Differences Season 2 - The names of the sponsors are now shown. The slash in the logo enlarges and fills the screen, which cuts to the PBS logo instead of playing it while the funding list is going on. Season 3 - No difference. Season 4 - Different font. Season 5 - No difference. Season 6 - The funders are displayed in screens of two. AT&T replaces allied chemical corporation. The announcer is different and the transcript price is inflated to $2. Many people must of missed back in 1974 when you could buy a news transcript for only a dollar :(
Season 7 - The funders are now shown on a separate background with the U.S. shape, and the AT&T logo is now shown. CPB disappears. Season 8 - The funders are moved to a different part of the credits. Season 9 - AT&T looks completely different and CPB is back. Exxon is no longer here. The transcript advertisement isn't announced. Season 10 - All of the funders are different again. Season 11-13 - Same as season 10. Season 14 - AT&T is a little changed, and the MacArthur Foundation is added. The transcript service is relocated to Overland Park, KS and inflated again to $4. Season 14 #2 - No difference. Season 14 #3 - The MacArthur Foundation is slightly difference and the lines are changed. Season 14 #4 - The lines are back to the old way. Season 15 - The announcer is different and PepsiCo is added. The MacArthur Foundation is back to the old way. AT&T changed. Season 16 - The announcer is different after PepsiCo. An advert for VHS tapes is added and the transcript message is moved. Season 17 - AT&T is changed again, and so is PepsiCo. Season 18 - Same as before. CPB is different as well. Season 19 - ADM and New York Life replaces AT&T. PepsiCo is a little sped up and the announcer is different. Season 20 - ADM is different. New York Life celebrated 150 years. PepsiCO is long gone.
“And also by… the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Seeking solutions to education, population, energy, and environmental challenges throughout the world.”
1989-1990- More stars than ever in the background 1991-The Merging CPB Circles and the Viewers Like You tag begin with this era. 1993-the byline is shown under the CPB logo and now it the annual financial support of Viewers Like You.
Truth is, getting the Sesame Street funding credits was easy. I could get all of the seasons. With the NewsHour though, I couldn't even find the Season 1 funding credits.
Anyone else like playing a game of "guess the headline"? *15:55: I'm guessing this was something related to the 1988 presidential election, where a Mike _Dukakis_ went up against George H.W. Bush. *22:45: I'm gonna guess he's talking about Operation: Desert Storm. *29:05: ..."Filegate"? (Ken Starr would become famous for something ELSE later on. ;)) *33:23: Well, Mr. Lehrer kinda blatantly gives it away here...there was something going on in Kosovo once that America had inserted itself into. *36:28: In the immediate wake of 9-11, there was an anthrax scare once... *38:20: Our war in Afghanistan, probably. (lol @ "Shields and Brook(e)s") *39:10: It seems that this whole episode was about our war in Iraq, and Lehrer was advertising more to come. *1:27:05: DUH (the title at the bottom gave it away). 32:30: 10 billion people by 2048? I don't think that one aged well... Knock knock, it's Georgette Knuckles. lol @ "BAE Systems"
I never knew Pacific Life sponsored the Newshour. The reason behind that is because of the big whale. Also, Why on earth did the movie The Post get a sponsor?