RTP1

Background
RTP (Radio e Televisao Portugal) was established in December 1955 with test broadcasts conducted in September 1956 at the now-defunct Feira Popular amusement park in Lisbon. Regular broadcasts commenced at 21:30 on March 7, 1957. Initially the channel broadcast from 21:30 to either 23:00 or 23:30, with an additional period on Sundays between 18:00 and 19:00. Initially, RTP had a very limited coverage area, encompassing the northern and central coastal areas of Portugal, before expanding to the whole of the mainland in the mid-1960s.On October 19, 1959, Telejornal went on air for the first time, becoming the longest-running Portuguese TV show in existence.It was the only TV channel available in Portugal until December 25, 1968, when RTP2 started broadcasting. Because of that, RTP had to identify both channels as I Programa and II Programa in order to distinguish them.Daytime broadcasts commenced in 1970, with a two-hour period running at various times mostly between 12:30 and 14:30. Before then, Telescola (educational classes) were generally the first programmes of the day and the regular schedule started at 19:00, running until midnight. In 1974, RTP's ratings grew with the expansion of the acquisition of television sets in the country. The first color broadcasts were conducted in 1976, with the legislative elections.In 1978, the channel was renamed RTP-1 (initially hyphenated). Color programming was now in production, and a heat of Jeux Sans Frontières has to be transmitted in said technology in order to air to the rest of Europe, which already had regular color broadcasts at the time. As the months progressed, more and more color broadcasts were included before launching regularly on March 7, 1980.In October 1983, the daytime period was abolished in order to save energy. Weekday broadcasts were then restricted to start at 17:00 and end at 23:00. Said broadcasts were resumed in 1985, when RTP decided to broadcast the daytime block from Oporto. The educational broadcasts (then known as Ciclo Preparatório TV) were abolished in 1988. By then, daytime shutdowns were abolished.Towards the end of the 1980s, RTP was facing challenges with the impending arrival of private broadcasters. As a result, RTP decided to rename RTP1 as RTP Canal 1, in readiness for a bigger rebrand that happened on September 17, 1990, where the channel was now officially rebranded as Canal 1, in order to reinforce its position in front of the new broadcasters. Having lost its leadership status slowly between 1994 and 1995, owing to SIC's success, it eventually turned into the vice-leader before falling into third place, when TVI got a ratings boost.On April 29, 1996, Canal 1 reverted to RTP1.

1st Logo (1976-1980)
Logo: On a black background, a white 1 suddenly slides in, with a grey trail coming from the white with a dark grey streak in. The 1 goes off screen before sliding back in. "RTP" then appear one by one in black.

FX/SFX: The 1 sliding and word appearing. The logo reverses after the commercial break.

Music/Sounds: A loud piano ditty.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1981-1983)
Nicknames: “The Blue 1", "Red Stars"

Logo: On a black background, 4 red stars quickly zoom in and spread out into more stars before disappearing. A blue box with a 1 attached on the top with a yellow border around the box with "RTP" on the bottom fades in and zooms out.

FX/SFX: The stars moving and the logo zooming out.

Music/Sounds: A dark and creepy bell tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: This logo has a rather dark and gloomy theme to it.

3rd Logo (Summer 1983)
Logo: On a space background, the red and white letters "R", "T", and "P" fly into place as a 1 in the same colors flies into place. The letters stay in place for a second and then fly off screen as the 1 zooms up to take the entire screen. A star shaped flash appears, spins, and shrinks on the 1.

FX/SFX: The spinning letters and flash. This may be early CGI, and if so, the work here is pretty ahead of its time.

Music/Sounds: A calmer synth theme. It may have the 2nd logo's theme.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (1983-1984)
Logo: On a black background, 2 sets of stripes are drawn in, one having green, red, and yellow. The other having the same set but with blue instead of green. While they are getting drawn in, the RTP typeface in blue with white outline, flips in one by one. The stripes curve and then collide with each other. The logo zooms to the middle of the collided stripes and expand. A 1 in white inside a red circle with white outline zooms in as the stripes disappear, leaving the 1.

FX/SFX: Everything. Primitive animation.

Music/Sounds: A synth xylophone tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1984-1985)
Logo:
 * Normal: On a black background with multicolored lines and flashing dots, "RTP 1" in a Sinaloa font zooms in as aredrectangle zooms out. They then collide together to form the logo.
 * Nighttime: On a blurry shot of a night sky projection, the camera slides out to reveal a camera shrouded in darkness. "RTP" zooms in while flipping in and the "1" zooms out. When they meet, a red rectangle fades in.

FX/SFX: The text and box zooming.

Music/Sounds: A synth tune that has a warble effect on the last note. The nighttime version has a dreamy piano arpeggio.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

6th Logo (1985-1986)
Logo: On a black background, 2 lights draw a box made of shining blue and orange lines. The RTP1 logo for the time, which is the text in a white rectangle with a cut near the 1, zooms in. When the logo meets the center of the box, it fades out.

FX/SFX: The zooming of the logo.

