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  NBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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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  Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia NBC -
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.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/nb/NBC   (1229 words)

  
 NBC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NBC was founded November 15, 1926 as a radio network by RCA, GE, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
NBC started to use the three notes in 1931, and it was the first ever audio trademark to be accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
NBC News correspondent David Bloom pushed through the GE and U.S. Department of Defense bureaucracies permission to construct a mobile news vehicle that could transmit live video broadcasts from the battlefield.
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 NBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
NBC's first color broadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock, but in 1957 on Your Hit Parade the peacock was gloriously animated, and thereafter appeared at the beginning of every NBC color broadcast until a revamped animation appeared in the 1960s.
NBC was briefly sued by the Nebraska ETV Network, as it was using a similar logo.
NBC News got the first interview from 2 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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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.
NBC's first colorbroadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock, but in 1957 on Your Hit Parade the peacock was gloriously animated, and thereafterappeared at the beginning of every NBC color broadcast until a revamped animation appeared in the 1960s.
NBC was briefly sued by the Nebraska ETV Network, asit was using a similar logo.
www.therfcc.org /nbc-3803.html   (1616 words)

  
 NBC Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television broadcasting and cable company, including the NBC television network, the Telemundo Spanish language broadcast television network, the CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo cable channels, and a group of owned-and-operated television stations.
The NBC radio network opened with 24 stations on November 15, 1926.
The WEAF stations and network would become known as the NBC Red network, the WJZ stations and network would be dubbed the NBC Blue network (later to become ABC, the American Broadcasting Company).
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 NBC [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At the very end, every NBC star (past and present) stood on stage to introduce a new logoA logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way....
NBC NewsNBC News is one of the 'big three' nationwide air and cable television news networks in the United States.
NBC News also benefits from the GE corporate structure by having the ability to take reports from its cable counterpart MSNBCMSNBC (Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company) is a 24-hour news channel in the United States.
www.wikimirror.com /NBC   (5633 words)

  
 ipedia.com: NBC Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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.
NBC's first color broadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock, but in 1957 on Your Hit Parade the peacock was gloriously animated, and thereafter appeared at the beginning of every NBC color broadcast until a revamped animation appeared in the 1960s.
NBC was briefly sued by the Nebraska ETV Network, as it was using a similar logo.
www.ipedia.com /nbc.html   (1791 words)

  
 NBC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The National Broadcasting Company was created when RCA purchased radio stations -New York, -Washington, D.C., and the radio programming network from American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) in 1926 and merged those assets with its own New York, WRC Washington and radio programming network.
In 1956 an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock to indicate richness in color was created by, and adopted, due to the increase in color programming.
A recent announcement that this logo would be used again suggests an "NBC Snake" redesign may be used when the network fully enters the HDTV era.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/NBC   (2284 words)

  
 NBC Network History
NBC announced that in subsequent broadcasts, advertising would defray the cost of the performances.
NBC ran two networks, identified by "Red" and "Blue" lines on the ATandT diagrams, and eventually named their two network services NBC-Red and NBC-Blue until forced to sell off the Blue to Edward Noble to form the basis of the new ABC network.
NBC also was the originating body for several other networks, labeled White, Orange and Gold.
www.oldradio.com /archives/prog/nbc.htm   (641 words)

  
 Red Skelton
Red Skelton was known and respected as a comedian who could bring his audience to laughter and tears - without uttering a single word of profanity.
Red Skelton was born in Vincennes, Indiana on July 18, 1913, the fourth son of Joseph and Ida Skelton.
Red was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1944, discharged in 1945 and returned to NBC and THE RED SKELTON SHOW." In 1949 The Red Skelton Show moved from NBC to CBS Radio where the show aired until May 1953.
www.timelessmusic.com /DVDs/redskelton_41(old).htm   (1328 words)

  
 National Broadcasting Company
Unlike CBS, which was formed as an independent programming enterprise, NBC came into existence as the subsidiary of an electronics manufacturer which saw programming as a form of marketing, an enticement to purchase radio and television receivers for the home.
NBC's most important role for its parent was in helping to extend the general appeal of television as the market for television sets boomed.
Silverman's tenure as president of NBC lasted from 1978 to 1981 and is probably the lowest point in the history of the network.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/N/htmlN/nationalbroa/nationalbroa.htm   (1651 words)

