Realizing that NBC executives exhibited very little desire to micromanage various aspects of the show, the staff felt confident they would be allowed to push outside of the mainstream talk-show boundaries and thus set about putting together a quirky, absurdist, and odd program.

It was only after the first episode that NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric, and demanded that creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David add a woman to the cast.

Since the NBC network owns the Telemundo company, executives at NBC decided that it would be a good idea for Arrarás to be a panelist for the candidates ' debate during the " Iowa Brown and Black Presidential Forum " in 2004.

By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News, in 1955.

With network executives perceiving the instability of this arrangement as a factor in Nightly News losing audience share to the CBS Evening News, NBC discontinued the rotation, and McGee eventually took over for Hugh Downs as host of The Today Show.

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The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too " cerebral " for the average American viewer.

" NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric, and demanded that creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David add a woman to the cast as a condition for commissioning the show, as revealed in the commentary on the Season 1 and 2 DVD.

In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the Democratic and Republican political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters ( he had in mind Bill Henry and Ray Scherer ), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, Joseph Meyers, who favored Chet Huntley, proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley.

While pitching the concept of a " show about nothing " to NBC executives, George dates executive Susan until The Virgin, when she is fired.

It wasn't until Henning suggested that he would reproduce live Harry Houdini's famous and highly dangerous water torture escape — for the first time since Houdini performed it himself — that the NBC executives signed him.

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: NBC attorneys journalists and security officials at Rockefeller Center fraudulently under the " Freedom of Information Act " all orders NBC executives got the U. S. federal district attorney's office who got FBI to get Interpol to establish task force that located me in Dover England.

and NBC executives told John Knight the whole coven gloated in joyous fits on how their Soviet pals found a way to turn it into a ...

Speculation in the media seemed to imply that NBC executives had eased her out to advance younger NBC newscaster Deborah Norville, who had begun to play a larger role in the two-hour morning program.

Imagining Holt ’ s fictional boss, Gleason proposed to Butler, “ Wouldn ’ t it be great if he showed up and made her crazy ?” In 1981, Gleason, Butler, Erwin and Tinker pitched the series to NBC, and were initially rejected by executives who didn't " get " the premise.

Pierce Brosnan auditioned for the role of Remington Steele, but was initially refused by NBC executives who were concerned that Brosnan was a relative unknown in America.

Of this group, the creators chose some to audition again for Warner Bros. Television executives, who chose the final group of a few actors to audition for NBC executives ; as they decide whether to purchase a pilot, network executives generally have ultimate authority over casting.

After two seasons, NBC saw that Punky Brewster and its principal Sunday night stablemate, the four-year-old Silver Spoons, could not compete as strongly as they hoped against CBS ' juggernaut 60 Minutes, and cancelled both programs.

When the first of such installments was not as successful as NBC had hoped with its " Return of Just Shoot Me!

As KDKA radio had long been an NBC affiliate ( due to corporate ties between Westinghouse and NBC dating back to 1926, when Westinghouse was a co-founder of RCA, NBC's then-parent company ), KDKA-TV hoped to become a primary affiliate of NBC television.

Despite being sandwiched between Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and Bonanza, the show never garnered the ratings NBC had hoped for.

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.

** While the last inning and a half of Game 2 is missing from the Major League Baseball / NBC copy, the Andrews plays ( totaling about 60 seconds of coverage ) survived because after the World Series, NBC put together a 20-minute presentation tape narrated by Curt Gowdy to submit to the Peabody Awards in order to get consideration for an award for their coverage by the committee ; the tape includes the two Andrews plays with Gowdy and Tony Kubek's calls and analysis of them.

Kreuk was involved with two pilots that did not get picked up: an NBC 2010 sitcom entitled Hitched ( which was co-created by Josh Schwartz, who was also the creator of Chuck ) and a 2011 CBS drama series called 17th Precinct, which was developed by Ronald D. Moore.

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.

In addition, there was a growing " cast of characters " including an NBC electrician who played " Father Ed ," a priest who would get flustered when his cue cards were deliberately turned upside-down ; Canadian comedian Murray Langston, who as " The Unknown Comic " wore a paper bag over his head ( with cut-outs for his eyes, mouth, and even a box of Kleenex ), and " Gene Gene the Dancing Machine " ( Gene Patton ), arguably the most popular member of the " cast ", another NBC stagehand who would show up and dance whenever the band played the song " Jumpin ' at the Woodside ".

The fight was shown in prime time broadcast television by NBC, which rarely did prime time fights ( ABC tended to get the Ali fights ) and had the judges ' scoring announced after each round to help avoid any controversial decision.

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.

These are not generally referred to as anti-personnel weapons, but by their own names or group terms ( e. g., NBC weapons ) which serve to get them specifically banned.

With NBC a lot of race records wouldn't get played because of the lyrics.

Paley helped out CBS to get them where NBC was.

Channel 5 tried to save the show when its cancellation was announced, offering partially to fund it and trying to get other networks involved, as had happened previously with Baywatch, but NBC was not interested.

Major League Baseball media director John Lazarus said of the new arrangement between NBC and ABC " Ratings couldn't get more from one network so we approached another.

Because of its relationship with KING, KONG can air NBC programming that may get displaced by other programming such as local events, or by local interest.

Flagstad did get her way, though ; she went over Johnson's head and discussed the matter with the Met's board of directors, particularly David Sarnoff, RCA and NBC founder and chairman.

A social conservative (" I'm against smut ," he declared ), Overmyer began to produce his own programs, and decided to create a nationwide hookup, enticing existing stations with a 50-50 profit split with potential affiliates ( something that the established network's affiliates had been trying to get from ABC, CBS and NBC for years ).

( Among this group was a new Entertainment President, Brandon Tartikoff, who would help get NBC back on top by 1985.

After briefly canceling the show, NBC decided to continue production only if they could get Lorne Michaels to produce again.

NBC had been looking for a way to get on another station for some time, especially since WRDC frequently preempted its programming.

If the 49ers or Raiders get flexed to NBC in the final week, the team not playing on NBC can have its game moved to 4: 25 p. m. EST if it is visiting the appropriate Missouri team and playoff positioning is on the line.