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Background: Salt Cover is a cable channel that distributes prints of TV shows from the now-defunct Business Friendly Studios, and also distributes prints from various movie companies throughout the country. It first aired in Brazil in 1948 and began airing in the US in 1950. As of 2014, it has started making their own movies and television shows that can only be broadcasted on that channel. In 1977, a limited number of Orion movies listed Salt Home Video as their distributor. Salt Cover also distributed ITC shows and some shows produced by BBC and Sony as well.

In 1979, cartoonist Katherine Russo created the famous salt shaker that Salt Cover used throughout the 80s, the 90s, half of the 2000s, and 2007 to 2014. His name is Phil. Phil was originally voiced by Timothy Jackson, then William Kong, and currently, he is voiced by (surprisingly) Bret Iwan, current voice of Mickey Mouse! Speaking of which, the Brazilian version of the Mickey Mouse shorts and shows air on the Salt Cover Kids block in Brazil as of November 1, 2006! That's because on October 30, 2006, Vyond Pictures, and Disney, bought the Salt Entertainment Company and it's subsidiaries for $75,000,000. Disney also allows Vyond to show Vyond shows on the Disney Channel, Salt Cover, and all channels that Vyond and Disney own.

The cute little ditty from the 4th logo is very popular that it's used in logos after the 4th logo. It is known as "Phil's Ditty."


On December 19th, 2018, International Studios acquirred the Salt Cover name and decide to revive the studio.


US Television's History[]

1st Logo (1950-1972)

Logo: On a space background, we see a cheesy drawing of a salt shaker zoom up to the screen. Salt Cover fades in below.

1948 salt cover

Variant: On ITC Entertainment Group programs starting in 1956, AND fades below. The ITC Entertainment Group logo at that time would follow it.

Music/Sounds: Ending theme or a generic fanfare.

Availability: Was last seen on , which last aired on Salt Cover in 1978. On YouTube videos of Farthest Reaches (from 2019), this logo's got plastered over the 11th logo, the same does to all the next logos (including the 10th logo, but except the 9th logo (2018 version)).

Scare Factor: High with the generic fanfare; none with the ending theme.


2nd Logo (1972-1977)

Logo: On a space background, we see a bright flash, and the words Salt Cover appear with the salt shaker to the left of the text. It shines once.

1969 salt cover

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.

Availability: Extremely rare, was last seen on Camp Daisy, Road Rash, and Revenge of Sarah. On the Youtube channels of both series (starting with 2019) This logo gets plastered over the 11th logo.

Scare Factor: Medium.


3rd Logo (1977-1980)

Logo: On a shady green/black gradient background, the word Salt flips in, letter by letter. Cover fades in below, and it gets surrounded by a white box with a solid white box that contains a salt shaker to the left of it. The whole thing sparkles.

Variants:

  • The Brian Show had the byline "A Service Trademark of Salt Cover Affiliates, Inc".
  • Bright Idea had the byline "A Division of Salt Cover Affiliates, Inc."

Music/Sounds: A reverse version of the 3 NBC chimes. Then a drumbeat is heard.

Availability: Has rare written all over it. You can see it on videotapes of Bright Idea distributed by Artisan Entertainment. Plastered by the 11th logo in 2019.

Scare Factor: None.


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4th Logo (April 1980-2023)

1980 salt cover version 2 updated
1980 salt cover updated version 3

WARNING : Due to graphic gore and violence, the blood variant was deleted and needs to not be brought back to the article.

Logo: On a white background, we see an anthropomorphic salt shaker named Phil holding a circle saying the word "Salt "in his left hand. "Cover" is at the bottom of the screen. There is also "A Division of Salt Entertainment." This is the first Salt Cover logo to have an (R) bug.

Variants:

  • On The Suffering, the logo projects from the blood splattered on the wall.
  • Open Sores had the salt shaker bleeding on the ground.
  • Sometimes, the salt shaker wears socks, shoes, a shirt, and pants, like humans.
  • There is a variant of the dress variant that is bylineless.
  • On very early episodes of Open Sores, Phil bleeds to the ground.
    • On early episodes, this would sometimes be superimposed over the credits.
  • On Cooking Cat, Phil wears a chef's hat.

Music/Sounds: Ending theme or a cute little ditty (a.k.a. Phil's Ditty.)

Availability: Uncommon, but not rare from 1980, but VERY RARE in 2019, due to plastering with the 11th logo. In 1980-2019, the normal version is at least not that rare, since the Open Sores variant was quickly scrapped and replaced with the 5th logo, but some tapes of the show released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have it.

