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Compilation and photos by AsdfTheRevival and wisp2007
1st Logo
(1988-1990)
Nicknames: "Young as You Are", "The Youth Channel", "Canada's Youth Channel"
Logo: There are two variations of this logo:
Music/Sounds: A light synth tune with three bells and a synth bass sounder at the end. On the earliest versions (circa 1988), an electric guitar riff played at the beginning.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Scare Factor: Low; this is very neat and professional for its time.
2nd Logo
(1990-1993)
Nickname: "The Spirit of Youth"
Logo: On a sky background, we see a red block being cut into pieces by lasers. As they seperate, we see parts of a giant circle come together and circular lights circling them. At the same time, the red blocks form the YTV logo and they rotate to face us while the circle gets its "glass" covering and IT rotates to face us. While it's doing that, a triangle (upside down) with the words THE SPIRIT OF flies in from the bottom right. As the "glass" covering on the circle gets its "shines", the word YOUTH, in neon green, writes itself on the triangle, under the THE SPIRIT OF text.
Variants:
Music/Sounds:
Scare Factor: None; this is a very clean logo. But it would get worse with the following logos ...
3rd Logo
(1993)
TBA Nickname: "The Rainbow trail"
Logo: On a Black background we see the YTV letters logo colored in red, and there's a
Rainbow trail going south and then it moves out of the screen.
Variants:
On "Are you afraid of the Dark"? Above the YTV Letters said: "Produced in Association with". It was previously re-ran in the United States on Nicktoons Network and The N in October 2008.
FX: The Rainbow trail going south.
Music and sounds: Just usually the end of a ending theme depending on the show.
Availability: Extremely Rare. It was seen on early episodes of "Are you Afraid of the Dark?" Well as of today, It is no longer re-running on Television and this logo may be extinct from North American Television including Canada and the United States.
Scare Factor: Minimum. The Rainbow jar popping out of nowhere from the north can maybe make people jump a bit.
4th Logo
(1992-1994)
Nicknames: "No Problem", "Wha-POWWWW! No Problem"
Logo: On a black background, we see a purple television set with green buttons on the right side of it. Inside the TV screen is an orange background with the white letters "YTV", with "T" and "V" on the left, and arranged on top of each other. The YTV text then "explodes" out of the screen to cover up most of the TV set. Above the TV set is the white text "Produced in association with" (Sometimes, there is no text at all).
FX: The text "exploding".
Cheesy Factor: The unexpected loud scream.
Music/Sounds: Either the end theme of the show, or the words " No problem " with a loud scream in the background.
Availability: Extinct on TV in the United States, where it was last seen on Nickelodeon airings of the first two seasons of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. In Canada, it can be found on YTV TV airings of the Christmas special Christopher the Christmas Tree.
Scare Factor: None for the variant with the end theme, but medium to high for the variant with the loud scream. Surprisingly unexpected music like that combined with a black background don't go well together.
5th Logo
(1995-2006)
Nickname: "No Problem v2"
Logo: On a black background, we see the same television set as before, except the design of the set and looks slightly different. The text "YTV", arranged the same way as before but looking a little different font-wise, rapidly zooms out from the right and smashes into the TV set, making the TV set "lean back". The TV then comes into place, now with the YTV text in the screen of the set. The text "Produced in association with" appears above the set.
Bylines: There were two bylines used, both of which credit Corus Entertainment, which bought the channel in 1999: The first had the Corus logo with "A CORUS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" next to it. Later on, it used the byline "A Corus Entertainment Company", with the company name in its corporate font.
FX: Just the words zooming out.
Music/Sounds: The end theme, or no music at all. On The Big Comfy Couch, a "BOING!" sound is heard when the logo plays.
Availability: Common in both the US and Canada. In the US, it can be seen on shows such as Viva Pinata on 4Kids TV, Jane and the Dragon on Qubo, and earlier episodes of The Big Comfy Couch (which are no longer airing here, but could possibly be seen in Canada), while in Canada, it can be seen on all YTV original programming.
Scare Factor: None for the regular variant, but low to medium for the "BOING!" variant.
6th Logo
(2006- )
Nickname: "Jungle of Lines"
Logo: On a blue and cyan gradient background with revolving white lines, we see a lots of white and blue lines coming together to form a cyan and white circle with "YTV" on it, arranged similarly to the previous logos. "PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH" is shown above, while "A CORUS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" (with "Corus" in its usual corporate font) is shown below.
FX: The lines forming the logo.
Music/Sounds: Silent, or the ending theme of the show.
Availability: Recently spotted on Edgar & Ellen on Nicktoons Network. Very Common in Canada.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
1st Logo
(1988-1990)
Nicknames: "Young as You Are", "The Youth Channel", "Canada's Youth Channel"
Logo: There are two variations of this logo:
- On a space background, parts of a ornate circle turned on its side slowly flies into place from all sides of the screen. A layer of "glass" flies in from the bottom and settles itself on the circle. Then the circle rotates to face us, and we see the YTV text rotate in as well. The text "Young As You Are!" writes itself on the logo.
