The Peacock is back.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by kf4rca

Don't know if you have Comcast CATV where you are but they are proud of the Peacock as well.

No, I have Spectrum cable, phone and Internet. However, I have seen Comcast's peacock here online, but never on TV. Spectrum, that I am aware of, anyway, has no connection or association with the NBC peacock or with the NBC television network itself. They carry NBC programming over local affiliates, but otherwise they have no ties whatsoever with that network or with the peacock. When NBC shows the peacock before its programs, it is strictly NBC, with no ties to local affiliates. (This may be different in cities with NBC-owned and operated affiliates, as in Cleveland from roughly 1965 until some time in the early 1970s.) The peacock appears before every NBC show, unlike in NBC's early days of color TV when the only time the bird was ever seen was the occasional (at the time) color broadcast.

When NBC became "the full-color network" in, I believe, the late '70s, the advertising all but ended, although the peacock, of course, is still seen just before NBC shows, with the G-E-C NBC chimes. The network probably, even likely, wants to hold on to that part of its history; I can't blame them, NBC being America's first network, dating back to 1926 when the NBC radio network was founded, then the NBC television network was founded in the mid-1950s. The NBC radio network was disbanded and totally done away with some time in the late '70s or '80s; I'm not sure exactly when.

BTW, I no longer watch NBC news unless the national newscast is preempted for any reason on ABC or CBS, the reason being after I learned that NBC-TV is heavily involved in politics, much more so than either of the others.

However, there are still several NBC entertainment shows I watch regularly, such as New Amsterdam and several others. These shows are NBC's best, in my opinion. I couldn't care less, however, about NBC's late-night shows, although they must have a loyal following since they are still shown on the network.

New Amsterdam is ending its run on NBC (the 2022-23 season will be its last), although the program is still being shown elsewhere on cable. I think this is a very good thing (that NA is being kept alive, so to speak, off-network), as New Amsterdam, as I said, is, IMO anyway, one of NBC's best programs. It must be, if the show still has a following. I certainly hope NBC eventually finds a replacement for NA because if that program dies, so to speak, network television will have lost one of the best shows of the 21st century.