1980s Station IDs from Every American Television Market (that I could find)
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- A collection of station IDs from my home country, the USA (or America, or the United States of America, or, yeah) Lots of oldschool animation and computer graphics, as well as catchy jingles.
Here's what you can find in this video:
00:00 Obligatory (rushed) Intro
00:21 210-160
03:12 159-130
05:27 129-109
07:03 Guy
07:14 107-100
07:50 99-70
10:28 69-40
13:55 39-20
16:22 19-1
Rankings in the video are as of the 2019-20 TV season and are thus quite inaccurate to the 212-ranked TV markets of the 1980s (taking into account population incline/decline and county-shifting).
To see a more accurate ranking of some of the TV markets at the time, go here (1979-80 TV season):
worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX...
There are minor inaccuracies in the editing as well, but hopefully no one cares.
NOTE that I DO NOT own the videos used here, these are credited to other UA-camrs (as in, they're not my captures, I'm not THAT good). If you would like to be credited somehow just let me know.
Once again, I don't own the station IDs/promos used here.
These are for entertainment purposes only.
Hope you enjoy, like, subscribe, and share this video!
0:25 Ah, my favorite channel, Channel 2,222,222,222
16:44 That CGI tho...Smooth af
welcome to gannett
Some classic NBC campaigns here: "Let's All Be Air", "Come On A Log", and my personal favorite "The Plates To Be"!
The Plates to Be isn't in this one (or at least the 1990 version from NBC) lol
@@NoEntertainment And "Come On A Log" isn't NBC. It's ABC.
It's let's all be there for NBC in 1984 and 1985, the place to be for NBC in 1990, and for ABC in 1982 it's come on along
BTW number 87 for life
@@jabukagala its actually, "come on along"
13:59 I can never seem to understand why when the announcer says "Henderson and Las Vegas", he elongates and enunciates the sound and puts so much unnecessary emphasis on it...
...but I like it. A lot.
Probably because it's so unusual for an ID it gets your attention. It stands out. IDs are normally all business because they're a legal requirement.
I can’t unhear it without the sudden freeze
Wikipedia says its cause he wanted to emphasize the bigger city
@@C-Midori KVVU, TV 55555555555555555
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenderson and LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
That announcer is the late Ralph Menard
5:43 the bowling alley screen when you get a strike
15:10 My god, that Huge Bombastic Bass
@13:56 The most mellow legal ID I've ever heard
Ralph Menard does the voice-over here.
9:30 KWKT used the same jingle as its sister station in Shreveport, KMSS. It's on us.
Same as KDNL.
2:16 is my market. I'd forgotten that WDTV jingle for decades, it just now jogged my memory. Posting 7-15-21.
3:50 Classic KIMT there...
3:23 This WTOV-TV ID is actually from 1989, not 1986. The song, by the way, is Twilight World by Swing Out Sister.
Nice pick for Tampa w/ a rare & memorable sighting of WFTS in their pre-ABC days, not many examples here here on YT.
It was also nice to see KIMT finally did in fact, "work harder for us".
Tampa Bay native here. I watched plenty of WFTS-TV back then. WTOG was the clear non-Big 3 leader here at the time, but WFTS-TV held its own, especially when it got the FOX affiliation in '88. The logo shown here is an improvement over what it used before.
And KWGN did not become Fox in '86
Yay, you found Sir Seven! WSAW in Wausau was my childhood favorite. And they still have that suit of armor at the station! I visited in 2004 for their 50th anniversary open house and had my picture taken next to it.
14:22 is the one I remember growing up. WISN 12 is still using that exact logo.
Damnit its finals week and all I can think of are the KTVQ nerds at 2:30
16:43
Ah yes, my favorite city, Minnesota, Minnesota
Channel 4 News at 6:00 and 10:00. Apply directly to the forehead.
That Channel 26 ident may have inspired Tim Taylor's "Moar power!" hijnks.
2:11 THATS MY NETWORK!!!!!
Being located in the Dothan AL, market, i remember seeing WMBB channel 13 only twice in my life and that was probably due to E-Skip, or a tropospheric ducting event.
14:14 Congrats. You found my market!
12:46 I'm glad you got WWL- TV in there!
That was awesome!! Love that old radio jingle style singing from PAMS, et al. It’s fun to see how stations project that they’re much bigger than they really are. I guess I’m spoiled growing up watching NYC TV (with its 7 channels).
18:03 YOU FOUND MY AREA WITH AMAZING 80S CGI ANIMATION!
17:29 - The original version of Forty-Four Failure (from the animation you made using Blender - Part 2)!
That WJAR music sounds so uplifting!
It almost sounds nostalgic to me, like something I heard as a child
FACT: This ident looks incomplete, because of the audio cut from the beginning.
come to my house 10 WFUC
This effort does not go unappreciated. Awesome job.
7:45
You found the state I came from! And the TV channel I watched! YAAAAAY!!!!!
14:03
And here's my state! Go SC!
7:03 No.'s most hatred guy
16:18 saw this slogan and was disappointed Bob and Doug MacKenzie didn't utter, "take off eh, you hoser!!"