  
 National Broadcasting Company
NBC was created when RCA purchased radio stations WEAF New York, WCAP Washington, DC and the radio programming network from American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) in 1926 and merged those assets with its own WJZ New York, WRC Washington and radio programming network.
NBC entered the infant television industry at its very start, since parent RCA was deeply involved in the development of visual broadcasting.
NBC is moving into a new era in its existence with General Electric’s acquisition of the Universal assets of the French company Vivendi-Universal.
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 RCA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Antitrust concerns led to the breakup of the NBC radio networks by the FCC, which breakup was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.
On October 12, 1943, the "NBC Blue" radio network was sold to "Life Savers" candy magnate Edward J. Noble for $8,000,000, and renamed "The Blue Network, Inc." It would become the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1946 when Mr.
GE kept the NBC broadcasting interests, sold the RCA record business to the German communications firm Bertelsmann AG, and then sold the consumer electronics parts to Thomson Consumer Electronics of France, one of the world's largest manufacturers of television and radio equipment.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/rca   (885 words)

  
 NBC - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The National Broadcasting Company, now formally called NBC Universal Television or NBC, is an American television network based in New York's Rockefeller Center.
NBC's first color broadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock, but in 1957 on Your Hit Parade the peacock was animated, and thereafter appeared at the beginning of every NBC color broadcast until a revamped animation appeared in the 1960s.
On New Year's Eve, 1975, the time had come to update NBC's visual identity, and a stylized N was introduced, consisting of two trapezoids.
www.greatestinfo.org /NBC   (1869 words)

  
 The NBC Chimes Museum
NBC's inital broadcast was made on the evening of November 15, 1926; this was the beginning of what came to be known as the Red Network, headed by flagship station WEAF.
However, NBC had already shifted away from the concept of using the Chimes as a low-level signal meant mostly for the ears of ATandT Long Lines engineers, and had begun playing up the chimes to the listening public as a means of identifying the network on the air.
McLeod have spent years researching the NBC Chimes, and it is due to their efforts that we have even the barest outline of the progress of the various chimes sequences.
www.nbcchimes.info   (10971 words)

  
 NBC: nbc today show, nbc today, nbc fall schedule
NBC Radio's last major programming push, in 1955, was Monitor, a continuous, all-weekend mixture of music, news, interviews and features with a variety of hosts including such well-known television personalities as Dave Garroway, Hugh Downs, Ed McMahon, Joe Garagiola and Gene Rayburn.
NBC Radio's network operations were sold to Westwood One, and the NBC-owned stations were sold to various buyers.
NBC began broadcasting certain shows in color in 1954, and the first NBC show to air all episodes in color, The Marriage, was shown that summer.
advantacell.com /wiki/NBC   (4487 words)

  
 Arts: Television: Networks: National Broadcasting Corporation - Open Site
NBC became the first U.S. network to begin regular television broadcasts with its inaugural telecast of the opening day ceremonies of the New York World's Fair of 1939.
NBC also ventured into the early morning time slots with the Today show and late evening with Tonight.
But NBC could not keep the ratings and had fallen from it's number one slot by the late 1980s.
open-site.org /Arts/Television/Networks/National_Broadcasting_Corporation   (318 words)

  
 NBC Network
First NBC president Merlin Ailesworth says "Beginning tonight you will receive a new thrill in radio..." 26 Stations are on the network.
NBC Networks at that time had a policy against airing "recorded" news events and, in essence, the Hindenburg disaster
NBC carried news related to events in Europe, including a speech by Hitler, and a September 3, 1939 speech by British Prime Minister Chamberlin declaring war on Germany.
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 NBC NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY
NBC (formerly an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, the former legal name of the network) is an American television and radio network based in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
NBC became the last U.S. network holding company to legally abandon the name behind its acronym; the corporate name was shrunk from "National Broadcasting Company, Inc." to "NBC Universal, Inc." following the merger with French Vivendi Universal's Entertainment division in 2004.
NBC News has a deal with BBC News (The British Broadcasting Corparation's News), they exchange sources and put eachother's 'daily' news on at night.
www.solarnavigator.net /films_movies_actors/NBC.htm   (2569 words)

  
 Articles - American Broadcasting Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In 1940 the Federal Communications Commission issued the "Report on Chain Broadcasting." The report proposed "divorcement," or the selling of either NBC Red or NBC Blue by RCA.
During 1942 and 1943 NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their assets.
Which apparently, Noble did, because on October 12, 1943 the sale was approved and the new network sold air time to organized labor.
www.storegolf.com /articles/American_Broadcasting_Company   (1882 words)

