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Why do so many different TV stations use the circle with a 7 in the middle as their logo?

  • Why do so many different TV stations use the circle with a 7 in the middle as their logo?I'm wondering how so many different businesses can use the same logo. Are all the stations that use it ABC affiliates? Does the logo signify some sort of collaboration among the stations that use it? My hometown ABC affiliate's logo is a http://www.connectamarillo.com/uploadedImages/kvii/Community/ttbanner_510.jpg. The Internet has shown me that many other stations across the country have the exact same logo. I'm wondering how so many different businesses can use the same logo. Are all the stations that use it ABC affiliates? Does the logo signify some sort of collaboration among the stations that use it? Or is it just a snappy symbol that lots of stations use and has somehow not been copyrighted? I know a circle with a 7 in the middle is pretty basic, but it seems like all the stations use almost the exact same one.

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    There's a Wikipedia article about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_7_logo. Basically, it was used by ABC owned-and-operated stations as a consistent corporate identity.

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I can't say for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that is definitely a copyrighted logo in use only by local ABC affiliates.

Venadium

Well, there you go. I guess I would have lost that bet.

Venadium

Yes, they are, where ABC affiliates uses "channel 7." Not all of them do, though: http://abc.go.com/site/localstations.html They are using it to signify they are part of the "ABC" brand and the circle logo. For example, CBS affiliates would use the "eye" logo, and NBC affiliates might use the "peacock" logo.

Cool Papa Bell

Because they're O&O's (staions that are owned and operated by the network).

Zambrano

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Zambrano

Strange, my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWWL never has been affiliated with ABC, and they still use that logo.

ArgentCorvid

Strange, my local channel 7 never has been affiliated with ABC, and they still use that logo.

ericb

It's not just 7's. Channel 13 KTRK here in Houston is ABC-owned, and it has virtually the same logo with a 13. However, http://www.connectamarillo.com/about/about.aspx?id=642 indicates that your Amarillo station is owned by Barrington Broadcasting whose HQ is in Illinois. I had thought that Amarillo might be too small a market to have an O&O station, and that appears to be the case.

Robert Angelo

It's not just 7's. Channel 13 KTRK here in Houston is ABC-owned, and it has virtually the same logo with a 13.

ericb

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