Bong-bing-booong

An astronaut while at the International Space Station. I'm sure Russia will appreciate the money to pull it off.

Hillary Clinton is available, and Bill trading in his saxaphone would be fun.

The new chime ads which use clips from NBC shows like The Office are incredibly annoying. Someone needs to put a stop to it immediately. Bet you anything the actors in the clips (Tina Fey, Rainn Wilson, etc.) and the writers who wrote the original bits where the chimes have been overdubbed are each and every one irritated by the awkward, non-funny, nothingness promos.

1. Tone signals from one of the Mars rovers.

2. Tones from the humpback whale mating song.

When a "commercial television station" spends more than half of the time that is allocated for a 'show' on commercials – who has time to listen for a three second chime?

These stations used to be a viable part of our communities – but if you want to find out what is going on in the community, you have to go to CNN or some other real television station to get the news and/or action and/or drama and/or film venue that you are looking to seeing.

Welcome to the real purpose of 'commercial' television – where the commercial is king – and the rest of the time is spent letting you wish that you could really participate in what you were trying to look at – at the time that you turned on your television set in the first place.

Keep the same musical theme – it was invaluable during Music Theory classes – "Ma-jor-sixth!"

Bring back Michael Winslow (of "Police Academy" fame)! I'm sure he can do a wide array of whatever with his voice...

Leave them alone as they are – we've had the same tones all these years that are easy to recognize – there's no need to change them now by having others play the tune!

Why mess with a good thing? Isn't it perfectly fine?

Have Obama do it. He owes them at least that much!

Please just leave the tones alone.
Those familiar tones are more than just a marketing gimick.
They represent a time when this country was on top....
When this country was actually a force in the universe and all
other countries wanted to be like us.
When I hear " N-B-C" I also hear "U-S-A".
Please don't change or alter this.
Long live the tones!

Some things you get right the first time! Monkeying with them downstream displays poor judgment.

Putting some creative talent to work to celebrate the anniversary of the chimes is, however, a great idea. For example, look at what Beethoven did with G-G-G-E flat.

The biggest guy you find like Lurch from the addams Family or a summor wrestler type guy aggressivly approaching a set of brass tubular bells and gently tapping it out.

Tommy Newsome of Tonight Show Band fame wrote a very cool piece called NBC Chimes Festival about 20 years ago. Bring that back.

Neil Peart, drummer from Rush. He's a monster on the tubular bells

The bigger question is why CNN is devoting even a small amount of web space to this issue.

I recently saw some of the pieces where the stars would sing the NBC tones. I really liked it! Especially the one where the stars from Heroes beat-box it.

I think it's fun to see your fave stars outside their shows, and to see them performing in a novel way. And I like that at the same time, they sing something that is SO recognizable.

Try the 1984 Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. We did a rendition of the song NBC "Chimes Festival" that will wake you up and we also put a fun twist to it.

The new chimes are very innovative and entertaining. Gives me something to look forward to during commercial breaks. And looks and sounds good on HDTV.

It should sound like this. Listen close.

They should bring back the original radio recording from the 30s. I've heard it and it just sounds eerie.

It's a pity Jimi isn't around to give it a go......

Hendrix.

Great article on the history of the NBC chimes here:

radioremembered.org/chimes.htm