Great Television

Background: Great Television is the television distribution arm of Great Structure Television that was formed in 1992, both divisions of Olds Corporation. Great Television also produces their own programs and distributes them across the nation.

(1992- )

Nicknames: "CGI Searchlights", "Zooming Tower", "The Tower of Tepidity"

Logo: We see a close-up of the familiar Great Structure structure, but now it's in CGI and reads "GREAT TELEVISION", with a steel line below that (that would normally be reserved for "STRUCTURE") replaced by a simple golden square. The logo zooms out to the familiar Great Structure logo distance.

Trivia: This logo was also used to represent Great Structure Television from 1992-1995, replacing the earlier 1960-1992 "Great Television Structure" logo.

Byline: "A OLDS CORPORATION COMPANY" began fading in below the logo in 1994.

Variants:

In the logo's early years, the zoom-out appeared to be more slower.

In 2008, the GTV logo was given a more "enhanced" look with more realistic effects, just like its network television counterpart. However, on Only for Adults prints of Crazy Family episodes from the 2008-2009 season, it still uses the 1992 logo with the byline and the 1995 fanfare.

There is an opening variant of this logo; it's exactly the same, except the zoom-out is very slow and choppy, and also it's silent and bylineless.

On local reruns of North City and CBT's split-screen credits of No, Boy, the logo appears as usual without animation during the CBT "(SERIES NAME HERE) Starts Right Now!" bumper, even with vanity cards.

There is also a B&W variant of this logo for classic Fox shows and movies in B&W. A B&W variant of the 2008 logo was spotted on the film It Happens To Me All The Time on The Classic Movies Channel.

On Only for Adults' print of the Queen of the Mountain episode "Hung's Unmentional Problem", it has the 1995 jingle, but after it ends, the searchlights still scroll before cutting to black.

An in-credit variant seen on Sherman Leaves shows the (bylineless) logo zooming in (though not fully) and animating with "DISTRIBUTED BY" appearing above.

On the syndicated Are You Faster Than A Car? and the Steve Harvey version of Our Family Life, the byline fades in early while the logo zooms out.

A still version is seen on syndicated reruns of North City.

FX/SFX: The logo zooming out. However, on local reruns of North City and CBT's reruns of No, Boy with split-screen credits, there is no animation at all.

Music/Sounds: Here are the main variants:

1992-1995: The 1988 GSTV logo theme.

1992-1995: A revamped version of the 1988 theme. Would be used for the 1995 GSTV logo.

1993-1995: The remastered GSTV 1988 jingle. This version has the last 7 notes a bit slower.

1995-2008: A re-arranged and re-recorded variant of the 1988 GSTV jingle by Bruce Broughton. This one has more reverb than the original, but it's slightly different from the 1995 GSTV theme.

1997-2008: The 1997 GSTV logo theme.

2008-: The 2007 GSTV logo theme.

2008-: The short version of the Great Structure fanfare. It sounds like an extended version of the 1995 fanfare. Seen on King of the Bad City on Only for Adults.

2009-: Shortened version of above. Sounds like a re-arranged version of the 1995 jingle, but not quite the 2007 TCFTV logo theme. Seen on TV broadcasts of Live Hard 2 on MLC and on Only for Adults, as well as the Queen of the Mountain episode "Fun with the Hair".

Music/Sounds Variants:

In some cases, it uses only the closing theme of the show, or none.

There was a low tone of the remastered 1988 theme from 1992-1995 on reruns of Dynamo.

Same as before, on some co-produced shows, a generic theme was used.

A version exists on 2007-2008 episodes of Crazy Family that is the present day jingle but sounds like it is played on an xylophone.

Sometimes, it uses the Great Television Studios theme. Because some Fox Television Studios shows like The Yoledays, have this logo plaster it with it's original music left intact.

On Crown Channel's print of the C*L*A*P episode "Love is Here" and on African-American TV's print of the It Starts in Black and White episode "Antonio the Saver", the 1965 GSTV theme is heard.

In exceptional cases, a soundbite of the show is used.

Appears silent at the end of Planet Nation: Design and Buildings.

The 1995 Structure Video VHS release of The Making of War in Space uses the 1965 theme, with this logo. The DVD print of the C*L*A*P episode "Police" also features this variant.

Availability: Very common; plastered onto most every show Fox distributes, even most classic shows they own.

Scare Factor: Depending on the logo variant:

1992-1995: None.

1993-1995: None.

1995-2008: Low.

1997-2008: Low to medium.

2008-: None.

2008-: Minimal to low; may surprise you the first time you see it.

2009- (shortened version): None.

Low for the opening variant.

None with the closing and generic themes, depending on the theme.

None for the silent variant.

Low to medium with the 1965 fanfare.

None for the still version.