WKNO
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Background: WKNO is a PBS station affiliate located in Memphis, Tennessee.
1st (known) Logo:
(1990-2011)
Logo: On a CGI background of Memphis during the evening and seen from the Auction Avenue bridge, complete with (on the right) skyline, bridge over water, and the Memphis Pyramid surrounded by trees on the left (the Pyramid Arena), we see a giant "WKNO" in Antique-Olive font, and colored silver, in 3D, over the Hernando de Soto Bridge, next to the Pyramid Arena. It makes a reflection in the water, and "Memphis" writes itself out in a small salmon pink cursive font under "WKNO", and it too, reflects in the water, which has small waves. Then, we fade out.
Variant: Before Mono sound became obsolete on WKNO, for stereo shows, a pair of headphones to the left of "In Stereo", zooms in near the bottom-right corner while being revealed with a page turn effect.
FX/SFX: Other than "Memphis" writing out, along with the waves, it's really just a still logo.
Music/Sounds: Usually either silent or has the closing theme of a show playing over at the end. When used as a program intro tag, it uses either a majestic synthesizer tune or a glockenspiel riff.
Availability: Burt Wolf's cooking shows on PBS tend to have this logo, as well as reruns of Justin Wilson's cooking show produced by Mississippi ETV. You can also see it on He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley, but the reairing plastered it with the 2009 logo.
Editor's Note: Despite being a nice-looking logo, it became very dated during the second half of its lifespan, somehow lasting until 2011.
1st (known) Logo:
(1990-2011)
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Nickname: "Memphis at Dusk", "Aethestic Memphis"
Logo: On a CGI background of Memphis during the evening and seen from the Auction Avenue bridge, complete with (on the right) skyline, bridge over water, and the Memphis Pyramid surrounded by trees on the left (the Pyramid Arena), we see a giant "WKNO" in Antique-Olive font, and colored silver, in 3D, over the Hernando de Soto Bridge, next to the Pyramid Arena. It makes a reflection in the water, and "Memphis" writes itself out in a small salmon pink cursive font under "WKNO", and it too, reflects in the water, which has small waves. Then, we fade out.
Variant: Before Mono sound became obsolete on WKNO, for stereo shows, a pair of headphones to the left of "In Stereo", zooms in near the bottom-right corner while being revealed with a page turn effect.
FX/SFX: Other than "Memphis" writing out, along with the waves, it's really just a still logo.
Music/Sounds: Usually either silent or has the closing theme of a show playing over at the end. When used as a program intro tag, it uses either a majestic synthesizer tune or a glockenspiel riff.
Availability: Burt Wolf's cooking shows on PBS tend to have this logo, as well as reruns of Justin Wilson's cooking show produced by Mississippi ETV. You can also see it on He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley, but the reairing plastered it with the 2009 logo.
Editor's Note: Despite being a nice-looking logo, it became very dated during the second half of its lifespan, somehow lasting until 2011.
2nd Logo
(2009-)
TBA!