Say what ???<\/p>\n
During testing, the guest host of Dirk Van’s FirstLight show ended with saying “This is NBC Radio”.<\/p>\n
Dirk Van’s show is syndicated by Dial\u00a0Global, which\u00a0now owns Westwood One (Jim Bohannon’s America in the Morning was also a Westwood One show).<\/p>\n
NBC Radio of course dominated US Radio during the Golden Age of Radio, and was very active up into the era of TalkNet with Sally\u00a0Jesse Raphael and Bruce Williams.<\/p>\n
After GE bought RCA in 1987 (and NBC), they sold off the radio business to Westwood One.\u00a0\u00a0 Westwood\u00a0One would also absorb the Mutual Broadcasting System.\u00a0\u00a0 Now Dial Global owns\u00a0all of those branches of radio history.<\/p>\n
At\u00a0least Trademark wise, NBC is “owned” by NBC Universal, which is now owned (51%) by Comcast.\u00a0 The trademark covers both Radio and TV – presumably, Westwood One owned the right to use the “NBC Radio”\u00a0name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Say what ??? During testing, the guest host of Dirk Van’s FirstLight show ended with saying “This is NBC Radio”. Dirk Van’s show is syndicated by Dial\u00a0Global, which\u00a0now owns Westwood One (Jim Bohannon’s America in the Morning was also a … Continue reading