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East Tennessee PBS
Logo descriptions by Ryan Froula and Jon Cox
Editions by Jon Cox, Lizz Tetlow, Ryan Froula, gshowguy and Shadeed A. Kelly.
Background: East Tennessee PBS is a PBS affiliate that serves the east side of Tennessee, via its two stations WKOP-TV and WETP-TV. It started life as WSJK-TV, which was founded in 1967 to serve the Tri-Cities (Sneedville, TN; Johnson City, TN; and Knoxville, TN). WKOP-TV began broadcasting on August 15, 1990, serving Knoxville. Its digital counterparts are WSJK-DT and WKOP-DT, which started broadcasting in 2000. In 2002, WSJK was renamed WETP, and the two studios collectively became known as East Tennessee Public Television. In 2010, ETPT changed its named to East Tennessee PBS.
1st Logo
(1987-August 14, 1990)
Nicknames: "Ugly TWO", "TV Worth Watching"
Logo: On a dark blue-black gradient background, we see the word "TWO", in an ugly font and colored pinkish-red, as well as
a gray line flying in from both directions. They turn into place, and after the "TWO" shines, "WSJK-TV", in Tahoma font, flips up underneath.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early computer graphics.
Music/Sounds: The "TV Worth Watching" jingle, at least, when the singers sing "On channel 2...!".
Availability: Seen on a PBS' "TV Worth Watching" promo custom-made for WSJK. This might or might not have been a program intro tag, too (which I'm sure would have music of its own).
Scare Factor: Low, due to the ugly "TWO".
2nd Logo
(1986-1987)
Logo: Against a shot of a waterfall is the words WSJK TV-2. Below that is SNEEDVILLE, TN.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The waterfall in the background.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
3rd Logo
(1987-1988)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO II"
Logo: On a dark blue/black gradient background, we see a pinkish-red Ugly TWO. Below that is a line, below that is the text WSJK-TV, and below that is the text SNEEDVILLE, TN.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early computer graphics.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
4thLogo
(1988-August 14, 1990)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO III"
Logo: On a blue background with the PBS "P-Head" etched into it, we scroll down. The same "Ugly TWO" from before in a bronze color and a gray line flip in from both directions. The Ugly TWO shines as the line turns into place, and WSJK-TV flips in from under the line. Afterwards, SNEEDVILLE, TN fades in below all that.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The etch-in effect, and early computer graphics that reek of Scanimate.
Music/Sounds: The same as the TV Worth Watching variant, this time with Hoth Edwards saying "This is your station for quality PBS programs, WSJK."
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
5th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO and '70s-style 15"
Logo: On a fire engine red background with the logo from before, a '70s-style 15, and PBS P-Head etched into it, we scroll down. Then "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE", in a white Kiera font flips in, followed by the "Ugly Two" and '70s-style 15 in white.
Variants:
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The etch-in effect and the flipping in of the logo.
Music/Sounds: Just Hoth Edwards saying either
"This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV.",
"This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer supported WSJK and WKOP.",
"This is viewer supported Public TV For East Tennessee.",
or "This is viewer supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." Sometimes, an '80s-style pop/funk tune played on synths, drums, bass, and clavinet is used.
The still variant has either an exotic funk tune or a low-budget 10-note new-wave/synthpop tune.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low.
6th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Logo: Against a lake background, a blue/rose gradient rectangle flips in from the left. On it is a light cyan-colored "2 WSJK/15 WKOP" logo w/ the "2" & "15" in the Sahara Bodoni font and a P-Head (with "PBS" in Didot font under the P-Head) stacked on top of each other.
Variant: Sometimes, there's a longer version where after about 30 seconds, the background fades into a waterfall scene.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The flipping in of the rectangle.
Music/Sounds: A catchy tune played on drums, bass, and clavinet which segues into a funky, upbeat rock/country tune with a clavinet, drums and bass with a few electric guitar riffs thrown in. Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." On a side note, this logo's music played on some community events calendars on WSJK./WKOP up until at least the summer of 1997.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low.
7th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Logo: Just a powder blue-tinted image of Knoxville with the "Ugly Two" and '70s-style 15 in silver superimposed off center.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: None.
Music/Sounds: Logo 4's jingle. Sometimes it's silent.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
8th Logo
(1990-1996)
Logo: We see a still pic of a generic live footage taken in Tennessee (much like the 1st Prairie Public Television ident). Superimposed over the pic occupying all of the left portion of the screen is a translucent image of the rectangle logo from the 6th ident, except colored violet/medium red-violet gradient and w/ powder blue logos on it.
Variants: One features a country side scenery cross-fading to the lake from ident 6. And another features an otter swimming.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor:None for the otter variant, but the cross-fading for the other version.
