ORF

Background: ORF 1 (Österreichischer Rundfunk 1, English: Austrian Broadcasting Company 1; known as FS1 from 1962 - 1992) is the first Austrian television channel, which was founded back in 1955. As of early 2011, it's been renamed to ORF eins, meaning "one" in German.

1st logo (1968-1970s?)

Note: The logo can be found here.

Nickname: "The Huge Lenses"

Logo: On a white background we see the ORF logo zooming out while a big black camera lens zooms in.

FX/SFX: The zooming.

Music/Sounds: A somewhat dramatic fanfare.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd logo (1970s?-1988)

Logo: On a dark blue background two golden bars fly to the right of the screenwhere they form an "1" and the ORF logo appearing on top left corner.

FX/SFX: Standard 80s animation.

Music/Sounds: An relax tune with some flutes.

Availability: Extinct

Editor's Note: None.

3rd logo (1988)

Nicknames: "The CBS of Austria"

Logo: On a grey background we zoom away from a grey eye shaped eye with another smaller grey eye shaped ring spinning (Which look a bit like the CBS logo). after a while the rings and became orange and white with the ORF logo appearing under it.

FX/SFX:The shapes rotating and forming the logo.

Music/Sounds: An orchestral piece.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: Beautiful CGI for its time.

4th logo (1993-2005?)

Logo: On a white/dark indigo vortex/spiral-like background, we see a black box with the ORF logo in a white font and a lime green box containing a black "1" by it.

FX/SFX: The background and the box appearing.

Music/Sounds: A news-like theme, which was the theme of ORF's news program Zeit im Bild at the time.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor' Note: None.

5th logo (2005-2010s)

Logo: On a white background we zoom out from a shiny lime green box which contains a "1".

FX/SFX: The box moving away. Simple but good animation.

Music/Sounds: An upbeat tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

6th logo (2015-2019)

Logo: On a teal background, the word "Eins" is duplicated in the middle. It starts moving and the ORF logo (Which is now written in a red box) moves into the screen and in the middle. We zoom to the middle and a teal box covers up all the "Eins" except for the one in the middle which gets surrounded in a cyan box. The last "Eins" becomes white.

FX/SFX: The words, the logo being formed.

Music/Sounds: Three notes followed by a woman's whisper saying "eins".

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

7th logo (2019-)

Logo:On a cyan background, a white box move from the button of the screen to the center where shrinks ans the words "ORF" appears in it cutten.

out way then a stylized 1 draws itself next to it. It fades to blackand and for a split second the same stylized 1 appears on a white background and in blue.

FX/SFX: The box moving.

Music/Sounds: a four note melody and a "Bup" sound when the 1 appears on Screen

Availability: Current

Editor's Note: None.