# Circle 7 logo > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Circle_7_logo > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Circle_7_logo.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_7_logo > Source revision: 1353662516 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Television station logo}} {{redirect|Circle 7}} {{Use American English|date=December 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} 150x150px|thumb|The ''Circle 7'' logo The '''Circle 7 logo''' is an often-used [television station](/source/television_station) [logo](/source/logo) in the [United States](/source/United_States). Designed in the early 1960s for the [American Broadcasting Company](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company)'s five [owned-and-operated station](/source/owned-and-operated_station)s (all of which broadcast on [VHF](/source/Very_high_frequency) channel 7), the logo, or a version of it, is being used not only by several ABC stations and affiliates, but also by a number of television broadcasters around the world, most notably [GMA Network](/source/GMA_Network) in the [Philippines](/source/Philippines), [ntv7](/source/ntv7) in [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia) and [TV7 (now Trans7)](/source/Trans7) in [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia). == History and information == [[File:WLS TV Eyewitness News team 1972.JPG|thumb|200px|Members of WLS-TV's ''[Eyewitness News](/source/Eyewitness_News)'' team wearing blazers adorned with a ''Circle 7'' patch, c. 1972.]] The Circle 7 logo was created by G. Dean Smith, a [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco) graphic designer,{{cite book | last1 =Fischbeck | first1 =George | author-link =George Fischbeck | last2 =Roach | first2 =Randy | title =Dr. George: My Life in Weather | publisher =[University of New Mexico Press](/source/University_of_New_Mexico_Press) | date =2013 | location =[Albuquerque, New Mexico](/source/Albuquerque%2C_New_Mexico) | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=FrCkc8_mLz4C&dq=Circle+7+logo+ABC&pg=PT67 | isbn =9780826353337 }} and was first used in 1962 by [ABC](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company) as the logo for its (then) five owned-and-operated television stations: [WABC-TV](/source/WABC-TV) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City); [KABC-TV](/source/KABC-TV) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles); [WBKB](/source/WLS-TV) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago); [KGO-TV](/source/KGO-TV) in San Francisco; and [WXYZ-TV](/source/WXYZ-TV) in [Detroit](/source/Detroit). When ABC applied for television station licenses in the late 1940s, it was thought that the low-band channel frequencies (2 through 6) would be removed from use for television broadcasting, thus making these five stations broadcasting on VHF channel 7 the lowest on the television dial; those plans never came to pass.{{cite book |editor-last=Murray |editor-first=Michael D. |editor-last2=Godfrey |editor-first2=Donald G. | title =Television in America: Local Station History from Across the Nation| publisher=Iowa State Press| year =1997| location =Ames, IA| page =6| isbn =0-8138-2969-0 }} [American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres](/source/American_Broadcasting-Paramount_Theatres), ABC's then-corporate parent, registered the Circle 7 logo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1962. When WABC-TV adopted the ''[Eyewitness News](/source/Eyewitness_News)'' format in January 1968, all reporters and anchors were required to wear a [blazer](/source/blazer) with a ''Circle 7'' patch (a lapel pin in later years)[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB421CA72D653DA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Chicago Sun-Times:: Search] when they appeared on the air – a marketing practice that spread to the other ABC O&Os, and eventually to other ABC affiliates. Stations commonly used the logo on microphone flags, newscaster clothing and design of sets, as well as on-air graphics for locally originated programming.{{Citation | last1 =Grey | first1 =Johnathan | last2 =Johnson | first2 =Derek | title =A Companion to Media Authorship | publisher =[John Wiley & Sons](/source/John_Wiley_%26_Sons) | year =2013 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhHJUqFyFNwC&dq=Circle+7+logo+ABC&pg=PT237 | isbn =9781118495254 }} [Circle Seven Animation](/source/Circle_Seven_Animation), a short-lived (2005-2006) division of ABC parent company [Disney](/source/The_Walt_Disney_Company) that was working on sequels to Disney-owned [Pixar](/source/Pixar) films, was indirectly named after the logo, as its studios were located on Circle Seven Drive in [Glendale, California](/source/Glendale%2C_California), a street which was renamed for the logo when KABC-TV moved its studios there.{{cite news|last1=Hill|first1=Jim|title=The Skinny on Circle Seven|url=http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2005/08/08/655.aspx|access-date=May 26, 2021|work=Jim Hill Media|date=August 7, 2005}} == Gallery == File:WABC TV New 2021.svg|Logo used for [WABC-TV](/source/WABC-TV) in [New York](/source/New_York_City), [KABC-TV](/source/KABC-TV) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), [WLS-TV](/source/WLS-TV) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago), and [KGO-TV](/source/KGO-TV) in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco). File:WJLA ABC 7 Fall 2021.svg|Logo used for [WJLA-TV](/source/WJLA-TV) in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) A similar logo is used for [KATV](/source/KATV) in [Little Rock, Arkansas](/source/Little_Rock%2C_Arkansas), and [KRCR-TV](/source/KRCR-TV) in [Redding, California](/source/Redding%2C_California). File:WXYZ-TV logo.svg|[WXYZ-TV](/source/WXYZ-TV) logo in [Detroit, Michigan](/source/Detroit). [Buffalo](/source/Buffalo%2C_New_York) [ABC](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company) affiliate, [WKBW-TV](/source/WKBW-TV), used a similar logo from September 2014 to December 2021. File:ABC7Suncoast.svg|[WWSB](/source/WWSB) logo in [Sarasota, Florida](/source/Sarasota%2C_Florida) File:KOAT 7 ABC 2022.svg|[KOAT-TV](/source/KOAT-TV) logo in [Albuquerque, New Mexico](/source/Albuquerque%2C_New_Mexico) File:KVIA 2022.png|[KVIA-TV](/source/KVIA-TV) logo in [El Paso, Texas](/source/El_Paso%2C_Texas) File:KVII 2015 logo.svg|[KVII-TV](/source/KVII-TV) 2015 logo in [Amarillo, Texas](/source/Amarillo%2C_Texas) (and a satelite station '''KVIH-TV''' in [Clovis, New Mexico](/source/Clovis%2C_New_Mexico)) File:KMGH ABC 7 Denver.png|[KMGH-TV](/source/KMGH-TV) logo in [Denver, Colorado](/source/Denver) File:WSVN-WHDH Circle 7.svg|Logo used for both [WSVN](/source/WSVN) in [Miami, Florida](/source/Miami), and [WHDH](/source/WHDH_(TV)) in [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston). ==See also== *[American Broadcasting Company logos](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company_logos) *[Enclosed Alphanumerics](/source/Enclosed_Alphanumerics), a section of Unicode that includes circle-IRP dingbats (e.g. ➆) == References == {{reflist}} ==Sources== {{commonscat_inline}} *"[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1962/1962-08-27-BC.pdf New '7' logo designed for KGO-TV (ch.7)]" (PDF file), ''[Broadcasting](/source/Broadcasting_%26_Cable)'', August 27, 1962, p. 72. *[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-28-mn-546-story.html "Designed Symbols for AT&T, ABC Stations Dean Smith; Corporate Logo Creator"], ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)'', March 28, 1987 {{DEFAULTSORT:Circle 7 Logo}} Category:American Broadcasting Company Category:Local television programming in the United States Category:Commercial logos Category:Symbols introduced in 1962 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Circle 7 logo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_7_logo) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_7_logo?action=history)). 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