1980s Station IDs from Every American Television Market (that I could find)

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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 KZfaqrs (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!

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@JontyMaster 3 жыл бұрын

16:44 That CGI tho...Smooth af

@lisaweathers6783 Жыл бұрын

welcome to gannett

@Flamingbro69 3 жыл бұрын

0:25 Ah, my favorite channel, Channel 2,222,222,222

@NelvanaFan1971 14 күн бұрын

Cable 3,333,333,333 in the lower mainland of South Platte

@arsturbuther 3 жыл бұрын

Some classic NBC campaigns here: "Let's All Be Air", "Come On A Log", and my personal favorite "The Plates To Be"!

@NoEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

The Plates to Be isn't in this one (or at least the 1990 version from NBC) lol

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

@@NoEntertainment And "Come On A Log" isn't NBC. It's ABC.

@mmbproductionsMHS 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mmbproductionsMHS 3 жыл бұрын

BTW number 87 for life

@Oreofan-ns2pq 2 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala its actually, "come on along"

@bwc1976 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@rhapsodyshadow_ 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ApartmentKing66 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@C-Midori 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t unhear it without the sudden freeze

@iamathousandapples Жыл бұрын

Wikipedia says its cause he wanted to emphasize the bigger city

@Danube-TV Жыл бұрын

@@C-Midori KVVU, TV 55555555555555555 Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenderson and LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@brianhebert6152 3 ай бұрын

That announcer is the late Ralph Menard

@Flamingbro69 3 жыл бұрын

15:10 My god, that Huge Bombastic Bass

@Hogstuff 2 жыл бұрын

5:43 the bowling alley screen when you get a strike

@FacebankMan Ай бұрын

D O L P H I N

@sideshowdan 3 жыл бұрын

This effort does not go unappreciated. Awesome job.

@NathanPlays395 3 жыл бұрын

3:50 Classic KIMT there...

@progressman95 2 жыл бұрын

2:11 THATS MY NETWORK!!!!!

@TheBrooklynbodine 3 жыл бұрын

2:16 is my market. I'd forgotten that WDTV jingle for decades, it just now jogged my memory. Posting 7-15-21.

@DanZero77 3 жыл бұрын

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".

@marcus813 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@carsonneeley4862 2 жыл бұрын

And KWGN did not become Fox in '86

@DiamondJoe 3 жыл бұрын

@13:56 The most mellow legal ID I've ever heard

@brianhebert6152 3 ай бұрын

Ralph Menard does the voice-over here.

@JontyMaster 3 жыл бұрын

That WJAR music sounds so uplifting!

@NoEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

It almost sounds nostalgic to me, like something I heard as a child

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

FACT: This ident looks incomplete, because of the audio cut from the beginning.

@NelvanaFan1971 Жыл бұрын

come to my house 10 WFUC

@ivanie 2 жыл бұрын

Love the intro. Amazing job!

@crungo619 2 жыл бұрын

3:23 This WTOV-TV ID is actually from 1989, not 1986. The song, by the way, is Twilight World by Swing Out Sister.

@JeffFrmJoisey 4 ай бұрын

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).

@KnightBoat 2 жыл бұрын

14:22 is the one I remember growing up. WISN 12 is still using that exact logo.

@davidvelazquez9473 3 жыл бұрын

14:14 Congrats. You found my market!

@devares2006 2 жыл бұрын

9:30 KWKT used the same jingle as its sister station in Shreveport, KMSS. It's on us.

@aveloniaFirst 2 жыл бұрын

Same as KDNL.

@NelvanaFan1971 14 күн бұрын

The Blame's still on us!

@lloydmedia_ 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting a new international video logo, but this is still cool. Keep up the amazing work, bro.

@childbabyeye Жыл бұрын

Jsjs

@theartoftimelapsemore424 Жыл бұрын

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!

@Ace411275 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@conroads2626 3 жыл бұрын

Yooo It's WETM! The best station in the tiers! Thanks for catching this rare sight

@ABCEasyas-- 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@marcowestberg3200 3 жыл бұрын

17:29 - The original version of Forty-Four Failure (from the animation you made using Blender - Part 2)!

@alexhammeke5197 2 жыл бұрын

Damnit its finals week and all I can think of are the KTVQ nerds at 2:30

@TheIridiumic138 3 жыл бұрын

guy

@thatonelogodude 3 жыл бұрын

girl

@RoshGMZ 3 жыл бұрын

*Family Guy*

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@ymcooper 3 жыл бұрын

man

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

woman

@UWMGraphics 2 жыл бұрын

18:03 YOU FOUND MY AREA WITH AMAZING 80S CGI ANIMATION!

