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North Carolina Public Television/UNC-TV
1st Logo
(1954-Mid 1960s)
Nickname: "The Flags"
Logo: Just a gray background with four flags, arranged like a cross. On the flags are (and in all caps):
WOMAN'S COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE
CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: It's a still logo.
Music/Sounds: None, though I assume this logo had an announcer of some sort.
Availability: Extinct on TV, and was only used as a local ID, I think.
Scare Factor: Low.
2nd Logo
(Mid 1960s-1971)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: TBA
Music/Sounds: TBA
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: TBA
3rd Logo
(1971-1979)
Nickname: "Patriotic UNC TV"
Logo: On a black background, a giant flash occurs on screen, forming "unc-tv", in a rather ugly font, and colored red, white, and blue. Lights can be seen on the logo, a la the next logo.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early scanimation effects.
Music/Sounds: It starts out with a rising sawtooth wave sound, then ending with a 9-note synth fanfare.
Availability: Next-to-impossible to find; this is a very rare logo.
Scare Factor: Medium, for the logo looks ugly.
4th Logo
(1979-1983)
Nickname: "Bronze S", "S from Limbo", "The S that Isn't as Hellish"
Logo: We see the words "North Carolina" in a white outlined Antique Olive font zoom out and flash, turning into the words "The UNC Center for Public Television" surrounded by several blue outlined words written with the same message. The central words dissolve away and the outer words fade away to make room for some lights to draw in a stylized S, which contains two pairs of brownish lines arranged in an S shape similar to the S from Hell. "Presents" flashes in below, and the S shines with some pings.
FX/SFX: The Scanimate/chyron words, the model S, and the flashing...
Cheesy Factor: ...which are very typical of a late '70s logo.
Music/Sounds: The 3rd logo's theme tune.
Availability: Rare; seen on episodes of Woodwright's Shop, which are still aired to this day on UNC-TV affiliates.
Scare Factor: Medium to high; the music and logo designs really aren't that friendly.
5th Logo
(1983-1990)
Nickname: "Multi-Square Lights"
Logo: On a black background fading into a blue-black gradient background (opposite from the black-blue gradient backgrounds you see in the WTTW, KOCE, and WXXI logos), a pink square shoots out to the right, and an orange square shoots out to the left, while many other squares, colored pink, blue, green, orange, etc, flash on screen to form the words "North Carolina Public Television" in the same font as before, arranged vertically to the left of the screen. Finally, a few more pink squares flash on the logo.
FX/SFX: The squares zooming out and flashing to form the words.
Cheesy Factor: '80s computer effects.
Music/Sounds: A three-note xylophone tune, then three wooden drum beats.
Music/Sound Variant: There is a strange variant used in 1987 in which there is a single "donk" sound, four xylophone notes, and two more deep notes. The logo stays on the screen here, and the squares flash in a different pattern.
Availability: Rare; can be found on old Woodwright's Shop episodes.
Scare Factor: None; much tamer than before.
6th Logo
(1990-1993)
Logo: Against a dark blue background with a shiny reflective floor, the same S from logo 1, but surrounded by a circle, turns to face us. The words "NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION" fade in below, and "Presents" flashes in at the right.
Variant: A still variant used at the end of some shows had a yellow 2D UNC logo on a blue/black gradient background with "Produced by North Carolina Public Television" in the center and a copyright date below. After that, the copyright date would fade out and "in association with" would appear just below the name, followed by the next logo.
FX/SFX: The model S turning, "Presents" flashing in.
Music/Sounds: A three-note synth tune with a "bling" as "Presents" flashes in.
Music/Sound Variant: A low-tone version of the music exists.
Availability: Uncommon; seen on NCPTV-produced programs from the period. '90s episodes of Woodwright's Shop would be the most likely episodes to find with this logo.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
7th Logo
(1993-1996)
Logo: On a yellow/red gradient BG with several streaking lines, panels, and ripples, we see "University of North Carolina" and "PRESENTS" below, all in silver. Then, a yellow rectangle streaks by from right to left, leaving behind another line below it "TELEVISION" fades in on it in black.
Variants:
Music/Sounds: A five note synth-orchestra fanfare.
Availability: Once again, seen on episodes of Woodwright's Shop of the period whenever reran.
Scare Factor: None.
8th Logo
(1996-2008)
Logo: On a blue background, we see a giant glass square with "University of North Carolina Television", stacked, over the UNC-TV logo, consisting of "UNC" and "TV" in a condensed sans-serif font (possibly Futura), and the UNC-TV symbol between them. There is also a line between the text and the logo, which shines all over.
Variants:
Music/Sounds: Either a fanfare with drums and low brass, or the end theme of the show.
Availability: Was seen on various shows produced by UNC-TV, as well as a local ID.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
9th Logo
(1996-2000)
Logo: On a teal-colored background with a translucent image of a waving North Carolina flag and the UNC-TV logo, the words "UNC-TV Presents" fade in in purple, along with a distorted white "Presents" in the background.
FX/SFX: The background images, "UNC-TV Presents" fading in.
Music/Sounds: Same music as logo 7.
Availability: Once again, seen on Woodwright's Shop episodes of the time.
Scare Factor: None.
10th Logo
(2000-2006)
Logo: On a black background with tiny white dots, a large teal UNC-TV logo slowly turning around, and the words "UNC-TV" in purple (teal for the logo in between), the words "UNC-TV" (white letters with a teal UNC-TV logo here) with "PRESENTS..." below fade in.
FX/SFX: The fading words, the images in the background.
Music/Sounds: Same music as logos 7 and 8.
Availability: Once again, seen on Woodwright's Shop episodes of the time.
Scare Factor: None.
11th Logo
(2006- )
Logo: Against a black BG, a large blue UNC-TV logo surrounded by a rotating compass-like circle comes into view from the left, rippling constantly. Then, we see several eleven blue rectangles containing the cities and station numbers which UNC-TV serves flying across the screen from the right. As the S reaches the center of the screen, it blurs away, causing the words "UNC TV" (with an aqua-colored S shape in the middle), in purple, to fade in, along with the URL www.unctv.org below.
FX/SFX: The S coming into view, the stations flying by.
Music/Sounds: A march-like tune with strings with an announcer saying "You're watching the 11 stations of the University of North Carolina center for public television.". After a while, the announcer then says "This is UNC-TV. Learning for a lifetime.".
Availability: Currently in use as a local "You're watching" ID.
Scare Factor: None.
(1954-Mid 1960s)
Nickname: "The Flags"
Logo: Just a gray background with four flags, arranged like a cross. On the flags are (and in all caps):
WOMAN'S COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE
CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: It's a still logo.
Music/Sounds: None, though I assume this logo had an announcer of some sort.
Availability: Extinct on TV, and was only used as a local ID, I think.
Scare Factor: Low.
2nd Logo
(Mid 1960s-1971)
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: TBA
Music/Sounds: TBA
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: TBA
3rd Logo
(1971-1979)
Nickname: "Patriotic UNC TV"
Logo: On a black background, a giant flash occurs on screen, forming "unc-tv", in a rather ugly font, and colored red, white, and blue. Lights can be seen on the logo, a la the next logo.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Early scanimation effects.
Music/Sounds: It starts out with a rising sawtooth wave sound, then ending with a 9-note synth fanfare.
Availability: Next-to-impossible to find; this is a very rare logo.
Scare Factor: Medium, for the logo looks ugly.
4th Logo
(1979-1983)
Left: The words being formed.
Right: The NCPTV logo.
Logo: We see the words "North Carolina" in a white outlined Antique Olive font zoom out and flash, turning into the words "The UNC Center for Public Television" surrounded by several blue outlined words written with the same message. The central words dissolve away and the outer words fade away to make room for some lights to draw in a stylized S, which contains two pairs of brownish lines arranged in an S shape similar to the S from Hell. "Presents" flashes in below, and the S shines with some pings.
FX/SFX: The Scanimate/chyron words, the model S, and the flashing...
Cheesy Factor: ...which are very typical of a late '70s logo.
Music/Sounds: The 3rd logo's theme tune.
Availability: Rare; seen on episodes of Woodwright's Shop, which are still aired to this day on UNC-TV affiliates.
Scare Factor: Medium to high; the music and logo designs really aren't that friendly.
5th Logo
(1983-1990)
Logo: On a black background fading into a blue-black gradient background (opposite from the black-blue gradient backgrounds you see in the WTTW, KOCE, and WXXI logos), a pink square shoots out to the right, and an orange square shoots out to the left, while many other squares, colored pink, blue, green, orange, etc, flash on screen to form the words "North Carolina Public Television" in the same font as before, arranged vertically to the left of the screen. Finally, a few more pink squares flash on the logo.
