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Big Ticket Television
Logo descriptions by boomersmamaw and Shadeed A. Kelly
Logo captures by Shadeed A. Kelly, Eric S., and EnormousRat
Editions by V of Doom
Video captures courtesy of Eric S.
Background: Big Ticket Television was created by Spelling Entertainment Group in 1994 as a company that produces half-hour sitcoms and reality shows. They produced sitcoms such as Moesha and its spin-off The Parkers, as well as the daily syndicated court shows Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown. When Viacom acquired Spelling in 1999, Big Ticket Television became a label of the Paramount Television Group, and with it, a new on-screen logo was introduced. Today, it is a unit of CBS Corporation's CBS Television Studios, even though they still produce Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown for syndication.
Background Trivia: The "Big Ticket" name was inspired on the Blockbuster corporative logo, which at the time was owned by Viacom.
1st Logo
(1995-1999)
Nicknames: "Smiley TV", "Atom TV", "Now THIS Is Feel-Good TV!"
Logo: Against a gray background we see a TV tube zooming-out with a flying object which appears to be a white rectangle, flying around the TV tube, then we see the phrase:
but "TELEVISION" is multicolored and the flying object becomes a happy smile then the Spelling Entertainment byline appears below.
Bylines:
FX/SFX: The objects flying.
Music/Sounds: A hip-hop like tune with a "Mmmm!"-like sound when the smile appears and the sound of "Yeah!" at the end, or the end theme of the show.
Availability: Uncommon. Can be seen on episodes of Moesha when occasionally aired on Teen Nick; and was also seen on the earliest episodes of The Parkers on BET and BETJ (now Centric), and pre-1999 episodes of Judge Judy (which never get reran for some reason). All three had this followed by the Worldvision logo, which is plastered by the Paramount logo in reruns.
Scare Factor: None to low; the sudden appearance of the logo may catch you off-guard.
2nd Logo
(1999- )
Nicknames: "Smiley TV II", "More Feel-Good TV"
Logo: Against a white background, we see the green words "BIG TICKET" in Bank Gothic MD BT font flying across from left to the center. We also see the word "TELEVISION" with a registered trademark symbol next to it in purple and in the same font underneath with the same TV tube screen from the last logo fading in above. We later see the happy smile being drawn on the tube and below the word "TELEVISION", the byline "A PARAMOUNT/VIACOM COMPANY" appears in the same animation used on the 2000 Spelling Television logo in the Viacom "wigga-wigga" font in a green code-out box.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The letters flying in, the happy smile drawing. More simplistic than the previous logo.
Music/Sounds: The same as the last logo. On Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown, it's the end title theme playing over this logo.
Availability: Common. Seen on reruns of later episodes of Moesha on Teen Nick and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on G4. The current version is seen on Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown in syndication. This logo was last seen on The Parkers on the former BET J, which is now Centric.
Scare Factor: None.
Logo captures by Shadeed A. Kelly, Eric S., and EnormousRat
Editions by V of Doom
Video captures courtesy of Eric S.
Background: Big Ticket Television was created by Spelling Entertainment Group in 1994 as a company that produces half-hour sitcoms and reality shows. They produced sitcoms such as Moesha and its spin-off The Parkers, as well as the daily syndicated court shows Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown. When Viacom acquired Spelling in 1999, Big Ticket Television became a label of the Paramount Television Group, and with it, a new on-screen logo was introduced. Today, it is a unit of CBS Corporation's CBS Television Studios, even though they still produce Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown for syndication.
Background Trivia: The "Big Ticket" name was inspired on the Blockbuster corporative logo, which at the time was owned by Viacom.
1st Logo
(1995-1999)
Nicknames: "Smiley TV", "Atom TV", "Now THIS Is Feel-Good TV!"
Logo: Against a gray background we see a TV tube zooming-out with a flying object which appears to be a white rectangle, flying around the TV tube, then we see the phrase:
BIG TICKET
TELEVISION
but "TELEVISION" is multicolored and the flying object becomes a happy smile then the Spelling Entertainment byline appears below.
Bylines:
- 1995-1996: "THROUGH SPELLING ENTERTAINMENT GROUP"
- 1996-1999: "A SUBSIDIARY OF SPELLING ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC."
FX/SFX: The objects flying.
Music/Sounds: A hip-hop like tune with a "Mmmm!"-like sound when the smile appears and the sound of "Yeah!" at the end, or the end theme of the show.
Availability: Uncommon. Can be seen on episodes of Moesha when occasionally aired on Teen Nick; and was also seen on the earliest episodes of The Parkers on BET and BETJ (now Centric), and pre-1999 episodes of Judge Judy (which never get reran for some reason). All three had this followed by the Worldvision logo, which is plastered by the Paramount logo in reruns.
Scare Factor: None to low; the sudden appearance of the logo may catch you off-guard.
2nd Logo
(1999- )
Nicknames: "Smiley TV II", "More Feel-Good TV"
Logo: Against a white background, we see the green words "BIG TICKET" in Bank Gothic MD BT font flying across from left to the center. We also see the word "TELEVISION" with a registered trademark symbol next to it in purple and in the same font underneath with the same TV tube screen from the last logo fading in above. We later see the happy smile being drawn on the tube and below the word "TELEVISION", the byline "A PARAMOUNT/VIACOM COMPANY" appears in the same animation used on the 2000 Spelling Television logo in the Viacom "wigga-wigga" font in a green code-out box.
Variants:
- There is a variant of this logo on a black background.
- This logo became bylineless in Fall 2006 under the ownership of CBS Corporation.
FX/SFX: The letters flying in, the happy smile drawing. More simplistic than the previous logo.
Music/Sounds: The same as the last logo. On Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown, it's the end title theme playing over this logo.
Availability: Common. Seen on reruns of later episodes of Moesha on Teen Nick and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on G4. The current version is seen on Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown in syndication. This logo was last seen on The Parkers on the former BET J, which is now Centric.
Scare Factor: None.
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