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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: NBC peacock
Message-ID: <1808@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 18:49:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 18:49:11 1985
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> In article <248@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> >> 	I agree that the ORIGINAL NBC peacock was a rather flashy
> >> character, but NBC will probably not bring it back due to all the
> >> expense they had trying to change it.
> >> 	Remember, they replaced the peacock with a red/blue
> >> 'N' but were sued by other stations already using that logo.
> >
> The real joke here is that NBC spent about half a megabuck to 
> develop the red/blue 'N', only to find out that some nonprofit
> public or university station had already done the same thing for
> peanuts
> 
> Paul

The station was a PBS station at the Univ of Nebraska. Hence the N.