FX/SFX: The squares zooming out and flashing to form the words.
Cheesy Factor: '80s computer effects.
Music/Sounds: A three-note xylophone tune, then three wooden drum beats.
Music/Sound Variant: There is a strange variant used in 1987 in which there is a single "donk" sound, four xylophone notes, and two more deep notes. The logo stays on the screen here, and the squares flash in a different pattern.
Availability: Rare; can be found on old Woodwright's Shop episodes.
Scare Factor: None; much tamer than before.
6th Logo
(1990-1993)
Variant: A still variant used at the end of some shows had a yellow 2D UNC logo on a blue/black gradient background with "Produced by North Carolina Public Television" in the center and a copyright date below. After that, the copyright date would fade out and "in association with" would appear just below the name, followed by the next logo.
FX/SFX: The model S turning, "Presents" flashing in.
Music/Sounds: A three-note synth tune with a "bling" as "Presents" flashes in.
Music/Sound Variant: A low-tone version of the music exists.
Availability: Uncommon; seen on NCPTV-produced programs from the period. '90s episodes of Woodwright's Shop would be the most likely episodes to find with this logo.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
7th Logo
(1993-1996)
Logo: On a yellow/red gradient BG with several streaking lines, panels, and ripples, we see "University of North Carolina" and "PRESENTS" below, all in silver. Then, a yellow rectangle streaks by from right to left, leaving behind another line below it "TELEVISION" fades in on it in black.
Variants:
- There is a variant used at the end of shows. Against the same background as the opening variant (more or less), we see the text "Produced by University of North Carolina". Below that is "CENTER FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION" on a yellow/red rectangle.
- Another opening variant has the logo against a yellow/red gradient BG with several streaking lines, panels, and ripples. One panel wipes in the words "North Carolina Public Television" with the NCPTV logo and "PRESENTS" below inside a black rectangle. The BG also changes to a blue/green gradient.
Music/Sounds: A five note synth-orchestra fanfare.
Availability: Once again, seen on episodes of Woodwright's Shop of the period whenever reran.
Scare Factor: None.
8th Logo
(1996-2008)
Variants:
- There exists a version with a brown/tan BG.
- Sometimes, there is a brief bit which shows the square turning into place.
Music/Sounds: Either a fanfare with drums and low brass, or the end theme of the show.
Availability: Was seen on various shows produced by UNC-TV, as well as a local ID.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
9th Logo
(1996-2000)
FX/SFX: The background images, "UNC-TV Presents" fading in.
Music/Sounds: Same music as logo 7.
Availability: Once again, seen on Woodwright's Shop episodes of the time.
Scare Factor: None.
10th Logo
(2000-2006)
FX/SFX: The fading words, the images in the background.
Music/Sounds: Same music as logos 7 and 8.
Availability: Once again, seen on Woodwright's Shop episodes of the time.
Scare Factor: None.
11th Logo
(2006- )
FX/SFX: The S coming into view, the stations flying by.
Music/Sounds: A march-like tune with strings with an announcer saying "You're watching the 11 stations of the University of North Carolina center for public television.". After a while, the announcer then says "This is UNC-TV. Learning for a lifetime.".
Availability: Currently in use as a local "You're watching" ID.
Scare Factor: None.
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| hadu08 | UNC Television | 0 | Jan 31 2010, 1:44 AM EST by hadu08 | ||
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Thread started: Jan 31 2010, 1:44 AM EST
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I'm from North Carolina and I did not know what these people were thinking.
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| THELOGOfactory1.12 | Special variation | 0 | Jul 3 2009, 6:03 PM EDT by THELOGOfactory1.12 | ||
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Thread started: Jul 3 2009, 6:03 PM EDT
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On Seasons 2 and 3 episodes of "Zula Patrol", there was a "gear" variation. On some episodes the music is different.
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| Jnelson09 | UNC-TV | 0 | Jan 20 2009, 9:13 PM EST by Jnelson09 | ||
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On its local IDs, UNC-TV has used various covers and remixes of James Taylor's "Carolina in my Mind." You can hear it in the 6th logo.
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