Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site zaphod.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!sask!zaphod!pauly 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 Article-I.D.: zaphod.326 Posted: Fri Aug 9 05:10:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 20:54:23 EDT References: <6396@ucla-cs.ARPA> <762@abnji.UUCP> <248@frog.UUCP> Reply-To: pauly@zaphod.UUCP (Paul Yeager) Organization: Develcon Electronics, Saskatoon, SK Lines: 18 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