NBC's logo is an abstraction of a peacock to indicate richness
in color. The National Broadcasting Company was created when RCA
purchased radio stations WEAF New York, WCAP Washington, DC and
the radio programming network from American Telephone and
Telegraph (AT&T) in 1926 and merged those assets with its own
WJZ New York, WRC Washington and radio programming network. The
WEAF stations and network would become known as the NBC Red
network, the WJZ stations and network would be dubbed the NBC
Blue network. The WEAF network was created by the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) to serve as a research and
development for technologies involved with transmitting audio
over wire and radio. AT&T's Western Electric division
manufactured radio transmitters and antennas and needed a real-
world environment to test their design and ability to transmit
audio. AT&T's long distance and local Bell operating divisions
were developing technologies for transmitting voice and music
grade audio over short and long dist