Nash Entertainment
LMgamer36 and Royger Short
Video captures courtesy of
Mitchell Hang
Background
Nash Entertainment is a television production company founded by Bruce Nash, founded in 1994.
1st Logo (September 14, 1994)
Visuals: The screen is divided into two parts, which is a white rectangle at the top and black at the bottom. A stylized "N" in an orange oval with "N A S H" underneath slides on the top, and the white text "E N T E R T A I N M E N T" slides in at the bottom.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: The ending theme of the special.
Availability: Only shown on Angels Among Us.
2nd Logo (October 5, 1994-February 21, 2009)
Visuals: After a strike of lightning is shown, two golden parallelograms quickly zoom out on a black background, revealing themselves to be the stylized "N" from before inside an oval also outlined in gold. The words
E N T E R T A I N M E N T
fade in below and the text shines.
Trivia: The logo was produced by G Man Productions and Kelly Shelly Design on September 13, 1994 (this is known because you can see a frame of the logo's production slate before the logo appears on 50 Years of Soaps: An All Star Celebration).
Variants:
- Starting in 2008, an updated version has most of the logo being smaller in size (except "ENTERTAINMENT", which is bigger), with a reflection below, and with a green aura around the stylized "N" tilted towards the right.
- Sometimes, the words "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" (in white) appear below the logo.
- A still in-credit variant exists.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: There were three themes throughout this logo's lifetime:
- 1994-1995(?): A thunderclap-like whoosh sound.
- 1995-1996(?): A whoosh, then a calm synth tune, with four drumbeats at the end.
- 1996-: Same as before, but the whoosh has been changed to a zap sound.
- NBC and Fox airings used a generic theme.
Availability:
- It debuted on the CBS special 50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration.
- It is currently seen on (Top 20) Most Shocking and Most Daring on truTV.
- The IAW variant can seen on the original NBC and Spike TV prints on World's Most Amazing Videos.
- This logo also appears on some TV specials from time to time.
- It was also seen on the 2003 version of Dance Fever and on Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.
- The in-credit version is seen on Top 20 Funniest.
- Before They Were Stars used a in-credit text notice.