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Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company merged with five other film companies to create the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, headed by Laemmle. For the first time, a single entity encompassed all facets of the movie industry: production, distribution, and exhibition.
At its opening, Universal City was billed as "the only moving-picture city in the world."
Heralding NBC's arrival, this advertisement appeared in newspapers across the nation.
Landmark radio broadcasts for NBC included the Rose Bowl, which was the first coast-to-coast radio network broadcast, the Tunney-Dempsey heavyweight fight, and Charles Lindbergh's return to the U.S. after the first trans-Atlantic flight.
NBC had used chimes as a switching cue from its beginnings as a radio network. Many configurations of notes were used until 1929, when NBC settled on the familiar three tones that have become a cultural icon. The G-E-C signal was the first audio service mark, registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 4, 1950.