17:01 Oh Hey Look, The area I Live in. WTOG’s ID will probably be used for the 1970’s ID Video.
Brian Hebert Yeah, I know that. WFTS was also Owned by Family Television Stations before being acquired by E.W. Scripps around 1988, when Fox moved over its programming from WTOG.
Fox station calls itself independent.
@@PharyngealMedia Actually Fox wasn't considered a Major U.S. Network until 1993.
-No one cares if you're first. Also stop saying I'm "back", I never left lol.
-PLEASE read the description, what I would usually put here is in there for the most part.
Also don't be disappointed if the ID I chose for your area "isn't good enough"...cause too bad :sunglasses:.
Edit 10/30/21: Got rid of the "descriptions" for each block of time as I thought they were arbitrary.
Hope you guys enjoy!
This video is super great!
KEYC is super great!
There’s more markets in here then the 90’s version!
Although some markets are gone, like: Gainesville, Florida
Abilene, Texas
and others, this is still great!
Glad you are here!
ua-cam.com/video/yp762hR8s5c/v-deo.html i found one (at 0:25)
I can actually put these into the video via the video editor on UA-cam (somehow), so these are good
m.ua-cam.com/video/BaQj5h3hT9E/v-deo.html cropped out
1:32 now Univision. As an ABC affiliate they used the CNN Headline News theme for their news.
0:39 now ABC, but they have other networks on DT (simulcasting LPTVs).
4:26 now Fox KBTV. The current NBC affiliate, KBMT 12.2, is known as K-JAC.
6:08 now Fox, but with ABC on 24.2.
7:25 now The CW, previously Fox.
10:57 now NBC.
11:25 now ABC.
11:08, 10:35 now Fox
13:10 now KRQE, still CBS but with Fox on 13.2
13:30 now KFOR, still NBC. Acknowledging the dominance of energy in its market.
13:48 now WFOX, guess which network?
13:51 now KXAN, still NBC. Surprised to have a great logo when the station was No. 3 in my home town.
14:59, 15:10 now NBC.
15:18 should be WBAL, then CBS but now NBC.
I already have a list of current affiliations.
@ 15:59
Yup. I still recognize that particular ident from their stint as an American Broadcasting Company affiliate; They're currently under the aegis of the local Catholic Archdiocese under their current callsign WORO-TV/WORO-DT Channel 13. (According to Wikipedia, that one has an interesting backstory spanning from what would've been its botched original inception between 1958 and late 1961, which I'm looking up. #StayTunedIn)
12:03 The Providence market is a bit weird. I mean, Manchester, NH is also near Boston but it doesn't get its own market and only has one actual TV station serving the state!
2:23 that's where I'm from 🤣 I just wasn't around in the 80s 😂
15:17 - Slight mix up there, the ID was for WBAL, not WJZ. WBAL in 1981 was NBC and CBS later in the year when they swapped with WMAR
Also, he put in Minnesota, MN for Market #15, even though it should be Minneapolis
I was expecting a new international video logo, but this is still cool. Keep up the amazing work, bro.
Jsjs
4:49 KOMU is an oddball in American television. Its a commercial station owned by a public university.
Love the intro. Amazing job!
WGRZ is my personal favorite. Their news theme at the time also kicks ass, one of the best themes ever recorded.
You can sure tell by the rankings that this was in the 1980's. Nowadays Grand Rapids, MI (the market serving an area from Hesperia, MI to the Indiana border during the 1980's, Nielsen stupidly moved the boundary up to the Lake/Wexford county line which is well north of Baldwin) is probably in or near the top ten and Detroit is probably well down in the rankings.
Look at the description. The rankings are actually current (at least as of the time of the upload).
WBAY-TV 2 did not become ABC until 1992. In 1989, WBAY-TV 2 was still with CBS.
8:18 Man I just wanted to know about that dove but instead got an unfun history lesson
1:29
That's Reminds Me Your April Fools Day Video!
It's one of the local variants of ABC's "You'll Love It" ID.
guy
girl
*Family Guy*
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
man
woman
1:51 ain't that background the same one as Rede Manchete from the 90's? dang dude
It's probably stock.
Nah. Manchete's had more stars and planets.
7:31 KWQC Quad Cities
I think KRTV Great Falls just took music from Meco's Star Wars disco album.
The Gannett stations are pretty good, also the WXYZ one was catchy to loop.
7:22 Didn't you hate this ID?
At 15:06, WKRN was never a CBS affiliate (that went to WTVF 5). They were ALWAYS an ABC station.
Yooo It's WETM!
The best station in the tiers!
Thanks for catching this rare sight
Sup? It's great to see that you're still alive. :D
I actually love ur vids
0:55 "Touchdown" by Bob James!
Well done!
LIST OF MARKETS WITHOUT 80S OR 90S STATION IDS:
Glendive
Juneau
Presque Isle
Helena
Cheyenne-Scottsbluff, NE
Greenwood-Greenville
Parkersburg
Marquette
Harrisonburg
Rapid City
Missoula
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson (ehem) (Williston)
No! Victoria (TX) is here!
