Repro of c.1963 KABC-TV Test Pattern
A repro (with film chain calibration approximation to match) of the test pattern of Los Angeles' ABC O&O, KABC-TV (Channel 7), as first put into service in this form around 1963 (but the white mask outside the TP appears to be after 1965, to cover the "American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc." notice below after the corporate name was changed to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.). Unlike other ABC stations' TP's with this design, this variant used Paul Rand's 1962 "ABC circle" logo rather than G. Dean Smith's "circle 7" logo from that same year. This appeared on and off in-between broadcast days well into 1989 or so. As seen on a YouTube clip.
Repro of c.1963 KABC-TV Test Pattern
A repro (with film chain calibration approximation to match) of the test pattern of Los Angeles' ABC O&O, KABC-TV (Channel 7), as first put into service in this form around 1963 (but the white mask outside the TP appears to be after 1965, to cover the "American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc." notice below after the corporate name was changed to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.). Unlike other ABC stations' TP's with this design, this variant used Paul Rand's 1962 "ABC circle" logo rather than G. Dean Smith's "circle 7" logo from that same year. This appeared on and off in-between broadcast days well into 1989 or so. As seen on a YouTube clip.