@user-yr3uj6go8i 3 жыл бұрын

Sup? It's great to see that you're still alive. :D

@ma55aracin9 3 жыл бұрын

@ 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)

@optiicall6819 3 жыл бұрын

I actually love ur vids

@austinl169 2 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@Justin-Hill-1987 3 жыл бұрын

WBAY-TV 2 did not become ABC until 1992. In 1989, WBAY-TV 2 was still with CBS.

@VectraQS 3 жыл бұрын

WGRZ is my personal favorite. Their news theme at the time also kicks ass, one of the best themes ever recorded.

@cjmarsh504 2 жыл бұрын

12:46 I'm glad you got WWL- TV in there!

@Josephdapro08 3 жыл бұрын

7:22 Didn't you hate this ID?

@closetedhippie 2 жыл бұрын

16:18 saw this slogan and was disappointed Bob and Doug MacKenzie didn't utter, "take off eh, you hoser!!"

@gregsells8549 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

I already have a list of current affiliations.

@Flamingbro69 3 жыл бұрын

17:01 Oh Hey Look, The area I Live in. WTOG’s ID will probably be used for the 1970’s ID Video.

@Flamingbro69 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@PharyngealMedia 3 жыл бұрын

Fox station calls itself independent.

@Flamingbro69 3 жыл бұрын

@@PharyngealMedia Actually Fox wasn't considered a Major U.S. Network until 1993.

@ndulmillenium 3 жыл бұрын

7:03 No.'s most hatred guy

@ABCEasyas-- 3 жыл бұрын

You’ll love it!

@ABCEasyas-- 3 жыл бұрын

What a throwback to the time where "nerd" was an insult.

@mycollectibles 3 жыл бұрын

2:23 that's where I'm from 🤣 I just wasn't around in the 80s 😂

@brianhebert6152 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@iamathousandapples 2 жыл бұрын

8:18 Man I just wanted to know about that dove but instead got an unfun history lesson

@friesareyummy 3 жыл бұрын

10:32 My local WLFL station, when still an independent, used the same music and chorus to name their ID.

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

Your choice Your clear choice [insert station here] TV [insert number here]

@friesareyummy 3 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala Yup. Just like that. I know there were more stations that used that sound/chorus too.

@NelvanaFan1971 Жыл бұрын

WLFL be like: *GET NEW GLASSES* our logo looks like a hotdog

@stationed703 3 жыл бұрын

1:29 That's Reminds Me Your April Fools Day Video!

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

It's one of the local variants of ABC's "You'll Love It" ID.

@carsonneeley4862 2 жыл бұрын

16:43 Ah yes, my favorite city, Minnesota, Minnesota

@FacebankMan Ай бұрын

mini soda

@RedTyphoon 3 жыл бұрын

The Gannett stations are pretty good, also the WXYZ one was catchy to loop.

@optiicall6819 3 жыл бұрын

omg this content is insane

@thatonelogodude 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@brianhebert6152 2 жыл бұрын

4:49 KOMU is an oddball in American television. Its a commercial station owned by a public university.

@marcus813 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@RickinBaltimore 3 жыл бұрын

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

@carsonneeley4862 2 жыл бұрын

Also, he put in Minnesota, MN for Market #15, even though it should be Minneapolis

@GaboTV1 3 жыл бұрын

1:51 ain't that background the same one as Rede Manchete from the 90's? dang dude

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

It's probably stock.

@cassiopeia36 3 жыл бұрын

Nah. Manchete's had more stars and planets.

@mharris5047 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@1987tvfreak Жыл бұрын

Look at the description. The rankings are actually current (at least as of the time of the upload).

@carlie-rickyj8421 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very late, but I think it's the time for the 2000s station IDs!

@loganmosher5935 3 жыл бұрын

7:31 KWQC Quad Cities

@EskieWolf 3 жыл бұрын

At 15:06, WKRN was never a CBS affiliate (that went to WTVF 5). They were ALWAYS an ABC station.

@Danube-TV Жыл бұрын

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)

@parkersackewitz6266 3 жыл бұрын

I think KRTV Great Falls just took music from Meco's Star Wars disco album.

@ueda9090 3 жыл бұрын

5:34 Congratulations, you found my area! Pretty average isn't it?

@NoEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

-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!

@thatonelogodude 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@KeonAureii 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you are here!

