadcast their programs in color. "Batman" was the first program to do this. Our local ABC affiliate had always carried all of ABC's color, and never took credit for it.. Before ABC started making the announcement themselves, WLBW always followed the network's guidelines for handling this. Some ABC stations made it sound like they were locally originating it.
themightyjaybird 1 year ago
I was a TV kid during the 60's, and seeing this is such a retro-shock experience! (My, how the decades fly right by...)
IClifeis2B 3 years ago
Very artistic and colourful! Nice!
DarkPhantomMelody 3 years ago
ABC Had The color ID in what year NBC Had the peacock. CBS Color ID had a Different Announcer in 1965
GOOSEYGOOSE9 3 years ago
this is made on a mac! w00t
jadonSteve 3 years ago 4
I must have been an optimistic youth. We didn't get a color TV, until about 1971, and whenever I saw the NBC Peacock, I thought our old B/W set was in color. I was told that TV wasn't the same as reality, anyway. (e.g., One shouldn't do the same stunts as the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.)
Teflon65 3 years ago
You missed one PBS ident from 1984-1988
MichaelOKeefe2009 3 years ago
I recently showed this to an elderly man in my building and it made his day seeing all the old station id's. He of course listen to radio as a child, but he remembers getting his first tv when he got married in the late 40's! He wants to thank you for being interested in the history of old tv. It made his day!
Idoljunky32 3 years ago
These classic logos are awesome!
tiseytise 3 years ago
When I watched "Kids Say the Darndest Things" on CBS in the past, that CBS color announcement (exactly the one in this video) would come up before it began. I never knew why.
rswan5 3 years ago
It was evoking the era when the original "Kids Say the Darndest Things" aired, during Art Linkletter's show. I can remember his program airing weekday afternoons in the mid-60's, and the CBS color announcement would have been widely used then.
rwreini 2 years ago
b/c CBS has a somewhat nostalgia knack for using old logos on some of the newer shows.
In fact the 1997-2006 version of the CBS Productions logo popped up a few times on the new revivals of 90210 and Melrose Place.
megamanj2004X 2 years ago
There were a number of prime time television series filmed in black and white which ended production in the Spring of 1966, but had they returned to the line up during the Fall of 1966, which was the beginning of the 1966/67 season, they would have been changed over to color film, as that is when ABC, NBC and CBS made the switch. However, there were already a number of popular shows which were changed over to color prior to September 1966.
Talk of this had been going on since at least 1951!
dakota975 3 years ago
I liked the NET one best of all. I remember it, too---so delightfully creepy!
LuvvyDuck 3 years ago
thank you for posting this. definitely brings back memories when I was a kid. The CBS was my favorite.
lookingbill1 3 years ago
Thank you, sir, for these logos. I was born in 1968, I remember almost all of them, and you are God.
raposofan 3 years ago
Thank you for writing. I demur at being a diety (too much responsibility)but do accept your thanks for posting the movie. It was the very first video I ever man and It is by far the most successful.
best to you
alan
new york city
radiusny 3 years ago
I love these sign ons...but there is something rather scary about NET and PBS's sounds. It sounds like something is going to die! Yikes! But the last PBS is the one I grew up seeing. Perhaps the scariest sign on would have to be WGBH Boston. That one freaked me out the most! GREAT VIDEO!!
jippolippo23 3 years ago
You are most kind. Thank you. It is true the NET logo is n ot only the lamest but also the most dour of the lot. I surmise thet NET (National Educational Television) wanted the public on notice that a new order of GRAVITAS in television had arrived.
These are the people who ultimately gave us Barney. It seems that PBS (nee' NET) learned that they have to swim in the same water as everyone else.
radiusny 3 years ago
Whats that theme at the end, I like it.
nubbie1944 3 years ago
That is made of a bed from a radio jingle and the vocoder device is xalled a sonocox which pseudosynthesizes a "vocal" sound from a real person's input.
The lyric is
"At your service day and night; we do the job and do it right : ACME!" Performend by the Three Stooges and then repeated by the synthezised voicde oover the jingle bed.
radiusny 3 years ago
Aww cool, I can hear it now :), thats awesome!
nubbie1944 3 years ago
Though synthesized, it doesn't sound like the stooges but, I like it. The original is from "Violent is the Word for Curly" in 1938.
darkhoarse820 3 years ago
Beautiful medley!! I concur with the comments about the logos' subliminal power. The NBC peacock (version 2, 1962) is the same age as me, so I literally grew up watching it on television. It's blooming colors and flute and harp glissando always made me think TV was a major event. And back then it was. A million thanks.
mca1218 3 years ago
It's really nice notes like yours that make this so much fun.
