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It was estimated in 2003 that NBC is viewable by 97.17% of all households, reaching 103,624,370 houses in the United States.
NBC has used a number of logos throughout its history, early logos were similar to the logo of its then parent company, RCA, but later logos included stylized peacock images.
NBC News got the first interview from two Russian presidents (Putin, Gorbachev) and was the only American eye-witness of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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NBC was founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of American, RCA, and is today owned by General Electric.
NBC's logo is an abstraction of a peacock to indicate richness in color.
NBC started to use the 3 notes in 1933, and it was the first ever audio trademark to be accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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NBC started to use the 3 notes in 1931, and it was the first ever audio trademark to be accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The NBC chimes were mechanized in 1932; their purpose was to send a low level signal of constant amplitude that would be heard by the various switching stations manned by NBC and ATandT engineers, and thus used as a system cue for switching different stations between the Red and Blue network feeds.
In February 1976, NBC was sued by the Nebraska ETV network for trademark infringement since the new NBC logo was virtually identical to the ETV logo.
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 NBC - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The last U.S. network holding company to legally abandon the name behind its acronym, in 2003 the corporate name was shrunk from "National Broadcasting Company, Inc.", as it had been from 1926, to NBC Universal, Inc. following a merger with Vivendi Universal's Entertainment division in 2004.
It was owned by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), itself set up in 1919 to control Guglielmo Marconi's American patents; RCA in turn was owned by General Electric Company (GE), the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the United Fruit Company and American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT).
Studio 8H is now the home of the NBC entertainment program Saturday Night Live.) The dominance ended when Huntley retired, to only die from cancer in 1974.
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