You’ve seen it a million times when you’re watching NBC. The colorful peacock logo. But what made them pick that? Such a random choice for a TV Network.
Back in 1956 NBC created its peacock logo because peacocks are multicolored. RCA who owned NBC at the time did this as a sneaky marketing move hoping that seeing a multicolored logo might make people go buy color TVs. Which had just came out and were the new hot item at the time. Then the peacock just stayed ever since.
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