Davemadson

David "Dave" Neal Madson (born July 28, 1963), commonly known online as davemadson, and also under various names including dnm728, dnm72863 and dnm728part3, is a respected American YouTuber and TTS video maker from St. Louis, Missouri. Since starting YT in 2007, he's made approximately 1100-1300 YT videos. On January 10, 2017, after a 3 year hiatus, Dave reopened his channel as "davemadson davemadson," later "the real davemadson," and as of June 19, 2021, "davemadson entertainment inc."
== History ==
=== As “dnm728” (April 2007-2008) ===
Dave's first YT account was made in April 2007 under the handle dnm728 ("dnm" standing for his full name, and "728" meaning his birth date of July 28). Not much is known about this channel, other than confirmation of its existence from Dave himself in a Discord call in 2023. He's also confirmed that one of the videos on this channel was a graphic PSA about violence. After 2 copyright strikes in 2008, he moved to the following channel.
=== As “dnm72863” (2008-2010) ===
In 2008, he moved to dnm72863 (the 63 meaning his birthyear, 1963). As with the previous channel, not much is known other than confirmation of its existence from Dave. Once again, after two copyright strikes, he moved to another channel.
=== As “dnm728part3” (February 14, 2010-April 14, 2011) ===
On February 14, 2010, Dave yet again moved channels, this time to dnm728part3 (the part 3 meaning that this is his third YT channel). Under this handle, he made videos more a-kin to his later works, mainly videos about logos in some form. Dave's most popular series also began during this period on June 13, 2010. LT Bloopers (now known as Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers) had 7 episodes release on dnm728part3, the longest being the fourth episode titled "Sam, Mike and Mary Join in the Fun," with the final two episodes releasing just before the channel's deletion in April 2011. Other series included "Television Escapes the Blue Mountain," "LOGOS GONE WRONG," "Annoying Signs" (later Funny Signs,) amongst other logo spoofs and one off bloopers videos. In May 2010, Dave finally began using TTS voices in his videos, and he got Speakonia for his voices (rather than using the pre-installed Microsoft Sam voice as used in "Microsoft Sam Reads Wacky Signs", a series which also debuted on dnm728part3) with the following voices:
* Microsoft Sam
* Microsoft Mike
* Microsoft Mary
* The TruVoice, Lernout and Hauspie and RoboSoft voices (Example Speakonia Male 1, 2, 3 and Speakonia Female 1, 2, Robosoft 3 and 4)
As with the other channels, this one closed on April 14, 2011 due to two copyright strikes (one from Universal Music Group for using U2 songs in the videos, and the other from FOX for utilizing the 20th Century Fox logo in his final Logo Playhouse).
=== As “davemadson” (April 15, 2011-April 7, 2014) ===
On April 15, 2011, Dave returned to YT under the handle of "davemadson" (his own name "Dave Madson" written in one word in all lowercase letters). He began with reuploading older videos from dnm728part3, amongst them were "NYET," "Television Escapes the Blue Mountain," and other logo spoofs, along with TV logos from the 1940s to the 1990s. The first TTS video to release under "davemadson" was "Fugitive Television," uploaded April 16, 2011. He re-uploaded his sixth and seventh LT Bloopers episodes on April 20 and 21, 2011 respectively as episodes 1 and 2, starting with "The Shield Gets An Attitude". Many bloopers and episode concepts were recycled in this new version of the series, with the most prominent example being the recycling of episode 4 (from "Sam, Mike and Mary Join in the Fun" to "Whatever You Do, Don't Mess With BP!") He also returned to his Funny Signs videos on May 1, 2011, starting with "Resistance is Futile."
In October 2011, he created SG Bloopers. The videos involve Dave and friends attempting to get the 1965 Screen Gems Television logo right.
Starting in March 2012, Dave gave his characters onscreen appearances beginning with "LTIB 19: Shield Riders". The characters beginning in the next episode are on a navy blue background this time. This trend would remain throughout Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers, this also happened eventually with Screen Gems S from Hell Bloopers, which had a yellow background instead, but with Funny Signs, there were no characters onscreen at all, except when there were tantrums.
Starting in August 2012, Dave himself made onscreen appearances beginning with "LTIB 33: Commercial Cannibalization".
Starting in March 2013, Dave had to put disclaimers at the beginning of his videos to prove they're not geared to little kids, beginning with "LTIB 52: The Return of Logo Mayhem," since NoAverageJill, who was eventually terminated from YT by childishmammal12, made the claim that his videos were "harming her kids". This wasn't always the case, however; videos like LTIB 61 and 62, as well as Funny Signs: Drag Strip High School, didn't use such a disclaimer at the beginning. To this day, some videos do not use disclaimers, as they do not feature any adult content. The same month, Dave decided to implement built-in captions in his videos instead of captioning them himself. This wasn't always the case either, though, as videos like the aformentioned LTIB 52, 61, 63 and 67 were captioned by Dave after they were uploaded to YouTube.
Until May 2013, Dave's personal production company was known as "davemadson films inc." He would change this name to "davemadson productions inc." after Funny Signs: Evening at Chez Monyou. Another name change occurred in February 2014, after Funny Signs: Grand Hotel. At this point, the company was known as "davemadson enterprises inc."
For a short time starting on October 27, 2013, Dave started using his real name, "David N Madson", as his channel name due to someone else on YouTube using the name "davemadson".
