[78-L] The Peacock Network

[Don Chichester]

I enjoyed seeing the American Indian on the black and white TV test patterns back in the early '50s.

 

Don
 
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:51:37 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Peacock Network
> 
> 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.)
> 
> dl
> 
> 
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