Scare Factor:

Description (2020-, prototype): None for the normal version. Medium to nightmare for the one with the blood.

Description (2021-): None for the original version, as Phil is cute and is tame compared to the blood variant. Medium to nightmare for the blood variant. The fact that the variant is gory could scare many people, especially those sensible to blood and gore.

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5th Logo (1983-1986)

Logo: We see Phil , holding a sign reading Salt Cover, while a crab is attached to his back.

1983 salt cover updated

Variant: Sometimes, Phil has light grey eyebrows and pants.

1983 salt cover

Music/Sounds: Seagulls with the cute little ditty from the 4th logo. Open Sores had a 6 note theme.

Availability: Uncommon. VERY RARE in 2019 : It gets plastered

Scare Factor: None. This is a cute logo.


6th Logo (1986-1992-2023)

Salt_cover_logo_(1988)

Salt cover logo (1988)

Logo: We see Phil from the previous logo, although this time he is roller skating along a highway. He passes three cars and then crashes into a tree. Salt Cover Entertainment fades in below. "A SALT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" appears below the title.

1986 salt cover updated

 A copyright date appears afterward.

Variants:

  • A Later Variant when the logo is Redesigned.
  • On Kendra's Krib, the salt shaker is distracted by a human female teenager and then crashes into a tree.
  • On The Brian Show, a shorter version of the logo is seen.
  • On Orange Gus, the salt shaker crashes into a lamppost.
  • On Library Matters, the salt shaker is roller skating on a bridge over the lake and crashes into, surprisingly, a brick building. "Entertainment" is omitted.

Music/Sounds: A flute tune, someone saying "Watch out," Phil saying "What," and then a cartoon-style CRASH as he hits the tree. We then hear the cute little ditty from the 4th logo. Can have the ending theme play over it.

Music/Sounds Variant: On German airings of The Brain Show, the logo has just the cute little ditty from tle 4th logo, with seconds of silence for the running time! This is most likely due to a plastering error with the 11th logo.

Availability: Not quite uncommon, but not quite common, either. Programs like CBS Dream Team and Discovery Family air The Brian Show and Orange Gus, so you can see it, but until Febraury 8th 2019, since it will get plastered over the 11th logo.

Scare Factor: Low, unless you don't like salt shakers crashing.


7th Logo (1992-2007)

Logo: We see Phil from the 5th and 6th logos against a pale blue BG. This time, he's bowling. Phil shouts "Come on, give me a strike, baby!" When the bowling ball hits the pins, the words "Salt Cover" pop up in a cartoony style wiggling around, while Phil says "YES!" and the ball changes to a salt shaker. "A Salt Entertainment Company" appears below the words. Also, a copyright appears.

Variants:

  • California Design had the bowling ball and salt shaker colored fuchsia.
  • New Science of the Unthinkable had a still shot of the finished logo.
  • On productions that are produced by Lionsgate that are distributed by Salt Cover at the time, while the end theme of the show plays, the bowling sounds and Phil shouting are intact.

Music/Sounds: The sound of a bowling ball hitting the bowling pins and after that, the cute little ditty from the 4th logo.

Availability: Common, can be seen on shows of the era. but until Febraury 8th 2019, since it will get plastered over the 11th logo.

Scare Factor: None.

8th Logo (2007-May 2013, December 2018-)

By this time, the Salt Entertainment Company had been mostly discontinued when they were bought outright by Vyond Pictures, which kept the Salt Cover name until December 2018.

2007 salt cover updated version 4

Logo: Inside a red, white, and blue, circle on a black BG, we see the familiar salt shaker pop out of it, arms outstreched. Suddenly, CGI confetti falls from the top of the screen, and "Salt Cover" fades in a handwritten font. The byline fades in below. Phil then says his famous line, "Salt Cover, best known for it's perfect network, perfect shows, perfect films, and me, Phil!"

Variants:

2007-2013 version:

  • In 2007, the words "CELEBRATING A NEW TELEVISION AGE" were seen at the bottom below "Salt Cover." The salt shaker says "Salt Cover. Celebrating a new television age!" instead of what he usually says. It is in a darker shade than usual. This variant is rare.
  • Sometimes the 2 versions had Phil just smiling (not even opening his mouth) with a part of his T-shirt seen.
  • 1980 salt cover

2018- version:

  • On movies, TV specials, as well as special feature material (bloopers, behind the scenes...), the shirt variant was used. Also, the logo is bylineless.

Bylines :

(2007-May 2013) A GoAnimate Studios Company

(October 2018-present) An International Studios company

Music/Sounds: A snap when the salt shaker pops out, tons of party blowers blowing when the confetti starts to fall out, and at the end, the cute little ditty from the 4th logo while the salt shaker is talking.