On April 6, 2014, Dave announced that, due to his busy personal life and Microsoft discontinuing support for Windows XP, he has decided to close down his channel after almost 3 years on YouTube1. Dave had also noted that he might create a new account and return to YouTube someday, but it was unclear if he would return or not. The next day, he closed down his account, deleted his videos with it, and faded into obscurity. Dave continued making videos as late as June 7, 2014, despite the channel's closing.
=== As “davemadson davemadson” (July 3, 2014-September 21, 2020) ===
On July 3, 2014, it was discovered that his channel was restored, under the name "davemadson davemadson" but it had no videos, according to a video from Geraint Lewis.
Despite this, not much was heard from Dave and it appeared as if he really had faded into obscurity, but on January 2015, davemadson liked a video called "Hollywood Squares (May 29, 1967) - Larry vs. Candy," which can be seen here.
In August 2016, he liked another video called "NBC - WBZ-TV Boston - Top of Hour Break 1970 - audio" (was private before, now available on YouTube again). He also left a comment on said video, stating "The reason I stopped posting videos on YT is that YT no longer supports Windows XP, and I haven't as yet gotten a newer system. However, I appreciate that YouTubers like File Preserver saved many of my old vids. Be patient.﻿" This comment got many replies, one of which by File Preserver himself, who was the main source for old davemadson videos.
On January 10, 2017, davemadson made an announcement ("davemadson is back on YouTube") saying that he's returning to YouTube after a 3-year hiatus. He also announced that he's uploading the 8 "lost" LTIB episodes that he made while he was absent from YouTube ("Coming Soon: The Return of LTIB"). He also said to stay tuned for a "coming attractions" trailer. The channel name, according to Dave, is "redundant." The next day, he liked another video called "Hollywood Squares (1968) - Loretta vs. Dean" (watch here).
After davemadson released all of the lost episodes, he released ("UPDATE 1/18/2017"), an announcement video in which he says he will make new LTIB episodes as "LT Bloopers" with new characters like Wally Warner (Mr. Warner's son) and Rhonda Raven (Dave's new GF). The characters formerly known as the Devil and She-Devil now go by Lucifer McEvil and Lucretia McEvil. Sam's evil twin was introduced in the next episode, and Vulcanna Ash and the Chairman of Hades were introduced the episode after that. He also teased to return Funny Signs as well. In LT Bloopers 101, Dave changed to a cartoon avatar as to fit in better.
Since then, Dave has started multiple new series whilst continuing the older ones, and in 2020 he began to collaborate with other TTS creators.
In February 2018, davemadson hit 4,000 subscribers, then in summer 2018, davemadson hit 5,000 subscribers, and on August 8, 2019, davemadson hit 6,000 subscribers.
=== As “the real davemadson” (September 21, 2020-June 19, 2021) ===
Due to a kid copying logo blooper channels (including Dave's), after "Funny Signs: First Aid Lions" was released, "davemadson davemadson" had yet another name change to just "the real davemadson" on September 21, 2020.
On April 10, 2021, Dave announced ("Coming Soon: davemadson entertainment inc.") that, effective after LT Bloopers 220, he would change his personal production company name to "davemadson entertainment inc." to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of his current YouTube channel. The 10th anniversary of the davemadson channel happened five days later, on April 15.
=== As “davemadson entertainment inc” (June 19, 2021-present) ===
He renamed his channel to "davemadson entertainment inc" on June 19, 2021, reflecting his production company's name change two months prior.
==Video Availablity==
As each channel closed, all videos were deleted along with them. As such, over half of Dave's total video catalog is publicly lost. However, in a 2023 Discord call, he revealed that he had backups of his videos from pre-September 2013 on CD-rom discs, and post-September 2013 on an external hard drive, with him taking the "wait and see" approach as to if they'll be reuploaded.
==Series made by davemadson==
===Currently in production===
*Funny Signs (146 episodes as of March 12, 2023; 1 special episode as of December 17, 2021)
*davemadson's Funny Signs and Errors (11 episodes as of August 8, 2024; 3 special episodes as of December 9, 2023)
*davemadson's Logo Intro Bloopers (4 episodes as of September 23, 2023)
*davemadson's ABC Bloopers (8 episodes as of May 19, 2024)
*davemadson's LT Bloopers (265 episodes as of September 29, 2024)
*davemadson's NBC Bloopers (11 episodes as of August 24, 2023)
*PBS Bloopers (51 episodes as of October 4, 2024)
*SG Bloopers (32 episodes as of January 7, 2024)
*davemadson's Odds & Ends (9 episodes as of April 12, 2024)
*NET Bloopers (13 episodes as of February 7, 2024)
*Dave & Friends (26 episodes as of September 17, 2024)
===Former series===
*Logos Gone Wrong (23 episodes as of October 12, 2023; Episodes 2, 3 and 8 are missing)
*The Adventures of Microsoft Sam and His Friends (15 episodes as of September 1, 2021, was made by davemadson, but Astro Madson took over production of the episodes)
*NYET (5 episodes as of July 13, 2011)
*SEGA Logo Bloopers (4 episodes as of October 11, 2017)
*Fugitive Television (11 episodes as of December 5, 2021, not to be confused with Gawain Hale Films' version)
*CBS Color ID Parodies (22 episodes as of March 31, 2024)
== See Also ==
Concepts Of Davemadson.
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