@thatonelogodude 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9ZnaZWZt57XZZc.html i found one (at 0:25)

@NoEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

I can actually put these into the video via the video editor on KZfaq (somehow), so these are good

@darsdm 3 жыл бұрын

m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMeBnZiZmM64aXk.html cropped out

@Amauryen1 3 жыл бұрын

2:41 Congratulations, you found my area!!!

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

You live in the Cheap.

@Amauryen1 3 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala No I'm not!

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

@@Amauryen1 Yes you do, it's the name of the section.

@Amauryen1 3 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala Could you be serious?

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

@@Amauryen1 Stop trying to start an argument. Look at the description or the video.

@cfoster81 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@NoEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@carsonneeley4862 2 жыл бұрын

@@NoEntertainment Also for WTOV, Thee ident used an unofficial logo, as they were still using NBC's "Proud N" Logo from 1979

@htime2007 3 жыл бұрын

For Baltimore, you had WBAL on the video. WJZ is channel 13!

@kaboomgamer333 3 жыл бұрын

I like your channel, because unlike some other logo-tubers, you aren't afraid to call a logo shit.

@gatorman295 3 жыл бұрын

0:55 "Touchdown" by Bob James!

@matthewthescienceguy7627 3 жыл бұрын

Groooooooovy.

@elchananarayana1768 3 жыл бұрын

10:53 Gannett/Tegna would like to have a word with you...

@gnkn18francais 10 ай бұрын

Pealookies is a English-language Filipino-Canadian KZfaqr Channel?!

@talltistic3174 3 жыл бұрын

I could be doing homework but I'm watching this for no reason lol

@user-pt2uk6ev4m 3 жыл бұрын

I think that the first one was very hard to found! I don't understand the North Platte ID.

@lisaweathers6783 3 жыл бұрын

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

@LucasWelter 3 жыл бұрын

16:26 is 1987 this WCPX ID.

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

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)

@yorkeltonnocarepenelopedor3589 3 жыл бұрын

No! Victoria (TX) is here!

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

@@yorkeltonnocarepenelopedor3589 Due to No.'s mistake.

@carsonneeley4862 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot one: Alpena, MI

@NelvanaFan1971 Жыл бұрын

@@carsonneeley4862 covered in 90s

@campingramen1841 3 жыл бұрын

wow your favorite ID is right before my favorite.

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

I like both. My favorite would be WJCL.

@ApartmentKing66 2 жыл бұрын

That WVIR-TV ID sounds like Dick Bartley doing the V/O.

@CJODell12 3 жыл бұрын

12:03. WJAR Providence.

@jamesborlan2850 2 жыл бұрын

Why does the wrtv logo from 1984 look like the target logo but with the top having a piece missing

@StomperYoshi 3 жыл бұрын

7:04 Looks like we have another Ernest sighting on a No. video, knowhutimean Vern?

@aaronbruceladner1983 2 жыл бұрын

Is WSMV Channel 4 Included Here?

@ApartmentKing66 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting...I never knew 1030 KTWO in Casper had a TV sister station.

@NelvanaFan1971 Жыл бұрын

That was KKTU 33 Cheyenne

@knkjchannel55 2 жыл бұрын

0:22 Crap! Wrong slide!

@daviddyer3543 4 ай бұрын

5:43 KEYT: ABC's laidback station for the San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara/Santa Maria triad.

@mattlocker7736 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@childbabyeye Жыл бұрын

Hshsj

@childbabyeye Жыл бұрын

Gsys

@SrSander 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

I think this was the original. Seven borrowed from NBC multiple times.

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

UPDATE: This is stock.

@SrSander 3 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala oh

@jabukagala 3 жыл бұрын

@@SrSander It's basically the other "Hello Calgary". Both were in the public domain.

@SrSander 3 жыл бұрын

@@jabukagala oh that makes sense i guess

@AldenRDavis 3 жыл бұрын

12:41 - WREG-TV Memphis (still CBS)

@yourlocalpensulilvanian Ай бұрын

15:18 what’s the source of this news intro

@solinus7131 3 жыл бұрын

0:49 That might’ve been a template from CBS themselves... Edit: Same for some NBC logos seen here

@ibethatgoldfishmf 9 ай бұрын

14:23 This is my area, WISN-TV still uses that logo

@YokoFujioka 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in rochester ny, and I'm a little shocked you would put ours as ""pretty good"". Maybe I was enjoying the jingles too much, but it felt really boring that he just says the bare minimum and then leaves, lololol. I think that announcer is still with the channel these days?