* WPSD 6 – Paducah, NBC

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on radio on ABC ( which aired it from 1947 – 49 ), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman ; and then on CBS ( 1949 – 50 ), and finally NBC, continuing until May 1961 — on radio only, 1947 – 1950 ; on both radio and television, 1950 – 1960 ; and on television only, 1960-1961.

Brooks very nearly did not perform the anthem — he left the stadium less than an hour before he was slated to sing, because of a dispute with NBC, regarding a video he asked them to air.

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

This NBC production pioneered the " compilation documentary "-- programming based on pre-existing footage — and was eventually broadcast in dozens of countries.

* Friday at 9: 00-10: 00 PM on NBC: March 31, 1989 — April 21, 1989

* Wednesday at 10: 00-11: 00 PM on NBC: May 3 — 17, 1989 ; September 20, 1989 — May 9, 1990 ; March 6, 1991 — May 20, 1992

* Friday at 8: 00-9: 00 PM on NBC: September 28, 1990 — January 4, 1991

* Tuesday at 8: 00-9: 00 PM on NBC: September 22, 1992 — April 20, 1993

* Tuesday at 8: 00-9: 00 PM on NBC: September 30, 1986 — April 30, 1991

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its two networks — the Blue Network — and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company

Two years later, on 2 October 1976, when Idle appeared on the American NBC show Saturday Night ( later Saturday Night Live ), he took videotape extracts from Rutland Weekend Television — including the Rutles clip.

Still, the McGees remained a favorite presence on radio, even after the quarter-hour edition ended in 1956, appearing in short segments on the NBC radio show Monitor — under the rubric Just Molly and Me — from 1957 to 1959.

The show also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — right next to the building that once housed the NBC radio studios where the Jordans performed the show for so long.

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

In 1991, the show's three production companies — Carson Productions, Worldwide Pants, and NBC Productions — were awarded a Peabody Award, which cited the following:

In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld — who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work — hosted a television special Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld ( the title refers to the duo's popular film series in which they met some of Universal's famed horror picture characters ), on NBC ; the special was said to have been seen in 20 million homes.

Friends ( stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S ) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004.

* Thursday at 8: 00 – 8: 30 pm on NBC: September 21, 1995 – May 6, 2004

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Although the XFL began with better-than-expected TV ratings ( the opening-week games actually delivered ratings double those of what NBC had promised advertisers and the Saturday broadcast had more viewers than the NFL Pro Bowl ) and fair publicity, the audience declined sharply after the first week of the season, going from a 9. 5 rating to a 4. 6 in just one week, and the media attacked the league for what was perceived as a poor quality of play.

* December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC.

* December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica, for the last time.

About four months prior to his death, Prinze had signed a multi-year deal with NBC worth US $ 6 million over five years.

The major network television affiliates are WTVR-TV 6 ( CBS ), WRIC-TV 8 ( ABC ), WWBT 12 ( NBC ), WRLH-TV 35 ( Fox ), and WUPV 65 ( CW ).

On July 6, 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to purchase the Weather Channel from Landmark.

At the beginning of Season 6, In the Heat of the Night moved from NBC to CBS.

* KHQ-TV 6 ( NBC )

* KTVM ( Channel 6 ) NBC affiliate

On May 6, 2008, NBC Today Show personality Al Roker broadcasted live from Malmstrom AFB as part of an " Access Granted " series centered on places the American public doesn't get to see firsthand.

* KCEN-TV-Channel 6 ( NBC )

NBC originally had exclusive broadcast rights to the ceremonies, but on January 11, HFPA President Jorge Camara announced there would be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the January 13 press conference, announcing the winners at 6: 00pm PST.

She exited the role of Whitney on September 6, 2007, the second to last day the show aired on NBC but returned for the show's finale episodes briefly from Mid-July 2008 to early August 2008 in a guest appearance.

Ralph Sockman's National Radio Pulpit on NBC received 4, 000 letters weekly and Roman Catholic archbishop Fulton J. Sheen received between 3, 000 – 6, 000 letters weekly.

Three Television stations are available ; KTVM ( 6 ) NBC, KBZK ( 7 ) CBS, and KUSM ( 9 ) PBS.

Thomas John " Tom " Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940 ) is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.

* December 6 – NBC debuts the Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

NBC plans a new series of three long programs exploring America's scientific plans titled `` Threshold '', to start in the fall.

The program came out of the NBC Special Projects department, and was slotted in the Du Pont Show Of The Week series.

NBC had gathered a lot of historical material which it was eager to share.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

In 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes.

In 1970, he was the subject of a provocative NBC documentary called This Is Al Capp.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC.

Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.