* On August 13, 2009, the Dallas NBC affiliate reported that EDS employees were being warned not to talk to the media about the salary cuts.

* November 17 – The Heidi game: NBC cuts off the final 1: 05 of an Oakland Raiders – New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi.

The original series had limited animation, appearing almost as narrated storyboards with frequent cuts and minor movement by the characters, much in the style of another early NBC " animation " program Tele-Comics.

However, Hall remained on contract with the show for eighteen more years until January 24, 2009, when she was terminated due to budget cuts mandated by NBC.

NBC also targeted rural and older oriented programs in its cuts, eliminating long-running programs such as Wild Kingdom, The Andy Williams Show and The Virginian, all of which ran nine seasons or more.

SNL had a smaller cast in the 2006 – 2007 season due to “ massive budget cuts ” at NBC.

While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

* October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O ' Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.

NBC did consent to make a kinescope of each show — a reference copy filmed directly off a TV screen.

Peter Tomarken, who had just come off of a 13-week gig as the host of Hit Man on NBC, was tapped to be the host, and a pilot, which included game show pilot mainstay Jack Campion, and future PYL contestant Maggie Brown ( both of whom appeared on pilot # 3 of Second Chance ) as contestants, was filmed in May 1983.

Van Dyke later hired Griffith to reprise his Matlock role in a 1997 episode of his own CBS series Diagnosis: Murder, which completed a connection between Matlock and Diagnosis: Murder ( Jake and the Fatman, which was a spinoff of Matlock but aired on CBS instead of NBC, was the connecting series as Diagnosis: Murder was spun off from that ).

After the show's second season, NBC sold the series off into syndication with the Good Morning, Miss Bliss episodes included to pad out the syndication package, despite the plot-continuity problems and production changes.

It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS.

Then Trio ( owned by NBC ) picked up reruns and showed them from 2002 until the channel went off the air in 2005.

" After he carried them off stage, Letterman responded, " Who would have thought you would ever hear the words ' intellectual property ' and ' NBC ' in the same sentence?

A DEF CON source at NBC had tipped off organizers to Madigan's plans.

Plans for another revival series ( or film ) have been discussed off and on since the 1991 series ' demise, including a TV miniseries to wrap up the plotlines of the canceled NBC series and a feature film, co-written by Dan Curtis and Barbara Steele, utilizing the 1991 cast.

More specifically, Murder, She Wrote would be facing off against NBC's comedy Friends, which was entering its second season on the network and was given the 8 PM timeslot for the fall, and The Single Guy, a brand-new sitcom that NBC gave the coveted 8: 30 timeslot between Friends and Seinfeld.

spun off an animated version called Emergency + 4 which ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1976, and featured four teenagers who participated in adventures with the firefighter / paramedics.

Ratings, however, continued to drop and were further exacerbated by the timeslot switch as now the series was facing off against the strong NBC Thursday night line-up, which had regularly drawn the lion's share of the audience that night ( led by The Cosby Show, which had supplanted Dynasty as the # 1 show on television in 1986 and had continued to hold that lead ).

The RCA acquisition resulted in GE selling off RCA properties to other companies and keeping NBC as part of the GE portfolio of businesses.

() However, NBC Universal took the station off the market on December 21.

He took over a year off due to hypertension and returned in 1945 with The Fred Allen Show on NBC, Sunday nights at 8: 30 p. m. EST.

But a year later, he was knocked off his perch, not by a talent raid but by a show on a third rival network, ABC ( the former NBC Blue network ).

A typical exchange would have That Was the Week That Was " signing off " the NBC Television Network just before the Paar program, with Paar responding that the show immediately preceding his was Henry Morgan's Amateur Hour ( Morgan was a frequent guest on TW3 ).

On October 15, 2008, during a live broadcast of Today on NBC, Nik Wallenda walked and then bicycled across a suspended highwire twelve stories from the ground off the roof of the Prudential Center in Downtown Newark, New Jersey for a Guinness Book of Records World Record for longest and highest bicycle on a highwire.

ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent existence as a radio network after the Federal Communications Commission ordered the former NBC Blue Network to be spun off as an independent company in 1943.

In the final season, the series aired on NBC's Saturday night lineup at 8 p. m. NBC still had confidence in the series, however, and placed it as the 8 p. m. anchor, kicking off one of the network's highest-rated nights ( second to Cosby Thursdays ).

In a 1993 NBC Special The 70s: The Beat Is Back, actor / comedian Martin Mull was on stage talking about his personal contributions to the 70s when a male streaker ( in a possible pre-planned stunt similar to the ' 74 Oscars ) ran through the audience, and then ran up on stage and shook Mull's hand before taking off.

When Cantor departed, Durante took over the NBC show as its star from April 22 to September 30, 1934, moving on to The Jumbo Fire Chief Program ( 1935 – 36 ).

On May 25, 1944, pioneer television station WPTZ ( now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia presented a special telecast featuring Eddie Cantor, which was also fed to the NBC television station in New York City, WNBT ( now WNBC ).

Arriving shortly before airtime at the Philadelphia studios, Cantor was reportedly told to cut the song because the NBC New York censors considered some of the lyrics too risqué.

In 1947, the series switched to NBC, hosted at various times by Baker, Garry Moore ( 1947 – 49 ), Eddie Cantor ( 1949 – 50 ) and Jack Paar ( beginning June 11, 1950 ).

Initially a 1939 summer replacement program for The Eddie Cantor Show ( sponsored by Camel Cigarettes ), Blondie was heard on CBS until June 1944, when it moved briefly to NBC.

On July 12, 1938, with the support of radio stars Eddie Cantor, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and others, AFRA members negotiate the first collectively bargained agreement on a national scale – with NBC and CBS – resulting in a wage increase of 125 %.

The series was based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, which NBC aired on October 5, 1981, a few weeks before the series premiered.

In the 1930s and 1940s he was on the Eddie Cantor Show, Bing Crosby's KMH show, the Lux Radio Theater production of A Star Is Born, The Fred Allen Show, the Mayor of the Town series with Lionel Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead, Kraft Music Hall on NBC, Stage Door Canteen on CBS, the Lincoln Highway Radio Show on NBC, and The Jack Paar Show, among others.

* Ron Ely, best remembered for his role as Tarzan on an NBC television series in the middle 1960s, was born in Hereford in 1938.

" Macdonald made his final appearance as Weekend Update anchor in December 1997, after NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer — a longtime friend of Simpson, who had previously told Michaels to not let his friendship affect the show — demanded his dismissal from the segment, despite Michaels ' protest that making the change in the middle of the season would be difficult for the show.

In the middle 1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.

Blocker played the outgoing " middle son " Hoss on the long-running NBC television series, Bonanza.

Some programs featured " middle of the road " mainstream pop and showtunes, while other portions of the schedule included ABC Radio's remaining long-form newscasts and dramatic program lineup, in tandem with CBS Radio's WCBS and NBC Radio's WNBC.

This powerful sports lineup, coupled with a resurgent primetime schedule featuring hit shows like The Cosby Show and Cheers, would put NBC back on top of the ratings by the middle of the decade.

The NBC chimes, named for the radio and television network on which they have been used, consists of a succession of three distinct pitches: G3, E4, and C4 ( middle C ), sounded in that order, creating an arpeggiated C-major chord in the second inversion, within about two seconds time, and reverberating for another two or three seconds.

With CBS in the middle of a talent raid that had already lured Jack Benny and other NBC stars, Peary was offered a CBS deal of his own, after he chafed over NBC's and Kraft's reluctance to let him use his singing voice more often on Gildersleeve and to give him more part in the show's ownership than he already had.

NBC was thus forced to affiliate with the E. W. Scripps Company-owned KSHB-TV ( channel 41, the soon-to-be-former Fox affiliate ) since KMBC-TV was in the middle of a long-term affiliation agreement with ABC.