Music/Sounds: No announcer, but there is music. A calm new age tune with a bass, electric piano & clapping on the cross-fading variant and a very brief Moog synth "WULLUP!"-like sound on the otter variant.
Availability: Same as the 3rd ident, however this was the least-common of the 1990-1996 idents.
Scare Factor: None for the new age music. Low for the Moog synth sound effect.
9th Logo
(October 31, 1990-October 31, 1995)
Nickname: "The Halloween Logo"
Logo: On a black background with eggplant-colored smoke, we see an orange pumpkin with a P-head carved into it. In the upper-left corner is a gray ghost. In the lower-right corner is a box with two rectangles and a shadow drop. The top rectangle is white and has black text reading "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE". The bottom rectangle is red and contains the WSJK/WKOP logo as seen in the 6th logo in white.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: None.
Music/Sounds: Just Hoth Edwards saying "This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV."
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low, unless you're into Halloween-style spookiness. It's just for fun though.
10th Logo
(September 2, 1996-December 24, 2002)
Logo: We see the logo from the 6th ident in a dark blue box on the left side of the screen. On the light blue right side of the screen, we see in white "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE" and shadows of CGI window-style effects. Under the "2" is "WSJK SNEEDVILLE", and under the 15 is "WKOP KNOXVILLE". To the left of the dark box is yellow, and the bar on the top over both the yellow and dark blue areas is colored red.
Variants: There were three color schemes: blue (mentioned above), red, and yellow. The red & yellow schemes also have a totally different CS in response to the blue one. Yellow has a yellow BG, army green rectangle, light gray on the far left, and cyan over the areas. Red has a red BG, dark red rectangle, light gray on the far left, and yellow over the areas. Coincidentally, the red variant's color scheme is also used as a screen tint for the 7th WNET ident.
Preambles:
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The shadows.
Music/Sounds: There were three jingles: a peaceful brass tune with a few English horn and violin riffs thrown in (used only on the blue color scheme), an African-style new age tune with flutes, cellos, a choir and a piano (used on the blue and red color schemes), and a piano/guitar tune with bongo drums beating in the background (used on all three color schemes). On all three, Hoth Edwards says either "This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." or "This is viewer-supported Public TV For East Tennessee". Sometimes (at least on the blue variant), there's no music and just has Hoth Edwards saying, "This is viewer-supported Public TV For East Tennessee."
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
11th Logo
(December 25, 2002-2006)
Logo: We see a blue/purple/red ethereal background with the new ETP-TV logo in the center. After a few seconds, it zooms out to make room for "WETP-TV 2 Sneedville, TN" and "WKOP-TV 15 Knoxville, TN".
Variant: In 2004, two digital stations were added: "WETP-DT 41" and "WKOP-DT 17".
FX/SFX: The blue/purple/red ethereal background, the occasional P-Head movement, and the zooming out.
Music/Sounds: An extended variant of the 2002 CPB logo's music. For the first two years, Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, on WETP-TV channel 2 and WKOP-TV channel 15" or "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV". For the final two years, Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, broadcasting on WETP-TV channel 2, WKOP-TV channel 15, WETP-DT channel 41, and WKOP-DT channel 17." or "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, broadcasting on WETP and WKOP.".
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: None.
12th Logo
(2006-February 16, 2009)
TBA
13th Logo
(February 17, 2009-February 15, 2010)
TBA
14th Logo
(February 16, 2010-July 30, 2010)
TBA
TBA
Editions by Jon Cox, Lizz Tetlow, Ryan Froula, gshowguy and Shadeed A. Kelly.
Background: East Tennessee PBS is a PBS affiliate that serves the east side of Tennessee, via its two stations WKOP-TV and WETP-TV. It started life as WSJK-TV, which was founded in 1967 to serve the Tri-Cities (Sneedville, TN; Johnson City, TN; and Knoxville, TN). WKOP-TV began broadcasting on August 15, 1990, serving Knoxville. Its digital counterparts are WSJK-DT and WKOP-DT, which started broadcasting in 2000. In 2002, WSJK was renamed WETP, and the two studios collectively became known as East Tennessee Public Television. In 2010, ETPT changed its named to East Tennessee PBS.
1st Logo
(1987-August 14, 1990)
Nicknames: "Ugly TWO", "TV Worth Watching"
Logo: On a dark blue-black gradient background, we see the word "TWO", in an ugly font and colored pinkish-red, as well as
a gray line flying in from both directions. They turn into place, and after the "TWO" shines, "WSJK-TV", in Tahoma font, flips up underneath. FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early computer graphics.
Music/Sounds: The "TV Worth Watching" jingle, at least, when the singers sing "On channel 2...!".
Availability: Seen on a PBS' "TV Worth Watching" promo custom-made for WSJK. This might or might not have been a program intro tag, too (which I'm sure would have music of its own).
Scare Factor: Low, due to the ugly "TWO".