- Same concept as the "Young as You Are" logo, but this time the background is a time-lapse video of clouds (a la Warner Home Video) and this time the text is "The Youth Channel" in a different font.
- Sometimes, there is no text writing itself on the finished logo.
- Sometimes, only the tail end of the logo plays.
- One version had "Canada's Youth Channel" writing itself on.
Music/Sounds: A light synth tune with three bells and a synth bass sounder at the end. On the earliest versions (circa 1988), an electric guitar riff played at the beginning.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Scare Factor: Low; this is very neat and professional for its time.
2nd Logo
(1990-1993)
Logo: On a sky background, we see a red block being cut into pieces by lasers. As they seperate, we see parts of a giant circle come together and circular lights circling them. At the same time, the red blocks form the YTV logo and they rotate to face us while the circle gets its "glass" covering and IT rotates to face us. While it's doing that, a triangle (upside down) with the words THE SPIRIT OF flies in from the bottom right. As the "glass" covering on the circle gets its "shines", the word YOUTH, in neon green, writes itself on the triangle, under the THE SPIRIT OF text.
Variants:
- The sky sometimes varies. From 1989-1991, it used a dark blue sky background. From 1991-1993, the sky turned sunset orange.
- Sometimes, there is no triangle with text accompanying the logo.
- Sometimes, the tail end (where the YTV text forms itself) plays, cutting out the lasers.
- Sometimes, a still logo is shown.
Music/Sounds:
- 1989-1992: A light synth theme with the three bells and a synth flourish at the end plays, just like logo 1.
- 1992-1993: A re-arranged version of the theme, this time with an electric guitar and no bells at the end.
Scare Factor: None; this is a very clean logo. But it would get worse with the following logos ...
3rd Logo
(1993)
Logo: On a Black background we see the YTV letters logo colored in red, and there's a
Rainbow trail going south and then it moves out of the screen.
Variants:
On "Are you afraid of the Dark"? Above the YTV Letters said: "Produced in Association with". It was previously re-ran in the United States on Nicktoons Network and The N in October 2008.
FX: The Rainbow trail going south.
Music and sounds: Just usually the end of a ending theme depending on the show.
Availability: Extremely Rare. It was seen on early episodes of "Are you Afraid of the Dark?" Well as of today, It is no longer re-running on Television and this logo may be extinct from North American Television including Canada and the United States.
Scare Factor: Minimum. The Rainbow jar popping out of nowhere from the north can maybe make people jump a bit.
4th Logo
(1992-1994)
Nicknames: "No Problem", "Wha-POWWWW! No Problem"
Logo: On a black background, we see a purple television set with green buttons on the right side of it. Inside the TV screen is an orange background with the white letters "YTV", with "T" and "V" on the left, and arranged on top of each other. The YTV text then "explodes" out of the screen to cover up most of the TV set. Above the TV set is the white text "Produced in association with" (Sometimes, there is no text at all).
FX: The text "exploding".
Cheesy Factor: The unexpected loud scream.
Music/Sounds: Either the end theme of the show, or the words " No problem " with a loud scream in the background.
Availability: Extinct on TV in the United States, where it was last seen on Nickelodeon airings of the first two seasons of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. In Canada, it can be found on YTV TV airings of the Christmas special Christopher the Christmas Tree.
Scare Factor: None for the variant with the end theme, but medium to high for the variant with the loud scream. Surprisingly unexpected music like that combined with a black background don't go well together.
5th Logo
(1995-2006)
Nickname: "No Problem v2"
Logo: On a black background, we see the same television set as before, except the design of the set and looks slightly different. The text "YTV", arranged the same way as before but looking a little different font-wise, rapidly zooms out from the right and smashes into the TV set, making the TV set "lean back". The TV then comes into place, now with the YTV text in the screen of the set. The text "Produced in association with" appears above the set.
Bylines: There were two bylines used, both of which credit Corus Entertainment, which bought the channel in 1999: The first had the Corus logo with "A CORUS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" next to it. Later on, it used the byline "A Corus Entertainment Company", with the company name in its corporate font.
FX: Just the words zooming out.
Music/Sounds: The end theme, or no music at all. On The Big Comfy Couch, a "BOING!" sound is heard when the logo plays.
Availability: Common in both the US and Canada. In the US, it can be seen on shows such as Viva Pinata on 4Kids TV, Jane and the Dragon on Qubo, and earlier episodes of The Big Comfy Couch (which are no longer airing here, but could possibly be seen in Canada), while in Canada, it can be seen on all YTV original programming.
Scare Factor: None for the regular variant, but low to medium for the "BOING!" variant.
6th Logo
(2006- )
Nickname: "Jungle of Lines"
Logo: On a blue and cyan gradient background with revolving white lines, we see a lots of white and blue lines coming together to form a cyan and white circle with "YTV" on it, arranged similarly to the previous logos. "PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH" is shown above, while "A CORUS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" (with "Corus" in its usual corporate font) is shown below.
FX: The lines forming the logo.
Music/Sounds: Silent, or the ending theme of the show.
Availability: Recently spotted on Edgar & Ellen on Nicktoons Network. Very Common in Canada.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
