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Background: The Public Broadcasting Service, known on air as PBS, is a publicly funded non-profit distribution service (founded on November 3, 1969) that serves a variety of television stations in the United States, as well as some areas of Mexico and Canada.
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PBS replaced NET, a former major educational and public TV network, founded in early 1952 and incorporated in November of that year. Among their original affiliates were WETA Washington D.C., WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, WQED Pittsburgh, KLRN San Antonio, KLRU Austin, Maryland Public Television, The Agency for Instructional Technol...
1st logo
Nicknames: "The Text", "The Text of Boredom", "Multi-Colored/Tri-Colored Text", "The World's Most Generic Logo" Logo: Just a black background with the Arial words: stacked on top of each other in red, yellow, and blueas you can see in the images above. FX/SFX: None. Music/Sounds: None, or the opening theme. At the end of each program with this logo, MacDonald Carey or another announcer, depending on possibly the program, says, "This is PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service." Availability: Exti...
2nd Logo
Nicknames: "PBS P-Head", "The Tri-Colored Everyman P-Heads", "The Tri-Colored PBS Logo", "The Tri-Heads from/of Hell/Doom" Logo: On a black background, an abstract-cut blue P zooms out to upper-mid screen. The "P" turns into a "P-shaped" head, facing left, with the text "PUBLIC" below this and all of the other text are set in ITC Avant Garde Gothic, and both move to the left of the screen. An abstract-cut orange B appears to the right of the P-Head, and two black dots appear in the B, the lat...
3rd Logo
Nicknames: "Split Profile", "The Everyman/person P", "PBS P-Head II" Logo: On a black background, a blueP-head appears on the upper-mid screen, facing backwards. A piece comes out to the right and settles itself about half an inch away. The text "PBS" appears below in a slab serif font, which was designed specifically for PBS called "ITC Lubalin Graph Bold". Trivia: Obviously using the "P" in the previous logo (and the accompanying slab serif font) was designed and animated by Chermayeff & Ge...
PBS Indies
Logo: TBA FX/SFX: TBA Music/Sounds/Voiceovers: An abridged version of the 2010 CPB music. At the end of programs, a voiceover says, "PBS, your home for independent film." Availability: Seen on current episodes of Independent Lens and POV.
PBS Stories of Service
Logo: TBA FX/SFX: TBA Music/Sounds/Voiceovers: A solemn yet uplifting brass fanfare which sounds like the first notes of "Taps." At the end of programs, a voiceover says, "This is PBS." Availability: Seen on military-themed programming on PBS. Oddly enough, the opening and closing variants switch places on Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History.
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- (1967-1970s) Pbl & Conversations with Clare Booth Luce (1967-1969) Logo: On a gray background we see an abstract design - the lowercase letters "c," "p" and "b" stacked together like a mixed up jigsaw puzzle - and the text "Corporation for Public Broadcasting" written below in a serif font.
- (1967-August 31, 2001) Corporation For Public Broadcasting (Black Journal 1968) Corporation For Public Broadcasting (Drugs Are Like That 1969) Corporation For Public Broadcasting (Drugs are like that 1969)
- (September 28, 1981-July 4, 1982) The Roper Surveys: A CPB (Corporation of Public Broadcasting) Special Report. (1976)
- (July 11, 1983-March 5, 1990) Reading Rainbow (first 2 seasons only, 1983-1984, opening) Reading Rainbow (first 2 seasons only, 1983-1984, closing)
Nicknames: "Split Profile", "The Everyperson P". Logo: On a black background, a blue P-Head appears on the upper-mid screen, facing backwards. The P-Head stretches to the right until a piece of the head separates and settles itself about half an inch away. The text " PBS " appears below in a typewriter font.
1971–1984. Original head colors. P-Head looking right. GW231H170.jpg. A variant of the logo used on a S8 Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Robert Blake that aired on November 13, 1982, right before a spoof of a PBS commercial. The text was removed and P-Head is green, B is red and S is blue. PBS 1972 Promo Heart.jpg.
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