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 ).

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.

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.

" It was also used now and then on NBC News Overnight in the early 1980s, and Keith Olbermann occasionally used it on Countdown.

CBS broadcast Super Bowl II, then the league rotated the broadcast between CBS and NBC until 1985 when ABC entered the rotation when they broadcast Super Bowl XIX.

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.

It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

Originally broadcast on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon, the series ran first-run original episodes for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years ( from 1984 to 1986 ).

) There have been two television appearances since then ; the 1984 tournament semi-finals and finals aired on NBC, hosted by Pat Sajak ( of Wheel of Fortune fame ), and the entire 1987 tournament on Disney Channel, hosted by Dick Cavett.

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its two networks — the Blue Network — and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company

Following its primetime run, the series aired on Saturday mornings for decades, starting on ABC for the 1963-64 season and then in future seasons on CBS and NBC.

An American version of TW3 was on NBC, initially as a pilot episode on 10 November 1963, then as a series from 10 January 1964 to May 1965.

A frequent guest on David Letterman's NBC program, it was during the run of ' Without You I'm Nothing, With You I'm Not Much Better ' that she appeared with her then good friend ( and rumored lover ) Madonna on the show.

That episode earned him an Emmy Award nomination and was then adapted Man Under Cover which aired on NBC from November 2, 1978 to July 12, 1979.

Saved by the Bell originated in an NBC pilot entitled Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was inspired by then NBC president Brandon Tartikoff's teachers from his past.

It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995.

As part of a pre-arranged act, Brokaw then proceeded to retrieve a pair of cue cards while stating that " These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!

NBC revived the show twice — in 1970 and 1976, and finally in 1985 Lantz sold all of the Woody Woodpecker shorts to Universal, then part of MCA.

The HFPA has had a lucrative contract with NBC for decades, which began broadcasting the award ceremony locally in Los Angeles in 1958, then nationally in 1964.

However, in 1968, the Federal Communications Commission claimed the show “ misled the public as to how the winners were determined ” ( winners were determined by lobby ; if winners did not attend the event then another name would be chosen ) and admonished NBC for participating in the scandal.

Pardo made his mark on game shows for NBC as the booming voice of the original The Price Is Right from 1956 until it moved to ABC in 1963, then Call My Bluff.

These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, which owned the NBC network then, were made available both in 45 rpm and 33⅓ rpm.

Van Dyke later hired Griffith to reprise his Matlock role in a 1997 episode of his own CBS series Diagnosis: Murder, which completed a connection between Matlock and Diagnosis: Murder ( Jake and the Fatman, which was a spinoff of Matlock but aired on CBS instead of NBC, was the connecting series as Diagnosis: Murder was spun off from that ).

He thus applied for a job at NBC in New York City in 1951 and was hired because of his music degree.

After two brief stints at NBC and CBS, Barry Diller at ABC hired Eisner as Assistant to the National Programming Director.

He had also been hired for voicing " The Devil " on the NBC animated television series God, the Devil and Bob, but was fired when he failed to show up for rehearsals.

Composed by Randy Edelman, the distinctive theme music gained recognition beyond the show's following ; in the mid-1990s, the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) hired Edelman to provide music for its sports coverage, including National Football League games and the Olympics.

Stone hired Bob McGrath ( an actor and singer best known at the time for his appearances on Mitch Miller's sing-along show on NBC ) to play Bob, Will Lee to play Mr. Hooper, and Garrett Saunders to play Gordon.

Popoff at first denied that he used the tactics Randi claimed, even asserting " NBC hired an actress to impersonate Mrs. Popoff on a ' doctored ' videotape.

One year later, he moved to NBC ( after being hired by Dick Ebersol to direct comedy programming ).

In 2000, NBC hired Caray to do play-by-play with Joe Morgan on the AL Division Series between the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics.

In May 1992, Storm left CNN and was hired by NBC.

He was hired by NBC News ' Washington bureau the following year and became bureau chief by 1989.

Coincidentally, the revamp of SportsCenter came after NBC hired Dan Patrick to team with Keith Olbermann on FNIA highlights ; Patrick and Olbermann were the premier anchor team on that show in the 1990s.

In 1972, NBC paid the NHL for the rights to broadcast games on national TV in the U. S. Lindsay was hired to do the color analysis, along with Tim Ryan, who did the play-by-play.

An editor of Spy was hired by NBC to run the variety show Sunday Best, and took Oakley and Weinstein to Los Angeles with him in 1991.

When he was hired by NBC in 1935, he decamped for New York, along with his friend, fellow Boston announcer Frank Gallop, who was hired by CBS.

Less than a year in the US, she was hired by Telemundo / NBC to host the network morning show " De mañanita ".

He has since been hired to replace John Madden on NBC games, who retired on April 16, 2009.

In late 1997 Dobbs hired former ABC News and NBC News Executive Producer David Bohrman to turn the program into a more general evening newscast, which would be called " The Moneyline NewsHour.

He was hired by NBC Daytime in 1975 after then head writer, Margaret DePriest, left The Doctors.

In 1994 Wells was hired as an executive producer for the pilot of NBC medical drama ER.

In June 2009, NBC Sports hired Dungy to serve as a studio color analyst on the network's weekly Sunday Night Football pregame show, Football Night in America.

Around the time same as she started “ On the Record ”, NBC hired Thompson as a news commentator.