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JSP · 10-27-2021, 03:22 AM

Strange that something that aired after popular shows at the time was lost and only available in partial form.

https://youtu.be/oIBF_xBVxvY

stevea · 10-27-2021, 07:48 AM

Interesting. Most of the time you can find these old logos someplace. Except TAT.

At least I now know what the audio sounds like.

RetroGuy2000 · 10-27-2021, 12:09 PM

The narration on that video is almost inaudible due to the loud music they used. I eventually gave up trying to hear what the guy was saying.

The TAT logo will eventually be found. People did tape TV programs in the early 1980s, so it's just a matter of time before someone uploads an original airing of one of Norman Lear's show on YouTube.

JSP · 10-27-2021, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

The narration on that video is almost inaudible due to the loud music they used. I eventually gave up trying to hear what the guy was saying.

The TAT logo will eventually be found. People did tape TV programs in the early 1980s, so it's just a matter of time before someone uploads an original airing of one of Norman Lear's show on YouTube.

I agree his voice is too soft and the background music is too loud. Oh well.

JSP · 10-27-2021, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

The narration on that video is almost inaudible due to the loud music they used. I eventually gave up trying to hear what the guy was saying.

The TAT logo will eventually be found. People did tape TV programs in the early 1980s, so it's just a matter of time before someone uploads an original airing of one of Norman Lear's show on YouTube.

Also, what makes the TAT logo rare is that it was never shown during primetime recordings of Lear shows, just daytime airings of Jeffersons and One Day at a Time on CBS affiliates, and late night reruns of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on CBS. How many people were recording shows outside of Primetime between 1979 and 1982? Probably not many. That's how a logo can be hard to find.

Also, evidently the logo synthesizer music was composed by John Maxwell Anderson. Sitcom fans will know his name in the credits.

Someone ought to ask Lear or Anderson while we still can about the logo. You know they must have a tape of it somewhere.

Of course, they might enjoy the fact that it remains elusive, and may want to keep it that way. Keep a legend going.

stevea · 10-27-2021, 03:59 PM

Were any logos shown on the original Lear sitcom airings?

Sony and its previous iterations have a history of carving up their syndicated sitcoms in varying ways, going back to the Screen Gems days. When it comes to logos, they normally crudely cut off the original logo and substitute the latest one. To make it even stranger, they will sometimes cut the original logo, leave in some intermediate logo, like LBS Comm. or Colex Ent., and cut to the current one.

JSP · 10-27-2021, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by stevea

Were any logos shown on the original Lear sitcom airings?

Sony and its previous iterations have a history of carving up their syndicated sitcoms in varying ways, going back to the Screen Gems days. When it comes to logos, they normally crudely cut off the original logo and substitute the latest one. To make it even stranger, they will sometimes cut the original logo, leave in some intermediate logo, like LBS Comm. or Colex Ent., and cut to the current one.

To be honest, I had no idea there was ever a TAT logo until I stumbled upon it in a YouTube search recently. Its incomplete status has resulted in numerous YouTube parody videos, and up until about three years ago when an incomplete version surfaced, people were under the impression the logo looked completely different. The video I posted above pointed that out. If you do a YouTube search of "T.A.T. Communications logo" for videos dating back four years or more people thought the logo looked completely different. So strange that something not that long ago could become lost and only just now are we getting information trickling in on just exactly what it really was.

James28 · 01-03-2025, 01:04 AM

On December 28, 2024, the real TAT Communications Company logo was finally found in full on a July 1980 CBS Daytime airing of a 1975 first-season episode of The Jeffersons from a Betamax tape.

An article for this logo on the Lost Media Wiki

Hawkee · 01-03-2025, 02:26 AM

Isn't T.A.T. Communications owned by Embassy Television? I do remember Who's The Boss was produced by this company but I never have seen the full logo before

10-27-2021, 03:22 AM	#1
JSP Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 2,735	Where’s the full T.A.T. Communications logo? Strange that something that aired after popular shows at the time was lost and only available in partial form. https://youtu.be/oIBF_xBVxvY

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Hawkee Michael Fassbender Fanatic Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jan 17, 2016 Location: California Posts: 10,824	Isn't T.A.T. Communications owned by Embassy Television? I do remember Who's The Boss was produced by this company but I never have seen the full logo before
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10-27-2021, 07:48 AM	#2
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,766	Interesting. Most of the time you can find these old logos someplace. Except TAT. At least I now know what the audio sounds like.

10-27-2021, 03:59 PM	#6
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,766	Were any logos shown on the original Lear sitcom airings? Sony and its previous iterations have a history of carving up their syndicated sitcoms in varying ways, going back to the Screen Gems days. When it comes to logos, they normally crudely cut off the original logo and substitute the latest one. To make it even stranger, they will sometimes cut the original logo, leave in some intermediate logo, like LBS Comm. or Colex Ent., and cut to the current one.