Cheesy Factor : On the Scary Fairies variant, the Tinky-Winky face looks UGLY and OFF-MODEL. It looks like an MS Paint project.

Availability: Common for 2008-2013, rare for 2007. Robyn's Journey kept the 2007 logo when it was released on video and DVD, so you can see it on there. but until Febraury 8th 2019, since it will get plastered over the 11th logo. (not for the 2018 version). For the 2018 version, it might not last long, since the new logo introduced in 2019, so the logo's days are numbered.

Scare Factor:

The logo itself : Low, the salt shaker talking might surprise you.

The Scary Fairies variant (2020-, prototype description) : High to nightmare, The Tinky-Winky head looks super ugly and SCARY AS HECK!!!

The Scary Fairies variant (2021- description): High to nightmare. This is one of the scariest Vyond logos of all time (along with the logo on this page, horror variant) due to the extremely scary Tinky-Winky head (which is even scarier than the fairy on the BBC2 Christmas ident from 1998) and Tinky smashing the screen by throwing a hammer on the camera. (Please tell if the image of the variant is too extremely scary for the wiki.)

9th Logo (2008-2010)


Logo: In the 0 of a huge 60, we see the 80s and 90s version of Phil, except he's lounging. His back, which is dangling down from the 0, is carrying a flag reading "Years of." The Salt Cover text is seen below, shining, with the byline below. The 80s and 90s Phil then says "Salt Cover, celebrating 60 years of perfect entertainment, and me, Phil!!"

2008 salt cover updated version 1(1)
2009 salt cover version 2

Variants:

  • On productions that are produced with Vyond Television, which normally edits out Salt Cover logos, kept this intact on Young Rich, except they inserted a "PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH" line below "Salt Cover."
  • "Celebrating Over" was seen above the 60 starting in 2009.
  • On productions that are produced with Nelvana, the salt shaker turns into the Nelvana Polar Bear from 2004.
  • Sometimes, the logo looks badly drawn.
    • On Phil's Christmas Vacation, the background is black with a blue light, and the logo is snowing all over. "In association with Blossom Pictures" is shown below.
    • On syndication prints of Master's Kiddie Shows and Rees Shortage City, the background is sky blue.
      2009 salt cover version 1
  • On 2008-2010 Scary Fairies episodes, a black and white version of Tinky-Winky pushes the logo.
    Salt cover new scary fairies variant
2008 salt cover updated version 5

Trivia:

Cheesy Factor : The badly drawn version looks VERY UGLY, even uglier than

the Scart Fairies variant from the last logo!

Music/Sounds: A triumphant 2-second fanfare followed by the cute little ditty

from the 4th logo.

2008 salt cover updated version 4

Availability: Common at the era.

Scare Factor: Same as the 8th logo.


10th Logo (May 2013-September 2017, December 2017-March 14, 2018, July 1, 2018)

Logo: On a white or shady blue background, we see a circle move and morph to form the Salt Cover logo, styled like that in the 50s; It shines, then "salt cover" text swoops down from the top of the screen. As soon it is done, the background turns white or shady blue. Sometimes "entertainment" appears under "salt cover."

2014 salt cover updated

Variants:

  • On Toaster's Revenge, Phil comes in and says to the logo, "Screw you, inanimate salt shaker! Screw you! I'm supposed to be here, good lord!"
  • Sometimes, the logo is still.

Music/Sounds: The cute little ditty from the 4th logo. The logo can have the ending theme over it.

Availability: No longer current. Usually preserved when episodes of the shows from this time were rerun on TimeHop.

Scare Factor: None, you'll just be annoyed by the lack of Phil which has graced the Salt Entertainment Company name for over 30 years since Phil was created.

11th Logo (February 8th 2019-)

Sc2018

Logo : We see Phil on a camera that reads "Salt Cover" in an unknown font (ala the 7th logo). The International Studios byline is seen at the bottom left corner.

FX/SFX : The logo is still

Music/Sounds : The cute little ditty from the 4th logo, the ending theme of the show, or none.

Music/Sounds Variant :

  • On 2019 Polish airings of Bright Idea on TV Puls, it uses the music from the 3rd logo, with the drumbeats and all! This is probably because TV Puls forgot to update the audio track.

Availability: Extremely common. It appears on all current prints of Salt Cover shows such as episodes of Teletubbies, Boohbah and Robyn's Journey : Children Version. It also plastered over any Ragdoll and the old Salt Cover logos (except for the 2018 version of the 8th logo) used on shows produced from said companies. The 2018 version of the 8th logo is still in use in tandem with this logo, although it might change on the future.

