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- The new logo, it turns out, is chiefly for internal use. NBC viewers will still see the peacock. Comcast wanted to clean up the corporate NBC Universal logo, so it cut the NBC peacock and the Universal globe. It also removed the space in the name, making the company NBCUniversal, and put the name on a purple background.
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