2nd Logo
(1986-1987)
Logo: Against a shot of a waterfall is the words WSJK TV-2. Below that is SNEEDVILLE, TN.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The waterfall in the background.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
3rd Logo
(1987-1988)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO II"
Logo: On a dark blue/black gradient background, we see a pinkish-red Ugly TWO. Below that is a line, below that is the text WSJK-TV, and below that is the text SNEEDVILLE, TN.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early computer graphics.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
4thLogo
(1988-August 14, 1990)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO III"
Logo: On a blue background with the PBS "P-Head" etched into it, we scroll down. The same "Ugly TWO" from before in a bronze color and a gray line flip in from both directions. The Ugly TWO shines as the line turns into place, and WSJK-TV flips in from under the line. Afterwards, SNEEDVILLE, TN fades in below all that.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The etch-in effect, and early computer graphics that reek of Scanimate.
Music/Sounds: The same as the TV Worth Watching variant, this time with Hoth Edwards saying "This is your station for quality PBS programs, WSJK."
Availability: Check those old tapes!
Scare factor: Low.
5th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Nickname: "Ugly TWO and '70s-style 15"
Logo: On a fire engine red background with the logo from before, a '70s-style 15, and PBS P-Head etched into it, we scroll down. Then "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE", in a white Kiera font flips in, followed by the "Ugly Two" and '70s-style 15 in white.
Variants:
- During sign-on and sign-off, this logo was used as the template for the sign-on and sign-off screens, first showing "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE", then the Ugly Two and '70s-style 15. Then we see the Ugly Two and info on WSJK, followed by the '70s-style 15 and info on WKOP, then info on the East Tennessee Public Communications Corporation, then the microwave stations, and finally the "Ugly Two" and '70s-style 15.
- Sometimes Hoth Edwards would start saying "This is viewer-supported Public TV For East Tennessee" over the end of the PBS "Just Watch Us Now!/Come See the Light" promo, which after a couple of seconds cuts to this logo, with the Ugly Two and '70s-style 15 already formed.
- Sometimes, there's a rare still variant. Edwards doesn't announce on it.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The etch-in effect and the flipping in of the logo.
Music/Sounds: Just Hoth Edwards saying either
"This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV.",
"This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer supported WSJK and WKOP.",
"This is viewer supported Public TV For East Tennessee.",
or "This is viewer supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." Sometimes, an '80s-style pop/funk tune played on synths, drums, bass, and clavinet is used.
The still variant has either an exotic funk tune or a low-budget 10-note new-wave/synthpop tune.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low.
6th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Logo: Against a lake background, a blue/rose gradient rectangle flips in from the left. On it is a light cyan-colored "2 WSJK/15 WKOP" logo w/ the "2" & "15" in the Sahara Bodoni font and a P-Head (with "PBS" in Didot font under the P-Head) stacked on top of each other.
Variant: Sometimes, there's a longer version where after about 30 seconds, the background fades into a waterfall scene.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The flipping in of the rectangle.
Music/Sounds: A catchy tune played on drums, bass, and clavinet which segues into a funky, upbeat rock/country tune with a clavinet, drums and bass with a few electric guitar riffs thrown in. Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." On a side note, this logo's music played on some community events calendars on WSJK./WKOP up until at least the summer of 1997.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low.
7th Logo
(August 15, 1990-September 1, 1996)
Logo: Just a powder blue-tinted image of Knoxville with the "Ugly Two" and '70s-style 15 in silver superimposed off center.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: None.
Music/Sounds: Logo 4's jingle. Sometimes it's silent.
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
8th Logo
(1990-1996)
Logo: We see a still pic of a generic live footage taken in Tennessee (much like the 1st Prairie Public Television ident). Superimposed over the pic occupying all of the left portion of the screen is a translucent image of the rectangle logo from the 6th ident, except colored violet/medium red-violet gradient and w/ powder blue logos on it.
Variants: One features a country side scenery cross-fading to the lake from ident 6. And another features an otter swimming.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor:None for the otter variant, but the cross-fading for the other version.
Music/Sounds: No announcer, but there is music. A calm new age tune with a bass, electric piano & clapping on the cross-fading variant and a very brief Moog synth "WULLUP!"-like sound on the otter variant.
Availability: Same as the 3rd ident, however this was the least-common of the 1990-1996 idents.
Scare Factor: None for the new age music. Low for the Moog synth sound effect.
9th Logo
(October 31, 1990-October 31, 1995)
Nickname: "The Halloween Logo"
Logo: On a black background with eggplant-colored smoke, we see an orange pumpkin with a P-head carved into it. In the upper-left corner is a gray ghost. In the lower-right corner is a box with two rectangles and a shadow drop. The top rectangle is white and has black text reading "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE". The bottom rectangle is red and contains the WSJK/WKOP logo as seen in the 6th logo in white.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: None.
