HC2 Holdings/DTV America

Logo (????-)

Visuals: On a blue gradient background is a red rectangle with the station's callsign in white and cursive, and a dark bluish square with the channel number, both on top of a black rectangle with the orange name of the city and the initials of the state the city is located in. A sweeping transition then plays, making the logo disappear. The logo then appears again using the same transition.

General Variants:

Sometimes, the transition is replaced with a simple fade.
A different version can be seen on several stations where the DTV America logo appears at the top and a different rotating cube transition is used.
At least one station features the ID without an animated transition.

Specific Variants: Below is a list of all known stations that had used this template:

Wiping transition: WPSJ-CD 8 (Hammonton, NJ); KUVM-LD 10 (Houston, TX); W16CC-D 16 (Miami, FL); K18JL-D 18 (Phoenix, AZ); W20ER-D 20 (Bangor, ME); KNAV-LD 22 (Dallas, TX); KTOU-LD 22 (Oklahoma City, OK); WGPS-LD 22 (Fort Myers, FL); W02CY-D 24 (New York, NY); WPVN-CD 24 (Chicago, IL); W31EZ-D 25 (Chicago, IL); W27EQ-D 27 (Peoria, IL); KHPK-LD 28 (De Soto, TX); KUGB-CD 28 (Houston, TX); KVDF-CD 31 (San Antonio, TX); K33LN-D 33 (Minneapolis, MN); WTXX-LD 34 (New Haven, CT); KRZG-CD 35 (McAllen, TX); WCTZ-LD 35 (Bowling Green, KY); WKOB-LD 42 (New York, NY); KSKJ-CD 45 (Van Nuys, CA); WQDH-LD 49 (Wilmington, NC); WQEO-LD 49 (Memphis, TN); KEMO-TV 50 (Fremont, CA); K17MJ-D 51 (San Antonio, TX); KAZH-LD 57 (McAllen, TX)
- For the KVDF-CD and WTXX-LD variants, the wiping plays at a faster rate.
- For the KRZG-CD variant, the wiping animation seems to hang twice for a second before resuming.
- There has been a test variant that is reported to appear across stations where the callsign reads "TEST-DT", the channel number reads "99", and the city name and state initials read "community, ST", pointing to this ID likely being made from a template.
Fading transition: WGCE-CD 6 (Rochester, NY); KTVP-LD 23 (Phoenix, AZ); K33LN-D 33 (Minneapolis, MN); WPDE-LD 33 (Indianapolis, IN); KRLJ-LD 45 (Joplin, MO)
No transition: KNBX-CD 31 (Las Vegas, NV)
Cube transition with DTV America logo: WZCK-LD 8 (Madison, WI); KAJF-LD 21 (Kansas City, MO); KPMF-LD 26 (Memphis, TN); KEHO-LD 32 (Houston, TX); KFVT-LD 34 (Wichita, KS); WQEK-LD 36 (Memphis, TN); WFEF-LD 50 (Orlando, FL)
A different, CGI-animated version of the ID has been spotted on the WBWT-LD 38 station in Milwaukee, WI. It appears to be based on a stock globe template, in which a spinning globe with multiple moving rings and blue/red/blue surrounding it is shown over a moving background of different blue-tinted lights and shapes. There is another cut where the globe appears rotating closer to the center, and the callsign logo, in a similar layout to the same IDs, slides in from the right, with each rectangle having rounded corners, and the bottom rectangle containing the location info being much thinner.

Technique: Mostly 2D computer animation, though the DTV America and WBWT-LD variants use CGI animation.

Audio: A stock guitar theme.

Availability: Currently in use on several stations owned by HC2 Holdings or DTV America.

Legacy: These IDs are somewhat infamous within the logo community due to their almost-identical appearance and the transitions used.