Brazilian Station ID History[]

1st Ident (1948-1974)

Nickname: "The Cut Circles"

Ident: We see a close-up of various circles moving on the screen. Then the camera zooms out from the logo, and "Salt Cover" moves from the bottom of the screen. The logo is a pattern of various poorly-drawn circle outlines, one inside another, with a cut in the middle.

Variant: Sometimes, Salt Cover used an prototype logo, consisting of a white circle with four tilted parallellograms, three being outlines and one being full. There are many variants of it, including one that features the logo on a white rectangle, cutting to a white rectangle at the left, saying in a terrible Portuguese accent:

menas curtura

menas educascao

menas tudu

tudu menass

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Scare Factor: TBA


2nd Ident (1966-1984)

Nickname: "Circle S"

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3rd Ident (1975-1980)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth"

Ident: The logo itself and many variants are parodies of the Rede Globo idents, consisting of a sphere with a cut in the right to look like a mouth (a la Pac-Man).

FX/SFX: As said before, this is a parody of the TV Globo idents.

Music/Sounds: Depending on the variant, it could have an Brazilian announcer. Depends of the continuity, for example "Salt Cover... ou quase (or almost)".

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: As said before, the logo design chosen for this looks like a rip-off of the famous Pac-Man, and while the design for the Rede Globo logo is iconic, the design chosen for this is not only lazy, but also ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. That shares the same amount of rip-off with the SBT logo, which look like the iconic design for one of the biggest television companies of all time, American Broadcasting Company, but later SBT added rainbow colours on the logo, while Salt Cover did the same thing on the circle's mouth, which make both and Rede Globo's logos comparable.



4th Ident (1980-1983)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth ll"

Ident: Same as the previous ident.

Variant: As before, there are many variants of it, including one variant which uses the same animation of the 1980 Globo ID. There's also a version which is the same as the one mentioned before, but with many Pac-Mans and Ghosts added into it.

FX/SFX: Same as the previous ident. In the variant, same as the 1980 Globo ID, except with Pac-Mans and Ghosts added into it.

Music/Sounds: Depends of the variant. In the second variant mentioned above, a 1980's disco tune is heard while changes, with the Pac-Man sounds added into it when the characters appear.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: The second variant mentioned above is even more ridiculous! The blatant choice for the logo design was bad enough, but the fact that this ident stole the characters from the Pac-Man game absolutely stinks blatant PLAGIARISM! This is one of the worst and the most blatant Television Idents of all time. But considering this is a company made to laugh out of the Brazilian TV, it was probably intentional.



5th Ident (1981)

Nickname: "Rainbow Stripes"

Ident: Same as the TVS/SBT ident, which is the same as the ABC "Still the One" ident. But instead is the Salt Cover logo from 1966.

FX/SFX: Same as the idents mentioned above.

Music/Sounds: Same as SBT, but the lyrics now changed:

Agora sim, você vai ver

(Now yes, you're gonna see)

Um bando de ladrões

(A bunch of thi-e-ves)

Muito tarde, polícia e covardia...

(Very late, police and cowardice...)

Music/Sounds Variant: The lyrics now changed again, as well as the music:

Agora vai compensar (Oiiii)

(Now you're going to compensate, Hiiii)

Um mundooo de atraçõeees (A wo-o-rld of attractioons)

(inaudible) Um pouco lentos (A bit slo-o-o-w)

É que a gente ainda não comprou (It's that we still didn't bu-u-uy)

OS INSTRUMENTOOOS (THE INSTRUMENTSSS)

Availability: extinct

Editor's Note: Same as the SBT ident. As said before, considering this is to laugh out of the Brazilian TV, it was probably intentional.



6th Ident (1983)

Nickname: "Rainbow"

Ident: Just the prototype logo zooming out on a blue background and shining, which is a rainbow with SALT COVER on a golden font.

FX/SFX: Zooming out and shining.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Unknown.

Editor's Note: It's important noting that the logo design is the same as RecordTV.



7th Ident (1986-1988)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 4"

Ident: The Salt Cover logo returns, replacing the Rede Globo logo on its idents.

Variant: There is a variant for Salt Cover's 23th anniversary, where we see the coloured Salt Cover logos flying around the screen before stopping, revealing the Salt Cover 23 Anos logo, which is the same as Rede Globo's 20 Anos logo. Meanwhile, we hear Brazilian men singing

Tudo o que pintar de novoooo! (Everything you paint agaaain!)

and a announcer saying "É porque já pintou antes!" (It's because you already painted before!)

