ABC, CBS, and NBC "Program in Color" Introduction
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- From 1965 and 1966, a magical time to be a kid! These intros were played just prior to the beginning of programs which were produced in color. The two "kickers" for color TV sales, according to a friend in the TV business, were "kids who had to see Batman or Lost in Space in color", and housewives who needed to see "General Hospital" and "As the World Turns" in BEAUTIFUL LIVING COLOR!
The 1966 CBS Television Color intro contains "electro-acoustical" music from the great "Eric Siday"; which was marketed under the name "Identitones". Siday's work announced itself, as he used both an early electronic synthesizer (pre-Moog), reverse taping, and "variable/off-speed" recording techniques, some similar to those pioneered by the renowned Les Paul. Enjoy!
These intro's are in the public domain, any applicable copyrights have not been re-registered.
I used to work with a guy who told me once that when STAR TREK debuted in 1966, him and his wife used to go over to his brothers house to watch it because he had a color TV.
New episodes of Star Trek premiered on Thursday's at 10:00PM, way past my (school-night bedtime). Fortunately, one of the exec's at KYW-TV 3, Philly, must have been a Trekkie, because they always managed to show an encore performance Saturday's at 4:00PM, after The General Electric College Bowl.
What one of these TV guys needs to post is a montage of the stylized 'in color' tags that appeared before all the ABC TV shows of the late '60's...there are so many of these: the FBI tag with the intersecting red, white and blue lines, the Felony Squad tag with the spotlight and gun shots, the That Girl tag with 'That Girl in Color" on street signs on a pole, etc.
+Mark Speck I almost had one from ABC, it was a "Batman" bumper, from WTPA Channel 27, Harrisburg, PA. It was on 2" Ampex tape, and was preceded by a Lionel-Kiddie City commercial. The magnetic degradation left the tape with weak video at best.
ABC started using the "in color" tag with "Batman." Seems the show had four commercial minutes instead of three, which was the norm at the time, so to accommodate this ABC scrapped the animated lower-case abc color tag. Soon all ABC used the "in color" in some way on all its shows, such as Elizabeth Montgomery saying, "Hi! Stay tuned for 'Bewitched' next...in color" or announcer Bob Warren saying, "From Hollywood...in color...'The Lawrence Welk Show'!"
The 1980's "Police Squad!" TV series used it as part of the show's opening titles - a deliberately anachonistic touch since by the 80s just about everything new on TV was in color.
if I'm not mistaken, Eric Siday was also the composer who cooked up the music for the infamous Screen Gems "S From Hell" logo!!.....
+Terry Knepper You're quite correct, Siday was responsible for just about every futuristic sound produced from the late '60s thru early '70s. Reelradio has his Identitone's demo uploaded to their subscription site.
+AMStationEngineer I will have to go check that out.........thank you, sir!!.......:)
It speaks volumes that to this day NBC still can't settle on a logo.
JoJoGunn1956 ....and I don't believe that NBC's acquisition by Comcast helped much in that regard either! I still enjoy the relaxing 1960's "Laramie Peacock", as accompanied by the stylings of the NBC Orchestra, and from what I've been told, "as composed and conducted by Leopold Stokowski". WGAL DT-8, in Lancaster, PA, an NBC affiliate, seems to have adhered to the "code of the old National Broadcasting Company", if there was such an animal. On Sunday afternoons, they produce, and air "Westfield Insurance Brain Busters" West Perry vs Hbg Academy Thanks for commenting!
Er, huh? What in the Sam Hill are you talking about?
The following program is brought to you in living color,
on NBC!
The following program is throught you in living color,
on NBC!
ABC - Disney.
CBS - Paramount (Viacom)
NBC - Universal (Comcast)
CBS is where the Peanuts Specials aired until 2000, when ABC took over, but Paramount actually owned Peanuts until 2008.
@@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16 When Warner Bastards released the blu rays, then Apple took over.
(0:20) I always like the NBC living color presentation intro a lot.
Me too because I'm NBC Peacock
CBS presents this program in color!
This is an ABC color presentation!
