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.

NBC brought Albert back less than two years later, and he was the network's main play-by-play man for the 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02 NBA seasons, including the finals.

The following cooperation among RCA, General Electric, the United Fruit Company, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) brought about innovations in high-power radio technology, and also the founding of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the US.

In the 1920s LaRocca was replaced by teen-aged trumpeter Henry Levine, who later brought this kind of repertoire to the NBC radio show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street.

These latter uses were brought about after 1920 by business entrepreneurs such as David Sarnoff, who created the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ), and William S. Paley, who built Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

However, the validity of that ownership is currently the subject of a lawsuit brought by NBC Universal.

In 1981, Arledge brought David Brinkley to ABC from NBC, and created the Sunday-morning affairs program This Week for Brinkley.

It originally aired February 16, 1991 on NBC and was brought back for several repeats.

In 1946, NBC brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts.

With the ratings of Days of our Lives at an all time low and NBC threatening to cancel the series, Reilly was brought back as head writer in the summer of 2003 and given carte blanche to " fix " the show ( while simultaneously remaining as head writer for Passions ).

After using an orchestral medley of " A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes " and " When You Wish upon a Star " for the first season of The Magical World of Disney on NBC, The Disney Sunday Movie theme was brought back and continued to be used when the series moved to The Disney Channel in 1990.

In the early 1980s, Colson was invited to New York by David Frost's variety program on NBC for an open debate with Madalyn Murray O ' Hair, the atheist who in 1963, brought the court case ( Murray v. Curlett ) that eliminated official public school prayers.

Good Morning America beat Today for the first time in 16 years when it brought in 31, 000 more viewers than the NBC program during the week of April 9, 2012.

CBS brought back The Carol Burnett Show for another run in the fall of 1991 ; new regulars included Meagen Fay and Richard Kind ( brought over from the NBC show ), and Chris Barnes, Roger Kabler and Jessica Lundy.

In April 1930, Ripley brought " Believe It or Not " to radio, the first of several series heard on NBC, CBS and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

When Ripley's 1930 debut on The Collier Hour brought a strong listener reaction, he was given a Monday night NBC series beginning April 14, 1930, followed by a 1931 – 32 series airing twice a week.

Smith's popularity in Buffalo won the attention of NBC, which brought him to New York after the war to host early mornings on flagship station WNBC, a post he held through the early 1950s before concentrating on television.

The prosecution was seen as a test case of Russia's commitment to fighting piracy, and was brought after EMI, NBC Universal and Time Warner lobbied for such prosecution.

In 1978, Goodson-Todman tried again and successfully brought Password to NBC on January 8, 1979.

On September 24, 1984 NBC brought the format back as Super Password with Bert Convy hosting.

He made his professional film debut in the independent film Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss ( 1998 ), which brought him wide attention and caught the attention of executives who cast him in the NBC comedy television series Will & Grace, as Jack McFarland, a flamboyantly gay, frequently unemployed actor.

To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster ; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes ' real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest ; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer ( Anthony Geary ) on the soap opera General Hospital.

However, with the show's continued success in its second season, the idea was brought up again in 1978, this time by Three's Companys own producers as well as new ABC head Tony Thomopolous ( Silverman went to NBC ).

Upon the original Let's Make a Deals debut, journalist Charles Witbeck was skeptical of the show's chances of success, noting that the previous four NBC programs to compete with CBS ' Password had failed.

One of the NBC programs shown on the station was the game show Super Password, which WYFF preempted for its entire run.

Before the cancellation of the Goodson-Todman game show Snap Judgment on NBC in 1969, they changed their set in order to make it resemble the look of the CBS Password.

A new show beginning that day on ABC — The Newlywed Game — caused some frustrated Password fans to begin defecting immediately ; NBC also benefited from the CBS programming decision, experiencing success with their recently launched soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Super Password ran until March 24, 1989 and was canceled on the same day as another NBC game show, Sale of the Century ( which was itself a revival ).

NBC stations in the Central and Pacific time zones usually preempted Scrabble at 11: 30 for local news and aired Super Password at 11: 00.

Other shows on which Wood served as a regular announcer were Tattletales ( CBS, 1974 – 1978 ), Double Dare ( CBS, 1976 – 1977 ), Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour ( NBC, 1983 – 1984 ), Password Plus ( NBC, 1979 – 1982 ), Super Password ( NBC, 1984 – 1989 ), Love Connection ( Syndication, 1985 – 1988 ), Classic Concentration ( NBC, 1987 – 1991 ), and Win, Lose or Draw ( Syndicated, 1987 – 1990 ).

" Ludden began hosting an updated version of the game, Password Plus, on NBC, in 1979, but chemotherapy treatments for stomach cancer forced him off the show in late October 1980.

As an emcee, she hosted the daytime NBC version of the game show Win, Lose or Draw, and has also appeared often as a popular panelist on such game shows as Match Game, Password, Password Plus, Super Password, various incarnations of the Pyramid game show, as well as Hollywood Squares, where she appeared both as herself and in character as Thelma " Mama " Harper.

( which aired on NBC from 1963 – 1969 and on ABC in 1975 ), Split Second ( 1972 – 1975 ), Name That Tune ( 1974 – 1981 ), and Password Plus, which he hosted from 1980 – 1982 following the illness ( and later death ) of original host Allen Ludden due to stomach cancer.

* Password Plus-A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production for NBC

The first version of the show aired for 23 weeks from January 14 to June 20, 1980 on NBC and was hosted by Bill Cullen, except for two weeks when Geoff Edwards hosted while Cullen was filling in for Allen Ludden on Password Plus.

NBC lasted until 1991, but attempted to bring them back in 1993 before cancelling its game show block again in 1994.

The coin toss ceremony featured a future infamous celebrity, former Bills running back O. J. Simpson, who was working for NBC Sports at the time.

It subsequently took his company 78 years to get back the rights to the Oswald character when in 2006 the Walt Disney Company reacquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal, through a trade for longtime ABC sports commentator Al Michaels.

Go home !” That night, NBC News had been switching back and forth between the demonstrators being beaten by the police to the festivities over Humphrey ’ s victory in the convention hall.

College Bowl with General Electric as the primary sponsor, the show ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963, and moved back to NBC from 1963 to 1970.

NBC initially offered Snyder to move his show back an hour, but after refusing, he got cancelled.

Starting in September 1991, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was pushed back from 11: 30 p. m. to 11: 35 p. m., with Letterman starting at 12: 35 a. m., at the request of NBC affiliates who wanted more advertising time for their profitable late newscasts.

" " When deputies arrived, Heche told them that she was " God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven ... in a spaceship ," according to a police report that was aired on NBC.

His contract stipulated royalties to be paid to him from the rerun profits, which gave him the financial liberty to buy back the rights to Baywatch from NBC.

Warren Littlefield, running NBC Entertainment at the time, was impressed by the series: " We were intrigued, but we were admittedly a bit spooked in attempting to go back into that territory a few years after St.

It was broadcast first as specials in 1987, then as a regular series on NBC ( 1988 – 1997 ), CBS ( 1997 – 1999 ), Lifetime ( 2001 – 2002 ), Spike ( 2008 – 2010 ) and back to Lifetime ( 2010-2012 ).

His sponsor was eager to have him back on the air, and Skelton's program began anew on NBC on December 4, 1945.

The ratings failed to bounce back, and in its final season, the show barely ranked in the top 100, prompting NBC to pull it from the prime-time lineup with four episodes left unaired in June 2000.

Conway moved back to Cleveland to work with Ernie Anderson on KYW-TV, an NBC affiliate, in 1958 and 1959 and later, from 1960 to 1962, on WJW-TV ( then a CBS affiliate ) on the weekday morning film ( under the Ernie's Place banner ) where he also wrote material for the comedic skits shown in between film intermissions.

30 Rocks executive producer Robert Carlock has spoken of his desire for Sheen to make an appearance in the NBC show's final season: " I want to get Michael Sheen back as Wesley Snipes.

In addition to these individual games, TVS was a pioneer in bringing college basketball to a national scope-first by their own efforts in the early 1970s, primarily with Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( sometimes Enberg and Hundley would call a Pac-8 game on a Friday night, fly to the midwest for the TVS game of the week on Saturday afternoon, and then head back to the west coast to call a Pac-8 game on Saturday night ), then in 1976, teaming with NBC Sports in a cooperative effort to regionalize NBC's coverage ( NBC / local talent, TVS production crews ).

After the NBC partnership ended, TVS went back to regionalizing games on their own in 1984-a forerunner to the regionalization you see today.

ET slot back to the networks, allowing NBC to move Disney back a half hour.

It moved back to NBC in 1988 under the new title The Magical World of Disney, where the competition problems it faced on ABC remained unchanged.