@@yorkeltonnocarepenelopedor3589 Due to No.'s mistake.
You forgot one:
Alpena, MI
@@carsonneeley4862 covered in 90s
You’ll love it!
10:32 My local WLFL station, when still an independent, used the same music and chorus to name their ID.
Your choice
Your clear choice
[insert station here]
TV [insert number here]
@@jabukagala Yup. Just like that. I know there were more stations that used that sound/chorus too.
WLFL be like:
*GET NEW GLASSES*
our logo looks like a hotdog
2:41 Congratulations, you found my area!!!
You live in the Cheap.
@@jabukagala No I'm not!
@@Amauryen1 Yes you do, it's the name of the section.
@@jabukagala Could you be serious?
@@Amauryen1 Stop trying to start an argument. Look at the description or the video.
What a throwback to the time where "nerd" was an insult.
17:01 That was the one I was hoping you would use if you didn't use WTSP's Sunset 10 logo instead. As a Tampa Bay native, thanks for that!
For Baltimore, you had WBAL on the video. WJZ is channel 13!
I saw a couple of mistakes. For channel 11 in Baltimore, MD, it is WBAL (CBS in the early 80's now NBC since 1/1/1996) not WJZ-13 (ABC now CBS since 1/1/1996). For WDVM (now WUSA since 7/4/1986), it was during the brief "Ours To Share" campaign from 1984 thru to the call letter change in 1986.
i was well aware of the first one (countless comments about it) but the second one is a bit tricky, since it was an approximation in a list of IDs from 1979-1986. i had gotten the idea that in 1984, they were using a CGI logo, so I assumed it was before then.
@@NoEntertainment Also for WTOV, Thee ident used an unofficial logo, as they were still using NBC's "Proud N" Logo from 1979
Speaking of WMTV, In their place to be ident, The logo is shown to be flying as what seems to be crew look in surprise, and in this ident, it's shown to be in the clouds, with your subtitling of: "The ghost of WMTV."
WMTV LORE COMFIRMED?! (real)
I'm very late, but I think it's the time for the 2000s station IDs!
omg this content is insane
yes
5:52 did that station just use Seven Network's Say Hello?
i checked the original video of it and it sure sounds like it
I think this was the original. Seven borrowed from NBC multiple times.
UPDATE: This is stock.
@@jabukagala oh
@@SrSander It's basically the other "Hello Calgary". Both were in the public domain.
@@jabukagala oh that makes sense i guess
I like your channel, because unlike some other logo-tubers, you aren't afraid to call a logo shit.
10:53 Gannett/Tegna would like to have a word with you...
Interesting...I never knew 1030 KTWO in Casper had a TV sister station.
That was KKTU 33 Cheyenne
12:41 - WREG-TV Memphis (still CBS)
That WVIR-TV ID sounds like Dick Bartley doing the V/O.
14:23 This is my area, WISN-TV still uses that logo
5:43 KEYT: ABC's laidback station for the San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara/Santa Maria triad.
Back-to-back 20's for Sacramento..!
The WYCB music sounds familiar.
That’s because it’s Steppin’ Out by Joe Jackson
I think that the first one was very hard to found! I don't understand the North Platte ID.
16:26 is 1987 this WCPX ID.
wow your favorite ID is right before my favorite.
I like both. My favorite would be WJCL.
2:07 oh look, here I am!
2:59 they have the music and graphics but not the annoucer eh its custom idc
5:49 oh and thanks for putting bakersfield in
Ah kimt the place were things happen like jodi husentruit
Is WSMV Channel 4 Included Here?
14:47 RIP Denise D'Ascenzo
Holy shyyeet, I remember the KTLA id
Pealookies is a English-language Filipino-Canadian UA-camr Channel?!
Why does the wrtv logo from 1984 look like the target logo but with the top having a piece missing
5:34 Congratulations, you found my area! Pretty average isn't it?
Great reel, but your audio is all over the place. I would try running it through a compressor to bring up the faint one and down the loud ones -- so they are all even.
Hshsj
Gsys
I saw my hometown's name on one of these stations, even though it's served by a different market.
Which one?
WNEP
Reading is served by the Philadelphia market, and a couple Harrisburg stations, I'm guessing that WNEP used to have a translator station in Reading.
Yeah WNEP was one of those stations that served well outside their usual range
0:22 Crap! Wrong slide!
0:49 That might’ve been a template from CBS themselves...
Edit: Same for some NBC logos seen here
12:03. WJAR Providence.
2:56 3:05 8:51 17:21
9:57(my hometown)
9:00 WTVH 5 signed on in 1948 as WHEN-TV 8.
18:14 For a Second, I thought that was Joe Biden. I think that’s Joseph Wapner, the original Judge on The People’s Court.
"You'll Love It"
Sure I will.
4:48 jittering cheesiness
7:04 Looks like we have another Ernest sighting on a No. video, knowhutimean Vern?
Groooooooovy.