Videotext Communications
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Videotext Communications is a television production company best known for Time Team.
1st Logo (January 8, 1995-March 28, 1999)
Visuals: The stacked text "video text" is in between two lines. Underneath reads "COMMUNICATIONS LTD."
Technique: A still, computerized graphic.
Audio: None or the ending theme of the programme.
Availability: Only seen on series 2 to 6 of Time Team.
2nd Logo (December 19, 1999-September 7, 2014)
Visuals: A "V" is within a stylized outline of a planet with a light burst to the top right of the letter. Underneath is the text "VIDEOTEXT COMMUNICATIONS LTD".
Variants:
- A variant has the logo inside an outlined tube box and the light burst removed.
- On series 12 and 13 of Time Team, the box has a transparent fill.
- Another variant has the logo inside a gray box and the light burst larger.
- On later series of Time Team, the logo has a shadow effect.
- An animated variant exists where the light burst expands.
Technique: Mostly none. The light burst expanding for the animated variant.
Audio: None or the ending theme of the programme.
Availability: First appeared on the Time Team special "Christmas Special - Barley Hall" and was seen on the remaining series of said series as well as its spin-off, Time Team America, Extreme Archaeology, and Breathing Fire: Secret Weapon of the Somme.