Original upload date: Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:33:44 GMT
This is probably the single coolest thing I've ever seen a television station do.
It's September 17, 2006. The WB has just aired its farewell montage. The CW is to premiere the night after. WPIX i
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s about to transition to its new branding, with the first "CW11 News At Ten" to premiere after the final night of the WB. Instead of letting the moment pass quietly, they decide to mark it. This clip is how they did that.
In a nutshell - it's just about every logo the station had ever used, shown with date and era-appropriate music (you probably can imagine the music choice for 11 Alive). Most of them are VERY accurately reconstructed, down to color and font - they even use the two distinct versions of the circle 11 from 1969 and 1985 respectively. They only made one major omission: the first generation WB11 logo from 1995, which put a smaller WB on the black/gold "11", is missing. Aside from this, everything is here - even the short lived "Circle 11 Alive" logo from 1984 can be seen very briefly!
It all culminates to a grand reveal of the new CW11 logo and the first open to the newly-named CW11 News at Ten, which is a modified version of the graphics set they were using previously. All of this seems ironic now that they ditched this branding for the return of the circle 11 and "WPIX"...
