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* On the first season of ''Nature'', one of the last programs to use this logo, the whole thing is set in the Modern No. 20 typeface. |
* On the first season of ''Nature'', one of the last programs to use this logo, the whole thing is set in the Modern No. 20 typeface. |
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'''Technique:''' Cel animation. |
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'''Audio:''' Technically none, except for the voiceover announcing the funding credits, and/or the opening theme of the program. However, if you listen closely, you might hear a test tone towards the end of this logo. |
'''Audio:''' Technically none, except for the voiceover announcing the funding credits, and/or the opening theme of the program. However, if you listen closely, you might hear a test tone towards the end of this logo. |
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'''Visuals:''' On a black screen, "{{color|gold|WNET}}" appears as an outline, in a more normal font than before. Below it is "NEW YORK" in the same font as before. Below all that, the logo at the time for their performing arts anthology series ''Great Performances'' (depicting, from left to right, a ballerina, a stage actor, an opera singer, and an orchestra conductor standing atop a horizontal, rounded stage) is seen. |
'''Visuals:''' On a black screen, "{{color|gold|WNET}}" appears as an outline, in a more normal font than before. Below it is "NEW YORK" in the same font as before. Below all that, the logo at the time for their performing arts anthology series ''Great Performances'' (depicting, from left to right, a ballerina, a stage actor, an opera singer, and an orchestra conductor standing atop a horizontal, rounded stage) is seen. |
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'''Technique:''' A still, printed image. |
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'''Audio:''' A nine-note synthesized brass fanfare. |
'''Audio:''' A nine-note synthesized brass fanfare. |
WNET is the PBS affiliate located in Newark, New Jersey. They first signed on the air on May 15, 1948, being the oldest of all the stations (although it joined NET in 1962). It also serves New York City.
Visuals: This is a reworked version of the 13th NET logo, with the logo altered to read "wnet". The animation also appears to be sped up, the mass is completely yellow until it unravels, and a "13" also moves downward from the swirling mass, which causes the word to move up.
Variant: A black & white and possibly filmed variant is seen on Science '72.
Technique: Same as the 13th NET logo, though slightly altered with the design changes that were made.
Audio: Same as the 13th NET logo, but with an additional loop to the keyboard tune, and the announcer says "The following program is from WNET 13." or "The following program is a presentation of WNET 13."
Availability: The logo appeared on An American Family, where it may or may not have been used in tandem with the 3rd logo, and also appeared on Soul!. The alternate announcer variant appeared on Science '72.
Visuals: On a black background, red rectangles with white horizontal pieces shoot away from the viewer, converging into a red screen with a white “FROM NEW YORK” on it. After a few seconds on screen, the pieces shoot towards the viewer, revealing teal bars, and “WNET” zooms forward on a teal background, with "PRESENTS" appearing below a second later.
Variants:
Technique: 2D animation.
Audio: A synthesized, keyboard-driven rock tune. The first half of the music has two arrangements: one slightly faster and more hokey-sounding, and the other cleaner and more professional. Both have the same ending.
Availability: Seen on pre-1979 recordings of PBS shows produced by WNET. The first appearance of the logo is on an unknown show in 1972, although one of the first appearances of the logo was on VD Blues in October 1972; this logo made its last appearance on the seven-part miniseries Women in Art. Originally appeared on an episode of The Men Who Made the Movies; this logo is retained on a DVD directed by the subject of that episode. This logo is also retained on a few episodes of Theater in America (such as "Enemies") presented on DVD by the Broadway Theatre Archive. The complete logo also shows up about an hour into the documentary Mr. Soul.
Visuals: An art deco-style "13" (rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise) writes itself on a black screen. The "13" zooms out as a similarly styled "13" (rotated 90 degrees clockwise compared to the previous text) writes itself in as a mirror image, overlapping with the "3" in the former "13". Then both of them disappear, as "WNET" written in the same style appears at the bottom and zooms out. A "W" zooms in and out, followed by an "N", an "E", and a "T". Then the background turns red, and "WNET", in white and in a more normal-looking font, zooms in.
