1955, ultra rare closing. from "The finder: The riverboat race", clipped by googlechrom3297
Nicknames: "NET Map of America"
Visuals: hand-drawn
Audio: Mic
Rarity:Ultra Rare
CLG note:"This logo, despite being basic, is an interesting peek at the very early years of what would become PBS, back when it was a limited service for distributing educational films produced by local stations nationally."
AVID note:"This logo is an oddity, as this logo's existence was practically unknown until Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning uploaded The Subject is Jazz: Performance on October 29, 2018. Its similarity to the NBC "Chimes" logo may or may not be a coincidence, as The Subject is Jazz was a co-production with NBC."
CLG note:"This is an interesting precursor to the 1960 logo."
Nicknames: "The Carpet", "The NET House II", "The House on TV Static"
Visuals: hand painted
Audio: Edward R. Murrow was the announcer until October 1962
Rarity:Uncommon
AVID note:"While it is not as widely remembered as the later logos and future PBS logos, this is one of the first to be recognized more widely than the previous logos."
CLG note:"The background looks like they just aimed the camera at the floor, further evidenced by the visible camera lens on the zoomed-in variants."
1970, opening. from "What's New", clipped by aldenpbs
Nicknames: "Animated 3 Kids" "Marching Band Children" "Backwards Musical Trio" "Sparkles on Jeans"
Visuals: cel animation
CLGnote:"An unusual logo, given that this doesn't use the house design from previous logos (and drastic overall compared to the logo it was used in tandem with)."
Nicknames: "NET Fire Cage", "The Dancing Birdcage", "Buffering YouTube Dots"
Visuals: cel animation and live footage
Audio:: brass orchestra
Rarity:Very Rare
AVID note:"While it is not as widely remembered as the later logos and future PBS logos, this is one of the first to be recognized more widely than the previous logos."
CLG note:"The background looks like they just aimed the camera at the floor, further evidenced by the visible camera lens on the zoomed-in variants."
1970, rare shortened variant. from "Assessment of Cambodia", clipped by aldenpbs
1968, extremely rare text. from "Black Journal", clipped by TheLogoProspector
Nicknames: "The Roof", "The Most Iconic NET Logo", "The NET House III"
Visuals: cel animation
Audio: Eric Siday - Plenipotentiary
Rarity:Rare
AVID note:"This is by far the most well-known NET logo. With its mellotron fanfare, the announcer, the dark background, and the low audio and grainy film quality, it gained a reputation for frightening children who grew up with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Sesame Street."
CLG note:"The most well-known NET logo. With its mellotron fanfare, announcer, dark background, and poor audio and grainy film quality gaining a reputation of frightening children who grew up with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Sesame Street, it's one of the more fascinating logos in the history of NET/PBS."
Spida factor:Spida think... The most NET LOGO It have aanfare and Scare logos Mistor Rogers SESUME STURT
1970/71, children's theatre. clipped by SBIMoonSquid
Nicknames: "Scanimate Letters" "Whose Logo Is This Really?" "Contender for Best Scanimated Logo" "Isn't this WNET's?" "NET still existed?" "The EBC NET" "NET/WNDT's Post-Merge"
AVID note:"The logo was debated for a while to be either for WNET or NET, as it was widely believed that NET was replaced in 1970 by PBS. However, recent discoveries have shown that it was for the latter."
CLG note:"This is highly regarded as one of the most advanced logos of its time, and looks even better than some of the later Scanimate logos. It's extremely unique, and was later reused and improved upon for its use on WNET. It was also highly debated if it was the original NET's logo or WNET's due to its confusing usage on both of the station's shows and their relationship and interactions with each other. Plus, WNET carried an entirely different logo at the time even though it was known as WDNT (but was retooled with the WNET name as an in-credit notice in 1971). Regardless, this is an interesting logo."
Somethings Off. clipped by Bcollein0816
presents. clipped by Bcollein0816
Waiiiit. clipped by RatmanRaymond
1968, extremely rare text. from "Black Journal", clipped by TheLogoProspector