[78-L] The Peacock Network

[David Lennick]

Mmm. Native person. Not American Indian. In Canada, Aboriginal. Hunt many 
buffalo. Find only chicken wings.

Chief Cooknbottlewasher

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