This logo introduced the familiar "P" resembling a human head, known internally as the "Everyman", and nicknamed the "P-Head" by many fans. The on-screen logo was scored by Paul Alan Levi and performed on an EMS VCS3 synthesizer.
A variant of the logo used on a S8 Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Robert Blake that aired on November 13, 1982, right before a spoof of a PBS commercial.
The name "PBS Kids" was conceived in early 1997 as a rebranding effort for PBS as part of its ongoing changes of its profiles. This logo was on the top of VHS clamshell releases of PBS Kids shows.
The conservative Nixon government had already terminated NET as a network, and PBS was concerned that a red left-facing P-head would be seen as a pro-Communist signal if it had been permitted.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967 by an act of the United States Congress. In 2000, CPB unveiled a new logo consisting of a square with the company's name on it. the ascender of the "b" and the descender of the "p" touch the top and bottom edges of the square...
National Educational Television (NET) was the predecessor network to PBS, launching on May 16, 1954 and ceasing operations on October 4, 1970. Despite its closure, NET's production units carried the name over to shows they produced for PBS until 1972.
In 2021, the logo was modified again for the first time in 9 years. The "R" now goes into part of the "T", and the PBS logo was updated to match the 2019 PBS branding.
The first PBS Kids logo was based on PBS' 1984 logo and animated by Gene Mackles as part of PBS' ongoing transformation of its children's strand into a service known as Ready to Learn, which was launched in eleven test markets at that time.
The logo was slightly modified in 2009, which was an alternate version of the 2005 logo without the "PBS Kids" text in the green flower. The previous logo was still used as an on-screen bug.
