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20th Television (spelled as "Twentieth Television") started out as the television syndication arm of [[20th Century Fox Television]]. Previously under [[Fox Television Stations Productions|Fox Television Stations]], it 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 produced their own programs and distributed them across the nation. Sometime in 2020, a year after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 20th Century Fox and its divisions, the original 20th Television was merged into [[Disney Media Distribution]], and TCFTV was rebranded to the name of the former on August 10, 2020 as part of a corporate restructuring. The [[Touchstone Television (2020)|short-lived revival of Touchstone Television]] would be folded into 20th Television in December of that year.

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

'''Logo:''' We see a close-up of the familiar Fox structure, but now it's in CGI and reads "{{Font color|gold|'''20th''' TELEVISION}}". A steel line appears below and the area that would normally be reserved for "'''{{Font color|gold|FOX}}'''" is replaced by a simple {{Font color|gold|gold}} rectangle. The logo zooms out to the familiar Fox logo distance. The whole logo is set at daytime as opposed to the usual sunset background of the film logo.

'''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.

'''Byline:''' Starting on September 4, 1994 with ''The Simpsons'' episode "Bart of Darkness", the byline "'''{{Font|Times New Roman|{{Font color|gold|A NEWS CORPORATION COMPANY}}}}'''" faded in below the logo. Most programs removed the byline after late August 2013.

'''Variants:'''

*In the logo's early years (before the use of the byline), the zoom out appeared slower and the opening shot was much closer to the structure.

*On some prints of ''The Simpsons'' episodes between 1992 and 1994, the 1992 logo fades in near the end of the zoom out, and then fades out a few seconds later. It's similar in a way to the 1994/5 variant with the byline, barring the fade in at the start. Channel 4's print of the episode "Homer the Heretic" features this variation.

'''FX/SFX:''' The logo zooming out and the clouds and searchlights moving. On local reruns of ''South Park'' and TBS reruns of ''Yes, Dear'' with split-screen credits, it's a still logo.

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

*1992-1995: The 1989 TCFTV logo theme.

*December 21, 2020-: The shortened 1997 TCFTV theme seen on ''American Dad!''.

'''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''.

*On a airing of the ''Family Guy'' episode "Road to the Multiverse" on Adult Swim from April 1, 2017, the 1997 TCFTV jingle is strangely made in a glitch. This is what happened to other AS shows on this broadcast day (e.g. ''Seinfeld'' stings, laugh track, robotic voices, pitch shifted voices, etc.).

'''Availability:''' Ultra common.

*This was plastered onto most shows that Fox distributes, even classic shows they own, with the exception of ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' (the 1960s TCFTV logo is integrated into the closing credits with the closing theme). It even shows up on DVDs of Fox shows.

*Don't expect to see this on ''Hoops'', ''Filthy Rich'' and ''NeXt'' due to 20th Century Fox Television rebranding as 20th Television in 2020.

'''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.

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