Variants:
Technique: A mix of motion-controlled animation for the first half and Scanimate animation for the second half.
Audio: A clean arrangement of the first half of the previous logo plays, followed by a hokey arrangement of that half with an announcer saying either "Produced in New York by WNET" or "A Presentation of WNET". Afterwards, the second half plays as usual.
Availability: Seen on An American Family, where it may or may not have been used in tandem with the 1st logo. It also appeared on a 16mm print of the Bill Moyers special An Essay on Watergate.
Visuals: Two white bars appear from opposite ends of the screen and slide horizontally to the center. After they collide, they retract to reveal "FROM WNET", with "NEW YORK" below (all in a stylized font). The white bars would do the same for the names of any company, individual, institution, foundation, or organization that funded the program [that this precedes] (e.g. "Corporation for Public Broadcasting", "Public Television Stations", "The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies", etc.). After the last text slides, the whole thing fades to black.
Variants:
Technique: Cel animation.
Audio: Technically none, except for the voiceover announcing the funding credits, and/or the opening theme of the program. However, if you listen closely, you might hear a test tone towards the end of this logo.
Availability:
Visuals: On a black screen, "WNET" appears as an outline, in a more normal font than before. Below it is "NEW YORK" in the same font as before. Below all that, the logo at the time for their performing arts anthology series Great Performances (depicting, from left to right, a ballerina, a stage actor, an opera singer, and an orchestra conductor standing atop a horizontal, rounded stage) is seen.
Technique: A still, printed image.
Audio: A nine-note synthesized brass fanfare.
Availability: Seen on episodes of Great Performances from the era, this was a special ident created specifically for the program's 10th season, along with the new opening graphic.
Visuals: On a black background, circular lines showing the New York skyline wipe in, with an outlined “WNET” on it. The pre-2001 World Trade Center "Twin Towers" can also be seen on the far left. As the “radar” circles two more times, the outlined “WNET” becomes more solid, and the morning sky becomes night. Finally, when the sky becomes completely dark, and “WNET” is filled in with white, “FROM” and “NEW YORK” can be seen above and below the letters respectively. This is all in the same font as the 4th logo.
Variant: A filmed version appeared on Heritage: Civilization and the Jews.
Technique: 2D animation.
Audio: A five-note synthesizer tune with chimes, repeating three times, just with different pitches.
Availability: Older tapes of WNET programs should have this.
Visuals: On a blue space background with dancing stars, “FROM” and “NEW YORK” zoom out, along with a "W". Then, an "n", an "E", and a "t" slide out while the animation zooms away from the viewer, all of which resembles the "Thirteen" logo at the time. “Sparks” then create parallelograms to surround “FROM” and “NEW YORK”, placed above and below the logo.
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: Same as the last logo.
Availability:
Visuals: On a black background is “wnet” in a thin font (in a black rectangle with the word carved out of it) and then “NEW YORK” (appearing letter-by-letter), circling the logo counterclockwise while a spotlight shines around the logo from right to left.
Trivia: This is a live-action logo, created by Liberty Studios (which also produced HBO's "In Space" opening from 1982) in 1991 and directed by Robert Lyons and David Bruce. An Oxberry Animation Stand Camera was used for the filming of this logo, which like the 1992 PBS logo, was shot on 35mm film.
Variant: Sometimes, the logo is referred as "FROM wnet NEW YORK".
Technique: Live-action.
Audio: A beatbox jingle with a synthesized choir sounder.
Audio Variant: On American Masters, there is announcer Tom Stuart say, "A production of WNET New York" over the jingle.
Availability: In its day, it appeared on Nature, American Masters, Charlie Rose and the pilot episode of Cyberchase (one of the last appearances of this logo). Also appeared at the beginning or end of season 3 episodes of Shining Time Station. It may appear on early DVD releases of Nature. It also appears on the PC game The Day the World Broke.
