Every BBC Logo (1922-2023)

The BBC has been around for more than 100 years, yet their main logo has changed surprisingly little over the decades...

Join me as we go through the main BBC logos that have represented the corporation, examine the sometimes subtle, sometimes major differences, and which designs I like, and which ones just don't quite click!

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[DAFFYLONDON]

love this! I animated the fly for BBC2 - FLYZAPPER in like 97/98. An absolute honour. Meeting Martin Lambie-Nairn, I kept the fly alive!

[Redrally]

So as I'm a bit older than you, Adam, my earliest memory of the BBC logo was the one with the coloured lines. So I have a soft spot for it. Especially as I instantly love any logo that lends itself to colouring in at least some of the time.

As you say, the 80s was the era of excess and I'm sure the colours were partly an attempt to compete with the famous Channel 4 logo.

[ginaweaver]

I like the slanted BBC logo with the color lines underneath, but as an American I've mainly seen it as an animated logo for BBC Video so maybe it's more interesting when you mostly see it in motion. Fun fact: The lion on the BBC coat of arms was recreated (with cheap computer graphics) for the 1st logo of Lionheart Television, which distributed BBC's programming in America from 1981-1994.

[alexwells]

Cracking video! I actually quite like the 88' multicoloured one but the 97' one has got to be my favorite (with the early 60s one not far behind), separated from nostalgia bias i do think it's the best design. I also look at that logo and instantly hear the intro jingle that would play on BBC VHS / DVDs and PC games, makes me think of Wallace & Gromit! There's a good amount of people in youtube comments from that generation that were mildly unnerved by that BBC intro when they were kids, i can't say i disagree with them for some mad reason, but i've got no idea why. There was definitely something somber and ominous about it.

[dhall]

I grew up with the 1988-97 as it was on the VHS Tapes back in the day and each colour underneath was Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but the 1997-2021 is what we mostly have seen in our lifetimes.

[mariusjmi]

Hey Adam! I've been watching all of your videos about the ident review and British telly for the past couple of years! As a Filipino who never had to experience British telly, I'm fascinated REALLY by the idents British TV companies and networks are making in UK than here in the Philippines. Keep up the good work Adam!!

[ForTheCoupOfTheCentury]

In fact, the 1988 logo shows Red, Blue and Green, and in television, Red Blue and Green mix to make white, and most of England's flag is white!

[KRPTV]

The 1988-1997 logo is the one I grew up with so I'd say that one is my favourite. I think one of the reasons the lines were removed for the 1997 rebrand was because they didn't show up very well when the logo was shrunk and neither did the sections in the 'B's'.

[whophd]

I grew up with the lines, but they served a purpose that I enjoyed, which is to say "we're in colour now!" even if it was a decade after most people were switching to colour — there were still a lot of B&W shows on repeat in the 1980s, and the colour logo was the mark of "quality" of a new show available in colour. Think of TV networks showing "HD" logos in the 2000s … it was the same purpose. And just like adding HD logos, it stopped being useful or necessary after about 10 years.

So think about how today, you see "HD" or "4K" on a YouTube video, and if something is only 480p or 320p you'd probably avoid it. Same thing.

[krisstarring]

I'm a Yank, but the three slanted boxes with the blue, red, and green underlines will always be the "BBC" to me. I was born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's. There was a kids' TV show on our public TV network called "Ghostwriter" that was co-produced with the BBC. The closing had that particular BBC logo at the end.

Also, as a teenager, I remember watching British comedies on my local PBS station and seeing the BBC logo at the end of those shows in the 2000's as well. Episodes of "Red Dwarf" had the 1997 logo design but had this red/green/blue "smoke" waving behind the logo which made it appear as if it was for the previous logo.

[redranger]

The 90s logo is what I remember best and more fondly. My favourite with the early 00s logo a very close second

[shamra]

American here, but I've watched a lot of British programming, and despite it and its replacement predating me, the 1988 one with the lines is so iconic from old BBC VHS tapes T.T Incredibly, incredibly nostalgic.

[JohnFekoloid]

We have a couple VHS recordings at home with the blue rotating globe one.

[rankapetrovic-ruoe]

Can you talk about every ITV logo from 1955 to 2023?

[benjohnson]

Hi Adam. Great video from a great channel.
I love retro telly so it's all right up my street. Keep up the good work. 🙂

[Nightingale]

The 1988 BBC logo definitely screams '80s. And the fact that it was used for a majority of the 1990s is very interesting.

[toddhunter]

I love you for doing this. I love this. Liked and subscribed. Your itv idents I liked ❤

[itsrickyschannel.]

Despite not being born before 1997, I am rather fond of the 1988 one, hence why I copied it for my YouTube Channel logo.

[nightpups]

I think my issue with the 70s logo, is that the letters didn't get the same rounded treatment, especially on the left side of the B's

[auroramartell]

I'm a 2000s Brazilian person BUT my favorite BBC logo will be the 1997 one. But that might be mostly due to 90s BBC Two idents.