YTV Youth Television - 1990 ID

[mr20thcenturysam]

YTV

[jasongunning2468]

It WAS the spirit of youth, now it's the spirit of 'Keep it weird!'

[bogercs]

the spirit of youth is the spirit of Canada!

[alanphil2202]

FUCKING GAY

[professorcookie]

Anyone know what happened to Phil?

He was the only person worth watching when it started up.

[dbzmiri]

He's on some ytv singing show now, I saw him in a commercial or promo or something

[d22587]

my memory is so bad, it only goes back to year 2000, damn that marijuana!

[wishingstar22]

They need to bring back the Hit List.

[angelpie1995]

ya hit list, use to be 1 of my fave FAVE shows, why'd they get rid of it?

[wishingstar22]

The ratings were too low, or something like that.

[xxdxpurexx]

YTV used to be so creative back then, now its just a computer animated kid who claps his hands and the contents within his closet burst out and the YTV logo is sitting atop the pile...woo

[captainhero518]

Back when YTV used to be good... :(

[CelesteK]

Yes back when the sloagan "The Spirit of Youth" actually meant something.

[CelesteK]

I like this logo. The logos that they have now are just gross.

[benjamima16]

woah this logo thing is as old as i am.

[wishingstar22]

I don't even bother with YTV anymore. Telethon Retro has the old cartoons and stuff and Family has the movies.

[CelesteK]

I think you mean "Teletoon Retro" don't you? I've been bugging my mother to get Teletoon Retro for a bit now and we still don't get it.

[wishingstar22]

Oh, of course. lol My typing skills leave something to be desired.

[besayewich]

oh my god that station is awesome

i i love the fact they play reboot

[qqqqssssxxxx]

1990 - this was the first time I ever saw YTV.

Early 1990's YTV was truly the spirit of youth as the programming was always never afraid to be what it wanted.

Now, I just don't know anymore.

[CelesteK]

I used to love YTV. The execs at the time aired the stuff that I used to watch as a tiny tot. Now YTV is over 1/3 of what it used to be.

[MichaelMorbius4ever]

i only remember the music

[XlunareonX]

whoa, just goes to show how ytv has evolved over the years!

[Skaliwag66]

Thanks for posting this. I was in the YTV kids club around this time (1990 to about 1992) I think the club started the same year. They'd send you a cool initiation package with lots of cool stuff. I remember getting a bunch of iron ons. They'd send you a newsletter every month and on your birthday the old VJ's announce your name on T.V. and send you a present (8 pack of neon crayola markers). This was when, as repeatedly stated, YTV was more teen or pre-teen oriented (better).

[MichaelMorbius4ever]

Would they also send you pogs of the wierd YTV logos like the blender, the chair and the YTV globe? If so then I beleive my brother was in the club. Heh I was a little jelous of him.

[Skaliwag66]

Nah, this was a couple years before all that. When the station was more teen oriented.

[SmokeyXxxxx]

i dont remember this... but i seems like something that is old

[CelesteK]

YTV Now seems to be the premise of slapping on whatever shows are popular. It didn't used to be that way back in the day. Back in the day there were a little less anal about the popularity of a show and a little more anal about what kids are used to watching.

[octu]

i remember this logo, awesome. thanks for posting!

[marathontestdrive]

I so totally remember this logo and theme.. I loved it!! It played right before they showed "You can't do that on Television"!! *dances up and down* :D

[randomstuff2007]

Now I've figured out what Nickelodeon and YTV have in common, they both used a circle as their logo!

[415rep]

man i dont remember anything about Ytv before 93

[ducky1232]

if only they actually dumped the whole "hi tech" approach ytv keeps trying to persue, just go back to "wierd and wacky" like it was in the 90's, i loved those logo's back then.

[CelesteK]

This logo is from when YTV first started back on September 1, 1988. It says "the spirit of YOUTH" in the corner. I was 12 and I found that slogan to be true then as the years went on and the station changed hands from GRC to Shaw Entertainment and now to Corus Entertainment it's%

[jaworskij]

BTW, SHAW owns Corus. One and the same. They also own Star Choice DBS satellite.

[CelesteK]

Well then why did they change the format of the channel when what they had was working? That makes no sense to me.

[CelesteK]

This is what I miss the most about YTV. The station that as young as you are. Shit now it's just deteriorated too much for me to even bother watching it anymore.

[jaworskij]

All Canadian television is "broken" the Canadian Television Fund is spread too thin among too many satellite-cable channels. There needs to be lots of channel mergers (not less owners).

[LondonOntGuy]

The first one if I remember, had a light blue background and the logo was zoomed out on.

[ducky1232]

the music is still 80's sounding though

[mr3urious]

Pretty much everything still felt like the 80's between 1990-92!

[RonicW]

Well, this is one of the idents used from 1990-1992. There is also one that was used during the day as well, in daylight colors.

[88HJS]

I think I vaguely remember the "daylight" version.

[RetroWinnipeg]

I believe those were the 2 general idents used through 1988-1992, before they used a new logo. I always wondered what that slogan actually said on the corner, plus I never realized they had a 'lens' incorporated in the 3D logo.

[spinsah]

there were 3 idents officially that season - this one, and 2 daytime ones featuring different cloudscape backgrounds and a slight variation on the music. During primetime they would overdub a video compilation saying what's coming up next, and then after that. As I recall, that was the first time I'd seen a TV station do that.

[RetroWinnipeg]

Yes...I recall all that very well.

[spinsah]

LOL i'm from Winnipeg too, so funny that another Winnipeger is the first to reply :)