  
 Broadcasting History - Various Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The terms "Red" and "Blue" were actually used on-air only rarely during the time in which NBC operated two chains -- for a brief period spanning the latter half of 1936 and the first half of 1937, and again for several months in mid-1941.
NBC doesn't seem to have been especially interested in drawing attention to its bifurcated structure for most of the time it ran two networks -- and indeed, until 1937-38 there *were* no administrative distinctions between the two networks.
It's also likely that NBC feared federal intervention forcing it to divest itself of one of the two networks, and was taking care to ensure that its big money contracts were lined up on one side of the scale before this happened.
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 Master Control (second view)
Given the fact that NBC had two networks to service, it was often the case that two or more of the Merchandise Mart studios were simultaneously feeding programs.
In one corner he painted the old NBC logo (identical to the one you've seen elsewhere on these pages) and a representation of an RCA model 4A microphone.
At some point after we moved to the new NBC tower, but before our lease at the Mart expired, the canvas was removed from its mounting, rolled up and put in storage.
www.richsamuels.com /nbcmm/mcrb.html   (538 words)

  
 Spotlight on Golden Age Networks - NBC
NBC White was NBC's Religious Programming network, also referred to as The Watchtower Network, and operated from about 1928 to 1936.
NBC was wildly successful with it's programming throughout the Golden Age of Radio, and not only attempted to monopolize all of the markets it penetrated, but also ensured that it could control the costs of its talent.
NBC had deep pockets, and provided some of the most enduring and popular programs of the Golden Age of Radio.
www.digitaldeliftp.com /LookAround/la_networkspot_nbc.htm   (1855 words)

  
 Midland Red (West) Ltd. - Leyland National Vehicle Livery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In October 1986, in preparation for deregulation, Midland Red (West) Limited introduced a new red and cream bus livery to replacing this standard NBC livery on their fleet of Leyland Nationals.
Overall advertising was used by Midland Red (West) Ltd on their fleet of Leyland National buses from the formation of the company in 1981, until the second batch of Dennis Lance buses replaced the Leyland Nationals at Worcester depot (WR) in 1995.
The advertising was removed and she was returned to standard NBC “Poppy Red” bus livery in June 1986, becoming one of the last vehicles to be repainted by Midland Red (West) Limited into NBC livery before privatisation and the introduction of the new red and cream bus livery.
www.midlandred.net /fleet/leyland/national/mrw_livery.htm   (1646 words)

  
 NBC Network
First NBC president Merlin Ailesworth says "Beginning tonight you will receive a new thrill in radio..." 26 Stations are on the network.
NBC Networks at that time had a policy against airing "recorded" news events and, in essence, the Hindenburg disaster
NBC carried news related to events in Europe, including a speech by Hitler, and a September 3, 1939 speech by British Prime Minister Chamberlin declaring war on Germany.
www.imonthe.net /66wnbc/network.htm   (510 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Red Skelton Show: Red Displays His Emmies, 1952 : Main
This kinescope of Red Skelton's February 24, 1952 telecast is one of the few episodes exta...
This kinescope of Red Skelton's February 24, 1952 telecast is one of the few episodes extant from Red's NBC years.
In his opening monologue, Red proudly displays his two Emmy awards, then thanks the audience and the entertainment industry for these honors.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/184688/moviemain.jhtml   (146 words)

  
 NBC voice entertains Red Cross
Mackall, the voice of NBC who is "the one pitching the shows between the shows," traveled to Happy Valley to share his experiences and humor at the Pennsylvania Red Cross Conference at the Inn, 200 W. Park Ave.
Mackall, who is heard between NBC shows saying "Up next, a brand new Seinfeld on must-see TV," used the conference theme, "Start Spreading the News," to engage the audience of American Red Cross directors and volunteers in a humorous portrayal of what the Red Cross could do to improve its narrow image.
Through song and story, Mackall expressed that Red Cross workers need to tell their personal stories of why they are committed to helping others.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/10/10-07-97tdc/10-07-97d01-003.htm   (509 words)

  
 Midland Red 658 (SOA 658S)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Upon deregulation, Midland Red West and Midland Red Coaches Ltd. were merged in a management buy-out, forming a new company Midland Red West Ltd. A new company oft brings a new identity and a new livery, this being no exception.
However, due to a chronic vehicle shortage, 658 was reinstated into service and managed another three years service before retirement in January 2002 when she really did enter into the ranks of preservation on the second attempt.
Further information regarding Midland Red, including several National pictures and detailed information can be found on the midlandred.net website.
www.freewebs.com /leylandnational/LN2/pres_soa658s.htm   (457 words)

  
 American Red Cross :: NBC-Universal Raises $18.3 Million for American Red Cross Tsunami Relief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Governed by volunteers and supported by community donations, the American Red Cross is a nationwide network of nearly 900 field units dedicated to saving lives and helping people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
Led by 1 million volunteers and 36,000 employees, the Red Cross annually mobilizes relief to families affected by more than 70,000 disasters, trains almost 12 million people in lifesaving skills and keeps U.S. military families connected worldwide.
The Red Cross is the largest supplier of blood and blood products to more than 3,000 hospitals across the nation and also assists victims of international disasters and conflicts at locations worldwide.
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