The background goes back to the roots of NBC Radio. By all accounts, the first use of the three-note chime was on November 29, 1929, on the Red and Blue Radio Networks.

NBC’s iconic Peacock and three-note chimes have been given an on-air makeover. The network has dusted off the chimes — which never really went away but weren’t being actively used — and is ...

BONGS BURSTING IN AIR The NBC Chimes By DAVID HINCKLEY WERE IT not for the two-note wolf whistle, the old NBC chimes might be the shortest famous melody ever composed. For the half-century the NBC ...

B.B. King, the B-52s, the Flaming Lips, T.I. and Clint Black are among the acts enlisted by NBC to create their own spin on the famed Peacock chimes. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

NBC wunderkind Ben Silverman has announced the details of his latest hilarious gambit to save his fourth-place network: Artists including T.I., B.B. King, the Flaming Lips, and Richie Sambora have ...

NBC Gets Big Music Names to "Chime In" B.B. King, the B-52s, the Flaming Lips, T.I. and Clint Black are among the acts enlisted by NBC to create their own spin on the famous Peacock chimes.The ...

They may be the most familiar three-notes to generations of Americans—the NBC chimes hit the notes G-E-C. But there is a long-forgotten part of the history of NBC—the fourth chime. The ...

"The Fourth Chime, a note added to the familiar NBC three-chime signal, rings out from the NBC Newsroom only when events of major historical importance occur.” Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...