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KCET
Edited by mr3urious
Los Angeles, California
1st (known) Logo
(1970s-1978)
Nickname: "Los Angeles Community Supported Television"
Logo: Against a blue background, a series of thick, white horizontal lines are drawn in from bottom to top, and go in a pattern from left to right, right to left, left to right, etc.... Then, the camera zooms out as the lines unfurl to reveal the letters
"KCET" looking similar to the IBM logo. Then, the words "LOS ANGELES", COMMUNITY", "SUPPORTED", and "TELEVISION" (solid, and in yellow) scroll out from "KCET", one-by-one, and repeat.
FX: The lines being drawn and the words scrolling.
Cheesy Factor: '70s Scanimate effects.
Music/Sounds: A jazzy, high-pitched synth tune with an electric bass line.
Availability: Extinct from TV.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
2nd Logo
(1978-1988)
Nickname: “Greetings from L.A.!”, "The Postcard"
Logo: On a sky background, (not like in the Warner Bros. logos), a giant rectangle, tilted on its side, rotates into view. It turns out that that rectangle is actually a postcard with the city of Los Angeles on it (with “Greetings from L.A.” in a cursive font placed above the picture). As it zooms into view, “KCET”, in Century Gothic font, zooms out from the bottom-left corner, and we go into the picture on the postcard, zooming over the city, with KCET in the bottom-right corner and moving upwards to the center until we get to the Hollywood Sign, at which point “KCET” is placed above it, and a white light sweeps through the letters.
FX: Hey, now there’s some good animation!
Music/Sounds: A dramatic synthesized orchestra tune.
Availability: I can’t think of any PBS show from the 1980s that had this logo (with the exception of California’s Gold, maybe). Check those old tapes, or an old VHS or DVD of Cosmos for this logo!
Scare Factor: Low; the fast zoom-in may startle some.
3rd Logo
(Early 1980's)
Logo: On a black background, we see a blue segmented TV-tube shape with a blue palm tree in it. At the right of the palm tree, is "KCET" in the same font as the previous logos, and "Los Angeles" in a different font. They are both white.
FX: None.
Music/Sounds: An easy listening theme with an announcer saying "This is KCET public television in Los Angeles.".
Availability: Extinct; only used as a local station ID.
Scare Factor: None.
4th Logo
(1988-1997)
Nickname: “Neon Los Angeles”
Logo: On a blue background, we see the same KCET logo from the previous ID, but in a steel gray color (as opposed to blue in the previous). An orange “Los Angeles” is written underneath the logo, with “L” and “A” both in an odd font. The letters shine.
Variants:
Cheesy Factor: Too simple, even by early '90s standards!
Music/Sounds: The last note of the “Greetings from L.A.” ID, followed by a synthesized "twinkle" sound, and a higher pitched version of the first note. It is followed by one piano note.
Availability: Look for this on The Puzzle Place, Kino's Storytime, and California’s Gold.
Scare Factor: Low, but none for the Puzzle Place and Storytime variants
5th Logo
(1997-2003)
Nickname: “Rainbow KCET”
Logo: On a background of small KCET logos and a rainbow-colored mountain, a big KCET logo (in a new font, and with the C and E connected together, shaped like an infinity sign), with “HOLLYWOOD” underneath it, rotates and spins out. Once the logo plasters into place, we fade out. If you notice, the background seems to zoom in towards the viewer during the animation, even at the very end.
FX: The logo “twirling” in.
Music/Sounds: Same as the previous logo.
Availability: Seen on all KCET-produced shows since 1997.
Scare Factor: Low.
6th Logo
(2003- )
Nickname: "KCET 2003", "Waves 'n Ribbons"
Logo: On a beige background, two ribbons of brown form an infinity sign. The infinity sign turns into the teal-colored letters "C" and "E" while "K" and "T" in the same font as logo 5, which fade in. The slogan "infinitely more", in gray, fades in at the bottom with "Los Angeles" appearing at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes, it ("Los Angeles") doesn't appear at all.
FX: The ribbons forming the infinity sign.
Music/Sounds: An acoustic note with a timpani beat opens the ident, followed by a four-note tune when the logo is finished.
Availability: Seen on all KCET-produced shows since 2003. Sid the Science Kid is one show that has this logo.
Scare Factor: None; the music might suprise you that first time you see it, but the animation and graphics are breath-taking.
