The holiday's were special in color!

[Sandy G]

Yeah, remember The NBC Peacock ? "The following program is brought to you in Living Color, on NBC..." Can't exactly remember what CBS had-Think it was just "CBS Color" or something. Guess they were still sore at Sarnoff/RCA over his & NBC's color system being picked over theirs'...

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Yeah, remember The NBC Peacock ? "The following program is brought to you in Living Color, on NBC..." Can't exactly remember what CBS had-Think it was just "CBS Color" or something. Guess they were still sore at Sarnoff/RCA over his & NBC's color system being picked over theirs'...

CBS's answer to NBC's peacock was to have the letters "CBS", each letter a different primary color, drop down to the center of the TV screen, followed at the extreme right-hand side by the CBS "eye" logo. There were three tones, one for each letter (but not the same G-E-C NBC used), followed by the announcer's voice: "CBS presents this program in color!"

BTW, NBC had a downright cute network ID for the Christmas season a couple of years ago; it was the small NBC peacock, in color, with a Santa Claus cap on top! I think I may still have a VHS tape of an NBC show having that logo in the lower left corner of the screen.

[Electrohome]

I got that copy of the 12/20/62 Andy Williams show from a collector in New Jersey who's a collector of Andy Williams shows. It's a very beautiful and awesome show Oh, silly, NBC inserted B&W commercials into the breaks though-Oh
Now, on to the CBS Color ID, it went like this-
bing C, bing B, Bing S, CBS Presents This Program In Color and was used from September, 1965 to the end of August, 1968.
The ABC Color ID was only used from September, 1965 to the end of August, 1966. However, ABC had In Color built into the opening credits of it's shows and as a slide before it's show until summer, 1971 I believe.
The NBC Peacock was first a slide introduced in September of 1956, then the 1st animated NBC Peacock appeared September, 1957 on Your Hit Parade the the last NBC Peack in 2 variations appeared September, 1962 on Laramie and was used until August, 1975 on The Tonight Show w/Johnny Carson.
There's your history of the In Color IDs of the big 3

[Joel Cairo]

Here's a nice example of holiday TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgQuph24hP4

Did everyone guess the right person?

-Kevin

(Check out some of the other videos posted by that user...!)