RCA owned NBC, and since they sold color television sets, the peacock was practically mocking the other networks who slowly converted to color. Then the local affiliates had to upgrade their systems as well. NBC's color introduction was longer, to make sure everyone got the message that "living color" was available on NBC. And for the record, I was in the Army when my mother got a color television in the early 1970's. Bonanza was in color from like 1957, but I was already overseas by the time anybody in the house saw a color television show.
+Ed F My parents rapidly became tired of hearing my bemoaning "Batman, it's in color, you know, just like the green (Eagles) jersey's, and the field on Sunday afternoons." They gave-in to the logic of a five year old - by early February '66, then again, I didn't realize that football season ended shortly after New Year's until about ten minutes ago ;) I remember my days (Thule) watching AFRTS!
Ed F
BONANZA was in color from the very first episode in September of 1959. It was the first western in color and NBC used it to promote RCAs line of color TVs. That's why the early episodes have a lot of outdoor scenes.
And I’m trying to remember if it was Red or Blue NBC that was sold and became ABC. Anyway NBC has the best promos and intros!!
PBS didn't sign on until 1970.
We got our first color set in 1967 - a Zenith 25" console with UHF! I watched the moon landing on that set too. Before 1970, VHF was ch 3 KYW, NBC, ch 5 WEWS ABC, and ch 8 WJW CBS. I think we only had three UHF channels too, Ch 61 WKBF, Kaiser Broadcasting, ch 25 PBS WVIZ, and ch 43 WUAB. So what city was this, whereI grew up?
I grew up outside of Philly, we "inherited" KYW from Cleveland in the mid-'60s, along with Mike Douglas. I did a little contract work for both the TV and AM radio sides of their operation (Bourse Building, near Independence Hall, Philly). Our Kaiser station was WKBS - first class rerun TV all-the-way!! Remember "Snipets"??
We were lucky to have grown up during a time when adults knew how to provide wholesome children's entertainment, and there were giants in children's television in virtually every major TV market. Chief Halftown, a Philly children's show host, used to visit the volunteer fire company where I was active. He had supper with us on more than one occasion, and entertained our children during our Christmas parties.
At least my kids got to see what a real children's television entertainer was!!
You guys had "Gouhlardi", and we had "Dr. Shock" A Tribute to Dr. Shock - 1970s Philadelphia Horror Movie Host Ehh, at least METV Network has Svengoolie!!
Philco town, kewl! Yes, I do remember Mike was in Cleveland as a kid, watching those kid shows, we also had Barnaby, Captain Penny, and Romper Room. (I heard many of the kid entertainers were really alcaholics too). This weekend is GhoulardiFest with Big Chuck Shadowski, 80 now, and retired after a long stint at ch 8 since Ghoulardi. Dick Goddard is still working there at 84! Cleveland had Polka Varieties and the Gene Carroll variety talent shows on Sundays, our local Lawrence Welk show. I tell you what... I have well over 100 channels on DirecTV, and they all suck, mostly commercials and crap TV. Six free channels, and all were great! And no internet too. My wife insists on DirecTV and internet, a waste of moola indeed.
I was one of the consultants on the Big Joe Polka Show, when it was on RFD-TV. I speak with Joe at least monthly, he's been a close personal friend for well over a decade. He had planned on doing a shoot in Parma. One of the bands was the "Erie Shores Button Box Club", all from your neck of the woods...
I guess Joe retired, Molly B took over, still enjoy the show. Molly was in Huron a few months ago, we cold not go sad to say. "Happy music for happy people"! I have a couple of vids of his show with Frank Yankovic that I messed around with, perhaps I will repost them for fun. Check them out, they should be up OK, if I don't get in trouble for the C word. (I changed the actual songs, so it doesn't sync - oh well).
I put a couple up, I have some Big Joe shows on VHS somewhere around here.
Polka Nuts on The Big Joe Polka Show RFDTV
LOL color was a big deal then.... Funny how things become the norm then no one notices anymore...
I do not even think you can get a black and white TV anymore... We used to have one when I was a kid...
