National Instructional Television

Background
The National Instructional Television Library was formed in 1962, an agency funded by the U.S. Office of Education and operated by National Educational Television in New York City. NIT was founded as a way to distribute instructional television programming and associated materials to educational television studios throughout the U.S. In 1965, NIT would part ways with NET and relocate to its present home in Bloomington, Indiana, where it became the National Center for School and College Television. The NCSCT was operated by the Indiana University foundation. In 1968, the service was renamed the National Instructional Television Center. NIT would become an independent, self-supporting, non-profit organization in 1970, and would begin supplying educational programming to the newly-formed PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, which had risen from the ashes of NIT's former operator, NET. On April 11, 1973, NIT would be incorporated into the Agency for Instructional Television. It would slightly change its name to the Agency for Instructional Technology on July 1, 1984.

(1968-1973)
Logo: On a black background, a stylized "N" (which consists of a right bracket or backwards "C"-like shape, an "I", and a slanted "T") slowly zooms out from the center of the screen forming "]IT".

Trivia: Shown before most PBS educational programming in the 1970s; indeed, there are many similarities between this and the original 1970 PBS ID.

Variant: There is a version with a copyright stamp fading in, sometimes without animation.

Technique: The zooming out.

Music/Sounds: None; just the announcer saying, "The following is from NIT, National Instructional Television.", or "Under the supervision of NIT, National Instructional Television."

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * At the beginning of Inside Out, the announcer says, "The following is from a National Instructional Television series. The series and related materials were developed and supported by 32 educational agencies with additional support from Exxon Corporation.".
 * At the end of Sign Of The Times, the announcer says "This Images & Things program was produced by the Kentucky Educational Television network. For NIT, National Instructional Television, in association with a consortium of 26 educational agencies."

Availability: Seen on VHS/DVD copies of Self Incorporated, Inside Out, and Ripples sold on AIT's website. Most programs from this era come from either WNVT in Goldvein, VA or KETC in St. Louis.