Qubo

Qubo was launched in 2006 as a multi platform children's entertainment joint venture between NBCUniversal, Ion Media Networks, Classic Media, Corus Entertainment and Scholastic. NBCUniversal dropped out from the partnership in March 2012 and Ion acquired NBCUniversal's interest in the venture. A year later, Ion wholly acquired all of Qubo from Classic Media (now known as DreamWorks Classics), Corus, and Scholastic.

On February 28, 2021, Qubo was removed from most cable providers. As well as that, sister channels Ion Plus and Ion Shop stopped broadcasting. At the Beginning of March 2021, Qubo was abruptly shut down. Shortly after, Ion was acquired by the E.W. Scripps Company.

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Visuals: These IDs contain a cartoonish 3D style. The IDs contain Qubo's "Qube" logo as the main icon, with the logo appearing at the end of each ID. See Variants for the list of IDs.

• Note: The defunct NBC, Telemundo and Ion blocks would have the channel's logo slide in on the end of a variant. It should not be treated as a separate ID or a separate logo.

Variants: This ID had a large amount of variants, listed below:

• Skateboard: On a skate-park setting, there are 2 cubes, one green and one white. The green cube then turns into a green helmet on top of the white cube's head. The cube then dives down with a skateboard, skates under a loop, and then jumps off a ramp. The cube then turns into the Qubo logo.
• Boombox: On a city setting, there is a person made out of cubes wearing a cap, glasses, and a Qubo chain. The person, whilst holding a boom-box, break-dances in front of 7 small cubes. The Qubo logo from the chain is seen at the end.
• Arts & Crafts: On an orange background, a pair of white gloves cut a red paper with scissors. The paper is cut into 7 red cubes. Another pair of gloves is gluing blue cubes in a string, which they then show off. The last pair of gloves crumbles multiple colored-papers into the Qubo logo, which the gloves then stretches and prints in a table.
• Machinery: On a factory setting, there is a truck, a soccer ball and a rubber chicken on a rail, which leads to what seems to be a transformer. A green ray is then blasted to the rubber chicken, which is sent inside the transformer. On a screen printed in the machine, a model of the rubber chicken is seen. The turkey model is then wiped and replaced with the Qubo logo. The cube is then punted off a tube. The cube rolls, and then jumps into a sky-blue background, which is when the Qubo logo is seen.
• Playground: On a typical playground setting, two Qubo logos are jumping over two ropes. As the camera starts to pan around, it reveals that there is more equipment in the background, like a swing set and something that appears to be monkey bars. The two Qubo logos previously skipping rope connect with each other with an orange spring, and bounce around for a bit. The spring turns into a basketball, and the two Qubo logos dribble the ball for a bit. The Qubo logo in the right (in red) transforms into the standard Qubo logo on a sky blue background.
• Vacuum: In a blue room with a green floor, a purple shelf with a flower on a yellow pot on the top of it, it shows 7 qubes in a yellowish orange vacuum, with 5 more qubes on the floor, with 2 of them being sucked up by the vacuum, and then the camera zooms to the farthest qube, as the text quickly draws in.
• Tornado: In a messy bedroom with two Qubo logos, another Qubo logo opens a door and talks gibberish; possibly telling the two logos to clean their room. The door closes, and the two logos on the bed start to bounce around (one even rides a skateboard for a few seconds) and transform into a tornado. Ironically, the tornado cleans the room instead of making it worse. After a while, the tornado becomes one Qubo logo, which sits on the bed .The camera then zooms towards the logo, finishing in the same fashion as the other ones, but the background is the same color as the bed.
• Giant: In a city, a giant black and white humanoid entity, is surrounded and worried by three helicopters hanging from a skyscraper, before two of them deploy a safety net and the giant smiles and bounces off of it and morphs into the Qube in the sky, before the text draws in.
• Race: On a street/highway/road setting with a giant sun, there is a starting line banner with the text "QUBO 500" and two checkered flags (possibly a parody of the Indianapolis 500) on it. Then, four race cars in different colors zoom through the starting line. It then cuts to another part of the road with a crossing sign containing two Qubo logos on it (if you look closely to the right, you can still see the starting line). The cars then zoom past again, and we cut to a crosswalk with three Qubo logos crossing the road (one is bigger than the others). As the camera zooms out and the racecars approach the crosswalk, a fourth Qubo logo, which is the smallest of all of them, runs across the sidewalk as the racecars come to a stop. The camera then zooms into the smallest Qubo logo and the text appears as usual on a green background.
• Magic: A hand holding a magic wand opens a magic book where a giant sea monster appears, growling, then closes and opens the book to reveal a pink rabbit, then does not close the book, but a Qubo logo appears, quickly jumping to reveal it on a yellow background.
• Artist: In a room with green wooden walls and a yellow floor, a Qube draws a picture, and a smaller Qube turns into an orb to signify satisfaction, then the artist Qube draws a less quality picture and the small Qube turns back into a cube, before the artist Qube screams and makes a orange and yellow scribble with a Qube on it, before the camera zooms to it as the text draws in.
• Dance Party: On a dark blue room background, 16 qubes drop into the space, 4 of them becoming speakers, 1 of them becoming a screen, and 1 of them turning into a saucer that makes red, yellow, and green lights. The other 10 dance for a few seconds, before the saucer turns back into a Qube and the camera zooms on it as the text draws in while the background fades to navy.
• Soccer: A game starts with blue and yellow Qubes playing, until the blue team scores, in which the ball turns into a qube, as the text draws in.
• Surfing: On an island with a yellow staircase and a glass, one qube jumps and joins the other three with one other qube on the staircase, which causes the glass to spill, with the one that just jumped in riding a red surfboard, before the wave floods the camera, with the logo appearing afterwards.
• Table Tennis: Two qubes are tossed onto a table tennis table, with the right qube hitting it by turning into a baseball bat, then the left qube turns into a ping pong paddle to knock it to the right qube, which also turns into a paddle, then the left qube knocks it back as a glove, before the right qube absorbs the ball, then jumps into the sky, making the text draw in.