+Dayna Gilbert There was nothing better (from the male child point-of-view) than to park it in front of the 'roundie' TV, and watch Batman, Lost in Space, and Warner Bros cartoons in "beautiful living color" (even though none were on NBC). Agree totally with"Funny how things become the norm then no one notices anymore..." Thanks!
Dayna
Our switch to high definition and digital signal were probably the closest upgrades we had compared to this. It was also a gradual process over a few years.
Also noteworthy was the addition of STEREO in the mid 1980s, there were even mentions at the start of broadcasts.. "In Stereo!" but yes.. adoption was lengthy..
Do you remember when antennas were UHF and VHF. I remember my mom in 1972 only had a VHF(Very High Frequency) antenna but the best shows in rerun in Tampa, Fl at that time were only on UHF(Ultra High Frequency) so I had to go to a neighborhood kid's house to watch great shows like Star Trek, Mr. Ed, Get Smart, My Favorite Martian.
Yes...and color was big thing then. When Star Trek started in 1966 many Tv's were still out there in B/W so they had to make sure the show would look right in B/W.
ABC - normal.
CBS - прикольно!
NBC - надо было 1957-1962!
I couldn't wait to watch the wonderful world of Disney brought to you in living color
0:07 Music reminds me of The Honeymooners.
@WiiLove Weather Entertainment, pretty much everything in entertainment - those days had a network, or studio band/orchestra behind it. ABC and CBS went "full-tilt excitement behind their show deliveries, whilst NBC went the more 'tranquil"; skip/folic through a meadow route... Stay well, stay healthy, and remain vital....
ABC is better than NBC
Cause NBC had Friends, Mad About You, SNL, Joey (a Friends spinoff show), Frasier, Search, Jesse, Veronica's Closet. All stupid shows.
The only good thing in NBC was ER, Bonanza and the 1986 made-for-TV film Popeye Doyle, the TV film sequel to the 1971 Academy Award winning film The French Connection.
ABC has better shows. The Life And Legend Wyatt Earp (better than Friends and the 1994 Costner/Kasdan film), The FBI, Kung Fu, Alias Smith And Jones, Blue Thunder, Combat!, Harry O, TSOSF.
So, ABC wins.
I remember these logos, especially the NBC peacock. But, by the time my folks were able to afford a color set, in 1969, that era had passed. By then, most all network shows were in color and the need to advertise that fact was unnecessary. You would see one now and then, but not as much as in the early to mid 60's. Kind of ironic, when we didn't have a color set, they had the logos. When we finally get a color TV, the networks, for the most part, stopped running them.
Each generation of new TV tech gets programming which contains some sort of tag for early adopters to get their bragging rights. I remember in the late '80s, shows would market stereo sound. In the early 2000s, it was "digital" widescreen (still SD). When we replaced our old TV in 2010, we made sure to get a 1080p model. The tags of, "In HIGH DEFINITION!" are just now slowly beginning to disappear from the evening news as 4K is on the horizon.
DelilahThePig Yup, stereo was the new thing when I was a kid.
DelilahThePig "In High Definition, this is WMUR News 9 at 5!"
I'm 40 and I remember these. I really like the music.
Steven King Steven, most of the really "neat" radio and television station ID music was created by by a gentleman named Eric Siday, under the trademark "Identitones". His best work (IMHO), was the CBS Radio News "sounder": ua-cam.com/video/0W7VhbQbdqs/v-deo.html . He was also responsible for the "Screen Gems" closing logo music: ua-cam.com/video/qQ7zZRud1B0/v-deo.html , and the "scared the heck out of ever young child in the neighborhood" PBS ident music: ua-cam.com/video/WtGZAoIDe84/v-deo.html .ReelRadio (just add the dot, then the com), a project spearheaded by Rick Irwin, of Sacramento (he actually used to work for a station which gave me the chance to "cut my teeth" in radio engineering, in southeastern PA) has the full "Identitones Demo", but alas, reelradio is a subscription-only site.
the description mentions that.