Visuals: On a dodger blue background with many flashing dots (apparently arranged to look like skyscrapers), a pulse “wipes” inside the words “thirteen” with a red dot on the "I" (placed on the background as to be placed on one of the "dotscrapers" as if an antenna), and the words “WNET NEW YORK” fade in below.
Variants:
Technique: 2D animation.
Audio: A five-note digital piano sounder; the version uses jazz piano and drum music. Otherwise, the ending theme.
Availability: Can currently be seen on Cyberchase releases on VHS and DVD and most reruns on PBS. Also appeared on 1999-2006 episodes of Nature and Charlie Rose. Also seen at the end of American Masters and The Face - Jesus in Art. Though it officially ended use in 2004, it was used as a placeholder for the next logo until 2006.
Visuals: There is an overhead view of New York City, with the "thirteen" from the previous logo, rendered in CGI, floating overhead. The camera pans down to a 20th Century Fox-esque angle (except it's reversed), so we see the logo from below.
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A held-out bass string note, followed by a soft 5-note piano sounder ending in violas playing an additional note. Sometimes it has the closing theme playing over it.
Audio Variant: On Make Em' Laugh, we hear a "clinking" sound when the hand bounces the dot off.
Availability:
Visuals: On a nightime New York skyline, there is a billboard reading "A PRODUCTION OF THIRTEEN" (with "A PRODUCTION OF" in red and "THIRTEEN" in yellow, stacked atop each other) atop a brownish building. The camera then pans down to an angle (à la the 20th Century Studios). The logo then fades out.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A Mexican guitar tune (sourced from a stock library).
Availability: Exclusively made for the WNET station. Seen on Season 12 of Cyberchase (most airings of said season use the normal logo instead).
WNET.ORG is the name of the organization that holds the licenses of WNET and its sister station on Long Island, WLIW.
Visuals: There is the Empire State Building at night. "WNET.ORG" appears at the top of the screen next to the Empire State Building. Then, a line draws itself next to the moon and spins several times and stops by forming a lowercase "i". "TH" slides out of the left side of the "I" and "RTEEN" slides out of the right side of the "I" (all in the Gotham typeface). Starting in 2012, it's the same except the "WNET.ORG" reads "WNET" and all the text just fades in while shining (due to the fact that the "i" animation is no longer used).
Early Variant: An early version (used until February 21, 2010) exists. Here, the logo is the following: there is the skyline of Manhattan at night, a line draws itself next to the moon and spins several times and stops by forming a lowercase "i", "TH" slides out of the left side of the "I" and "RTEEN" slides out of the right side of the "I" (all in the Gotham typeface), and "WNET.ORG" appears above "THIRTEEN" after the animation is done.
Other Variants:
Technique: Live action, with motion-controlled animation for the text.
Audio: A gracious 4-note orchestra tune with a piano note at the end (composed by Niccolo Athens). A short version exists with the piano note being cut-off.
Audio Trivia: You can watch a video of Athens conducting this logo's theme, as well as other themes used in WNET's local bumpers of the time.
Early Audio Variant: The early version uses a re-orchestration of the 2006 logo's theme
Availability: This logo still appears on most new programs, mainly in prime time.
Visuals: On a white background with dots below, there are the words "WNET", "The", and "Group", being scattered across the screen. Afterward, the logo moves to the center with the text moving to a yellow line. A thin line forms by WNET group, and the text, "Media Made Possible By All Of You".
Technique: 2D animation.
Audio: A five-note synth tune.
Audio Variant: On Part 2 of the Nature special miniseries Growing Up in the Rockies, none.
Availability: First seen on the May 14, 2021, edition of Firing Line. It also appears on Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten. Since July 9, 2021, it has also appeared on Great Performances, and since July 27, 2021, on American Masters; by the fall of that year, most WNET programming had switched over to this logo, an exception being PBS NewsHour Weekend (this show that continued to use the 2009 logo until it was rebranded and moved to WETA). It also appears on season 13 of Cyberchase, making it the third season 13 of a WNET kids show to use a new WNET logo.
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