Background: FNN News Productions is a collective term for coverage programs broadcasting at FNN affilated TV stations, including Fuji Television Vision. Alternatively, this name is used even when the news interviewed by each FNN station is provided on another medium such as the Internet (same as JNN News, NNN News, etc.)
1st Logo (1971-1975)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "The Circles" "Every Lines" "FNN Of Doom"
- Closing: "The End"
Logo:
- Opening: We start on a dark blue background with a bunch of lines coming out and reveals white and purple circles, until done, we see the company text appearing. the japanese text and BILINGUAL appear both on a slash.
- Closing: The text "FNN" zooms out and reveals the company text. the japanese text"END" appears.
FX/SFX: The lines, circles and the text forming. For the closing variant, the text zooming out and the appearing.
Music/Sounds:
- Opening: A majestic sound theme with warp sounds at the start.
- Closing: A guitar theme.
Availability: Rare, may be seen on early News broadcasts.
Editor's Note: TBA
2nd Logo (1975-1977)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "Forming Lines" "Lines Forming The Text" "The City Effect"
- Closing: "Going Back To The City Effect" "The End II"
Logo:
- Opening: On a citynight, we see the lines forming the text and the japanese text. The city deforms until we go to a blue background with some japanese and red text.
- Closing: The texts appear from the citynight. The Japanese text from before slides in.
FX/SFX: The forming text and the background. For the closing variant, The appearing and the sliding.
Music/Sounds: Same as before.
Availability: Ultra rare, may be seen on some 3 minutes of News broadcasts.
Editor's Note: TBA
3rd Logo (1977-1979)
Nicknames: "The News Broadcast" "There Is No The End There"
Logo: Inside a news broadcast, we see the same text from before but in a bit bold. Some japanese and logos appear until the same text appears.
FX/SFX: The broadcast.
Music/Sounds: A fanfare majestic trumpet.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Editor's Note: TBA
4th Logo (1979-1983)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "Normal Skyline" "Shining FNN" "0061"
- Closing: "0061's Ending" "The End III"
Logo:
- Opening: We see a skyline with lights. The text FNN is flipping and the japanese text appears on it. The FNN text shines. We cut to the number logo which is "0061". with the 6 falling and connecting as "0061". There is japanese text on top of "0061".
- Closing: We see a few people in the street, with the texts appearing. The japanese text slides, until the blue text appears and glows.
FX/SFX: Depends on the logo.
Music/Sounds:
- Opening: Same as before, but a few seconds an asian says some text in japanese, with a robotic-like sound says "0061".
- Closing: Same as before, but the trumpet is cut-off.
Availability: Uncommon, see on some 4:3 version of the News broadcasts and 4 minutes of News broadcasts.
Editor's Note: TBA
5th logo (1983-2008)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "Goldborder" "Was This Made In BluffTitler?"
- Closing: "The Japanese Sign Goes To The Right" "The End IV"
Logo:
- Opening: On a same skyline, we see the FNN text from before, with gold borders. the japanese text appears and it flips under when bad flipped. The same japanese text appears.
- Closing: The same text from the opening, appears. until the FNN and the japanese text appears, until END appears on it, flipping on the right.
FX/SFX: Depends on the logo.
Music/Sounds: Same as before.
Availability: Same as before.
Editor's Note: TBA
6th logo (2008-2010)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "HD Skyline" "This Logo Looks Bad" "It's Not 4:3"
- Closing: "HD Skyline's Ending" "The End V"
Logo:
- Opening: On a skyline, we see an Eiffel Tower with "2008" on it. the text FNN is under the japanese text, we zoom out to reveal the japanese text and the FNN text. The text appears under the text disappears.
- Closing: We see the same text from before, only disappearing and the same logo appears with FNN sliding and the japanese text. The END from the last 5 logos, appear and flips, to make the text little, with the japanese text sliding.
FX/SFX: TBA
Music/Sounds: The bell and sounding majestic trumpet and timpani hits. For the closing variant, It uses some bell and sounding crash drumbeats and some arp sounds at the end.
Availability: Rare, may be seen on HD News broadcasts.
Editor's Note: TBA.
7th logo (2010-2013)
Nicknames "Changed Eiffel Tower Number" "There Is No The End There II"
Logo: Same as the last logo, but 2008 replaced 2010. The FNN text are flexible and they form normal. some yellow particles form the japanese text. In-credit Japanese logos appears at the end.
FX/SFX: The text and the particles.
Music/Sounds: Same as the last logo.
Availability:Same as before.
Editor's Note: TBA
8th logo (2013-2015)
Nicknames:
- Opening(unused): "Boring Japanese Text" "White Text Of Boredom" "The Logo Has No Effort"
- Closing: "Another One" "Too Many People" "The End VI"
Logo:
- Opening: There is no logo. Just the japanese text.
- Closing: We see a city with every people and cars, with the same japanese text. it disappears when the logo appears. the END sign glows.
FX/SFX: None, just the footage. For the closing, the text disappear and the glowing of "END".
Music/Sounds: Same as before but in the closing variant, there is no arp sound at the end.
Availability: Same as before.
Editor's Note: TBA
9th logo (2015-2016)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "Replaced Skyline" "This Is New?"
- Closing: "The Statue Of Liberty In Japan" "This Is Not New York" "The End VII"
Logo:
- Opening: Same as the 7th logo, but its replaced with another skyline. In-credit doesn't appear.
- Closing: We see a footage of Japan(or actually New York) with a Statue of Liberty. The same logo appears from the 7th logo.
FX/SFX: See the 7th logo.
Music/Sounds: Same as before.
Availability: Seen on News broadcasts from this era.
Editor's Note: TBA
10th logo (2016-2018)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "Raining" "The Peoples Are Using Umbrellas"
- Closing: "The Light" "The Nightmare" "The End VIII"
Logo:
- Opening: We see the same logo from the 7th and 9th logos, with a footage of a raining street with people using umbrellas. Incredit appears.
- Closing: We see a light at the street at night. The same logo from the 7th and 9th logos do the same.
FX/SFX: Same as the 7th and 9th logos.
Music/Sounds: It uses an News fanfare and some piano sounds, and a DING! when the japanese text glows. For the closing variant, it uses a sad piano and a calm arp theme.
Availability: See the last logo.
Editor's Note: TBA
11th logo (2018-)
Nicknames:
- Opening: "FNN, The Finale" "The Calming Cloudly"
- Closing: "I Think That's All For Now" "The End IX"
Logo:
- Opening: Same as last 7th, 9th and 10th logos. but replaced with a cloudly sky.
- Closing: We see a City, covered with clouds. The same end logo appears.
FX/SFX: See the 7th, 9th and 10th logos.
Music/Sounds: Same as before.
Availability: Seen on current News broadcasts.
Editor's Note: TBA
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