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{{Infobox company
|name=Sony Pictures Television Inc.
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|founded=September 16, 2002 ({{age|2002|9|16}} years ago)
|parent=[[Sony Pictures Entertainment]]
|subsidiaries=See [[:Category:Sony Pictures Television]]
|key people=Katherine Pope (president)
|country=[[:Category:United States|United States]]
|predecessors=[[Columbia TriStar Television]]
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===Background===
On September 16, 2002, Japanese giant [[Sony|Sony Corporation]] decided to retire the [[Columbia TriStar Television|Columbia TriStar]] name and logo from its television division, rebranding it
For the first time since 1974, the Torch Lady, Pegasus or anything resembling Columbia or TriStar's emblems are nowhere to be seen; instead, the corporate 1991 "bar" logo for [[Sony Pictures Entertainment|Sony Pictures]] was introduced to television viewers for the first time.
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On September 16, 2002, Japanese giant Sony Corporation decided to retire the Columbia TriStar name and logo from its television division, rebranding it as Sony Pictures Television in order to capitalize the strength of the Sony brand.
For the first time since 1974, the Torch Lady, Pegasus or anything resembling Columbia or TriStar's emblems are nowhere to be seen; instead, the corporate 1991 "bar" logo for Sony Pictures was introduced to television viewers for the first time.
On July 25, 2017, SPT launched a new in-production name called Sony Pictures Television Studios, in order to further make use of production in the SPT library and rolls out for current and future titles starting on January 7, 2020. The SPT name and logo will continue to be used in media sites, film on television reruns and international broadcasts, as well as current and future titles starting in 2022, in order to phase out the SPTS name.
In the late 2000s and throughout the 2010s, SPT gained an infamous reputation for later seasons of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. Reasons include an increase in celebrity clues (especially starting in season 27 of Jeopardy!), Prize Puzzles (introduced as a regular feature in season 21 of WOF), Alex Trebek's passing in November 2020 (which was followed by a series of guest hosts taking his place for the rest of season 37 not long after it debuted) and Pat Sajak's retirement in 2024, Mayiam Bialik's treatment of contestants on Jeopardy! after her introduction to the show, sporadic inappropriate moments in WOF (as is the case with the "Clam Digger" and "Luck Be In the Air Tonight" puzzles), a decline in clue writing quality and controversial wedges/tags.
Visuals: There is an extreme close-up of the words "SONY PICTURES TELEVISION" (in the Sony corporate typeface), stacked word-by-word with "SONY" being the largest, emerge and zoom away downwards from the screen. The three words are not directly stacked at first, but as the animation progresses, they slide into place. A horizontal line is drawn between the "PICTURES" and "TELEVISION". While this happens, there is a bright white light on the left side of the screen that later reveals the names; as the light dies down, the lines in the background themselves back away as well, eventually moving back to the upper part of the screen and into a diagonal pattern to form the logo. The flash dissipates and there is an oblong orange-white glare surrounding the logo and words, which shrinks into the bars to give it a shine. The finished logo, which is a striped parallelogram, appears against a shaded navy blue background.
Trivia: This logo first appeared as a print logo on broadcasting ads in magazines such as Variety in fall 1991, around the time when SPE was founded.
Variants:
Technique: CGI by Rick Scott at Tigar Hare Studios (also known for their work on the 2010 Technicolor logo).
Audio: A descending piano tune and a majestic 5-note orchestral theme composed by David Kurtz, which sounds vaguely similar to the Habanera section of Bizet's opera Carmen, the 1976 Viacom "V of Doom" theme and the 1993 TriStar Television theme (specifically the long version).
Audio Variants:
Availability: Seen on its then-new shows and many later prints of classic shows, off-net syndication series, TV movies and theatrical films on television (especially Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune). The only four pre-2002 shows that do not have this logo are Walker, Texas Ranger on USA Network and the defunct Cloo, All in the Family on GetTV and Sony Crackle, the original One Day at a Time on Antenna TV and The Jeffersons on Me-TV.
Legacy: The logo (mainly the standard variant, which uses very simple animation) gained a reputation as one of the most hated closing logo of all time due to its large-scale plastering and omnipresence, earning the unofficial nickname the "Bars of Boredom" (and also due to its later association with/usage on the controversial Ken Jennings/Mayim Bialik era of Jeopardy!, as well as the similarly disdained Ryan Seacrest seasons of WOF). Additionally, it is widely regarded as the most common logo to find among the community.
Visuals: On a blue gradient background, a purple flash appears onscreen, covering the whole screen. 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.
Variant: A 16:9 open-matte version exists on TV airings of the film.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: None.
Availability: This made its only appearance on El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie on Netflix, as a one-off logo produced for the film.
Visuals: On a black background is the corporate Sony logo. It then either fades, blurs out, or uses the 2014/2021 Sony transition (either slow or fast on the former), as the text "SONY PICTURES TELEVISION STUDIOS" appears.
Opening Variants:
Other Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The same "ding" sound in G major used in the Sony logo.
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Availability:
Legacy: This logo is considered to be very bland by the logo community, with many considering it an example of the simplified logo trend that started in the 2010s and some even comparing it unfavorably to the first SPT logo at the time of its debut. In fact, it was first thought to be a placeholder logo when it debuted, which ultimately was proven otherwise.
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