American Broadcasting Company: Difference between revisions

===31st ID (1997-1998)===

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'''Nickname:''' "TV is Good"

===32nd ID (1998-2001)===

<center>'''Regular ID'''</center>

<center>'''Local IDs'''</center>

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'''Logo:''' Usually a bunch of shapes moving around, which always ends with the ABC logo in the middle of a {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} background with "{{Font|Courier|'''American Broadcasting Company'''}}" or "{{Font|Courier|'''We Love TV'''}}" appearing one-by-one below to the beat of the music.

'''Trivia:''' The idents were designed by Pittard Sullivan and Troika Design Group.

*'''1998'''

** The ABC logo pops up on screen, along with zooming circles. The usual ending plays. This is a shorter ident and only lasts 3 seconds, however an extended version does exist where the animation is slower.

** On a {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} background, a black star appears. It slowly grows in size, as the colors shift between yellow and black. Then it cuts to the ending.

** In a black background, we see {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} dots dropping to the bottom of the screen, resembling rain drops. At the end, one drops and zooms up to the screen, forming a {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} background. The usual ending plays.

** On a black background, we see {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} flowers with their petals spinning around like pinwheels. A {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} ABC logo zooms out in the middle, revealing another set of black petals, and another ABC logo zooming in. It then zooms out, with other flowers appearing in the process. The usual ending plays.

*'''2001'''

** We see a landscape of a {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} city in a black background. We now see a street with another city landscape. At the end, we see 3 {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} circles moving to the right. The middle circle is the ABC logo in {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}. No text was shown below.

'''FX/SFX:''' The shapes moving. 2D animation by Pittard Sullivan and Troika, however three of the 2000 idents were done by Primal Screen, and four of the 2001 idents were done by Belief.

'''Availability:''' Extinct. Only appeared in the late 1990s. It also appears at the end of 1998-2001 episodes of ''Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher''.

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'''Legacy:''' This logo design was used for the ABC Entertainment logo for programs around this time.

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'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

'''Nicknames:''' "Red Squares", "Welcome to the New ABC", "The Nine Squares"

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

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'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

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'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

<center>'''Regular IDs'''</center>

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'''Nicknames:''' "Aqua ABC", "Start Here", "ABC Glass"

'''Legacy:''' Amazing CGI animation for the late 2000s. This was used as a template (and concept) for both the [[ABC Entertainment]] logos from 2007 to 2012 and the [[ABC Studios]] logos from 2007-2013.

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'''Nicknames:''' "The New ABC", "ABC Glass II"

'''Legacy:''' Like the previous IDs, this was used as a template for the [[ABC Entertainment]] logo.

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'''Nicknames:''' "The Gray ABC", "ABC Glass VII", "ABC 2018"

'''Logo:''' On a large black circle on a {{Font color|red|red}} background, we see the ABC logo in the center. Thick and thin, white and {{Font color|red|red}} lines are swirling and drawing themselves around the logo, with the black circle slowly growing in size.

'''FX/SFX:''' The lines moving around and the circle growing, simple 2D animation. Done by The New Blank.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A new jingle with heavy drum music (based on the music ABC used in their branding at the time. Known as "Heroes," a piece written by Matthew Kajcienski of DreamArtists Music (a producer known for many other tunes on ABC) and performed with vocalist Taylor Carroll, created specifically for the network and their 2015 branding campaign.) ending with a vocal rendition of the ABC theme.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

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'''Music/Sounds:''' A snap, then a 3-note synth fanfare, which is the modified version of the ABC jingle introduced that year. Composed by YouTooCanWoo.  

'''Availability:''' Current.