I produced these for our station group. I was the Art Director for PNS at the time. Thanks to Joel Chaseman, we were one of the first to use computer animation...back in the day.
I know it sounds crazy, but this is probably on of, if not the greatest station ID ever made (and I've seen a lot!). The effect and graphics still looks cool after 32 years. And the music despite being only 10 seconds long, is extreme memorable and pleasant to listen to, at the same time as being original. I just love the deep weird base melody playing up against the ghostly, ethereal analog synth sine wave melody.
Channel 3 WFSB in Hartford used those IDs up until 1977, at which time they started "Land Of The Three" campaign. 1974 (March specfically) was also the year Post Newsweek took over Channel 3 from The Travelers Insurance Company, and changed the call letters from WTIC to WFSB.
Of these four stations, the only one I'm truly familiar with is WTOP, which, as several of you have mentioned already, PNS (Post-Newsweek Stations) sold to the Detroit Free Press (AKA the Evening News Association) in 1978 and renamed it WDVM, which it kept until July 4, 1986, when its current parent company Gannett (the station's owner since 1985) renamed it the current WUSA, a name previously held by Gannett's Minneapolis-St. Paul station which now goes by the name KARE.
I was at Dolphin then, but I don't recall this. But then, we were turning them out like hot cakes. I wonder if it's time for a "revival;" of this look?
Well, at least I don't have to ask the inevitable question of who's the sadist who dreamed up these scanimate logos with the station's call letters that come from out of nowhere?
0:16 Hmm... the sounds so familiar.....I can’t put my finger on it, but....I know I heard it from somewhere. someone might’ve used for their intro or something....
I wonder . . . would Dolphin have done their 'scanimate' work on WOR-TV's Editorial and Editorial Reply openings and closings (with the blue background and red dot) during that period?
I don't know about the editorial graphics being cel-animated . . . the whole movement of the piece screams "video." Could CVC have done it, if not Dolphin? And what's more, which of those three would've done the memorable intro to "The 4 O'Clock Movie"? Or the 1977 I.D. which was derivative of that for WGN in Chicago?
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