MGM Television Logo History

"MGM Television Logo History (Updated)" by TR3X Productions, video made from 20-22 and 25-27/10, uploaded on 28/10/2024. MGM Television is the television studio division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, founded by Loews, Inc. on 30th June 1956 to primarily focus on producing and distributing TV shows, as well as specialising in broadcast syndication. Their first TV series was created a year before MGM Television was established, and that was MGM Parade (1955-56), starring the 1953-56 film logo with Jackie the Lion in the intro, and it was broadcast on the ABC Television Network. However, ABC cancelled that series a few months before MGM Television was created, and MGM collaborated with NBC to produce tv shows for that network instead, e.g. the Thin Man (1957-59), Dr. Kildare (1961-66) and the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68), but they did reconcile with ABC as the 1960s arrived, releasing shows such as the Islanders (1960-61) and the Asphalt Jungle (1961) for them. In conjunction with NBC, MGM Television produced shows for CBS starting from the late 1960s, and this was a decade before MGM joined forces with CBS Video to create MGM-CBS Home Video; Daktari (1966-69) and Medical Center (1969-76) are two examples of MGM TV shows that appeared on CBS at that time. Shortly after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer merged with United Artists in 1982, MGM Television was renamed to MGM/UA Television Distribution, which is evident in the last variants of the 4th logo, as well as the 6th, 7th and early takes of...