The program came out of the NBC Special Projects department, and was slotted in the Du Pont Show Of The Week series.

NBC had gathered a lot of historical material which it was eager to share.

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 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes.

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

In 1970, he was the subject of a provocative NBC documentary called This Is Al Capp.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

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 ).

The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

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.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

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.

The NBC television series The Monkees was popular, and remained so in syndication.

This CD was released only in the United States in an exclusive partnership with the NBC television network and the Target department store chain.

In 2006, Wallach made a guest appearance on the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing a former writer who was blacklisted in the 1950s.

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 ".

Within days it was reported that Fox had been excluded from an interview with administration official Ken Feinberg, with bureau chiefs from the White House press pool ( ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN ) coming to Fox's defense.

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 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.

As far as the illegal snap is concerned, the non-call was promptly acknowledged by the officials and reported by NBC sportscasters during halftime, but the resulting three points were not taken away from the Bears ( Because of this instance, the NFL instructed officials to strictly enforce the 10-second run-off rule at the start of the 1986 season ).

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.

The FCC was most concerned about NBC Red and NBC Blue which the commission thought was anti-competitive.

Several NBC executives watched the rehearsal and were concerned that Monica did not care enough about Paul to sleep with him on their first date.

When NBC executives learned of the kiss they became concerned it would anger TV stations in the conservative Deep South.

Wynn, the " Fire Chief " of the original Fire Chief Program program on NBC and CBS, had been concerned with his own perilous-seeming future as an entertainer and the power the already-established networks had over the programming policies of their local affiliate stations.

Despite this, when NBC executives learned of the kiss they became concerned it would anger TV stations in the conservative Deep South.

* On August 13, 2009, the Dallas NBC affiliate reported that EDS employees were being warned not to talk to the media about the salary cuts.

" episode of the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour.

* Profiler ( TV series ), a television drama series about a criminologist profiler that aired on NBC

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.

* NBC ran two popular TV series about truck drivers in the 1970s featuring actor Claude Akins in major roles:

While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in 1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly announcing his intent to play a piece but getting " distracted " by something or other, making comments about the audience, or discussing the usefulness of Chopin's " Minute Waltz " as an egg timer.

Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League ( after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing the Toronto Argonauts ), while NBC was moving ahead at the time with Time Warner to create a football league of their own.

Micky said later that someone at Screen Gems forgot to contact his agent to inform him the series was picked up by NBC ; he wound up learning about his new job by reading the announcement in Variety.

She also appeared in an episode of the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour, " There Should Be an Outfit Called ' Families Anonymous!

He appeared in an interview ( with clips having fun talking to children on his home CB radio station ) in the NBC Knowledge television episode about CB radio in 1978.

** 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.

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.

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 ).

An episode on the NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet which aired from 1997 to 2000 called Veronica's Big Homecoming was about Harper.

" Neither Kintner nor NBC was ever implicated in the scandal and NBC cancelled the show when it heard about the scandal, but Enright claimed before his death that Geritol's complaints about the lack of drama and suspense in the unrigged premiere prompted the company to rig the show.

In May 2008, NBC News President Steve Capus said that " It used to be people didn't have to worry about MSNBC because it was an also-ran cable channel .... That's not the case anymore.

Other appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim " ( 1961 ) and " The Dummy " ( 1962 ) followed by guest-starring roles in such series as the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour ( 1963 ) in the role of Jeff Dillon, " The Man Who Came Home Late ".

* September 14 – My Mother, the Car premieres on NBC ( 1965 – 1966 ) ... and sets a standard that comics and critics will joke about for years.

In 1963, Parker appeared in the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour in the episode " Why Am I Grown So Cold?