Technique: Fast-paced CGI, Made by The Ebeling Group.

Audio: Depends on the variant. At the end of every variant, a "pop" noise is heard.

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Visuals: On a background with moving shapes, a blue Qubo logo in the center transforms into an object, with the Qubo text appearing after the transformation. The object varies depending on the variant. They all finish with the object transforming back into the Qubo logo, with the URL "qubo.com" fading in.

Trivia: The CGI version of the Qubo logo was first introduced in the fall of 2010.

Variants: The objects and background are different for each variant.

• Balloon: On a yellow-orange background, the Qubo logo transforms into a blue balloon with a black string. It moves and does a flip, causing the Qubo text to rise a bit. It finishes with the balloon transforming back to the Qubo logo.
• Bucket: On a yellow background, the Qubo logo transforms into a blue bucket. It hops around for a bit, causing the text below to separate for a bit. The logo then finishes the same as the Balloon ident.
• Map: On the same background as Bucket and Airplane, the Qubo logo morphs into a blue map with a black outline, with a blue and white boat sailing it, seen after it opens, then the map closes and the map morphs back into the logo.
• Book: On a blue background, the Qubo logo turns into a blue book with a white star with a black outline on it, which opens and reveals a magic wand, making the text levitate a little bit, before the book closes as the magic wand moves back in as the logo morphs back.
• Microscope: On a green background, the Qubo logo morphs into a blue and white microscope, in which it's eyepiece moves up and back down, before the microscope does a backflip and morphs back into the logo.
• Airplane: On the same background as Bucket and Map, the Qubo logo morphs into a black and white airplane with a blue propeller, and flips while the text moves around and then the Qubo logo morphs back.
• Ball: On the same background as Book, the Qubo logo morphs into a blue and white with a black outline soccer ball, bouncing a bit, before bouncing to the right then back to the left, morphing back into the logo.
• UFO: On a purple background, the Qubo logo morphs into a blue and white UFO with a pink and green light, and moves around while carrying the text on it's tractor beam, before it flies back to the center and morphs back into the logo.
• Flower: On the same background as Balloon, the Qubo logo morphs into a black and blue ball with a hole on top, which falls and releases it's petals, before jumping and twirling three times, before the logo morphs back.
• Wagon: On the same background as Microscope, the Qubo logo morphs into a blue wagon with white wheels, which moves a bit, before the wagon morphs back into the logo.

Technique: CGI.

Trivia: Purple is the only background color which wasn't shared by any other idents in this ID.

Audio: A guitar solo accompanied by various sound effects. It ends in a 3-note strum.

Audio Trivia: This music can be also heard in the "Qubo Cares Sweepstakes" promo from January 1-June 30, 2011 and the K12 Learning Block bumper from 2013-2017.

Audio Variants:

• Each variant has a different sound effect.
• Between January 8, 2019 (which replaced the "Qubo Night Owl" programming block) and February 21, 2021 (seven days before the channel's closure), there are the sign-on and sign-off variants where the male announcer would say "You're watching Qubo!" or "Thanks for watching Qubo!"; around this time, Qubo would air infomercials between 1 am and 6 am.