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APT was founded in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN), distributing public TV shows such as ''The French Chef'', ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', and ''Washington Week'' to public television stations on a regional basis, and then nationwide when NET (now PBS) was formed. They changed their name to Interregional Program Service in the 1980s (though it still used the old name on some shows, such as ''Travels in Europe with Rick Steves'', until 1992), became American Program Service (APS) in 1992, and changed to their current name, American Public Television in 1999. It didn't appear to use a logo until 1970, and then stopped using its own logo for nearly two decades after that.
APT was founded in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN), distributing public TV shows such as ''The French Chef'', ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', and ''Washington Week'' to public television stations on a regional basis, and then nationwide when NET (now PBS) was formed. They changed their name to Interregional Program Service in the 1980s (though it still used the old name on some shows, such as ''Travels in Europe with Rick Steves'', until 1992), became American Program Service (APS) in 1992, and changed to their current name, American Public Television in 1999. It didn't appear to use a logo until 1970, and then stopped using its own logo for nearly two decades after that.


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|Eastern_Educational_Network.png|(1968-1975)
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|American_Program_Service.png|1st Logo (1992-1996)
|American_Programs_For_Public_Television.png|2nd Logo (1996-April 25?, 1999)
}}|American Public Television|{{ImageTOC
|American_Public_Television_1999-2002.png|1st Logo (April 26?, 1999-2010; July 25, 2014)
|American_Public_Television_1999-2002.png|1st Logo (April 26?, 1999-2010; July 25, 2014)
|American_Public_Television_(2008).png|2nd Logo (2008-February 5, 2011)
|American_Public_Television_(2008).png|2nd Logo (2008-February 5, 2011)
|American_Public_Television_(2011).png|3rd Logo (February 6, 2011-)
|American_Public_Television_(2011).png|3rd Logo (February 6, 2011-)
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==Eastern Educational Television Network==
===(1968-1975)===
[[File:Eastern Educational Network.png|center|frameless|352x352px]]
'''Logo:''' Against a black background, we see six overlapping circles of varying sizes. In the center is a compass with the north, west, and south arrows pointing to the innermost circle and the east arrow pointing to the outermost circle. Behind it is a seventh, smaller circle to which the four ordinal directions point. At its core is a black circle with "EEN" inside it. To the right is the text
<center>{{Big|Eastern<br>Educational<br>Network}}</center>
in what appears to be Schelter Grotesk.
'''Technique:''' None.
'''Music/Sounds:''' An announcer saying, "This is the Eastern Educational Television Network."
'''Availability:''' Extinct, and more well-hidden than any Holy Grail-class public television logo before it, to the point where it was only discovered in 2020 on episodes of ''Wall $treet Week'' on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. How elusive did it prove to be? The tail end of a 1975 episode of WNED's ''One Man Show'' that had it was part of a recording of WNET's ''Where Have All the Rebels Gone?'' that had been on the Internet Archive and gone unnoticed by the logo community for just over five years before being discovered the next month.
'''Legacy:''' After ''Wall $treet Week'' became a PBS program around 1972, the EEN would not use another logo for two decades, by which point it had already rebranded itself twice.
==American Program Service==
===1st Logo (1992-1996)===
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File:American Program Service.png
File:American Program Service (Boston).png
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'''Logo:''' On a {{color|firebrick|maroon}} background, we see the text
<center>{{Font|Times New Roman|'''A PRESENTATION OF<br>{{Huge|AMERICAN PROGRAM<br>SERVICE}}'''}}</center>
in Copperplate, which zooms in slightly. There is a shining wipe on the text.
'''Variant:''' There is a variant which has "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''BOSTON'''}}" under the text.
'''Technique:''' The name zooming in, and the "shimmer".
'''Music/Sounds:''' None. In other cases, it uses the end theme of the show.
'''Availability:''' Preserved on VHS tapes of ''Bloopy's Buddies'' and pre-1996 episodes of ''Computer Chronicles'' (which is preserved on the "Cyber Cafes" and "Macworld" episodes on the Internet Archive). It also appeared on American PBS airings of ''The Big Comfy Couch'' episodes from the era.
===2nd Logo (1996-April 25?, 1999)===
[[File:American Programs For Public Television.png|center|frameless|304x304px]]
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'''Logo:''' On a black background with 2 {{color|darkorange|orange/brown}} squares, we the letters "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|'''Aps'''}}}}}}" in orange/brown with the words "{{Font|Courier|American Program Service}}" below the letters zooming out from us, with the "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|'''p'''}}}}}}" slightly on top of the "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|'''A'''}}}}}}", a white bracket revealing the "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|'''p'''}}}}}}", and a black bracket revealing the "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|'''s'''}}}}}}". Once the letters shift into place, the words:


<center>{{Big|________<br>'''Programs'''<br>For Public<br>Television}}</center>
appear below the letters "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|ps}}}}}}", while a small flash appears above the "{{color|darkorange|{{Font|Impact|{{Big|A}}}}}}" in the top left hand corner. Also, one of the squares disappears, leaving one square in the background, which rotates.
'''Technique:''' The animation in the logo.
'''Music/Sounds:''' A rather triumphant synth tune with snare drumroll sounds, produced on the E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestral synthesizer using the Percussion 1 (Patch #58) instrument patch.
'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' Sometimes, the logo is silent.
'''Availability:''' Rare. Was seen on 1996-1999 episodes of ''Computer Chronicles''; a few episodes from the era on the Internet Archive retain this. Can also be seen on the final episodes of ''The Kidsongs Television Show'' on iTunes. Again, this didn't appear at all on ''Nightly Business Report''.
==American Public Television==
===1st Logo (April 26?, 1999-2010; July 25, 2014)===
===1st Logo (April 26?, 1999-2010; July 25, 2014)===
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'''Availability:''' Current and common. Seen on current prints of APT's archival programming such as ''Mr. Bean'' and ''The Joy of Painting'', and newer (episodes of) APT shows such as ''WORLDFOCUS'' and ''Nightly Business Report'', among others. The version with the normal fanfare can be seen at the end of ''Doc Martin'', ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', ''Royalty Close-Up'', ''A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education'', ''The Reformation: This Changed Everything'', ''Free to Rock'', the fifth season of ''Fit 2 Stitch'', and a series of 78 movies licensed from [[20th Century Studios]], [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]], [[Paramount Pictures]], and [[Sony Pictures Television]] (though the telefilm ''Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie'' uses the later fanfare).
'''Availability:''' Current and common. Seen on current prints of APT's archival programming such as ''Mr. Bean'' and ''The Joy of Painting'', and newer (episodes of) APT shows such as ''WORLDFOCUS'' and ''Nightly Business Report'', among others. The version with the normal fanfare can be seen at the end of ''Doc Martin'', ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', ''Royalty Close-Up'', ''A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education'', ''The Reformation: This Changed Everything'', ''Free to Rock'', the fifth season of ''Fit 2 Stitch'', and a series of 78 movies licensed from [[20th Century Studios]], [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]], [[Paramount Pictures]], and [[Sony Pictures Television]] (though the telefilm ''Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie'' uses the later fanfare).
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