Blast from the past: WESH, NBC ad from 1968

Roger Simmons,

Blast from the Past continues with this ad for the 1968 NBC fall lineup on WESH-2.

The online archives this came from are only in black and white. Too bad, since I believe the NBC peacock here was in its full color glory when this advertisement appeared in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal.

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