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	History of the NBC Chimes ... contd
		The three-tone NBC chimes as described by Bill Harris in his article A History of the NBC Chimes were found by Brian Wickham.
		The chimes were later restored, and returned to NBC for their use.
		Since the chimes were used as a systems cue for switching, everyone assumed that they sounded cut off because someone pulled the switch and cut the ring off to that leg of the net.
	www.old-time.com /misc/chimes2.html (494 words)

	NBC
		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.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/nb/NBC.htm (1787 words)

	The NBC Chimes Machine
		The NBC chimes — the musical notes G-E-C — were played at the end of every NBC radio program beginning shortly after the network’s inception, and continued in daily use on NBC radio and television until 1971.
		At that time, it was common for radio stations to use the sounds of chimes, gongs, sirens and other mechanical devices as a signature sound for their station, so the choice of a chime by NBC was not unusual or particularly innovative.
		The NBC chimes were officially registered with the U.S. Patent Office in 1950 as a registered service mark, the first known case of a sound receiving trademark protection.
	www.bayarearadio.org /schneider/chimes.shtml (951 words)

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		Three men at NBC were appointed the task of developing such a signal for station identification on the hour and half-hour; Earnest la Prada, an orchestra leader; Phillips Carlin, and NBC announcer; and Oscar Hanson, who later became an NBC vice-president in charge of engineering.
		Beninning in 1932 the chimes were generated automatically by means of finely tuned metal reeds that were plucked by metal fingers mounted on a revolving drum, much like a music box operates.
		NBC registered the chimes with the U.S. Patent Office in 1950, the first audiable trademark to be registered.
	www.nrcdxas.org /articles/nbc.txt (1365 words)

	The NBC Chimes Museum
		Chimes were not rung by announcers in the employ of a sponsor, nor were they rung by a local station announcer unless that station happened to be an NBC network office.
		The exact pitch of the chimes is given in the booklet (G=195.9 Hz, E=329.6 Hz, C=261.6 Hz), and the chimes were all but warranted to correspond so closely to the sound of the NBC Chimes as broadcast over the air as to be indistinguishable from the broadcast version.
		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 Chimes
		An NBC memo from the Press Department dated June 12, 1964 commenting on the uses of the fourth chime, there is a hand written comment that the last use of the fourth chime was in 1985 when GE announced it's merger with RCA.
		The chimes were such a familiar part of radio and were, and possibly still are, one of the most recognized sound trademarks in the world, it is good to know that this important part of NBC network history has been reclaimed.
		NBC presented sets of these promotional chimes to various railroads to be used as a dinner chime to signal when the dining car was open for service.
	www.radioremembered.org /chimes.htm (5230 words)

	History of the NBC Chimes
		NBC rearranged the notes to G-E-C. Station WSB went on the air in 1922 and became an affiliate of NBC on January 9, 1927 shortly after the formation of NBC.
		The fourth chime continued to be used throughout World War II to alert the NBC news department and the radio audience of special news bulletins.
		NBC discontinued the use of the chimes in 1971, however in November of 1976 the network began using the chimes once again following all broadcast in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the network.
	www.old-time.com /misc/chimes.html (1475 words)

	A Visit To NBC Radio City - Part 2
		All the studios had sets of chimes which could be played manually with a mallet in an emergency, but most of the time those familiar NBC trademark chimes came from a machine.
		Chime machines were developed so that the duration and volume of the chimes would be constant.
		KNBC used the chimes as a trademark at the end of a number of local programs which were not fed to the network.
	www.bayarearadio.org /schneider/radcity2.shtml (4055 words)

	OTB Archives - The NBC Network Chimes
		It was during this quite informal conference that the subject of the NBC chimes arose with the thought that a push-button operated electric chime would be preferable to the method then used.
		This problem was referred to the music experts of NBC with the result that Ernest LaPrade, concert master for Walter Damrosch and the Music Appreciation Hour, was assigned to work with Roland Lynn of the NBC Laboratory to achieve satisfactory tone quality from the new chime machine.
		The NBC Chimes were used on early television program s in the forties and early fifties and were even accompanied for a short time by a visual logo of a three bar chime in color.
	www.antiquewireless.org /otb/chimes.htm (987 words)

