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What 9,000 TV Channel Logos Looks Like

by Tanner on May 26, 2011

There are thousands upon thousands of TV channels available to watch worldwide.

Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to fully grasp the absolutely massive number of television channels out there today because we only ever see them on our TV guides or randomly around the internet. For each channel, there’s a logo design that is easily recognizable and often memorable. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are more than 9,000 TV channel logos.

Of course, because some channels use identical logos across different stations and countries, some duplication has occurred (so we’re just going to round down to 9,000 even). You can even see a high resolution version of these logos starting here, but be warned: the large versions will take some time to load.

So, what do you think?

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Tagged as: channels, design, interesting, logos

{ 63 comments }

Christian Duncan May 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM

You must be really, really, bored.

Brian May 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM

These type of remarks always amuse me, this post is about logos, in fact it states exactly what is in the tin so to speak.
So why bother posting at all ? Have you somewhere we can see the really interesting posts you authored ?

Dana June 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM: How bored do you have to be to post a comment telling someone else that they must be really bored?

And then how bored do you have to be to tell the person who said the original poster is bored that they in fact must be bored?

Jacques van Heerden May 26, 2011 at 9:54 AM

Those are a lot of logos! I would love to see that Image in a downloadable high-res version to have a closer look at all of them.

Tanner May 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM

Thanks Jacques, we actually have a higher version of the logos that we might release later if people are still interested!

Cher July 14, 2011 at 1:29 AM: Yes please do! I would love to look at them close too. Thanks

Simen May 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM

We’re interested! A highres version would be great!

John May 26, 2011 at 11:05 AM

Mind Bottle-ing

Celeste May 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Is it just me or is the CW taking over the world?

Molly May 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM

All those channels and I can still never find anything good on TV!

Steve May 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM

One heck of a collection. Very interested in the larger hi-res version — please post!

Tanner May 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM: Done!

Chad May 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM

I would love to see a hi res verison!

Tanner May 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM: Hey Chad, we just uploaded higher resolution channel logos to the site.

Tanner May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM

We’ve uploaded higher resolutions of all the logos, but had to put them onto separate pages so we don’t break the internet!

Enjoy: http://ustelevision.com/tv-channel-logos-1/

Glen May 27, 2011 at 10:37 AM

I think if it was boredom, he would have them categorized by color, so we can see what color trends are happening in TV logo design.

J June 2, 2011 at 9:10 PM: That would look cool, but what to do with the multlcoloured logos? I’m sure the majority of them use more than one colour.

Alex May 27, 2011 at 12:22 PM

I count 8,997… interesting to see this as a collection and thank you for the recent high-res upload too!

wiki May 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM

pls what is name of this TV : http://imtp.me/1mqm0000z.p ?

tnx a lot for a answer.

r May 28, 2011 at 10:22 AM

boredom or whatever – who cares …great collection!
thanks!

Pouya Golestaneh May 28, 2011 at 2:21 PM

Maybe this logo collection can help designers get started with ideas. Thank you!

Best Regard
P.Golestaneh
IGDN President

Ali Raza May 29, 2011 at 7:04 AM

very nice collection for me…i can get lot of good ideas from this collection

degentd May 29, 2011 at 11:05 AM

Thanx for sharing the bigger versions also!

andrea May 29, 2011 at 8:43 PM

would be great if you could browse through them by:
number
country
colour
cable versus free to air

Ben May 30, 2011 at 2:33 AM

Nice collection
Thanks

Rafe May 30, 2011 at 8:48 AM

fantastic collection. but so much effort and so little truly great design. Thanks for the post.

Walls June 3, 2011 at 7:25 AM: You speak the truth.

jl May 31, 2011 at 4:09 AM

omg, big list

cami May 31, 2011 at 9:05 AM

wow thats huge!! thanks for this post!!

Hani May 31, 2011 at 10:28 AM

thanks for the great effort

abhishek May 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Would love it if it was searchable

Nik June 1, 2011 at 7:00 AM

This is great—and I don’t even need a remote control to go through each channel! Genius.

Enrique June 1, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Any idea what percentage of channels this covers? Like, are these ALL the channels in the US or just 90%, etc.

Tanner June 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM: Hey Enrique, I’m not sure what percentage of total channels this covers. It would be interesting if anybody wants to take a look, Wikipedia has a decent list of channels by Country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_television_channels

Jim Hardington June 1, 2011 at 12:11 PM

That’s very impressive, reminds me of all the startup’s and web 2.0 Logos.
How many of those will survive in 5 years from now?
would Boxee survive? APPLE.TV? COCOLEAF.NET?
HIPMUNC?

Don’t think so! content will be available to everybody,everywhere,anytime no need for Tv channel, when content creators can reach targets directly.
is GooG gonna dominate this area? I think their trying.

aboutrilo June 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM

Australian Free-to-Air stations 7 and 9 stand out here quite a bit. It’s interesting to see how much American tv stations use larger than necessary branding even for their on air broadcast and even how busy the majority of these marks are.

Roymond June 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM

Nice collection, but give me PBS and Comedy Central and I’m happy.

MR. J. June 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM: ?????

Dan June 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM

what about historical logos? I know RTL2 has changed it’s logo about 7 times in the last 2 decades.

skrolnik June 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Because this is posted to the internet, it is mandatory to point out that yes, this is “over 9000″.

Dr Frankenstein June 2, 2011 at 8:48 PM

I see duplicates.

vb June 3, 2011 at 9:03 AM

Hey, great work with this!
btw The MTV logo no longer says Music Television.

Jeff June 3, 2011 at 2:20 PM

…and yet about 8,980 of them aren’t worth watching. :-/

anardq June 3, 2011 at 9:28 PM

Nice collection… I wonder how long did you take to collect them all and and compile them in such a very well alignment

Matthew June 4, 2011 at 8:03 PM

Cool list. Lot of repetition though as there’s several identical CW network logos and STV was repeated twice. Also what’s with the WWE logo? they aren’t a TV network….yet.

Tanner June 6, 2011 at 8:16 AM: Hey Matthew, as stated at the beginning of our post: there is a number of logos that are repeated because the same logo is used throughout different parts of the world. As for the WWE, it is a channel offering, probably not where you are located however.

Mike June 5, 2011 at 10:24 AM

it would be create to a database with all sorts of criteria about each logo/channel, and then selecting custom criteria and see how different logos group, correlate, influence and work together as a single unit or as a whole. The drawback is that you need to have data about each one of the logos: region/country of broadcasting, year in which the logo was deployed, how many years is or was in use, circular, squared, or whatever shape, transparent or stylized and all that kind of stuff. Do you have such details? Then we could do some data mining!

Tanner June 6, 2011 at 8:15 AM: We don’t have all the details for these logos. But you have a great idea Mike, maybe we’ll look into gathering all of the official details down the road. Any help on that front would be greatly appreciated, of course. Thank you for the comment!

Rogerio Nunes June 5, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Hi, Im brazilian and I see the logo of “Banco do Brasil” (Bank of Brazil) on the list. Obviously, it’s not a TV Channel. Do you have some tip about this? Is it because the bank could have some TV Show?