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1 paź 2024 · The Public Broadcasting Service, known on-air as PBS, is a publicly funded non-profit distribution service, founded on November 3, 1969, that serves a variety of television stations in the United States, as well as some areas of Mexico and Canada. PBS replaced its predecessor NET on October 5, 1970.
The "P" resembles a human head (nicknamed the "P-Head" by many fans) while the "B" and "S" are more overtly geometric. The nickname for this is the "Tri-Colored Everyman P-Heads". The logo was still used on new episodes of PBS shows until 1985, even as the next logo below was introduced.
Logo: On a black background, a blue P-Head appears on the upper-mid screen, facing backwards. The P-Head stretches to the right until a piece of the head separates and settles itself about half an inch away. The text "PBS" appears below in a typewriter font. FX: The P-Head appearing and stretching. Cheesy Factor: Simple animation.
4 lis 2019 · PBS unveiled an updated logo, brand guidelines and custom typography Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. The new logo retains the iconic “everyman” profile design — with some minor tweaks that enlarge and...
A variant of the logo used on a S8 Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Robert Blake that aired on November 13, 1982, right before a spoof of a PBS commercial. The text was removed and P-Head is green, B is red and S is blue.
The third PBS logo was used from October 1, 1984 to October 1, 1989. The logo was principally developed by Tom Geismar of Chermayeff & Geismar. Chermayeff & Geismar felt that the Lubalin-designed logo too much resembled the logos of the three dominant commercial networks of the time, and they sought "to develop a symbol that could stand for the ...
4 lis 2019 · See the evolution of the PBS logo, from 1970 to 2019.
