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Background: PBS Home Video was founded in the 1980s to distribute their programs on the video market. PBSHV went through a slew of distributors, such as Pacific Arts (1989-94), Turner Home Entertainment (1994-97), Warner Home Video (1997-2004), and Paramount Home Entertainment (2004-11). In...
Availability: Your best bet to find it is '90s PBS Home Video tapes, including the Turner releases of The Dinosaurs and the films of Ken Burns. This appeared at the beginning of most PBS Home Video releases from Turner Home Entertainment from July 1994 to mid-1997, as a secondary logo
Originally, the company has released videos under its own label "PBS Video", but they did not use a proper logo prior to 1989. PBS Home Video went through a slew of distributors, such as Pacific Arts (1989-1994), Turner Home Entertainment (1994-1997), Warner Home Video (1997-2004), and Paramount Home Entertainment (2004-2011).
Can also be found on early PBS Home Video releases from the '80s; just look for a banner with the P Head on the left and "PBS VIDEO" filling the entire rest of the banner. The logo allegedly made its first appearance on the Nature episode "Krakatoa: The Day That Shook the World", broadcast on September 30, 1984.
It appears on TV sometimes, but PBS Home Video tapes and DVDs are an easier way to find it. The logo's first confirmed appearance was on August 12, 1996, at the end of the first day of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer's coverage of the Republican National Convention.
This is no ordinary wiki; this is the wiki from the original logo authority that discusses all closing logos you see on TV, from the Viacom "V of Doom" to the Screen Gems "S from Hell". And that's not all; we're also including home entertainment logos, video game logos, and much, much more as well!
PBS Home Video was renamed PBS Distribution—PBSd in 2009, and became independent again in 2011. PBSd is jointly owned by PBS and the WGBH Educational Foundation. It is currently distributing PBS programs and movies on DVD, Blu-ray, digital downloads, and video on demand and PBS Kids programs on DVD and digital downloads.
