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Viacom is dead, long live Paramount...


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On 2/15/2022 at 11:02 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

And now, let us bask in the former glory of Viacom logos.

 

My personal favorite was the "wikiwiki" version of the 90s, where VYE-a-com was spoken.

 

Was the company known as "VEE-a-com" before?  Some of the 80s variants seem to think so.

Thanks for reminding us on this board about the dreaded V of Doom! 😨(Not sure how many on this board were/have been legitimately scared by the V of Doom before; it is probably the scariest closing logo in television history!)

 

Should one ever come across the V of Doom at the end of a show on, say, MeTV, they have been forewarned!! 😩

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On 2/18/2022 at 1:36 PM, J1975am said:

Thanks for reminding us on this board about the dreaded V of Doom! 😨(Not sure how many on this board were/have been legitimately scared by the V of Doom before; it is probably the scariest closing logo in television history!)

 

Should one ever come across the V of Doom at the end of a show on, say, MeTV, they have been forewarned!! 😩

I remember seeing it for the first time on old Andy Griffith repeats that ran on WOAC-TV 67 in Canton/Akron before they got sold and turned into an INTV/Shop At Home station and now TCT owned WRLM....

 

By then I was old enough to not be scared by stuff like this, but years before the "Sit UBU sit" somehow had an effect on me 🤣🤣

 

And the old ITC logo that ran after the Muppet Show kind of creeped me out too!

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1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I remember seeing it for the first time on old Andy Griffith repeats that ran on WOAC-TV 67 in Canton/Akron before they got sold and turned into an INTV/Shop At Home and now TCT owned WRLM....

 

By then I was old enough to not be scared by stuff like this, but years before the "Sit UBU sit" somehow had an effect on me 🤣🤣

 

And the old ITC logo that ran after the Muppet Show kind of creeped me out too!

Yeah, the V of Doom never scared me as a kid (whether I was 3 or 8 years old) when watching old shows like Andy Griffith or Gilligan's Island on TV Land or Retro TV.

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On 2/15/2022 at 2:54 PM, mrschimpf said:

A change that should've been made all the way back in 1994 when they bought Paramount, frankly. I never understood why they were so wed to the Viacom name, which has always been associated with 'cheap'.

 

When Viacom originally struck the deal to buy Paramount Communications, the planned name was "Paramount Viacom International." Then the bidding war with Barry Diller ensued and somehow the rebrand ended up being scuttled.

 

Sumner was very attached to the name "Viacom." I have to wonder if dropping the name is intended to communicate a clean break from him.

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