Music/Sounds: Just Hoth Edwards saying "This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV."
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Low, unless you're into Halloween-style spookiness. It's just for fun though.
10th Logo
(September 2, 1996-December 24, 2002)
Logo: We see the logo from the 6th ident in a dark blue box on the left side of the screen. On the light blue right side of the screen, we see in white "PUBLIC TV FOR EAST TENNESSEE" and shadows of CGI window-style effects. Under the "2" is "WSJK SNEEDVILLE", and under the 15 is "WKOP KNOXVILLE". To the left of the dark box is yellow, and the bar on the top over both the yellow and dark blue areas is colored red.
Variants: There were three color schemes: blue (mentioned above), red, and yellow. The red & yellow schemes also have a totally different CS in response to the blue one. Yellow has a yellow BG, army green rectangle, light gray on the far left, and cyan over the areas. Red has a red BG, dark red rectangle, light gray on the far left, and yellow over the areas. Coincidentally, the red variant's color scheme is also used as a screen tint for the 7th WNET ident.
Preambles:
- Short version, "Setting the standard for nature documentaries..." Blue color scheme, second music variant.
- Long version, "Setting the standard for nature documentaries..." Blue color scheme, first music variant.
- 1st Short version, "Exploring the world..." Red color scheme, second music variant.
- 2nd Short version, "Exploring the world..." Yellow color scheme, third music variant.
- Long version, "Exploring the world..." Blue color scheme, second music variant.
- Short version, "Bringing you a great variety of the performing arts..." Blue color scheme, first music variant.
- Long version, "Bringing you a great variety of the performing arts..." Blue color scheme, first music variant.
- "For the best in science and technology documentaries..." Blue color scheme, third music variant.
- "Your source for award-winning news and public affairs programming..." Red color scheme, third music variant.
- There was also another preamble I don't recall (except it had something to do with instructional programming) that used the red color scheme and second music variant.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The shadows.
Music/Sounds: There were three jingles: a peaceful brass tune with a few English horn and violin riffs thrown in (used only on the blue color scheme), an African-style new age tune with flutes, cellos, a choir and a piano (used on the blue and red color schemes), and a piano/guitar tune with bongo drums beating in the background (used on all three color schemes). On all three, Hoth Edwards says either "This is Public TV For East Tennessee, on viewer-supported WSJK-TV and WKOP-TV." or "This is viewer-supported Public TV For East Tennessee". Sometimes (at least on the blue variant), there's no music and just has Hoth Edwards saying, "This is viewer-supported Public TV For East Tennessee."
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
11th Logo
(December 25, 2002-2006)
Logo: We see a blue/purple/red ethereal background with the new ETP-TV logo in the center. After a few seconds, it zooms out to make room for "WETP-TV 2 Sneedville, TN" and "WKOP-TV 15 Knoxville, TN".
Variant: In 2004, two digital stations were added: "WETP-DT 41" and "WKOP-DT 17".
FX/SFX: The blue/purple/red ethereal background, the occasional P-Head movement, and the zooming out.
Music/Sounds: An extended variant of the 2002 CPB logo's music. For the first two years, Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, on WETP-TV channel 2 and WKOP-TV channel 15" or "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV". For the final two years, Hoth Edwards says "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, broadcasting on WETP-TV channel 2, WKOP-TV channel 15, WETP-DT channel 41, and WKOP-DT channel 17." or "This is viewer-supported East Tennessee Public TV, broadcasting on WETP and WKOP.".
Availability: See above.
Scare Factor: None.
12th Logo
(2006-February 16, 2009)
TBA
13th Logo
(February 17, 2009-February 15, 2010)
TBA
14th Logo
(February 16, 2010-July 30, 2010)
TBA
15th Logo
(July 31, 2010- )
TBA
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| MariluHennerArtist45 | Someday | 0 | Aug 8 2011, 9:16 AM EDT by MariluHennerArtist45 | ||
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When i start uploading new videos of the PBS promos i have on my MRN tapes, i am seriously GOING TO HAVE TO add new videos of these idents. I just can't STAND the fact that everybody's watching these videos and they can hardly hear anything! Also, some of these videos are now PRIVATE! Worst, the ones that are private aren't even removed, but they should be.
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| ryanasaurus0077 | For those who don't know | 0 | Nov 29 2010, 5:39 PM EST by ryanasaurus0077 | ||
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A clarinet is a woodwind instrument, and a clavinet is a synth-like keyboard.
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| ryanasaurus0077 | Generic Video | 3 | Jun 14 2010, 7:30 AM EDT by JamesBondGuy28 | ||
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A YouTube user is complaining about Generic Videos (yes, he's the same user who uploaded most of the vids on this page to YouTube) interfering with his vieweing experience. Does anyone know what a Generic Video widget is?
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