| dc.description.abstract | Television  becomes  one  of  human  needs  in  order  to  fulfill  their  needs  of 
information. Every television channel builds its own image by broadcasting a kind of 
programs.  Some  television  channels  specialized  their  broadcasting  in  sport,  news, 
entertainment,  music  and  many  others  programs.  Not  only  by  broadcasting  such 
special  programs,  a  television  channel  also  releases  a  logo  as  a  way  to  show  its 
identity. The symbolic logo of some television channels that become the data in this 
thesis  have  relation  with  the  most  programs  broadcasted  by  its  television  channel. 
The  logo  of  television  channel  has  a  role  as  a  sign  that  can  be  interpreted  by  using 
semiotic theory. Semiotics is one of linguistic branches, it can be said that sign study 
is also a language study. A sign does not stand for itself; a sign stands for another thing 
instead.  It  means  that  there  is  something  else  that  can  be  revealed  by  observing  a  sign. 
Peirce  has  proposed  the  concept  of  triangle  of  signification.  It  is  concerned  with  the 
triadic relationship between the sign, its object, and the bridge of them called interpretant. 
Peirce’s semiotic theory is very helpful in order to analyze the data here. 
However,  the  interpretation  of  someone  may  different  from  the  others;  it  is 
because  everyone  has  different  concept  in  his  or  her  mind.  That  interpretation  also 
depends  on  the  context  related  to  the  sign.  Here  there  are  two  television  channels 
(TransTV  and  MetroTV)  that  successfully  launch  such  an  appropriate  logo  with  their 
ideology  and  programs  broadcasted.  There  is  also  a  lack  of  one  television  channel 
(Indosiar) in launching its logo, because the nature’s of its logo has no synchronization 
with  the  characteristic  of  programs  broadcasted.  From  this  study,  it  can  be  seen  that 
semiotic  theory  helps  to  analyze  the  data.  It  is  also  hoped  to  help  the  creative  team  in 
making an attractive and effective logo. | en_US |