	Kempa.com: The Fourth Chime
		The method by which the NBC notes were sounded changed over the years - the early chimes were simply three note bars mounted on a wooden box, struck by the announcer.
		Beginning in 1932 the chimes were generated automatically by a music-box-like machine that functioned at the push of a button.
		For the 25th anniversary of NBC in 1951, a tribute to the chimes was written by Meredith Willson, The Three Chimes of Silver.
	www.kempa.com /blog/archives/000067.html (1901 words)

	NBC "snake" logo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Seeking to freshen the look of the network for the late 1950's, NBC introduced a new logo with a speeded up version of the familiar chimes.
		This logo appeared at the end of every NBC network program for most of the 1960's.
		NBC employees called this logo "the snake." A contemporary version of the chimes are still heard on the network today.
	www.kingoftheroad.net /KARD_html/NBC_color_chimes.html (62 words)

	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)

	NBC Chimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The NBC chimes we are so familier with, as we used to hear on the NBC Radio Network
		This is a five chime sequence, the last strike appears to be a chord of G-E-C. The chimes as heard on the Wendall Hall, The Pineapple Picadoor program, NBC Chicago - February 2, 1931, another five chime sequence.
		Our thanks go to her for providing not only this earliest known recording of the three note hand struck NBC chimes but recordings of the other early five and seven note chime sequences found on this page as well.
	www.radioremembered.org /nbc_chimes.htm (366 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)

	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.
	imonthe.net /66wnbc/network.htm (510 words)

	NBC Color Movies (since 1961)
		After NBC tried it and succeeded in terms of high ratings, the other networks soon followed suit with color feature film series.
		NBC also used the concept of a Made-for-TV Movie to introduce a rotating number of series, which could be spun off if they were successful, via its "NBC Mystery Movie".
		NBC - The Place To Be Composer/publisher details of the movie THEMES based on these promotional music campaigns are incomplete for the years 1980 - present time.
	www.classicthemes.com /50sTVThemes/themePages/nbcColorMovies.html (687 words)

	MMD Archives: Re: NBC 4TH Chime (and More)
		George Bogatko asked what the fourth note in the NBC chime was, so I went and retrieved the article I had mentioned, from The Reproducer; quarterly journal of the vintage Radio and Phonograph Society, Inc., summer 1995 (v.
		The fourth chime was originally contrived as a confidential alert to NBC news staff and engineers.
		It was first heard on the air in 1937 to signal the transmission of news of the Hindenburg dirigible crash in Lakehurst, N.J. It was repeated for the Munich crisis, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and was used repeatedly during WWII.
	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/Digests/199602/1996.02.20.09.html (390 words)

	NBC Chimes
		Like many aspects of broadcast history, the actual story of how the NBC chimes originated has several variations.
		Next to one of the original NBC Chime boxes, made by the J.C.Deagan Company in Chicago until 1954, is a history card explaining that after the NBC network began, a coordinating signal was needed so the stations would know when programs ended.
		During World War II, a fourth chime (actually a second "C") was used to alert the NBC News department of War Bulletins.
	www.oldradio.com /archives/prog/nbc-chimes.htm (580 words)

	NBC Chimes - black and white (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Radio listeners know the NBC chimes for decades before the NBC -TV network went on the air.
		A visual version of the chimes was a natural for the fledgling TV network - they were seen at the end of every NBC broadcast before the local affiliates "station break."
		If you don't have Quicktime version 7, download and install the plugin.
	www.kingoftheroad.net /KARD_html/bw_chimes.html (74 words)

	MMD Archives Subject Index for: NBC
		Story of NBC Chimes, from Jack M. Conway
		History of the NBC Chimes, from Gabe Della Fave
		Re: NBC 4TH Chime (and More), from Matthew Caulfield
	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/KWIC/N/nbc.html (103 words)

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