WKNO

Background: WKNO is a PBS station affiliate located in Memphis, Tennessee.

1st (known) Logo:

(1990-2011)

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Nickname: "Memphis at Dusk", "Aethestic Memphis"

Logo: On a CGI background of Memphis during the evening and seen from the Auction Avenue bridge, complete with (on the right) skyline, bridge over water, and the Memphis Pyramid surrounded by trees on the left (the Pyramid Arena), we see a giant "WKNO" in Antique-Olive font, and colored silver, in 3D, over the Hernando de Soto Bridge, next to the Pyramid Arena. It makes a reflection in the water, and "Memphis" writes itself out in a small salmon pink cursive font under "WKNO", and it too, reflects in the water, which has small waves. Then, we fade out.

Variant: Before Mono sound became obsolete on WKNO, for stereo shows, a pair of headphones to the left of "In Stereo", zooms in near the bottom-right corner while being revealed with a page turn effect.

FX/SFX: Other than "Memphis" writing out, along with the waves, it's really just a still logo.

Music/Sounds: Usually either silent or has the closing theme of a show playing over at the end. When used as a program intro tag, it uses either a majestic synthesizer tune or a glockenspiel riff.

Availability: Burt Wolf's cooking shows on PBS tend to have this logo, as well as reruns of Justin Wilson's cooking show produced by Mississippi ETV. You can also see it on He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley, but the reairing plastered it with the 2009 logo.

Editor's Note: Despite being a nice-looking logo, it became very dated during the second half of its lifespan, somehow lasting until 2011.

2nd Logo

(2009-)

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Note: The 2nd jingle starts at the end credits/funding credits here.

Logo: We see a Auction Avenue/Hernando de Soto bridge (unlike from before) with some skyline and grass on the side, the giant "WKNO" from before, but in a extra bold font and colored orange/peach, zooming in to us, "Memphis" in a Brush Script font appears under "WKNO" text.

FX/SFX: The text zooming in.

Music/Sounds:
 * A guitar-synth jingle with a two-note chord in the music.
 * Sometimes, there is a rearranged guitar synth tune heard in the logo.

Availability: Current and common. Seen on some episodes of The Family Plot.

Editor's Note: It's a well-done logo, the zooming in is choppy and the "Memphis" is chyroned on the text it below.