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DESIGN – NBC logo gets the bird

In 1976 NBC shelled out somewhere between $750,000 and $1 million to develop a new logo – a lot of money by the standards of the day. Out went their traditional, brightly plumed peacock (first introduced in 1956 and pictured on the right) and in came a logo based on an upper case N, in…

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