Eastern Educational Television Network

Background
The Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN) was founded on February 9, 1961 to distribute public TV shows such as The French Chef, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week to public television stations on a regional basis, and then nationwide when NET (now PBS) was formed. In 1980, the EEN rebranded itself to Interregional Program Service (though it still used the old name on some shows, such as Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, until 1992), and in 1992, became American Program Service (APS). It didn't appear to use a logo until 1968 at the earliest.

(1968-1975)


Logo: Against a black background, we see six overlapping circles of varying sizes. In the center is a compass with the north, west, and south arrows pointing to the innermost circle and the east arrow pointing to the outermost circle. Behind it is a seventh, smaller circle to which the four ordinal directions point. At its core is a black circle with "EEN" inside it. To the right is the text

in what appears to be Schelter Grotesk.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: An announcer saying, "This is the Eastern Educational Television Network."

Availability: Extinct, and more well-hidden than any Holy Grail-class public television logo before it, to the point where it was only discovered in 2020 on episodes of Wall $treet Week on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. How elusive did it prove to be? The tail end of a 1975 episode of WNED's One Man Show that had it was part of a recording of WNET's Where Have All the Rebels Gone? that had been on the Internet Archive and gone unnoticed by the logo community for just over five years before being discovered the next month.

Final Note: After Wall $treet Week became a PBS program around 1972, the EEN would not use another logo for two decades, by which point it had already rebranded itself twice.