Canal 6 Cuba

1st Logo (1962-1970s)


Logo: The logo starts with a white background with various spinning sunray patterns varying in size and ray. The text: in white along with a white box containing "Courier" fades on the top-left corner shortly after, as well as "CANAL 6 " fading underneath the top-right corner portion of the preceding text one by one. The logo remains static for the last 15 seconds.

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: A glockenspiel theme, as well as a female announcer saying "Televisión Nacional, canal 6 desde La Habana, Cuba, territorio libre de América" (National television, channel 6 from Havana, Cuba, free territory of Americas).

2nd logo (1970s-1984)


Logo: In a grey background, the animated channel's logo (which would resemble the one later used by Radio Havana Cuba) would zoom out, and after the logo stops zooming out, the animation continues, and a black text saying "TV cubana" (cuban TV) appears below the logo.

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: Unknown

Final Note
This logo was also used for Channel 2 from Havana (which was merged into Tele Rebelde in April 1979). Probably, Cuban television had not a regular logo or visual identity at the time, as there were other logos being used at the same time for Cuban TV.

3rd Logo (1970s-1984)


Logo: On a grey background, a black CRT shape with lines on it, is shown with a grey circle saying "6" in the middle of it; and below, there is a text saying "Televisión Cubana" ("Cuban Television") and the TVC logo at the time in the right of it.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Note: Even though color TV was introduced in Cuba in December 1975, it was in Tele Rebelde (Cubavisión's sister channel) to broadcast the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba; and Cubavisión didn't achieve full-time color until 1985.

4th Logo (1984-1989)


Logo: On a background (which mostly were the channel's studios buildings, but could vary depending on the variant), the logo zooms in with a white rectangle border from the TV antenna.

Technique: Scanimate-like animation.

Music/Sounds: A Cuban-sounding synth tune.

5th logo (1984-1986/1987)
Logo: On a blue background (probably clouds), a ball forms and zooms out, then a black background forms, and around the ball there's a TV camera shape, with the left side in red, the right side in blue, and the bottom part in white. The ball is replaced by a yellow 6, which later moves to the upper-rights and disappears, with a rotating image replacing it in the middle of the TV camera logo. Then a rotating logo (with the camera shape that appeared before, but with a white circle in the middle of it and both the 6 and the bottom part being black) appears and zooms out, then the backgrounds turns whiteish and the main logo changes colors to what mentioned in parentheses, with the 6 zooming up until being in its regular size.

Technique: Electronic/computer animation.

Music/Sounds: A synth-rock tune with a bass and electric guitar.

Availability: As of now, the only known recordings of this logo are in bad quality and in B&W (unless for a 1986 one which has some color fragments), probably due to bad DX reception and USA jamming Cuban TV signals. However, there's a reconstruction made by "Canal Cuatro de Televisión", with mixed fragments from the existing videos; and a remake made by "No.", which was made from scratch. According to some YouTube comments and videos, this was used until either 1987 or July 1986, being a secondary logo.