Viewer blasts Little Rock NBC affiliate for 'changing' logo to rainbow peacock

[Newsjock]

Source: FTVLive

KARK (Little Rock) viewer Don Stair was seeing red when he thought that the station changed the color of their logo to the same as "The Gays."

It seems that old Don thought that KARK was showing their support for the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision and he was not happy. Even told KARK he is no longer going to watch them.

KARK tried to inform Don that the logo is the same as it always was. The channel number next to the NBC Peacock that happens to be a rainbow color.

Read more: http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/6/27/oops-ok-never-mind

[Angry Dragon]

1. One has to wonder if Don ever watched NBC before

he sounds like a dedicated Fox viewer

[randys1]

2. Don deeply HATES Gay people. Don has an illness, good thing SC saved Obamacare

so he can get all the help he needs.


prick

[onehandle]

3. Idiots like this must be in pain on the Internet currently.

I can't believe how many sites, Twitter streams, and Facebook members have rainbowed their logos or avatars.

[City Lights]

4. What a putz. nt

[Sheepshank]

5. Prime example of the manufactured outrage, hair on fire brigade.

Reality be damned...they have a point they want to make, so very badly.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. The combustible hair club. nt

[Electric Monk]

37. "Please move the deer crossing signs..."

[Kalidurga]

6. LOL great Poe.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Had he never noticed the NBC logo before?

They've used the rainbow-peacock logo since maybe the late '50s, after color TV was invented, to advertise that they were broadcasting in color. I remember some of those early broadcasts when NBC would bring up the peacock logo and an announcer would say "Brought to you in living color" or something like that.

Some 55 years later, this putz finally notices the peacock.

[underpants]

10. Yes NBC has always been known for the color of their telecasts

As you said I think they were the first in color. Almost every NBC show, especially back in the 80's, clearly went out of its way to add vibrant colors in the set and clothes.

[6000eliot]

13. RCA, the parent of NBC, developed and marketed that color TV technology,

so they were advertising both NBC and RCA at the time.

[underpants]

16. Gotcha

[Art_from_Ark]

19. I think the announcement went

"The following program is brought to you in living color, on N-B-C"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. That sounds about right.

And the peacock would spread its rainbow-gay tail!

[hifiguy]

22. Yep, it did.

I remember it from when I was a mere lad back in the early-mid 196os.

[Art_from_Ark]

23. The thing about that peacock at my house...

He was always in black-and-white

[hifiguy]

24. My family was very much working class

but by jesus, my dad insisted on having one of the first color TVs in the neighborhood. It was a Muntz, just like the TV it replaced.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. We had an old Zenith black-and-white box-on-4-legs

Back in the '60s, the price of a color set was equal to one month of my family's income, so owning one in those days was out of the question for us.

[Newsjock]

31. Like this

[hollysmom]

8. one word - dumbass ha ha ha hope his whole family and boss saw this.

[raouldukelives]

9. Haha. Oh homo, homophobe on the range.

[Renew Deal]

11. The logo has been around longer than Don Stair

"Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the network's color programming"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_of_NBC

[HuckleB]

12. ROFLMAO!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

14. what a dumb shit. nt

[Solly Mack]

17. "...it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury - Signifying nothing."

I'm talking about Don's little outburst, of course.

[Marr]

18. Can you imagine Don's rage when wakes up in the morning and sees THIS?

GOD, TOO? FUCK YOU, God!

[flobee1]

25. Lol

Nt

[hifiguy]

21. NBC has had that rainbow peacock logo

since they started broadcasting in COLOR. Which is some fifty-plus years ago.

The Derp is overwhelming here.

[Skittles]

27. "the colors of gays"

[Skittles]

28. I WILL KICK RAINBOW/HOMO-PHOBE DON STAIR ASS

yes INDEED

[PCIntern]

29. Like this...?

Who knew the 1960's NBC people would be so prescient?

[Monk06]

35. The peacock was originally born out of the rainbow in some versions and was

featured at the opening of Bonanza in 1960.

The guy must be the only person in the world who hasn't noticed the logo in the past 60+ years.

Since ol Don is ol enough to have seen this logo constantly in the last 60 years he's just a bagger trying to create a false narrative. They love their false narratives those baggers.

[closeupready]

30. We can laugh about this, from a distance, but in truth,

this kind of hate is something we gay people deal with every single fucking day. Almost every encounter of every minute is 'colored' by this antipathy.

And why many of us who grew to adulthood fled to SF or NYC or LA, where people don't care (a double-edged sword for many, but for we who faced only the sharp edge back home, it's an improvement).

[ladyVet]

34. You know, I was laughing at the fool,

but you're right. It isn't exactly funny to those who have been through this kind of idiocy. My apologies.

[closeupready]

38. Oh gosh, no, please do laugh, I didn't mean that.

I was just pontificating in a general sense, whilst sharing in finding this guy's ignorance a bit silly. Peace.

[Kurska]

32. You can just feel the annoyance of the intern who typed that response

"Did I really get that degree in public relations to have to deal with idiots like this?"

[Gloria]

33. Hell, my brother won our first color TV in Little League raffle back around 1963

and that peacock was rainbow colored then!!! It was an RCA, a huge console...

[malaise]

36. Clearly this viewer was hiding under a

big Rock

Damn - ignorance is bliss!

[Initech]

39. Hey Don, here's something that you might want to know about ABC.

They're owned by Disney, who recently hosted one of the world's largest gay pride celebrations in Disney World in Orlando. Disney is also very friendly to its LGBT employees in California and Florida, and abroad. You're not helping your case.

[MadrasT]

40. HahahahAHAHAhaha

Lunatics. I am having so much fun watching fundie heads explode.

[rocktivity]

41. Don't make fun of this guy

at least not until after he gives us the name of his drug dealer...


rocktivity