The mention of the "Laramie peacock" reminds me...you can see this on TV now on the cable channel Grit TV. About 70 percent of their lineup is Laramie reruns, if you can believe that, and the NBC logo with the orchestrated theme and peacock can be seen after the Revue logo on their Laramie reruns. I thought it was really cool!
is is ABC cbs is pg TV on nbc
The following program is grouting in black-and-white on NBC fine program is rotting in and willing to work on
I remember Elizabeth Montgomery on the screen in front of a curtain at the beginning of the show saying "BEWITCHED...Next in Color"
Tim Harper I was always more of a "Bewitched" fan, versus being in the "I Dream of Jeannie" column. It was great growing up in the '60s, we had great TV programs to watch, but the neatest aspect of television programming was the front-row seat which it provided for viewing the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space missions. (Cronkite was the best!)
abc later changed their "color" id to announcing the program, "Next, the F.B.I., in color;" right?
You still see some of these today before programs especially on CBS & NBC.
In retrospect as my father said, switching to color was not that difficult from a technology standpoint. NBC (the network I dislike the most these days and forever will) was the first color network for all shows. Correct as one post below pointed out, CBS and ABC were slow to follow.
I'll reply later this afternoon, thanks for the comment; we're both on the same page with that opinion. All the best. Cheers!
off my watch list creepy news
NBC was the best.
(0:11) This is CBS, in color.
Does anyone know where I can find the rare 1954 'CBS in color' ident?
One of the better archives (private, but accessible) resides with the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia "Digital Archival Project". If it still exists, it would certainly be on kinescope, and would be cataloged within the WCAU-TV (then CBS, now, NBC) Philadelphia video library, on City Line Avenue and Monument Roads, Philadelphia, PA.
I'd hunt around the pioneers website first, because if memory serves, WCAU prepared their studios and control rooms early-on for the addition of the NBC/RCA Color Standard (they knew it's mandate was inevitable), I'm guessing around 1961, or 1962?? WRCV (Philly's RCA station, then an NBC affiliate), (now KYW-TV) has videotape from around 1957, or 1958, which may be "color transmissions captured from an NBC Network feed for rebroadcast at a later time).
Someone at the Pioneers will be your best bet for being pointed in the right direction.
I contracted to the ABC Station, but knew many of the support personnel from the other three networks, and much of the above is anecdotal.
Hope this helps....
+barber747 If you search "CBS Promo 1959 (color)" the top vid on UA-cam here is a short promo for a CBS color broadcast of "The Wizard of Oz" with the original CBS color "bloodshot" eye logo at the end.
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barber747 The ident was shown last year on Christmas Eve when two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Were aired.
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Put PBS with CBS and you get CBPBS!
Loving color, as opposing to dying color.
my father got us a muntz color console tv for my mothers birthday... in july 1965. it also came with a Magnavox console stereo. it was for her birthday.. but I knew the REAL reason.... nbc did afl (football) games in living COLOR.... cbs did not. sooooo guess what? I (4 years old) became the..... rabbit ear adjuster.... channel changer... color fixer.. beer getter... and general gofer..... and dad let me sip his beer. mom would yell. those were the times... I tell ya.
Actually, Grover, CBS was trying to get color TV off the ground in the 40s. In fact, that's the reason they delayed their entry into network TV. They tried hard to get the FCC to accept THEIR electromechanical spinning disc color system as the industry standard. This would've meant color TV for everyone from the start, but the problem was that the system was clumsy and unreliable compared to the B&W already in place. Eventually, RCA's all-electronic, B&W-compatible color system was accepted.
(0:01) The ABC color presentation fanfare with vocal.
(0:31) The instrumental version of the ABC color presentation fanfare without vocal.
Ah, the NBC "Laramie Peacock" (called this because it was first used at the beginning of "Laramie"). The closest local station to where I lived as a kid was 65 miles away, and it was an NBC one, so I remember seeing the LP a lot back then.
NOTE:in 1959 dot warner is sneezing in 1999 dot warner is coughing
I still remember watching Bonanza at my grandparents house at night while it was still on NBC prime time I also remember the latter episodes of Gunsmoke in color on CBS prime time we got our first color TV set in 1974 a used one believe it was an Admiral.
