Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC.

His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.

Most of these stations broadcast various types of music format, and political discussions, news and phone-in programmes remain mostly the domain of the national broadcaster ( NBC ) which broadcasts nine radio services nationally ( in various Namibian languages, including German-the only full-time German service outside of Europe ), plus the new! Ha service, broadcasting to the San community in Tsumkwe.

* 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders – Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U. S.

For this game, NBC introduced a new theme for NFL broadcasts by composer John Colby that would be retained for the 1994 season.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

Berle asked NBC to switch from live broadcasts to filmed shows, to make possible future reruns and residuals, and he was not happy when NBC showed little interest.

Unlike CBS and NBC, he continued experimental broadcasts throughout World War II.

Although NBC was known to have station-to-station links as early as 1941, DuMont received its station licenses before NBC resumed its previous sporadic network broadcasts after the war.

The legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini introduced many Americans to classical music through his popular NBC Symphony Orchestra radio broadcasts.

The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954.

In addition to weekly broadcasts on the NBC Red and Blue networks, the NBC Symphony Orchestra made many recordings for RCA Victor of symphonies, choral music and operas.

In the first several seasons the NBC Symphony broadcasts were " sustaining " programs, meaning that they were paid for and presented by NBC itself.

Under GM's sponsorship the NBC Symphony broadcasts went out under the title of General Motors Symphony of the Air, not to be confused with the later orchestra of the same name.

Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra ( 1937-54 ), and this led to his becoming a household name ( especially in the United States ) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.

The NBC broadcasts were preserved on large transcription discs, recorded at both 78-rpm and 33-1 / 3 rpm, until NBC began using magnetic tape in 1947.

NBC used special RCA high fidelity microphones both for the broadcasts and for recording them ; these microphones can be seen in some photographs of Toscanini and the orchestra.

Later that year, Toscanini had a disagreement with NBC management over their use of his musicians in other NBC broadcasts.

It was later issued by RCA Victor in the 1967 centennial boxed set tribute to Toscanini, which included a number of NBC broadcasts never released on discs.

The Muppets ' latest television special, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, premiered on NBC on December 17, 2008.

NBC announced on December 13, 2007 that the 2-hour pilot would air on February 17, 2008.

After receiving good ratings, NBC announced that Knight Rider would return as a weekly series beginning in the fall of 2008.

The series premiered September 24, 2008 on NBC.

In November 2008, NBC announced that the series had been picked up for a complete 22-episode season but that several cast members would be leaving and the story lines revamped after the original 13-episode order.

Larson's motion picture plans have no connection to the 2008 TV series by NBC.

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

Since the purchasing of The Weather Channel by NBC Universal in 2008, the network has participated in the " Green is Universal " campaign, which occurs twice a year, usually being in April and November.

In 2008, USA Network ( owned by NBC ) launched In Plain Sight, a drama showcasing the United States Federal Witness Protection Program ( WITSEC ).

* " This Man Turned Blue ( video )", NBC Today Show, Matt Lauer interview, aired January 7, 2008.

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.

On May 11, 2010, at the 20th anniversary of the Latino Commission in its annual gala " Cielo Latino " and in the company of Hollywood and Broadway stars including Miss Universe 2008 and 2009, NBC / Telemundo anchor woman Carmen Dominicci was installed as International Ambassador of the Latino Commission on AIDS.

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.

Former NBC logo used from 1996 until 2008.

In May 2008, NBC News President Steve Capus said that " It used to be people didn't have to worry about MSNBC because it was an also-ran cable channel .... That's not the case anymore.

He served as an NBC analyst during the 2008 presidential election campaign and moderated the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Belmont University.

On June 13, 2008, Brokaw broke into NBC programming to announce the death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert.

In early 2008, it was announced that Shirley would play Colleen Brady on the long-running NBC soap opera Days of our Lives.

On April 2, 2008, NBC announced that the series would return for its final season.

In the Philippines, NBC Nightly News is shown Monday to Sunday at 7: 30 am for the live ( via satellite when DST happens ) broadcast with replays at 11: 30 am and 6: 00 pm local time on Talk TV, it was formerly shown on GMA Network from 1970 to 1993, 2nd Avenue from 2005 to 2007 and C / S ( now Solar TV ) from 2008 to 2011.

On March 12, 2008, McGinley was also quoted as saying that the show's long-rumored move from NBC to ABC was a done deal, and that Scrubs would air on ABC during the 2008 – 09 TV season as a midseason replacement.

On September 9, 2008, Apple and NBC Universal announced that NBC's TV shows were once again available on the US iTunes Store.