I Thank YOU!
radiusny 3 years ago
Love it! Gives you goosebumps, which is a strange reaction to simple station ID's? Mind you in the time these ran and I being a mere child, hearing these meant good things to come. Alas, not true today; lots of crap on the 300 channels now.
I particularly loved seeing the ABC colour ID. It brought back fond memories of "Wide World of Sports" and "The Odd Couple" etc.
Thanks for posting! 5*'s!
Buskieboy 3 years ago 2
Hey Buskieboy:
Thank you for your very kind comments. It's the very first vid I ever made for You-Tube and it has been the best received.
Especially the NBC Peacock and it's 50 year longevity is testament to the creativity of the folks given the task of branding "NBC Living Color"
Thanks for writing.
alan perkins
new york
radiusny 3 years ago
For me the ABC color logo reminds me of when the network broadcast the Winter and Summer Olympics! And also watching American Bandstand when that show was converted to color.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 2 years ago
Why didn't America upgrade its colour TV system from NTSC to PAL when the new sharper colour TV standard became available? Pretty much most countries use PA:L because it is greatly better. But I think NTSC offers more bandwidth so you can fit more channels on the airways. We had a taste of American style broadcasting when ABC started broadcasting in the UK but on Free View a Broadcaster needs a licence and the Network did not wish to pay for a prime time licence & so they closed after 2 years
CrazyTobster 3 years ago
It would have made no sense to do so. Changing over would have made every TV in the US obsolete, much as the switch from analog to digital is doing. As for PAL being demonstrably better than NTSC, it really isn't. It's different in how it works technically, but the quality isn't any better. And the difference between 525 lines and 625 isn't a huge difference, either. I spent two years in Germany, where PAL started, and it wasn't that much better.
themightyjaybird 2 years ago
It would have cost quite a bit of money. And the broadcast and cable systems would have to be changed. People would have to buy new, PAL-compatible sets. Look how long it's taken for digital television (ATSC) to catch on here in the US.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 2 years ago
Oh yeah,that was nice. Real retro feel. I remember the old PBS ones they used to use back then.
Dunes 3 years ago
IMO, most TV shows today aren't all that great. Almost all reality TV. But hey, there's always sports. I used to watch ABC's Wide World of Sports, that show was cool.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago
We got a color TV in 1970, in time for "The Partridge Family".
Mike1964 3 years ago
PBS-Public Bull Shit
ABC-Always Bull Crap
NBC-No Body Cares
CBS-Crazy Bull Crap
BBC-Better Be Cool
octcalderon 3 years ago
PBS- Public Broadcasting Service
ABC- American Broadcasting Company
NBC- National Broadcasting Company
CBS- Columbia Broadcasting System
and BBC- British Broadcasting Company
MattMc2 3 years ago 2
I'll add to that the CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Company(did I get the last word right?)
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
diamonddog13 3 years ago
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
CTV- Canadian Television
CNET- Canadian Network
pannoni1 3 years ago
CBS- Crazy Bull Shit
Your awesome though- how'd you think those up!
happy7117 2 years ago
I think its awesome! Its the orgins of Television history.
Jantv81 3 years ago 3
I have terrible news. The Living Colour is dead. Oh, I'm feeling soooooooooo bad... T_T
frank87it 3 years ago
Why do some younger people not like these logos?
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago 3
I'm young and I love this stuff, maily cause I wasn't alive to see it.
My Dad was and so was my Grandpa. Dad said back in the early Peacock Days Grandpa would say while watching there old Black 'n White TV, "Doesn't Look color to me!" Ha, Ha.
wetsrb34 3 years ago 3
That is too funny LOL! Search in youtube the video entitled Ludwig Von Drake - The Spectrum Song.
skinnyblinddude 3 years ago
well i'm 17 and i like this stuff, well having said that i like making circuits using valves
laurdy 3 years ago
When I was a kid, having a color set was a big deal, because not everyone could afford them yet, and the technology was still evolving into what we have today. My family did not have an Admiral as I first thought, we had a Zenith 'roundie' which lasted until 1970. Nice set, even had remote control. Got it through my Uncle Walt, who owned a TV dealership.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago
History means nothing to my Generation just something to study and take time from your Video games. I just love this stuff thats all. My Granpa tells me all about when he was a kid, so I've heard it all. My Dad remembers the Kalidiscope Peacock before his favorite kids show FLIPPER. He use to wish they had a color tv so he could see how blue the Ocean was and what the Peacock looked like.
