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Tom Bryant
02-10-2008, 02:41 PM
This looks like the appropriate place to post a link to an interesting site with lots of historic notes and illustrations about NBC radio and television logos, including the development and updating of the "peacock".

http://www.big13.net/NBC%20Peacock/NBCPeacock1.htm

While I'm at it, here's a link to some pretty good replicas of RCA's TK-11 black and white image orthicon studio camera.

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/187629 .

Hope you enjoy them.

Tom Bryant
Nashville, TN
cd637299
02-10-2008, 03:20 PM
Long time, Tom! How're things?

Not meaning to "one-up" you, but here's a site with animated logos, provided you have QuickTime:

http://www.ev1.pair.com/colorTV/colorTVlogos.html

I have QT but somehow the link shows as "broken" whenever I click these.

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Tom Bryant
02-10-2008, 04:54 PM
Hi Chris...nice to hear from you. The animated NBC stuff works OK here. I also have a screensaver with animated logos, but it won't work with XP.
cd637299
02-10-2008, 06:40 PM
I also have the final episode of the original "Howdy Doody" from NBC video, which features the 1957-62 NBC peacock animation....but instead of "The following program...." you hear the cast of H.D. singing "....we're in living color to-dayyyyyyyyyy."

It's cool, because the whole 1-hour show is on videotape. Almost like it was made yesterday.

Also you get to see a whole 1-hour NBC show ("Bonanza" from 1960) with the opening, promos & commercials, at

http://www.museum.tv/video.html (under the link "Net Nights", 1959-60)

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JeffK-PA
03-02-2008, 11:14 PM
Long time, Tom! How're things?

Not meaning to "one-up" you, but here's a site with animated logos, provided you have QuickTime:

http://www.ev1.pair.com/colorTV/colorTVlogos.html

I have QT but somehow the link shows as "broken" whenever I click these.

The same thing happened to me but the sound was playing so I clicked on the broken QT file graphic, and it played.

I think it's funny how during the change to color, networks like CBS created logos specifically for those broadcasts much like now they have specialized ones for HD channels.