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Today is May 12th, 2026. Tonight is the 40th anniversary of the current NBC peacock logo. One of the most famous broadcasting logos that has ever existed all got started on NBC's 60th Anniversary Special. It has served television greatly since and has become NBC's most famous logo, as it still has staying power after 40 years as of today. For those who don't know, the six feathers represent (at the time of launch) different divisions NBC had. Yellow = NBC News Orange = NBC Sports Red = NBC Entertainment Violet = NBC Stations Blue = NBC Network Green = NBC Productions IMHO, its become my favorite logo in all of U.S. broadcasting, and I love, still to this day, how colorful and vivid the logo looks. Yes, it's had a few moderations and updates over the years, but to me, nothing beats the original. Happy 40th Anniversary to the current NBC peacock logo.

Didn’t catch it on the broadcast, but must have been noticeable enough on air if they put out a statement. Glade the camera operator is going to be okay! Edit… Twitter had the video. Attached! https://x.com/AZ_Intel_/status/2054704049996300575/video/1?s=46

It seems like they're no longer having someone come in to co-anchor when Darlene or Michael is out from TINY. That's got to be fun, anchoring three hours solo (that assumes they're still doing the online-only half hour at 7; they never mention it when signing off, 2.5 hours otherwise).

I keep finding more news... KRIV's Tom Zizka is unplugging the microphone, as he said, after nearly four decades in the business, and after nearly three of those at KRIV Houston. May 29th is his last day. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1732607697741739&id=1349702960305354

Happy 40th Anniversary!

Our friend Henry Hanson just posted this 1992 Election night find from WHAG!! As well as a KIRO 7 special on the Nisqually quake of 2001

Yep! WRET (for his initials, Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III), which later became WPCQ under Group W, and then WCNC under various owners before today's TEGNA (not Nexstar yet because of court challenges). Speaking of Turner, KVOA got to interview former CNN anchor Lou Waters on Turner's legacy. Waters is happily retired, as you can tell, now living in Southern Arizona.

WBRC Fox 6 News at 9:00 (May 25, 1997) WNYT NewsChannel 13 Live at 11:00 (May 6, 2005)

Some new additions, acquired a lot from a Hibid auction in Kansas, and more from Yakima too

WBNS mid '90s "SkyCam" promo:

And he saved a struggling Charlotte TV station to which it's now WCNC-TV https://www.wcnc.com/article/entertainment/ted-turner-charlotte-connection-to-cnn-empire-wcnc-charlotte-station-ownership/275-db32b78e-1837-42e5-a509-6418750d5165

WABC’s on-air appearance before 2024-2025 was shameful. The graphics before standardization were awful. The set they were on from 2006-2011 was one of the worst. Praise to whoever took over and invested in the visual identity of the nation’s #1 news station.

Why KABC will always be #1, and they can definitively say they don’t even have to put in English category because they also beat the Spanish stations too there the overall leader. They might be the only O&O that can say that the other ones either lose to Univision are just are in 2nd place.