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.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

By 1926 the market for commercial radio had expanded, and RCA purchased the WEAF and WCAP radio stations and networks from AT & T, merged them with its WJZ ( the predecessor of WABC ) New York to WRC ( presently WTEM ) Washington chain, and formed the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ).

Not to be outdone, NBC launched what it called " the world's first regularly operating television network " on June 27, 1947, serving New York, Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington.

Only a few Fox stations that air a late evening newscast in the traditional evening news timeslot used by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates ( 11 p. m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, 10 p. m. in the Central and Mountain time zones ), along with the primetime newscast ; these include Fox-owned stations WTVT / Tampa, KDFW / Dallas, WAGA / Atlanta, WOFL / Orlando, WJBK / Detroit, KMSP / Minneapolis, KSAZ / Phoenix, WTTG / Washington, D. C. and WFXT / Boston, as well as affiliates WDAF-TV / Kansas City, WITI / Milwaukee, WBRC / Birmingham, KOKH / Oklahoma City, WTIC / Hartford, WXXA / Albany, WZTV / Nashville, WVUE / New Orleans, KTVI / St.

* WITN ( 7, NBC & MyNetworkTV on DT2 ) licensed to Washington, owned by Gray Television

* WITN-TV, the ( 7 ), Washington ( NBC Affiliate )

* WITN-TV the ( 7 ) Washington / Greenville / New Bern NBC affiliate

Sam Stone in the late -' 60s NBC television series Felony Squad, was born in Charleston, Washington, now part of Bremerton.

During the APEC summit in Shanghai during 2001, normally blocked media sources such as CNN, NBC, and the Washington Post became accessible.

In five years CAIR officials were cited over 11, 000 times by media, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Times.

In addition to NBC News content and material produced by the site's own staff, NBCNews. com also hosts articles and features from several partners, including The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.

Bush's final Christmas in Washington NBC special.

On April 5, 1982, Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington.

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.

Alumni are established and leading journalists in such news organizations as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, People magazine, The Arizona Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sports Illustrated, NBC News, USA Today and The Washington Post.

On August 6, 1973, after Hart left for NBC, in an effort to emulate The Today Show, Rudd was teamed up with former Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn.

Surviving the attack were future Congresswoman Jackie Speier, then a staff member for Ryan ; Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission from the U. S. Embassy at Georgetown ; Bob Flick, a producer for NBC News ; Steve Sung, an NBC sound engineer ; Tim Reiterman, a San Francisco Examiner reporter ; Ron Javers, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter ; Charles Krause, a Washington Post reporter ; and several defecting Temple members.

Journalists include NBC reporter Chris Hansen, AP White House Correspondent Nedra Pickler, and NPR Washington Correspondent Don Gonyea.

In 1952, Brinkley began providing Washington reporting on NBC Television's evening news program, The Camel News Caravan ( the name changed over time ), hosted by John Cameron Swayze.

They also resulted in protests outside NBC's Washington, D. C., studios as well as a joint letter of complaint to NBC from the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, and the National Women's Political Caucus.

During the following two years, she reported for WRC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Washington, D. C., work which earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy.

She then became a popular local television newscaster at KYW-TV, the former NBC affiliate ( now CBS ) in Philadelphia, and a Washington correspondent for NBC News.

* Pat Battle ( born 1959 ), WNBC-TV's New Jersey Bureau Reporter, Saturday Today ( NBC ) in New York co-anchor, and occasional fill in anchor.

US Broadcasters NBC and ABC both have their London News Bureau in Hammersmith.

Obey holds a critical view of the mainstream American news media, as evidenced by his words on June 13, 2008, upon the sudden death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert.

Frank Jordan, then Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News, recalls Hubbard's explanation for why he claimed to be an officer, " He was convinced no one would listen to a black man who was also an enlisted man.

In addition, OWI cleared commercial network scripts through its Domestic Radio Bureau, including the NBC Blue Network's Chaplain Jim.

It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal's other outlet in the area, Telemundo station KSTS, as well as CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau.

Cost cutting included closing the Sacramento bureau, and the layoff of NBC Sacramento Bureau Chief Mike Luery.

He appeared in The Adjustment Bureau, reporting a story for WNBC on the film's protagonist, David Norris ( Matt Damon ), and in two episodes of the NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet.

March reprised her role as Alexandra Cabot, now a Bureau Chief ADA, on the short-lived NBC courtroom spin-off drama Conviction, which debuted in spring 2006.

* 1932 – Texaco introduces Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a motor fuel that meets the octane requirements for fire engines, and promotes it through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn, the " Texaco Fire Chief.

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 ).

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

He also starred as Police Chief Paul Lanigan in the 1976 television movie, Lanigan's Rabbi, and in the short-lived series of the same name that aired in 1977, as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie lineup.

Regular correspondents include Chief White House correspondent and NBC Political Director Chuck Todd, Mike Leonard, Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O ' Donnell, Bob Dotson, Jamie Gangel, and Alexander.

O ' Connor later starred in the NBC / CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of southern Police Chief William ( Bill ) Gillespie.

The current president and Chief Executive Officer of the two stations and the New Jersey network NJTV is Neal Shapiro, the former president of NBC News.

Both Royce D. Applegate ( Chief Manilow Crocker ) and John D ' Aquino ( Krieg ) were released by NBC as the network wanted a younger cast for the second year ( D ' Aquino subsequently returned for a guest appearance in the third season ).

* Bob Kelso, Chief of Medicine on the NBC comedy Scrubs graduated ' 12th in his class ' at Stanford.

In 2007 and 2008 Torn made five guest appearances on the Emmy-award winning NBC comedy 30 Rock as the fictional Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, Don Geiss.

* Dave Pietrycha, ' 05, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, NBC News.

Edward Cuthbert Platt ( February 14, 1916 – March 19, 1974 ) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of " The Chief " in the 1965-70 NBC / CBS television series Get Smart.

* Stuart Goldfarb, ' 76, former President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Music Service, Columbia House, Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club ; former Executive VP, NBC.

He is best known for his roles as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, as Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

Judith McHale was President and Chief Executive Officer until NBC Universal executive David Zaslav took over the position on November 16, 2006.

Sadusky had formerly been LIN's Chief Financial Officer as well as Vice President and treasurer since 2004, and previously was CFO for Telemundo, working closely on its sale to GE / NBC.

Kemelman also received $ 35, 000 for the movie rights to Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, a made-for-TV adaptation of which was broadcast on NBC in 1976, starring Art Carney as Chief Lanigan and Stuart Margolin as Rabbi Small.

A made-for-TV adaptation with the title Lanigan's Rabbi was broadcast on NBC in 1976, starring Art Carney as Chief Paul Lanigan and Stuart Margolin as Rabbi David Small.

A short-lived TV series followed as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, with Carney reprising his role as Chief Lanigan, and Bruce Solomon taking over the role of Rabbi Small.