Talk:NBC chimes

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1 NBC chimes
2 Blurb for Did You Know section
3 Nightly News theme
4 source?
5 Fourth Chime - problem in text
6 Fourth Chime

[edit] NBC chimes

Recently updated with paragraphs about the purpose of a network station ID signal. 3-23-06 Schweiwikist 20:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

In general I think this rewrite/addition is very well done. The other purpose of the chimes was a switching signal cue, so that NBC and AT&T engineers in charge of routing programs to affiliates would know when to rearrange the feeds so that the affiliates were receiving the correct feed - East Coast Red, East Coast Blue, West Coast Red, West Coast Blue, plus subfeeds in the case where a sponsor wanted to promote one product in the North and a different product in the South. It's not something that is easily condensed as elegantly as Schweiwikist has treated the local station ID announcements.

Now if we could just get rid of that WSB chimes myth! WSB was using chimes for at least two years before NBC was formed, but the idea that NBC got the idea from hearing a Georgia Tech football game being fed to the network via WSB is absurd. Georgia Tech had their own radio station, WGST, which was every bit as powerful as WSB and they were great rivals - WSB would not be promoting their competition by broadcasting their football games.

Shoshani 11:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blurb for Did You Know section

Did You Know

...NBC chimes of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network in the United States was actually a communications signal beginning in 1931 to the various stations and links in the network from NBC headquarters in New York City?

Actually it was a fourth chime (a repeat of the C note) added to the G-E-C tones that was used as a signal to alert certain NBC personell and it was first initiated on April 16, 1933.

[edit] Nightly News theme

"(and are the opening and closing notes of the current edition of the NBC Nightly News theme song),"

I believe that's actually the Dateline theme that does that, isn't it? (I have it somewhere, but can't get to it, and can't really trust the credit anyway...) --Baylink 05:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] source?

I read an external webpage link that says that the G-E-C stands for the General Electric Corporation yet this page clearly says this is an urban legend. What source was used for knowing this to be untrue? If important enough to be an urban legend, perhaps it's important enough to warrant a simple source footnote. Just my 2 cents.

[edit] Fourth Chime - problem in text

However, according to a handwritten note on an 1964 NBC internal memo on the history and usage of the standard chime, this chime variant was used one final time in 1985 to symbolize the merger with RCA.

Unless that memo was written by Nostradamus, this section needs repaired. Lambertman 23:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

The handwritten note was added to the memo, which presumably was typed in 1964. Sorry for the lack of clarity. This info is from the radioremembered.org website.

Schweiwikist (talk) 12:29, 18 September 2006 (UTC)