Come Home to NBC

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1986 "Come Home To NBC" logo.

1987 "Come Home To NBC" logo.

1988 "Come Home To the Best... Only On NBC" logo.

1989 (Updated Version) "Come Home To the Best... Only On NBC" logo.

"Come Home To NBC" is the slogan that NBC used from 1986-1988, and the first of the campaigns to introduce the current six-feathered peacock.

It was another one of NBC's more popular slogans, while not quite gaining the popularity of its previous campaign, "Let's All Be There."

In 1988, NBC modified the campaign into "Come Home to the Best... Only on NBC", and turning the campaign song from a gospel-style sound into a more calypso-style sound.

As with many campaigns for all "Big 3" networks, localized versions of these campaigns have been adopted. For instance, the then-KCST in San Diego (now KNSD), adopted "Come Home to NBC '86" as "Come Home to KCST" (also called "Come Home to 39, Cable 7") (while WRC in Washington DC launched "Come Home to Channel 4"), while "Come Home to NBC '87" became "Come on Home to PTZ" for WPTZ in the small city of Plattsburgh, New York (and Burlington, Vermont). The 1988 campaign was adopted for stations like WDIV in Detroit (Come Home to the Best, Only on Channel 4), KPRC in Houston (Come Home to the Best, Only on Channel 2), WAVY in Portsmouth, Virginia (Come Home to the Best, Only on TV-10), KARE in Minneapolis (Come Home to the Best, Only on KARE-TV) and KPNX in Phoenix (Come Home to the Best, Only on Channel 12), and the 1989 campaign was crafted for stations like WNBC in New York City as well. Some stations like WDAF in Kansas City (before becoming a Fox affiliate), KYTV in Springfield, MO, and KOMU in Columbia, MO adopted BOTH campaigns.

Both of these versions were also adapted to other countries in the world. For instance "Come Home to the Best, Only on NBC" became "Only the Best on 7" for the Seven Network in Australia in 1989, as well as "Come Home to the Feeling, Only on 3" for TV3 in New Zealand during the early 1990s, (although the tune sounds completely different from 1988 NBC and 1989 Seven versions), while "Come Home to NBC" became "Vem Que é Bom" for SBT in Brazil in 1991, as well as "Let's Celebrate '88" for Seven in Australia in 1988.