The NBC chimes are a sequence of three tones played on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) broadcasts. Originally developed in 1927 as seven notes, they were standardized to the current three-note version by the early 1930s, and possibly as early as 1929. The chimes were originally employed as an audible programming cue, used to alert network control engineers and the announcers at NBC's radio network affiliates. They soon became associated with NBC programming in general, and are an early example of an "interval signal" used to help establish a broadcaster's identity with its audience.
In 1950 the NBC chimes became the first "purely audio" service mark granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. They continue to be used as an audio signature by the NBC TV network and its affiliates, and also on the NBC Sports Radio network and at the opening of the hourly NBC News Radio broadcasts.
NBCchimes The three notes of the NBCchimes. Problems playing this file? See media help. The NBCchimes are a sequence of three tones played on National...
an NBC cameraman operating an RCA camera was shown underneath the text "NBC Television Presents." The letters "NBC", lighting in tune with the chimes, indicated...
History – The NBCChimes". Radio Remembered. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2010. "Say It With Chimes!". Baltimore...
Chancellor, and Brokaw, as well as an orchestral version of the "G-E-C" NBCChimes serving as an intro bumper, before going into the opening headlines summary...
itself as "NBC 4" and its newscasts as NewsChannel 4, Kalehoff wrote a new theme called "NBC Stations" featuring the NBCchimes, the chime sequence being...
appending the letters "i n e" individually to the sound of the NBCchimes. The chimes were a nod to NBC and its president, Brandon Tartikoff, who had expressed...
1998–99 season, creating an audio signature in comparative parlance to the NBCchimes, CBS's various sound marks (including the current five-note version introduced...
also Shoshani, Michael. "History of the NBCChimes". Retrieved January 8, 2007., discussing the need for chimes to tell a station serving both networks...
"formats" and, beginning in 1929, shared use of the distinctive three-note "NBCchimes". The WEAF-led Red Network, with a robust affiliate lineup, was seen as...
station's news music package, or a network ID sounder (such as the NBCchimes on NBC-affiliated stations) as an audio leader to warn viewers of its issuance...
with the station logo and digital call sign "WOWT-DT Omaha" set to the NBCchimes. Voiceover artist Charlie Van Dyke provided narration: "Sixty years ago...
composed a second Today Show theme based on the trademark NBCchimes. That theme was the NBC show's signature from 1978 to 1985 and has appeared irregularly...
problem of the rubber bushings on the quarter bell chimes freezing recurred, muffling the chimes. 30 April 1997: The clock stopped 24 hours before the...
show's producers tried out yet another theme, which drew once again on the NBCchimes as its signature, but the Williams theme returned after only a few weeks...
also updated, by warp-speeding the NBCchimes in the "LA Groove" theme in all of its opens, making the first NBC-owned station to warp-speed its musical...
message from nighttime police beat reporter Larry Langford. The traditional NBCchimes were played with a late 50s-mid 60s historic ID that, although inaccurate...
Okuda, The Soundies Book, iUniverse, 2007, p. 28. ISBN 978-0-595-42060-5. NBCChimes, "Live Music Gets New Emphasis on WRCA, New York," Jan.-Feb. 1955, p....
registering their distinctive sounds: MGM and their lion's roar; the NBCchimes; famous basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters and their theme song...
the material on surviving reels is an early seven-note version of the NBCchimes, a broadcast of a high school basketball match (believed to be the world's...
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