NOTE:in 1955 it's the quiet-o-vision in 1995 it's the relax-o-vision
Some of us still had black and white sets then. Boy, that was really frustrating!
Television is in the wonderful world of the living colors.
That CBS Intro is really scary tho
so if there ARE any muntz color tvs surviving out there or any that anyone remembers..... please let somebody know! videokarma is a good start.
I distinctly remember the Muntz ads in every edition of the TV pullout until late '72, early - '73; most of their ads were focused on their projection screen set. Definitely look in urban areas, and people seem to have held onto more than a few "wooden cabinet TV's", mostly because Popular Mechanics did a few "convert that TV cabinet into a liquor cabinet" spreads. Please, let me know when you find one!
bbc abs and net (pbs) color
I like these abc or c b s !
I have looked all over for muntz color tv sets that survived.... and nobody seems to remember muntz even MAKING color sets.... but we had one. in july 1965. from sears. for real. it happened.
I remember, early 1970's, in the TV listings pullout for the Philadelphia Inquirer, listings for Muntz Color TV's. They worked well in urban areas, however, their lack of a second, and third "intermediate frequency amplifier" stage made 'easy pickings' for RCA, Motorola, and Zenith. I actually have a N.O.S. Muntz 6GH8A tube in my tube stockpile.
If memory serves, Muntz heavily advertised their projection TV's around that time. It would have been neat to have met Earl "Madman" Muntz...
Check out Shango 066's channel. He's one of a very few, who seems to be able to find TV's which are not often seen. (and he often features color sets, which very few ever bother to restore these days.)
Awesome Tim!
from wakko's wish (1959) on abc in color
Bruh
Abc: 2x played
+Jemelisa Gallaron, The first ABC intro is the pre -1965 version; the second ABC intro first appeared towards the early May conclusion of the '64 - '65 broadcast season, and was designed to work well with ABC's color intros for Batman and Bewitched; of which both shows required heavy capital investment. ,,, an 'insurance policy', of sorts...
"Lost in Space" was also a thorn in their side....
from freakazoid! (1955) episode 9 on cbs in color
Lost in Space was "Da Bomb" in my house! We loved it so much, we named our beagle puppy Penny after Angela Cartwright’s character. I had Penny from the age of 3 until the summer after my freshman year of college-the definition of a best friend. 💜
While my primary career has almost always been aviation related, between 1982, and their closing, I contracted audio engineering services to The Valley Forge Music Fair. In 1990, a "Pop Giants of the '60s and '70s" tour was scheduled that autumn, as a "Saturday Night, one show only" event.
America and Three Dog Night performed, and it was an SRO event. Bill Mumy "sat in", as the guest drummer that evening. I did not become aware of his appearance, until guests seated in the row directly in front of the audio/stage control pointed out the fact that he worked, in a creative capacity with America - on several occasions. I have not yet figured what function, "Debbie", the Bloop performed.
I will always treasure the television entertainment during those years of growing up; the lone exception being the Saturday evening in 1968, when I complained about Lawrence Welk, while at my grandmother's home. For three weekends which followed, she and my aunt "force fed waltz lessons to me, until I cried "UNCLE". I was also threatened with Polka lessons on several occasions.
You can tell that by the time ABC needed a color logo, nearly two generations had passed since full-spectrum Technicolor had been invented for the movies. You can tell because the ABC used the least amount of yellow and they use a light shade of blue that is not so far from the cyan-ish blue that appeared in early two-strip Technicolor features. NBC and CBS both broadcast color programs more than a decade before ABC, so they needed these promos a lot sooner. Their color promos are awash in yellow and blue. I just wonder if that reflects the fact that deep blue and yellow might have still appeared as something special to many people in the color audience of the time. On-screen yellow and blue were only possible with full-spectrum color systems, and so they were not seen until the mid 1930s. Older two-color systems could accurately show reds and greens, but not blues or yellows, and so for a long time those colors were indeed special in moving pictures.