FX/SFX: Same as Rede Globo.

Music/Sounds: Depends of the variant, including the one where it's a parody of the Rede Globo ident as said before, where Brazilian men sings "Vem que teeem, naa Cooveer teeeem" followed by a tcham sound with a mouth.

Availability: Extinct again.

Editor's Note: Same as the previous idents, this is a parody of the said ident above.



8th Ident (1988-1992)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 5"

Ident: Same as the previous idents.

Variants: There were also two variants that occurs on a city. Here are the descriptions:

"Predios" (Buildings): A parody of the Globo ident, but when the Salt Cover logo hits into the buildings, the buildings are destroyed, and instead of merging into a building, the logo hits the building while the camera moves, but then stops and moves back to the Salt Cover logo, which falls. A tongue appears out of the mouth of the logo while CGI stars flies around it (indicating the logo got dizzy) and then the buildings disappears while the rainbow colours appears on its mouth and, instead of logo copies appearing with rainbow colours, various magnifying glasses appears at the left of the logo and various "eyes" appears at the right while an announcer says the name of the company with a bad accent, making it look like it's saying "Salte e Couve", which means "Jump and Cabbage".

"Favela" (Shanty Town): We see a street while various steam spheres fly around the city. The camera moves while the spheres continue flying around and then we see several buildings and houses. The camera then pans through the houses, with a mosquito flying and spheres flying through them, either flying outside or inside through doors and windows. We end on a black background, with one of the spheres turning into the Salt Cover logo, and "SALT COVER" stopping below the logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the previous idents.

Music/Sounds: Depends of the variant, there is a variant where an announcer says "Cover e você, nada a ver!" which is a parody of the Globo slogan "Globo e você, tudo a ver!".

Music/Sounds Variants: On the city variants, the "Predios" ident uses the music from the Globo ident until when the Salt Cover logo hits a building, with an optimist xylophone theme playing throughout the entire ident and sound effects, while the "Favela" ident starts with whooshes and zapping sounds when the spheres flies through the city, followed by an short excerpt of an Brazilian funk, then a repetitive unknown sound, and throughout the "trip" through the houses until the Salt Cover logo forms, an repetitive note that ridiculously changes the pitch, with the last notes being the four notes of the Globo's jingle.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: Same as the previous ident.




9th Ident (1992-1996)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 6"

Ident: Same as the previous idents. The variants are described below.

Variants:

New Year 1992: We zoom out from the Salt Cover logo's mouth, while three blue/purple stars zoom out and fireworks explodes in the background. The announcer says "Faça o 93 diferente" (Make '93 different), while another announcer says "Se bem que a campanha é mesmo do ano passado, hein..." (Although the campaign is really from the last year, huh...).

1993: We pass through CGI columns with speakers, then we see the Salt Cover logo with the speakers reflected behind it. The Salt Cover logo spins clockwise and then counterclockwise, then stops. The announcer says "A Cover vira e mexe, mexe e vira, parece que tá dançando forró! Cover e você, nada a ver!" (Cover turn and move, move and turn, it looks like it's dancing lining! Cover and you, nothing to see!)

1996 (Rumba Rhythm): We see an rainbow background. The rainbow background then spins, and we zoom out to reveal the Salt Cover logo.

(Warning: Do not watch the video if you have epilepsy.)

The announcer says:

"A Cover rola o que roda, gira o que roda, chacoalha no ritmo da Rumba e você não enjoa da nossa programação! Cover e você, nada a ver!"

(Cover roll what rolls, spin what rolls, shake in the rhythm of Rumba and you don't get sick of our programming! Cover and you, nothing to see!)

FX/SFX: Same as the previous idents (again)

Music/Sounds: Like the previous idents, these are parodies of the Rede Globo idents.

Availability: Extinct (again)

Editor's Note: The Rumba variant could give seizures in some people, but you could laugh at the announcer in these variants.

The rest TBA.



10th Logo (1996-1998)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 7"

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Rede Xtranormal Comedy

(1998-2001)

TBA

Rede Nawmal Comedy

(2001)

TBA

11th Logo (2001-2005)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 8"

Coming Soon!


12th Logo (2005-2008)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 9"

Coming Soon!


13th Logo (2008-2011)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 10"

Coming Soon!


14th Logo (2011-2014)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 11"

Coming Soon!


15th Logo (2014-2015)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 12"

Coming Soon!


16th Logo (2015-)

Nickname: "Circle Mouth 13"

Coming Soon!

Notice:[]

  1. The Brazilian Salt Cover idents are actually fan-made. It can be seen on a video about the chronology of idents.
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