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Around September 1953, the radio network produced a program titled Salute to the Three Chimes of NBC, which was summarized as "Five very different musical groups play an original composition, based on the NBC chimes, called 'Bing, Bang, Bong: A Fantasy On A Trademark.'" [48] "Let's Go" by Ray Charles (on his 1961 album Genius + Soul = Jazz)
The letters "NBC", lighting in tune with the chimes, indicated time for station identification or the end of a telecast. NBC simple wordmark logo (1952) NBC color xylophone logo (1953–1959) In 1953, a stylized xylophone and mallet was introduced, symbolizing the NBC chimes, which were first heard on NBC radio in 1927 as a seven-tone sequence. [5]
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...
Many stations were already using chimes, gongs or other sounds to signal that a program was over; Carlin liked the idea of chimes, and working with Oscar B. Hanson, NBC's Director of Engineering and a former AT&T engineer, as well as Earnest la Prada, an NBC orchestra leader, they created what became the famous 3 tones known as the NBC Chimes. [15]
In 1932, he invented the NBC chime machine, an automatic device to reproduce the familiar hand-struck NBC chimes used by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network. By connecting his electrically operated chimes with outdoor loudspeakers, he was later able to create the effect of church bells.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network which is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal.The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower).
The final sound heard on Monitor was of the "Beacon", followed by the NBC chimes at 5:58:50pm. About 125 stations still carried the program on its last day, with few in major markets. In 1983, NBC revived the title for a short-lived television news program, Monitor, hosted by Lloyd Dobyns. The show was renamed First Camera and was canceled in 1984.
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