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On September 16, 2002, Sony Pictures Entertainment retired the "Columbia TriStar" name from television and renamed the American studio as Sony Pictures Television and its international division as Sony Pictures Television International.
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- Columbia Tristar Television
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Columbia TriStar Television was a merger of Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television (after branding Columbia TriStar Home Video). It was founded on February 21, 1994 and the same day, SPE renamed Columbia Pictures Television Distribution to "Columbia TriStar Television Distribution". With Columbia TriStar International Television (forme...
1st Logo
Nickname: "CT Boxes" Logo: On a solid blue background, we see two boxes, the left one contains the Columbia Torch Lady (90s version), and the right one contains the TriStar Pegasus (again, 90s version over Columbia cloud background). Above the logo, "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" is seen, with the words positioned over their respective logos, and on the bottom is the word "TELEVISION" and the standard Sony Pictures Entertainment byline. Trivia: This is basically Columbia TriStar's home video logo, but "H...
2nd Logo
Nicknames: "CT Boxes II", "The Sliding Boxes", "The Boxes of Boredom", "The Boxes of Justice" Logo: It's almost the same as the second 1995 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, except "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" replaces "HOME VIDEO" and the Sony byline is intact. Plus, the cloud background in the TriStar box is replaced with the one from its movie logo and the text has a shadow effect. Standard Variants: Depending on the unit that the show originated from (Television, Television Distribution, or...
1st Logo
Nicknames: "The Shining Bars", "The Bars of Boredom", "The Bars of Annoyance", "The Bars of Plastering", "The Bars of Justice", "The Master of Plaster", "SPE Bars", "Sony Bars", "The SPE Parallelogram", "Lightbeam in Parallelogram", "Lightbeam in Striped Parallelogram" Logo: Against a lined background, the words "SONY PICTURES TELEVISION" (all in the Sony typeface and stacked word-by-word with "SONY" being largest) emerge and downardly zoom away from the screen. The three words aren't directl...
2nd Logo
Logo:On a blue gradient background, a purple flash appears onscreen, covering it. When the flash dies down, the print version of the Sony Pictures Television logo appears. The logo zooms back for a few seconds before stopping completely. FX/SFX:The flash and the SPT logo zooming back. Music/Sounds:None. Availability: Extremely rare. It was only ever seen on El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Editor's Note:Even though the logo can be seen as bland, it's a breath of fresh air from the previous logo.
Final Notes: In 2002, CTT became Sony Pictures Television. Plus, when CTT became SPT in 2002, the third version of the CTDT logo also known as the "Open Matte" boxes was used until 2003 on the 5th season of Hollywood Squares (H2) in syndication.
Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as CPT) was launched on May 6, 1974, by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. It is the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems (SG) and the third name of Pioneer Telefilms. The company was active from 1974 until New Year's Day ...
Columbia TriStar Television (CTT) was an American television company that ran from 1993. It was operated as the third name of the early television studio Screen Gems and the fourth name of Pioneer Telefilms, itself part of Sony Pictures Entertainment and the second company to use...
On January 30, 1997, it was changed from Sony Television Entertainment to Columbia TriStar Television Group. On March 12, 1997, CTT signed a deal with Procter & Gamble Productions (P&G) to launch shows that P&G products sponsor, after the original agreement with Paramount Television expired.
On September 16, 2002, Sony Pictures Entertainment renamed the American studio as Sony Pictures Television and its international division as Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI). [14] In summer 2007, SPT introduced The Minisode Network, a digital channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes.
