TV Ratings

Range of Usage 	Image	Notes 	
January - September/October 1997	 	Just the rating in gray with no box in sight. Latest known use is September 19, 1997. 	Tape in Fry's collectionTape in Fenwick's collection
September/October 1997 - 2004 	 	A slightly tall black box with a white underline running through the bottom of it. Earliest known use is October 1, 1997. Latest known use is March 24, 2004. 	Old TV captures
Q1 2003 	 	A transparent variant of the previous graphic. Used sporadically alongside its opaque counterpart. Earliest known use is January 15, 2003. 	
2004 - 2005 	 	A slightly bigger, thicker, and revised version of the previous rating. The underline from the previous rating has now been removed. 	
June - November 2005 	 	The rating in white with a black box. Accompanied with a white Closed Captioning box on the right. Latest known use is November 17, 2005. 	YouTube upload by tjanas
November 2005 - April 15, 2009 	 	The rating in white with a black box. Accompanied with a gray (white on the HD feed) Closed Captioning box on the right. Earliest known use is November 22, 2005. 	University of California, Los Angeles' NewsScape library
April 16, 2009 - April 9, 2013 	 	The rating in clear text with a transparent white box. Accompanied with a gray (white on the HD feed) Closed Captioning box on the right. 	
April 10, 2013 - July 2018 	 	The rating in clear text with a transparent white box. Accompanied with a transparent Closed Captioning box on the right. Latest known use is July 27, 2018. 	
July 2018 - present 	 	The rating in white text with a transparent white box adorned with a white border. Accompanied with a similarly drawn Closed Captioning box on the right. Earliest known use is July 30, 2018.	Archive.org upload by TV Archive
Category:On-Screen Elements