So does anybody know why early TV broadcasts of The Great Muppet Caper had the Universal logo at the beginning? I thought ITC Entertainment was the original distributor of Henson's first three feature films, but I have seen Universal listed as a distributor on websites like Internet Movie Database (and I think Muppet Wiki). I used to have a taped-from-TV copy of The Muppet Movie that started a few seconds after the movie did, after the logos were finished, and other TV broadcasts I've seen (until I saw it on The Disney Channel in 1995, which begann with the Jim Henson Productions logo sequence) I didn't realize it was on until after it started. In fact I sort of recall seeing one TV broadcast of GMC which had another logo before the Universal logo (I assume it was the ITC logo, but ITC no longer owned the distribution rights by then).
So was Universal just a TV distributor for many years? Or a US distributor (though Universal Home Video never released TMM, GMC, or Dark Crystal on video)?