[design, logo_design] Channel 2's

1155. Ever wonder what thier Channel 2 looks like?

So did I. Here's what I found (dialup warning–metric buttload of images follow):

Well, all of you who are Painfully Portland (like me) already know this one:

Here's KBCI Channel 2, Boise (before and after the recent rebranding):


KCBS, Channel 2, Los Angeles:

KDKA, Channel 2, Pittsburgh (a "K" station east of the Mississippi):



KGAN Channel 2, Cedar Rapids Iowa:

KHON Channel 2, Honolulu:


KJRH Channel 2, Tulsa:


KPRC Channel 2, Houston (aren't they perky?):


... although that fellow on the far left pretty much defines the phrase gimlet-eyed gaze.

KTUU Channel 2, Anchorage:


KTVI Channel 2, Saint Louis:


KTVN Channel 2, Reno:


KTVU Channel 2, San Francisco:


KUTV Channel 2, Salt Lake City:


KWGN, Channel 2, Denver:



TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), Minnesota. Has Channel 2 and 17:


WBAY, Channel 2, Green Bay and Fox River Valley, Wisconsin:


WBBM, Chicago's Legendary CBS O&O Channel 2:


WCBD, Channel 2, Charleston South Carolina:


WCBS, Channel 2, New York City–CBS's east coast flagship:


WDTN, Channel 2, Dayton and Miami Valley Ohio;


WESH, Channel 2, Orlando:


WFMY, Channel 2, Winston-Salem NC:


The famous public television station WGBH, Boston, broadcasts on Channel 2 (the GBH, it turns out, means Great Blue Hill, where some of its facilities are (or were) located:


WGRZ Channel 2, Buffalo and western New York:


I found a lot of stations that are "On Your Side". It's gettin' crowded up in here.

WJBK Channel 2, Detroit:


WKRN Channel 2, Nashville:



WKTV Channel 2, Utica NY:


WLBZ Channel 2, Bangor ME:


WMAR Channel 2, Baltimore (the only Channel 2 so far that wears its ABC affilation loud and proud:


ABC Works 2 for you? I donno ...

WPBT, Channel 2, Miami (PBS):


WSB Channel 2, Atlanta:



And here's an oddity: XHRIO, Channel 2, Brownsville and Lower Rio Grande valley, TX. Stuidos and offices in McAllen Texas–licenced to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico:



AKA XRIO, Fox RIO 2.



That's all we have here for now. Overall, every logo that makes a punch with me takes the numeral and makes it the "star" or makes it very strong within the logo context. I have my favorites, but I'll leave it open to the reader which they like best–after all, the subjective interpretation is where any logo makes its success (maybe this is why I want to design one so much).

Thoughts? Kvetches? Comment away!

Tags: logo design, logo_design, TV Station Logos, graphic design, media graphic design