Game Show Network IDs

1st Logo (December 1, 1994-March 17, 1997)


Nickname: "Winnie"

Logo: We have the original logo for the network, Winnie (a stylized multicolored humanoid figure, which was designed to look like an excited game show contestant.) dancing and jumping around on a game show set. Various times during the ID, the camera pans over to one of the various curtains on the set. Clips of Wheel of Fortune, Match Game and Family Feud are seen. The floor of letter tiles and playing cards begin flying around the set as Winnie spins around on top of a trophy with "GAME SHOW NETWORK" around it.

Variants:
 * 30 Seconds: Full animation piece; rarest one, seen on original launch video.
 * 15 Seconds: Winnie dancing, Family Feud clip seen. Slight variants of this version were also used.
 * 10 Seconds: Floor of letter titles/playing cards flying around.
 * 5 Seconds: Abridge of flooring letter titles/playing cards flying around, Winnie spins.

FX/SFX: Very nice CGI for 1994. Animated by Curious Pictures.

Music/Sounds: A very nice jazz music piece.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (March 17, 1997-Late September 1997)


Nickname: "Game Show Clip Montage"

Logo: On a bright lavender marble background, we see various clips of game shows in GSN's library flipping vertically around inside each rectangle at the time are shown, ending with a new GSN logo, which looks a bit like this:

G AME SHOW n e t w o r k

The letters "GAME SHOW" are cut out of squares, and the "O" is a swirly green ball.

Variants:
 * Different time variants.
 * Some versions have a male narration saying "You're watching Game Show Network".
 * Some versions have the URL "www.sony.com" shown in haphazardly arranged rectangles.

FX/SFX: Clips flipping around. Animated by Lee Hunt Associates.

Music/Sounds: Just familiar production music.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (September 1997-April 18, 1998)


Nickname: "Prizes"

Logo: Various prizes on the GSN tiles are shown flipping around on a cornflower blue/yellow/white spinning stripe background.

Variants:
 * There may be different music on some versions.
 * Some versions have narration.
 * There is also a "dark" version, where the colors are inverted and the background is circles instead of the usual stripes.

FX/SFX: The prizes flipping around the logo.

Music/Sounds: An upbeat music cue.

Availability: Extinct. This was used during the "Dark Period".

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (April 18, 1998-Summer 1999)
Nicknames: "All Play, All Day", "Fun and Games"

Logo: Various objects are being thrown around on the screen.

Variants:
 * Two versions of this logo were used. One was a persons' hand was throwing around a white and blue checkered ball, at the same, the GSN logo appeared all mixed-up. The ball eventually hit the mixed-up logo, and the logo appeared in the right order. The second one was various hands through different objects (including an arrow, the green ball, etc.). The GSN logo appeared with each letter title on different objects (like a persons' hand).
 * Some versions have narration.
 * On the final season of Flamingo Fortune, the logo is tilted diagonally to the left to make a split-screen. On the right is a static picture of the 1996 Columbia TriStar Television logo.

FX/SFX: The hands throwing the ball.

Music/Sounds: An upbeat music cue with "boing" sound FX.

Music/Sounds Variant: On Flamingo Fortune while the end-title theme is playing, there are ladies saying "Game Show!" followed by another woman saying "Network!".

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1997-98)
Nicknames: "Still Game Show"

Logo: Just a still of the Game Show Network print logo on an orange grid.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Extinct, was used very rarely as a break bumper.

Editor's Note: None.

6th Logo (Summer 1999-March 15, 2004)


Nicknames: "The Ball of Steel", "Ball Maze", "Air Hockey", "Cannon"

Logo: On a green/blue or blue/gray squared background, we see a steel ball, spinning with sorts of stuff. Suddenly, the stuff vanishes and the ball morphs into the GSN logo. The GSN logo then spins from left to right.

Variants:
 * Sometimes, the IDs would be shortened.
 * On March 15, 2004, the Air Hockey ID was shown but with bits of television static in between the ending of the logo and the logo going to inverted colors and black and white before being eventually turned off (like a TV). This symbolized the end of GSN's old style of programming and the beginning of a new one.

FX/SFX: The spinning of the ball, and the morphing. This was animated by Pittard Sullivan.

Music/Sounds: A techno-style theme combined with the guitar tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

7th Logo (March 16, 2004-2007)


Nicknames: "The Cube", "GSN: The Network for Games"

Logo: On a dark blue background, the GSN logo pans back to reveal a spiral of blue GSN logos. Another spiral is seen, with the word "play" on it, then another with "games". The logo then zooms back to reveal the GSN logo, with "THE NETWORK FOR GAMES" under it.

Variant: On a light blue background, we see the GSN logo. The sound of a doorbell ringing is then heard, and the logo then opens up to reveal a set of refrigerators and we see a game show host say "You're a winner!" The camera then goes inside the refrigerator where we see a green trophy. The camera then zooms into the trophy and then goes back to the GSN logo which then closes with the small text "THE NETWORK FOR GAMES" already there.

FX/SFX: Animation from V12.

Music/Sounds: A pop-rock tune, which ends with a woman saying "GSN", which then echoes.

Availability: The main variant was seen on the first launch promo for the 2004 rebrand of GSN.

Editor's Note: None.

8th Logo (2007-2008)
Nicknames: "The Cube II", "GSN: Get in the Game"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

9th Logo (2008-November 2010)
Nickname: "playeveryday"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

10th Logo (November 2010-2012)
Logo: On a different clip of a game show, we see the current GSN logo flipping in. Then, the logo turns into "THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WINNERS".

FX/SFX: The logo flipping in, and the logo changing.

Music/Sounds: A nice guitar piece and a guy singing, "Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah! Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!" and the guitar theme playing again.

Availability: Extinct and was used as an "On TV" promo. It's seen through commercials.

Editor's Note: None.

11th Logo (2012-2015)
Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

12th Logo (2015)
Nickname: "We've Got Personality"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA