The NTSC selected 525 scan lines as a compromise between RCA's 441-scan line standard ( already being used by RCA's NBC TV network ) and Philco's and DuMont's desire to increase the number of scan lines to between 605 and 800.

This continues the relationship the SEC already has with CBS, which puts the SEC in the unique position as the only conference to have its own exclusive national television network of the four major over-the-air broadcast networks ( CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox ) to display the SEC's events.

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

In the fall of 1950, NBC converted Studio 8-H into a television studio ( currently in use for NBC's late-night comedy program Saturday Night Live ) and moved the broadcast concerts to Carnegie Hall, where many of the orchestra's recording sessions and special concerts had already taken place.

The three national radio networks already in operation — the Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company's NBC Red and NBC Blue — were corporate controlled: programming was produced by the network ( or for the network by advertising agencies who bought airtime on the network ) and distributed to affiliates, most of which were independently owned.

Because of the corporate strength behind NBC and CBS, however, and the fact that the lion's share of the most powerful stations in the country had already signed with them before Mutual's emergence ( the exceptional, and soon departed, WLW aside ), the cooperative network would be at a permanent disadvantage.

Additionally, her 1969 NBC special Portrait of Petula, already released on DVD for Region 2 viewers, is also being produced for Region 1.

Though the channel is owned by another subsidiary company operated as a joint venture, Lifetime and its cable networks remain under the co-ownership of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, though NBC Universal became partial owner of the Lifetime channels as well since NBCU already was a part owner of A & E Television Networks.

When updates for solved cases aired, Dennis Farina narrated it with " in a recent broadcast ...", when the case may have already been solved during the show's original NBC run or during the series ' hiatus from 2003-2007.

Get Smart had been written for Tom Poston, to be piloted on CBS ; when CBS turned it down, the show was picked up by NBC, which cast Adams in the role because he was already under contract.

He had already asked the NBC network to let him pre-record his 1944-45 series on transcription discs, but the network refused, so Crosby had withdrawn from live radio for a year and returned ( this time to the recently created ABC ) for the 1946-47 season only reluctantly.

While the broadcast three days after his death had a memorial tribute from NBC news anchor Chet Huntley with film and TV star Dick Van Dyke, the intros Walt already filmed before his death continued to air for the rest of the season.

Originally, NBC asked for pilot that imagined the series six months into its run, with the characters already working together in the detective agency.

At the time, he was working as an actor on NBC ’ s sitcom “ Teachers .” His acting resume already included film and television roles in Trey Parker ’ s and Matt Stone ’ s motion picture, Team America: World Police, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Richard Appel ’ s A. U. S. A., and Judd Apatow ’ s North Hollywood.

Media General, the Richmond, Virginia-based company which already owned five NBC affiliates in the southeastern United States, announced it would purchase the four stations on April 6, 2006 ; the sale was finalized on June 26, 2006.

Les Paul had hosted a 15-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humour between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented dazzling re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ," " Little Rock Getaway ," " Brazil ," and " Tiger Rag.

The youth-oriented Ryan's Hope on ABC and the long-running Search for Tomorrow on CBS were already being telecast in that timeslot, and several NBC affiliates preempted the entire 12: 00 pm hour to air local newscasts and various other syndicated programming.

The program was initially seen only on NBC owned-and-operated stations in six markets and Fox owned-and-operated stations in six other major markets, all on stations that already carry the flagship series ; since September 2011, the program also began being distributed to non-network owned stations that also carry the flagship series.

Denver's longtime CBS affiliate, KMGH-TV, went to ABC because KMGH's then-owner, McGraw-Hill, had recently struck an affiliation deal with ABC, while longtime ABC affiliate KUSA-TV took the NBC affiliation ( although KUSA's owner, Gannett, already owned a number of NBC affiliates, and today, most of Gannett's stations are still NBC affiliates ).

But since KCRA-AM had already been Sacramento's NBC radio affiliate for a decade, KCRA-TV's NBC affiliation seems to have been inevitable at any rate.

" Mutt, either annoyed by this or so angered that his software malfunctions, replies with a garbled robotic message from the NBC series NewsRadio.

Though the independent stations NBC contacted continued to air programs not shown on WSVN, the network grew increasingly annoyed at having to resort to such an arrangement in what had grown into a major market.

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

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.

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.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

He finished his career by directing 30 episodes ( in seasons two and three ) of the NBC sitcom Blossom.

It was produced by Charles / Burrows / Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles.

Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

The Special was first broadcast by NBC on November 27, 1977.

While originally conceived and edited for American television ( and announced in an advertisement by NBC in the Tuesday, July 9, 1963 issue of The Hollywood Reporter ), the production was re-edited for a British theatrical run before the American television debut.

Arnaz also headlined a Kraft Music Hall special on NBC that featured his two children, with a brief appearance by Vance.

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

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.

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

Of the three pilot episodes of Gumby, the first was done by Clokey on his own, and the next two were done for NBC and shown on The Howdy Doody Show to test audience reaction.

The second 15-minute pilot, " Gumby Goes to the Moon ", was initially rejected by NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff.

In 1947, Marx was chosen to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life broadcast by ABC and then CBS, before moving over to NBC radio and television in 1950.

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.

Grits are mentioned in the response of an Indian imitating an Southern American Accent at a BPO office when asked by an American Manager to describe the food in the NBC TV Show Outsourced.

This was followed on October 3, 1948 by an appearance on the NBC TV series Welcome Aboard, then a stint as the first of a series of hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950.

In May 2006 Jamiroquai performed during the Laureus Sports Awards in Barcelona ; the event was later televised by NBC in June.

Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).