Edits and additions by Kris Starring

1st Logo
(1987-1996)
Logo: On a dark blue background, we see a giant white 3D cylinder with three holes cut out of it (likely to represent a filmreel or a tube where colors shoot out of the holes to create a color picture on a TV screen). The cylinder spins while "Georgia Public Television" in a gray chrome font zooms in from the top-left of the screen. 3 lasers of red, green, and blue zap through the holes, filling them with their respective colors. The cylinder becomes a 2-D circle, resting to the right of "Public". The logo shines a little before fading to black.

FX: The cylinder spinning, the lasers, the shining.

Cheesy Factor: The usual 1980's effects.

Music/Sounds: Two synthesized drumbeats which are followed by a three-note chime tune, and then this synth "buzzing" sound.

Availability: Extinct. I don't know which shows had this logo.

Scare Factor: Medium to high; the music is very likely to unnerve many people, especially if it is the first time you see it. In fact, some people think this logo may be even more scary than WGBH's!



2nd Logo
(1996-2003)

Nickname: "Bringing You The Best"

Logo: We see the letters "GPTV" in an italicized purple font zoom out together (and after 1998, along with a bluish/purple version of the PBS P-Head Circle) and spread out over a background of cascading purple, blue, orange and white shapes. The calls and city of license of all of GPTV's stations and transmitter sites briefly appears underneath the GPTV logo. The call information fades out and the words "Bringing You The Best" zoom out one by one into the space below.

Variants:

• Productions of GPTV during this time used a slightly different variant of this animation, which is to be described later.
• There was also an extended version seen at sign on and sign off that had "GPTV" by itself with no PBS logo but included an extended runthrough of GPTV's stations with each call sign appearing individually underneath, which likewise closes with the "Bringing You The Best" tagline.

FX: Outstanding quality CGI from Atlanta's own television graphics master and TBS veteran Jay Cordova. When GPTV recieved this graphics package, they were so pleased they it is said that they wanted to use it for ten years, which they probably would had it not been for the decision to rebrand as "GPB" in 2004. Definitely nothing cheesy here.

Music/Sounds: A beautifully synthesized orchestral piece plays throughout the logo, which was GPTV's theme at the time. An announcer would say over the logo, "This is GPTV, your PBS station. A nine station network serving Atlanta and all of Georgia. GPTV, Bringing you the best.".

Availability: Extinct.

Scare Factor: Low to medium, mostly at the start of it.

Note: Starting January 2004, GPTV was rebranded to the name of its parent organization, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB).


3rd Logo
(2004- )


Logo: It's the same background for PBS Home Video's current logo, but the current GPB logo zooms in, and there is a shine on the logo.

FX: The zooming in and the shine.

Music/Sounds: A quiet piano tune.

Availability: Currently in use.

Scare Factor: None.