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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''National Educational Television''' ('''NET''') was a former major educational and public TV network, founded in early 1952 and incorporated in November of that year. Among their original affiliates were [[WNET]] 13 New York, [[KCET]] 28 Los Angeles, [[GBH|WGBH]] 2 Boston, [[WQED]] 13 Pittsburgh, [[WETA]] 26 Washington D.C., [[KUHT]] 8 Houston, [[KERA-TV|KERA]] 13 Dallas-Ft. Worth, [[WYES]] 12 New Orleans, and various others. Originating from The Educational Television and Radio Center from 1952-1959, and later The National Educational Television and Radio Center from 1959 to 1962, when the radio portion was dropped. [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] succeeded NET in 1970, due to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation pulling its funding. It merged with WNDT to become the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of WNET, in 1972. | |||
===1st Logo (1954-1955)=== | ===1st Logo (1954-1955)=== | ||
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'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. This was recently rediscovered on an episode of ''The Subject is Jazz'', titled “Performance”. It is currently unknown if this logo appeared on any other program. | '''Availability:''' Extremely rare. This was recently rediscovered on an episode of ''The Subject is Jazz'', titled “Performance”. It is currently unknown if this logo appeared on any other program. | ||
'''Editor's Note:''' This logo is an oddity, as this logo's existence was practically unknown until Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning uploaded ''The Subject is Jazz: Performance'' on October 29, 2018. Its similarity to the NBC "Chimes" logo may or may not be a coincidence, as ''The Subject is Jazz'' was a co-production with NBC. | '''Editor's Note:''' This logo is an oddity, as this logo's existence was practically unknown until Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning uploaded ''The Subject is Jazz: Performance'' on October 29, 2018. Its similarity to the [[NBC National IDs|NBC]] "Chimes" logo may or may not be a coincidence, as ''The Subject is Jazz'' was a co-production with NBC. | ||
===6th Logo (October 1959-November 20, 1960)=== | ===6th Logo (October 1959-November 20, 1960)=== | ||
{{Gallery | {{Gallery | ||
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* Some programs carry a custom variant for their respective shows, in which the logo leads out to their intros. It was seen on ''Fanfare'' and ''Realities'' (with the latter also carrying a "News Special" variant). | * Some programs carry a custom variant for their respective shows, in which the logo leads out to their intros. It was seen on ''Fanfare'' and ''Realities'' (with the latter also carrying a "News Special" variant). | ||
* A "Special Events" variant was seen on an NET special. | * A "Special Events" variant was seen on an NET special. | ||
* A "Children’s Theatre” variant was seen on the 1971 TV movie | * A "Children’s Theatre” variant was seen on the 1971 TV movie ''The Boy and the Turtle''. | ||
* A B&W variant also exists. | * A B&W variant also exists. | ||
* Beginning on October 3, 1971, the logo was updated. It is now on an {{Font color|mediumblue|ultramarine}} background, the lines are now {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}, and the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|orange|n}}}}}}" is {{Font color|orange|orange}}, the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|#FFD900|e}}}}}}" is {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}, and the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|limegreen|t}}}}}}" is {{Font color|limegreen|green}}. Additionally, it is also videotaped, the mass appears to zoom in, and the letters also appear to be thinner and spread a bit further out from each other. | * Beginning on October 3, 1971, the logo was updated. It is now on an {{Font color|mediumblue|ultramarine}} background, the lines are now {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}, and the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|orange|n}}}}}}" is {{Font color|orange|orange}}, the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|#FFD900|e}}}}}}" is {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}, and the "{{Font|Bauhaus 93|{{Big|{{Font color|limegreen|t}}}}}}" is {{Font color|limegreen|green}}. Additionally, it is also videotaped, the mass appears to zoom in, and the letters also appear to be thinner and spread a bit further out from each other. | ||