TBS (United States)

==WTCG Channel 17==
===1976–1979===
Beginning in the early 1970s, many cable systems in middle and southern Georgia and surrounding states—namely Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina—began receiving the WTCG signal via microwave relay, enabling the station to reach far beyond the Atlanta television market.
Eventually, this enabled WTCG-TV in Atlanta, then merely a local independent station in Atlanta, to establish itself as a national superstation, and at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 17, 1976, WTCG became America's first "superstation"—independent stations distributed to cable providers throughout their respective regions, or the entire country—when its signal was beamed via Satcom 1 to four cable television providers in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.
==SuperStation WTBS==
===1979–1981===
In 1979, Turner began branding the station as SuperStation WTBS; the prefix word was re-rendered in mixed case in October 1980, with both "S"s capitalized and occasional references within the logo to the channel 17 frequency in Atlanta. However, the national feed continued to occasionally use the same on-air branding as the Atlanta area signal (which was referred to on-air at the time as "WTBS Channel 17") until October 1980.
===1981–1984===
By 1981, the Atlanta station would be branded as SuperStation 17. However, on the national feed available outside the Atlanta area, references to the station's over-the-air channel number were completely removed (outside of minor technical issues where local ads and promos aired erroneously on the national feed).
===1984–1987===
==SuperStation TBS==
===1987–1989===
On September 7, 1987, the "W" from the "WTBS" callsign was dropped from the superstation's on-air branding, changing its name to SuperStation TBS in order to emphasize the channel's national programming prominence, with the WTBS Atlanta signal continuing to use the separate SuperStation 17 branding.
==TBS Superstation (first era)==
===1989–1990===
On September 28, 1989, the channel's name was changed to TBS SuperStation to reflect the strong national standing of the channel.
==TBS (first era)==
===1990–1994===
On September 10, 1990, the word "Superstation" was removed from the cable channel's on-air branding and promotions, rebranding it as simply TBS, which it had used verbally in on-air promotions since the beginning of that year.
===1994–1996===
On September 12, 1994, the logo was modified, with the letters recolored yellow and italics removed.
==TBS Superstation (second era)==
===1996–2003===
On December 17, 1996, in celebration of its 20th anniversary as a national service, TBS reincorporated the "Superstation" moniker into its name (this time with the second "s" rendered in lowercase).
===2003–2004===
==TBS (second era)==
===February–June 2004===
On February 2, 2004, the "Superstation" sub-brand was once again dropped, with the channel reverting to being branded as simply TBS. As such, the logo was modified to only include the "TBS" wordmark from the previous logo in Myriad Bold Italic. This logo was used only for a short time before its next logo debuted.
===2004–2015===
On June 4, 2004, TBS introduced a new logo designed by Publicis New York, which rendered the channel's name in lowercase and incorporated a half-circle resembling a smiling mouth, as if the logo was laughing. This new look, along with the new slogan "veryfunny", emphasized the channel's new focus on comedic programming, following Time Warner's sale of its half of Comedy Central to Viacom. The half-circle element took on a motif with half a baseball or basketball rendered within it for sports programming.
*Time Warner Press Release
===2015–present===
On September 16, 2015, TBS unveiled a new logo on its Facebook profile picture and its cover photo promoting the then-upcoming series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. The logo made its official on-air debut on October 31, 2015, although it had appeared on TBS's website before then. In 2020, TBS got a new look with the colors now gradient.
==See also==
*WPCH-TV, an independent station in Atlanta that operated TBS as a national superstation feed of the Atlanta-area station until 2007.
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