Los Angeles, California
1st (known) Logo
(1970s-1978)
Nickname: "Los Angeles Community Supported Television"
Logo: Against a blue background, a series of thick, white horizontal lines are drawn in from bottom to top, and go in a pattern from left to right, right to left, left to right, etc.... Then, the camera zooms out as the lines unfurl to reveal the letters
"KCET" looking similar to the IBM logo. Then, the words "LOS ANGELES", COMMUNITY", "SUPPORTED", and "TELEVISION" (solid, and in yellow) scroll out from "KCET", one-by-one, and repeat.FX: The lines being drawn and the words scrolling.
Cheesy Factor: '70s Scanimate effects.
Music/Sounds: A jazzy, high-pitched synth tune with an electric bass line.
Availability: Extinct from TV.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
2nd Logo
(1978-1988)
Nickname: “Greetings from L.A.!”, "The Postcard"
Logo: On a sky background, (not like in the Warner Bros. logos), a giant rectangle, tilted on its side, rotates into view. It turns out that that rectangle is actually a postcard with the city of Los Angeles on it (with “Greetings from L.A.” in a cursive font placed above the picture). As it zooms into view, “KCET”, in Century Gothic font, zooms out from the bottom-left corner, and we go into the picture on the postcard, zooming over the city, with KCET in the bottom-right corner and moving upwards to the center until we get to the Hollywood Sign, at which point “KCET” is placed above it, and a white light sweeps through the letters.
FX: Hey, now there’s some good animation!
Music/Sounds: A dramatic synthesized orchestra tune.
Availability: I can’t think of any PBS show from the 1980s that had this logo (with the exception of California’s Gold, maybe). Check those old tapes, or an old VHS or DVD of Cosmos for this logo!
Scare Factor: Low; the fast zoom-in may startle some.
3rd Logo
(Early 1980's)
Logo: On a black background, we see a blue segmented TV-tube shape with a blue palm tree in it. At the right of the palm tree, is "KCET" in the same font as the previous logos, and "Los Angeles" in a different font. They are both white.
FX: None.
Music/Sounds: An easy listening theme with an announcer saying "This is KCET public television in Los Angeles.".
Availability: Extinct; only used as a local station ID.
Scare Factor: None.
4th Logo
(1988-1997)
Logo: On a blue background, we see the same KCET logo from the previous ID, but in a steel gray color (as opposed to blue in the previous). An orange “Los Angeles” is written underneath the logo, with “L” and “A” both in an odd font. The letters shine.
Variants:
- On The Puzzle Place, after the credits roll, the two puzzle pieces in the BG flip around and fit together, showing the Lancit Media logo on the top and the KCET logo (with a blue BG and pink "Los Angeles" text) on the bottom. Here, a synth choir sound is heard as the character Julie says "The Puzzle Place is a co-production of Lancit Media, New York, and KCET, Los Angeles.".
- A still version appears on California’s Gold, to add to my list.
- There is a special version that appears in the funding credits in Kino's Storytime in which the main character appears and looks at the logo for a bit as it fades in below. A child says "Storytime is a production of KCET Los Angeles.". Here, "KCET" is in light blue, while "LOS ANGELES" is in (non-neon) pink. The theme music plays throughout.
Cheesy Factor: Too simple, even by early '90s standards!
Music/Sounds: The last note of the “Greetings from L.A.” ID, followed by a synthesized "twinkle" sound, and a higher pitched version of the first note. It is followed by one piano note.
Availability: Look for this on The Puzzle Place, Kino's Storytime, and California’s Gold.
Scare Factor: Low, but none for the Puzzle Place and Storytime variants
5th Logo
(1997-2003)
Logo: On a background of small KCET logos and a rainbow-colored mountain, a big KCET logo (in a new font, and with the C and E connected together, shaped like an infinity sign), with “HOLLYWOOD” underneath it, rotates and spins out. Once the logo plasters into place, we fade out. If you notice, the background seems to zoom in towards the viewer during the animation, even at the very end.
FX: The logo “twirling” in.
Music/Sounds: Same as the previous logo.
Availability: Seen on all KCET-produced shows since 1997.
Scare Factor: Low.
6th Logo
(2003- )
Logo: On a beige background, two ribbons of brown form an infinity sign. The infinity sign turns into the teal-colored letters "C" and "E" while "K" and "T" in the same font as logo 5, which fade in. The slogan "infinitely more", in gray, fades in at the bottom with "Los Angeles" appearing at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes, it ("Los Angeles") doesn't appear at all.
FX: The ribbons forming the infinity sign.
Music/Sounds: An acoustic note with a timpani beat opens the ident, followed by a four-note tune when the logo is finished.
Availability: Seen on all KCET-produced shows since 2003. Sid the Science Kid is one show that has this logo.
Scare Factor: None; the music might suprise you that first time you see it, but the animation and graphics are breath-taking.
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