Corday Productions

Background
Corday Productions is an independent production company that was founded in 1965 by Ted and Betty Corday, famous for producing the long-running soap operas Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless. Sony Pictures Television holds rights to these series while Corday Productions owns 1% of The Young and the Restless. The company also produced the short-lived soaps Morning Star and Paradise Bay in 1965, the same year Days of Our Lives premiered, as well as the short-lived 1994 soap Friends and Lovers. In 2009, Corday Productions produced the 90-minute documentary Lyon Heart.

(2001- )
Logo: We see the hourglass used in the post-1993 Days of Our Lives opening/closing credits, on a black surface at sunset. The text:

CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, INC. ©(year)

zooms in. The text shines after it stops zooming.

Variant: When this logo was first used in 2001 or 2002, it looked slightly different (the logo was in a different font with the "©(year)" notice in a smaller font). The shining and zooming effects were different as well.

Technique: The hourglass, the text zooming, and shining.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show. Original airings on NBC either drown it out with network promos or generic music.

Availability: Currently seen on Days of Our Lives episodes from 2001 onwards.