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From: pauly@zaphod.UUCP (Paul Yeager)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: NBC peacock
Message-ID: <326@zaphod.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 05:10:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 05:10:58 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.
>
>Actually, they are going to bring it back as "NBC Classic"...
>
>--
>John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101

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