AOA is an American multinational commercial free-to-air commercial television channel founded on August 5th, 1985 as a joint venture between CPN Media Group (Wildcat Holdings sold it to this company in 1999), Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), Disney, and Viacom (now Paramount Global). All these companies also aired their content on the network. It originally stood for An Odd Acronym.
AOA would also, alongside the 1st logo, introduce a logo to be used on bumpers and home media. However, both logos were phased out for the next one.
1999-2002, 2003-2018, 2018-present (secondary)
DESIGNER In-house team (logo) Lambie/Nairn (on-air)
TYPOGRAPHY Helvetica Bold (logo) Gill Sans (on-air, print, 1999-present)
USAGE Official Secondary
The new logo for AOA was introduced on April 1st, 1999, coincidentally enough when AOA decided to become a worldwide free-to-air network. The logo was designed by the in-house team of AOA. The acronym now (officially) stood for "Acronym Open to Assumptions", in which multiple people could call it whatever they wanted, as seen on each bumper (e.g. Acronym Over Anybody). Around the same year, Wildcat sold its share to CPN Media Group, stating that they "just simply wanted to move on from AOA".
2002-2003
From 2002-2003, AOA introduced a short-lived logo, called "The font is back". It used the original AOA font and was used from 2002-2003, when AOA was rebranded. Due to backlash from fans, it was reverted back to the old one.
TYPOGRAPHY Helvetica Bold (logo) Proxima Nova (on-air, print)
USAGE Official
On April 2nd, 2018, alongside the previous logo, AOA received a new logo, designed by DixonBaxi, Superunion, The Graphics Design, and the In-house team, based on the 2002-2018 logo. It will be phased out for the new one.
Merriweather Sans Libre Franklin (On-air, social media, print) Montserrat (On-air, social media) Inter (On-air, print) Puritan (On-air)
Launched:
June 10th, 2022 (concept) June 13th, 2022.
On June 10th, 2022, Cat House Design's logo won the contest, since no other logos were made. It was fixed up into a vector format that looked slightly different from the original concept (different font and layout) on June 13th, 2022, marking the rebrand's debut.
2023 (tentative)
On April Fools, 2023, a logo with the arc upside down would launch for a limited time (March 31st-April 2nd).
UWM Media Entertainment Companies Film production companies: United World Films • Green Seas Films • Alagoas Pictures • California INC. Productions • Wild Films (Vertinelia) • Insignia Productions (Hjallford) • VertineFilm • Thaifilm • Notey Films • Objectmation Productions Television production companies: Hot Screen Television • UWN Original Productions • Objectmation Original • UWN+ Original
Notes 1 Joint venture with Qube Holdings. 2 Shut down due to the Gabriel Garcia pedo incident. 3 Shut down due to the acquisition and shutdown of BAD Productions.
CPN Television:CPN Online (CPN+ • TheCoolTimes • CPN News Online • CPN Sports Online) • CPN News Radio (under CPN News) Pogobon Media & Entertainment:Pogobon Music
CPN Media Group:CPN Interactive • CPN Music • CPN Store • CPN Foundation • CPN Magazine • CPN Toys • CPN Media Tower
1Co-owned with Glitch Productions. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Company, and Paramount Global. 3Co-owned by E.W. Scripps Company.
