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'''Variant:''' On B/W movies, the logo is shown in black and white.

'''Trivia:''' "MEDA" is not a misspelling. Meda was the name of founder Charles Band's then-wife, '''Meda''' Band, and it also serves as a play on words, since "MEDA" can also be phonetically interpreted as "ME-D-A" (i.e., "Media"). It's also the shorthand form for its full name at inception, '''M'''edia-Home '''E'''ntertainment and '''D'''istribution '''A'''ssociation.

'''Availability:''' Extremely rare, this was used on the very first Media Home Entertainment tapes starting in 1978, including ''Animal Farm'', ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'', ''Night of the Living Dead'', and ''Halloween'', but quickly replaced with the 2nd logo beginning in 1981. It's definitely on banned Beatles tapes released by the company, including ''John Lennon Live'', ''Magical Mystery Tour'', and ''The Beatles: Live at Shea Stadium'' and also on the banned Rolling Stones tape, ''The Rolling Stones in Concert''.

*A B&W variant exists.

*There is a still variant.

*On [[VCL]] releases distributed by the company, the stacked yellow words "EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED BY" fly down and reside at the center on the same space background, just before this logo begins.

'''Availability:''' Common. Tapes that have used this logo include ''Night of the Living Dead'', ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part II'', the first three ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' films, ''Day of the Dead'', and ''Halloween''. Outside of the United States and Canada, the logo can be found (PAL-tweaked) on VPD releases in the United Kingdom and Video Classics releases in Australia. The last video to use this logo was ''The Hidden'', although it did make one more appearance on the original VHS of ''Troma's War''. On the Full Moon/Cult Video VHS release of ''Laserblast'' from the late 1990s, this makes a surprise appearance along with the original FBI Warning screen as well, with the [[The Samuel Goldwyn Company|Samuel Goldwyn]] logo following the MHE logo. Surprisingly, this logo also appeared on ''A Family Circus Easter'' when it aired on Disney Channel in the United States on Easter Sunday of 1999. On an Amazon Prime print of ''P.O.W. the Escape'' (a.k.a. ''Behind Enemy Lines''), this is surprisingly retained as well, followed by the [[Cannon Films|Cannon]] logo. Also appears on their print of ''Sexette'' before the [[Crown International Pictures]] logo.

*Due to declining business, the company's very last VHS releases went through (CBS) Fox Video and eventually Fox Video. The above logo would play as normal, but there would be an announcer saying "(Available on video) From Media Home Entertainment." When the music ended, the announcer said, "Distributed by (CBS) Fox Video". When the announcer got to the (CBS) Fox Video part of that, the 1st Fox Video logo (or the 3rd CBS/FOX Video logo) played. Although on the 1991 release of ''Scanners II: The New Order'', there was no announcer spiel, just the full Media logo preceding the 1st Fox Video logo with "DISTRIBUTED BY" in yellow above it.

'''Availability:''' Seen on all Media tapes from the era. Some of these include ''Payoff'', ''Down Twisted'', ''Beverly Hills Brats'', ''High Spirits'', ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master'', the uncut version of ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'', ''Teen Witch'', ''Ambition'', ''Scanners II: The New Order'', ''Speed Zone'', ''Full Moon in Blue Water'', ''Haunted Summer'', ''Rabid Grannies'', ''Ministry of Vengeance'', ''Think Big!'', ''Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters'', ''American Boyfriends'', ''Class of Nuke 'em High Part 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown'', ''The Invisible Kid'', ''Two Evil Eyes'', ''World Gone Wild'', ''Alien from L.A.'', ''I Come in Peace'', ''Wild at Heart'', ''The Applegates'', ''The Pope Must Diet'', ''Closet Land'', ''Prospero's Books'', ''Black Rainbow'', ''Scorchers'', ''Taking the Heat'', ''Scam'', ''I, Madman'', ''Lurkers'', ''Nails'', ''Dead Ringers'', ''Sonny Boy'', ''Spontaneous Combustion'', ''Primary Motive'', ''Deadlock'', and ''Keeper of the City'', among others. Also appeared on some early '90s [[Video Treasures]] reprints after its logo appeared before the Media logo, including ''The Check Is in the Mail...'', ''I Come in Peace'' and ''Death Wish 4: The Crackdown'', among others. Some of these same latter-day releases were also distributed in Canada by HGV Video Productions, even some using the same U.S. packaging. It makes a surprise appearance at the start of a recent Movies! broadcast of ''Hell's Angels '69'' and also appears on the Tubi, Epix.com and Shout! Factory TV prints (and possibly the Amazon Prime version as well).