wetsrb34 3 years ago
Got you all beat in "youngness." I'm 15 and STILL like these logos.
whattheheck1000 3 years ago
Because they do not associate it with their own childhood, usually the period of time when making impressions is more easily done. These "logos" and "jingles" don't "bring them back" to any romantic or carefree period in their lives. To younger people these logos are just passing historical curiosities. 30 years from now, however, play Nickelodeon cartoon intro or commercial for them and I'll bet it has the same effect these logos have on us!
livingnthepast 2 years ago 11
nice try, but its the National Broadcasting Company, founded in 1926 by David R. Sarnoff.
Jantv81 3 years ago
The NBC chimes consist of the musical notes, G E C. It referred to the original parent of NBC, the General Electric Company.
PeterD7510 3 years ago
The NBC have been used since the 1920's. General Electric didn't purchase NBC until 1985.
Permaglo 3 years ago 2
yes, but GE was already a willing participant in the founding of the network.
Jantv81 3 years ago
Finally I find someone else on Youtube that uses a mac! :D
mirrenfan2 4 years ago
You can see the ABC color emblem in action in the video "1965 Batman ABC Network Pres." As for the Peacock, there's an even older version than the one here. It's from 1957, and it's on the site as well.
warlaker 4 years ago
If you download the Sesame Street pilot here on youtube, not only do you see the closing NET emblem, but there's an OPENING NET emblem as well.
warlaker 4 years ago
I wonder if anyone has put HBO's 80's era movie opening, with the miniature town. I think that particular open is cool, and I think they had a documentary about how they created it.
kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE 3 years ago
I think they still broadcast that ident from time to time... I remember seeing it recently, anyway.
guyvf 3 years ago
Just type HBO Feature Presentation 80's and that should come up.
pannoni1 3 years ago
i remember the p b s jingle it was right before sesame street i still like it
johrons 4 years ago 2
I LOVE THIS! and you really got me with the PAMS jingle at the end with the sonovox!
tomovox 4 years ago 3
'Wonderful Radio London'...[whoopeee]
I caught that PAMS bit as well..
MSTS1 3 years ago
I kinda like the faded, yet somehow still bright, colors. Makes you feel good, especially if you were just born!
mindcontrolpete 4 years ago
Analog color television in the late 1950's was very labor intensive to keep the (when RCA's NTSC color system was introduced) Early Broadcasts often looked smeared like watercolors dropped in a pool
radiusny 4 years ago
The NBC Peacock music is from the 1962-75 peacock.
Disco2009 4 years ago
I wish the networks today would have similar bumpers for HD programming, not just a watermark in the corner. If they did it retro style, even better.
diamonddog13 4 years ago 2
I like the NET logo, It's quite thrilling. The 80's PBS logo is a little out-of-place though. BTW, Could you upload the second (Non-Announcer) ABC-TV "In Living Color" logo by itself.
RobinMetrocolor 4 years ago
The PBS bumper used to scare me to death when I was little. I always loved the NBC chimes, especially on their news radio broadcasts in the 70's and 80's.
robste 4 years ago
Want to hear something funny? When you remember the original three networks, it goes like this. NBC- Colorful Peacock; ABC -the Pool ball; and CBS- Your Classic Eyeball.
Jantv81 4 years ago
And now we're seeing the same crap with every High Definition show, and even during the show in the bottom right hand corner.
NunyaBobbyAtayoel 4 years ago
Where did NET come from? Was it before PBS?
Jantv81 4 years ago
I wonder why CBS didn't revive and re-animate its old camera lens id from the 50's with color shutters instead of the very disjointed color ID seen in the clip. NBC and ABC definitely did a better job.
staytunedfor 4 years ago
Kinda weirds me out to see that NBC peacock logo and hear that fruity fanfare done with flutes and clarinets... takes me right back to my small childhood in the mid-60's.
rasputin63 4 years ago
super video.
jefferyb304 4 years ago
Interesting that only a handful of local NBC affiliates had the Peacock on their cameras. The NBC network usually did not. The TK-41's had the 'snake' logo, and the earliest TK-44's had the words 'NBC Color' on them. But NBC's mobile u