VT4/VIER (Belgium)

VT4 is a Belgian television channel that started airing in 1995. As VIER, it is currently one of the major broadcasting television network in Flanders and has received sister channels in the form of Vijf and Zes.

1st Logo (1995-1997) Background: VT4 is a Belgian television channel that started airing in 1995. It is currenntly one of the major broadcasting television network in Flanders and has received sister channels in the form of Vijf and Zes.

Logo: Here you can see some standard variants of the logo. Trivia: Despite what the startup variant seems to tell, VT4 is in actuality more dubiously legal rather than outright illegal. The network executives did not have rights to air television in Belgium at the time the logo was made, but did have the right to air television in London and used old BBC headquarters to air television from there to Belgium.
 * Startup: First we see a green lightning flash which forms turning on a half-black half-white decoration screen. After a couple of seconds, the police comes to inform that this channel is illegal for over a while, and gets more angrier (probably that people doesn't ask his question). Then switches go off, clocks go round, antennas start receiving signals and we cut to the television in full view. Then it starts showing random imagery from penguins, dogs and cats to people in a snowsuit, dancers and a feather, all of these which are very hard and overly emphasized to describe the difficult details this logo has. It all ends when a woman with green eyes opens them, Then we cut to a transition to a half-black, half-green circle with an abstract green 4 (or a diagonal line that turns to the left and then turns to the downwards side of the screen, in an smart definition of the word), and the company's name from the time on the bottom.
 * Closedown: The green eyed woman in the startup closes her eyes. Many people from the startup variant start doing their acts in reverse against the white background. In some transitions the TV will also show up. All antennas close it's transmission for the day and after not only that, but which the TV after a lot of bruise closes down at last, then the woman at the start closes her eyes again followed by the logo getting shown.

FX/SFX:Live-action. Very likely an early example of digital filmmaking.

Cheesy Factor: The logo concept is blatantly taken from the Swedish TV channel Femman (now Kanal 5). A few logos make it clear. The startup also contains a lot of noise and images with no seeming coherence between the image and background noise whatsoever.

Music/Sounds: Availability: Extinct.
 * Startup: TBA
 * Closedown: TBA

Scare Factor:
 * Startup: Medium to nightmare. This variant contains a lot (and we mean a VERY LOT) of sudden transitions that is definitely going to catch people off guard whenever they aren't expecting it, have all-seening eyes or have hypersentitive ears. The calm rock music which cuts to the police, would also contribute with the scare factor, along with the loud and random noises which have no sense at all. It's lower for those who used to it. This is in par with the Ka2 logo.
 * Closedown: Low to medium.