HC2 Holdings/DTV America

Logo (????-)

Visuals: On a blue gradient background is a red rectangle with the station's callsign in italic colored in white, and a dark bluish square next to it containing the channel number (in the same style as the callsign), both shown on top of a black rectangle with the orange name of the city and the initials of the state where 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. All the texts are also bold and non-italic and colored with a metallic-looking gradient.

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.