NBC Snake logo (1965-1975)

[ForceMaximus84]

Does anyone know the name of the font used for The Snake?

[retroguy1976]

classic logo

[martianmister]

Snake?

[vetmar41]

The NBC Snake logo is featured on an episode of I Dream Of Jeannie on WGN America & on an episode of the Monkees on Antenna TV.

[minpinlover26]

man i miss those old days. hurry up someone make a time machine and quick.

[mariobrasil9]

it looks like the same instruments as the s from hell

[Pcaucutt]

@mariobrasil9 You can't see sound.XD

[mariobrasil9]

izcary!!!

[SenhordoBonfim]

snake logo..interesting...as a kid, it always looked like a coffee pot to me..

[soap1919jt]

@SenhordoBonfim How funny!

[johnclipper5]

thats great i wish it was put on nbc today

[JoseTwitterFan]

According to historical research ,I believe it was used from 1959-1975.

[VirgilB01]

I think this logo was used from 65'-69' Then the "Peacock" logo was used from 69'-75'

[myronfalwell]

GE was directly involved in the creation of RCA in the early 20s. It was RCA, Westinghouse (owners of KDKA, KYW/Chicago, WJZ/New York and WBZ/Springfield) and AT&T that created NBC.

AT&T not only had phone lines for distribution, but owned WEAF-AM, antecedent to WNBC-AM (which was transferred over to NBC).

[myronfalwell]

Likewise, their phone lines were also used to create the other NBC network, with Westinghouse's WJZ as flagship (also transferred to NBC). AT&T distinguished the two by color: "Red" (NBC Radio) and "Blue" (which became ABC Radio)

RCA took full ownership of NBC by the early 30s, and kept it until GE bought out RCA in 1986, dismantling RCA and selling off the radio division. GE only wanted NBC-TV.

[fun012345]

the company owned nbc hence G-EC

[kxx46]

Owned by GE now, then owned by RCA.

[JoseTwitterFan]

...And now owned by COMCAST!

That's right, they bought 51% of the network last night in a hostile takeover for a combined $37.25 billion dollars!

[cubantoro]

Wasn't hostile... GE has been wanting to unload NBC for cash since their GE Capitol took a big hit from the economy. Does this mean that NBC has to move out of 30 Rock when the deal is done?

[livingnthepast]

"G", "E", "C". Notes played. Any relation to General Electric Company??

[d4MLiVE1]

No, they were bought out in 1986 (when the newest logo was made) and still, they are owned by 80% GE and 20% Vivendi.

[d4MLiVE1]

Hold your thoughts. The new division was divided in ownership between RCA (fifty percent), GE (thirty percent), and Westinghouse (twenty percent). Westinghouse changed to Vivendi and GE bought out RCA. There you have it.

[HAMMERDOWNROKK]

@livingnthepast well, they were nbc's parent

[Rcrby525]

@livingnthepast yep, GE orginally owned the NBC radio companyy, and eventually went on to own a major major major major major share in the NBC inc, what is now known at NBC Universal, since the merger with NBC and Universal Studios.

[soap1919jt]

@livingnthepast Yes . . . indeed they are.

[barf245]

@livingnthepast Contrary to widespread belief, the "G-E-C" sequence is not a reference to NBC's current parent corporation, the General Electric Company, which did not acquire NBC until 1986; however, GE's radio station WGY (Schenectady, New York) was an early NBC affiliate, and GE was an early shareholder in RCA, which founded NBC by creating it as a subsidiary. from wikipedia

[12catsinthehouse]

@livingnthepast That is exactly right. According to a display at the radio and television museum in Huntington, West Virginia, the notes G E C represented the General Electric Company.

[2020man996]

@livingnthepast (apologies if anyone has said this to you already) yes, there is a relation, because NBC use to be owned by GEC back in its heyday, when it still was broadcasting on the Radio.

[ZwesomeGuy4444]

@livingnthepast LOL

[OlegKostoglatov]

@livingnthepast No NBC was created by David Sarnoff president of RCA, the Radio Corperation of America to produce programing to sell radios and was owned by RCA until RCA was bought out by G.E in the mid 1980s. However up until 1930 G.E and Westinghouse used to manufacture equiptment and radios for RCA as RCA was basically a patent pool and marketing organization and didn't manufacture anything. But NBC never had anything to do with G.E directly other then through RCA.

[fromthesidelines]

Not just specials, 'Disco'- virtually all NBC prime-time series (and several outside prime-time) ended with this "bumper" from 1965 through 1970, and occasionally {specials} until 1975. I know, because "I was there"...watching the original telecasts, that is. A variation was the disclaimer, "Presented by the NBC-TV Network" (meaning they produced it, "in house").

[Hoskins1942]

This Is NBC

[FunForFunPeople]

An underrated logo, Very wonderful.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Awesome logo, I love the NBC chimes.

[likeluis]

me too

[d4MLiVE1]

Nobody knows where they came from.

[myronfalwell]

There are several urban legends. One of which had the three tones derived from the conclusion of a song. Others claim that a local affiliate (WSB in Atlanta for one) originated the chime before it went national over the Red Network.

[d4MLiVE1]

i meant no one is sure which ONE place the chimes came from

[cubantoro]

The story goes that at the time RCA was set up by GE, Westinghouse and AT&T to hold the radio patents of the old American Marconi Co. They used the chimes as identification signals... the keys being G-E-C.

[TiMeCapsule123]

FAB!