Music/Sounds: A piano tune with twinkles near the end.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

7th Logo (October 13, 1986-November 1988)
Logo:
 * Normal 1: On a black background, a small white circle is seen in the middle of the screen. It then zooms in as a green cube, a blue cube, and red triangular pyramid spin around the circle. When it is near filling the entire screen, the shapes compress into a 1 shape and the RTP typeface slides out. The sphere then turns 2D.
 * Normal 2: On a blue background with a black floor, a spinning red triangular pyramid drops down and lands onto the floor. A spinning greencube also drops down and lands onto the floor. A blue sphere rolls into it's place and the pyramid stops spinning. The camera pans upward to the finished result, with the floor becoming the background. The 1 fades in and the RTP typeface slides out of it.
 * Short: On a black background, the shapes quickly flip and fly into place while in 2D. When they come together, the rest of the logo appears and turns to 3D, either turning to the left or right.
 * Sign-On: On a space background, what appears to be a meteor zooms into the darkness, while faintly flashing white. A diagonal white line expands outwards while off center and flips towards the screen, expanding with green and blue sides to form a cube. The blue section overtakes the entire screen, revealing white lines dividing it. A flash then appears and the blue screen opens up, revealing a land of red circuitry lines running through a black board, with sparks in them as well. A sky is also seen, as well as blue, red, and green pyramids. The camera zooms towards these pyramids, and the board gives way to reveal a yellow/blue background. The camera spins around the pyramids a bit, before they rise out of the ground and reveal themselves as cubes. They spin around a bit and the blue cube take up the whole screen, before revealing the cubes as spheres on a dark blue background. They zoom out, revolve a bit, then zooms back into the blue sphere. It zooms out and reveals the shapes on a black background. They take their usual positions, the 1 cuts in, and the RTP typeface slides out.

Variant: In 1987, the short variant would have the RTP 30 Anos logo sliding in, but with the "RTP" text blacked out. The music is also a short version of that logo.

FX/SFX: The spinning shapes. Interesting CGI.

Music/Sounds:
 * A twinkly synth tune.
 * The same tune, but extended for an extra verse.
 * The same tune, but cut down to the 2nd verse.
 * A jolly synth fanfare, with choirs, lasers, and other sounds.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

8th Logo (1988-1990)
Logo: On a black background, many different blue-tinted glass shapes are seen. They move to form a box as the camera pans. A glass 1 slides in the space and it turns green as a green RTP typeface fades in beside it.

Variant: Soon, "CANAL" was chroma-keyed under the RTP typeface.

FX/SFX: The box forming.

Music/Sounds: A majestic synth tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

1st Logo (1990-1996)
Nickname: "Portugal At Sea"

Logo: We start off in a sea with a red island with towers waving along in the sea at dusk. We then zoom in to the island and pan around one of the towers. We then zoom out from the towers and turn to face the sky. The sun rises and we turn down a bit to have the sea fill up half the screen. The sun expands out 5 rays to divide the sky into 5 sections and the sea, island, and sections rotate and form the Portugal flag. The sun then blazes one more time and then fades to a armillary sphere behind the shield, forming the seal. The seal turns to a yellow sphere which opens up to turn to a armillary sphere with a blue sphere. The flag turns to a blue background and the blue sphere divides into 2 halves and and they spin and morph into a C and 1. They spin and expand, with letters fading in between them, forming "Canal1" "Fim de emissao RTP" in gold with RTP in it's typeface, fades in.

FX/SFX: The formation of the flag and the C1 expanding.

Music/Sounds: The national anthem of Portugal.

Availability: Extinct. This was used in closedowns.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1990-1995)
Logo: On a complicated background, we are inside a armillary sphere with 2 blue things inside. The thing move outside the sphere and we zoom out. The things morph into the "C" and "1" and expand. The rest of the name appears and the background changes to a bunch of things, including a astronaut. The background then changes to a blue background with the RTP typeface, in gold, in the bottom right corner. Mostly in early years, it plays slower and does not have the background before the final project.

FX/SFX: The formation of the logo and background change.

Music/Sounds: A synth tune with a whoosh and 4 notes at the end.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (1995-1996)
Logo: On a blue spotlight background which has many yellow, red, and blue lines moving rapidly diagonally, many colored pieces move within the front of the screen before forming the sphere. It zooms out into the bottom right corner before a gold bar with the Canal 1 logo slides in and contains the sphere, which is still spinning.

FX/SFX: The formation of the sphere and background.

Music/Sounds: A piano tune with a choir.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (1995-1996)
Logo: On a water surface, many yellow spheres rain down and make ripples, when one remains. It gets surrounded by many transparent blue "C" shapes, which then spin around and make the sphere into the armillary sphere and it becomes the shortened Canal 1 logo.

FX/SFX: The spheres and C shapes.

Music/Sounds: A funky tune with a "WOOOOO" effect, pings, and a woman saying "Canal 1".

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1995-1996)
Logo: On a dark blue background, lines draw the shortened logo as it turns to face us. It gets filled with color and a yellow sphere appears. It gains solar flares on the right and it becomes the armillary sphere.

FX/SFX: The lines.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 11th logo.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

1st Logo (1996-1998)
Logo: Basically the logo is moving or incorporated in something, like a spotlight. The design is a white 1 with a blue box and "R T P" on the base.

FX/SFX: Live action.

Music/Sounds: Whatever piano tune plays.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.