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Network Branding 1988-1990 The Best of Original Cartoons

TV Heaven and HA! TV Comedy Network

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

For a quick minute in the late 1980s, Nickelodeon's ad sales group could not sell Nick-at-Nite advertising ("no one wants black and white reruns!"), so they decided they'd promote themselves as a comedy network.

So, my Fred/Alan partner Alan Goodman and I brought our original idea of TV oldies to a broken down UHF channel in St.Cloud, Minnesota, and renamed Channel 47 "TV Heaven." We got more publicity in three weeks than Nick-at-Nite got three years. Nick-at-Nite parent MTV Networks threatened to fire us from all their networks and we had to resign TV Heaven.

But not before we made some awesome station identifications with our indie animation friends.

In 1990, MTV Networks revived the idea of an all comedy network in a panic after HBO launched the Comedy Channel. Fred/Alan convinced MTVN to brand theirs as HA! The TV Comedy Network, and we went to work.

(Neither The Comedy Channel or HA! succeeded and they merged, Fred/Alan named the venture "Comedy Central" and the rest is comedy television history.)

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Creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

Producer: Tom Pomposello Logo design: Noel Frankel ..... TV Heaven station identifications 1988

Production companies: International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; Fred Mogubgub, NY. . . . . . HA! network identifications 1990 Production companies: Lou Brooks & Jerry Lieberman, NY; Charlex, NY; International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; (Colossal) Pictures, SF; Marc Karzen, NY.

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Pages 256-259 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert”

#7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

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This Wednesday, March 23 @ 6:00pm est: LATE NIGHT with DAVID LETTERMAN free webinar! 2022 marks the 40th Anniversary of the debut of “Late Night with David Letterman,” the NBC nighttime talk show that put the young comedian from Indiana on the pop culture map, one who would shape the style and tone of late night television for decades to come! On the occasion of “Late Night”’s 40th, photographer Marc Karzen, who shot all of the show’s “bumpers,” the still graphics of New York City scenes branded with the words “Late Night with David Letterman,” has published a handsome coffee table book containing the “greatest hits” of the “bumper” crop—and pop culture historian Arlen Schumer (author/designer, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) will showcase Karzen’s book in this new webinar! Schumer was one of the handful of graphic designers who hand-lettered the type treatments of “Late Night with David Letterman” integrated inventively into Karzen’s photographs, and thus will provide a first-person account what it was like to work on the groundbreaking late night show! ZOOM MEETING: https://bit.ly/3MoC0Db MEETING ID: 864 9710 7532 PASSCODE: 567719 #davidletterman #latenightwithdavidletterman #lettermanbumpers #marckarzen #arlenschumer #tv #television #tvhistory #televisionhistory @dgareps @dbbushman @adamschumer @richard_syrett @marckarzen https://www.instagram.com/p/CbaY5QdL0Qt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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