[78-L] The Peacock Network

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Anyone noticed a lot of feathers on NBC lately? Tonight's Law & Order
>> (a rerun, no less) began with "The following program is brought to you
>> in Living Color on NBC", a phrase we haven't heard since .. what, about
>> 40 years ago? And feathers floating during a network break where someone
>> in Buffalo didn't insert a commercial.  dl
> 
> Leah says she has seen the Technical Difficulty feathers a couple of
> times.  Not sure about seeing that opening -- was it a new announcer or
> Ben Grauer or Mel Brant's original recordings???  

It was a female voice. (Or a computer..who knows?)

> NBC has a few people
> there with historical sensitivities, and someone did a wonderful montage
> when WNBC-TV's analog transmitter finally signed off several weeks after
> the shut-off day when it continued to broadcast in Spanish and Englush
> an NAB film about the digital changeover.  Our inside historian contact
> at NBC did not know about it till I told him it was on YouTube.  NBC has
> a WONDERFUL screen-saver that sometimes you can see on the computers in
> the background in the large studio used for MSNBC.  We're trying to get
> a copy of the file.  
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
What's next..The Eye? (Still visible in the corner of CBS programs, of course.)

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