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=== Background ===

Previously under [[Fox Television Stations Productions|Fox Television Stations]], 20th Television (spelled as "Twentieth Television") was the television syndication arm of The Walt Disney Company's [[20th Century Fox Television]] that was launched in 1989 originally as an in-name-only brand of TCFTV known as "Twentieth Television Corporation" (and structurally officialized in 1995). 20th Television also produces their own programs and distributes them across the nation. Sometime in 2020, it was merged into Disney Media Distribution, and the former name was applied to TCFTV on August 10, 2020 as part of a corporate restructuring.

=== (July 1992-) ===

'''Nicknames:''' "The Searchlights", "CGI Searchlights", "Zooming Tower", "The Tower of Tepidity", "The 20th Tower", "Tower of Annoyance"

'''Trivia:''' This logo was also used to represent 20th Century Fox Television from September 18, 1992-April 16, 1995, replacing the 1981-1993 "20th Television Fox" logo.

'''Variants:'''

*Since late August 2013, the logo doesn't have a byline once again. This can be seen on ''Dish Nation'', ''Divorce Court'', and syndicated prints of ''The Cleveland Show'', ''Modern Family'', and ''King of the Hill'' (plastering the 1994 20th Television logo). Strangely, the 2013-2014 season of both ''Family Feud'' and ''The Wendy Williams Show'' continued to use the byline.

*At the end of an ''X-Files'' ad on the 1995 Hong Kong Laserdiscs of the ''Star Wars Trilogy'', the slightly longer 1994 20th Television logo (after the zoom out) fades in and out (no fanfare). Sometimes, the logo will play as usual but will end in a freeze frame. This was seen on a few episodes of ''Forgive or Forget''. An airing of ''Garfield's Fun Fest'' on CN once did the same thing (extended version only).

*A letterbox (2.2:1 or 2.35:1) version of the 2008 logo appears at the end of some widescreen movies on TCM, including ''The Agony and the Ecstasy''. A warp-speed version also exists.

*On some prints, such as Spike's print of ''The Transporter 2'' and syndie prints of ''Tosh-O'', the 2008 logo fades in as well as out. The 1994 logo is cropped to matted 1.78:1 in rare cases.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Here are the main versions:

*1992-1995: The 1989 TCFTV logo theme.

*1992-1995: A revamped version of the 1989 theme, without the reverberation of the 1989 theme. It would be used for the 1995 TCFTV logo.

'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''

*In some cases, it uses the closing theme of the show or is silent, such as on ''Alien Nation: Body and Soul''.

*There was a low tone of the remastered 1989 theme from 1992-1995 on reruns of ''Dynasty''. A low tone version of the 1995 theme exists. This was spotted on a later French print of the pilot episode of ''Manimal''.

'''Editor's Note:''' A marvelous CGI re-imagining of the classic Fox logo, which predated the actual [[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]] CGI logo by two years. However, this also garnered a lot of resentment by many due to this consistently plastering over old logos.

[[Category: Television Logos]]  

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[[Category: The Walt Disney Company]]