21 Corporate Logos and Their Hidden Meanings

16. NBC

As the story goes, NBC’s colorful peacock was an attempt to sell televisions. In the 1950s, the RCA company — one of the nation’s top purveyors of color televisions — purchased NBC and wanted some semi-subtle way to show the owners of black-and-white television sets what they were missing out on. So, the multi-colored plumes logo was born.