20 Facts About NBC logo

The first NBC logo was used in 1926 when the radio network began operations.

The NBC logo has been adapted for color television and high definition as technology has advanced.

The logo was incorporated into the corporate emblem of the network's parent company, NBCUniversal, until Comcast took control of the company in 2011.

NBC debuted as a radio network in 1926, with a logo depicting a microphone surrounded by lightning bolts, superimposed over a map of the United States of America.

In 1943, NBC introduced its third logo, a microphone surrounded by lightning bolts, which was a modification of the original 1926 logo used by the NBC radio network.

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In 1962, on Laramie, a new version of the Peacock opening NBC logo was introduced in which the bird fanned its bright plumage against a kaleidoscopic color background .

An out-of-court settlement was reached in which NBC logo gave Nebraska ETV over $800,000 worth of new equipment, including a color mobile unit.

The 11 feathers of its previous peacock logo were pared down to six to represent NBC's six divisions: News, Sports, Entertainment, Stations, Network, and Productions .

The network maintains specific guidelines for the NBC logo, including proper colors for reproduction, using either RGB, CMYK, or Pantone colors.

Some NBC affiliates ran the sequence through the network feed in the event of technical difficulties with inserting local advertising .

Until 2016, the NBC bug was placed within the 4:3 safe area, with the logo bug being displayed identically on the standard definition and high definition feeds .

Today, the NBC logo bug is placed within the 16:9 widescreen frame, again being displayed identically on the SD and HD feeds.

Live finale episodes of The Biggest Loser continued to use the version with the NBC logo name titling below the peacock until its September 2009 conversion to HD, due to that program's standard definition production being based out of Burbank instead of New York City.

Two versions of the 2008 NBC logo animation were used: a 3D glass version that was used in most promos, and an occasionally used 3D metal NBC logo that was used as a generic ID.

In 2011, NBC altered and modified their logo slightly to feature bevels and gradients on it.

In NASCAR and IndyCar broadcasts, the peacock NBC logo bug turns green, yellow, red, or grey when the respective racing flag is deployed.

The schedule was followed at the start of 2020, but after that year's Summer Games were delayed in mid-March that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NBC stopped using the Olympic rings on March 30,2020, on identification elements, with the network's affiliates returning to their regular logo designs as of that date until the run-up to the delayed Games starts on January 1,2021, which remained in full use throughout the entirety of 2021, until the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

In July 2020, NBC temporarily added six vertical pips to the right side of the logo, which radiate out from each color of the peacock to form the vertical row in order to tie into it being used in the same position for the logo of NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service, before reverting back to its regular logo.

NBC logo continued to use its Kinephoto recording system to archive many of its videotaped programs so the videotapes can be erased and reused for other programming.

On October 24,1967, NBC logo was the first American television network to air The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night, but as it was filmed in black and white because color television was not fully implemented at that time in the band's home country, United Kingdom.