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 ).

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

When he regained the lead broadcaster position on NBC, he continued to call play-by-play for both networks until the end of NBC's coverage in 2002.

When NBC tried to cancel it in early 1968, the show was so popular among fans that a campaign organized by Bjo Trimble successfully demanded its return, redefining the relationship between television networks and audiences.

When presented with such plans in an NBC interview, the United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield said " This is serious business, there's not one of those, there are many of those ".

When CBS revamped Match Game in 1973 with more of a focus on risqué humor, ratings more than doubled in comparison with the NBC incarnation.

In the 1940s, the Lincoln Highway Radio Show on NBC featured the theme song " When You Travel the Great Lincoln Highway ".

When Cantor departed, Durante took over the NBC show as its star from April 22 to September 30, 1934, moving on to The Jumbo Fire Chief Program ( 1935 – 36 ).

When Letterman left, NBC asserted their intellectual property rights to many of the most popular Late Night segments.

When working at WABC ( AM ) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances.

When the series was syndicated in 1983, the NBC logo and the network's name were edited out.

" " 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.

When Lombardo switched to NBC, Burns and Allen took over his CBS spot with The Adventures of Gracie beginning September 19, 1934.

When he proposed Dragnet to NBC officials, they were not especially impressed ; radio was aswarm with private investigators and crime dramas, such as Webb's earlier Pat Novak for Hire.

When NBC compared the success of the live-action youth sitcom Saved by the Bell to the paucity of their animated hits, they gave up on cartoons in 1992, instead concentrating on live-action teenage shows with their Saturday-morning TNBC block.

When the Federal Communications Commission forced NBC to sell the Blue Network, WLS maintained its affiliation with the network under its new identity, the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ).

In 1978, Curtis made a departure from his usual macabre offerings, when he wrote, produced, and directed the sentimental NBC television film When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

When razed in 1954, the Center Theatre was an NBC television studio.

When the NBC Symphony was reorganized in the fall of 1954 as the Symphony of the Air, it continued to record for RCA, as well as other labels, usually with Leopold Stokowski.

When Texaco ( now Chevron Corporation ) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.

When I was doing my stuff at NBC with Brandon ( Tartikoff ) and Hill Street, we were contemporaries ," says Bochco.

When only Huntley or Brinkley was on the program, that one would merely say " Good night for NBC News ".

When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from one another, Clark and the executive producer of the show — her husband, Wolff — refused, destroyed all other takes of the song and delivered the finished programme to NBC with the touch intact.

When the show aired on NBC and CBS, the number was displayed on the bottom of the screen.

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.

When the proprietor dies, the establishment should become a corporation until it is either acquired by another proprietor or the government decides to drop it.

When a chain in which a player owns stock is acquired by a larger chain, players earn money based on the size of the acquired chain.

When the team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

When Delany married his first wife he acquired sole ownership, but it became famous as the home of Delany and his second wife-Mary Pendarves.

When the Harmonists advertised their Indiana property for sale in 1824, they had acquired of land, of which was under cultivation.

When Netscape acquired the website directory NewHoo in 1998, they re-branded it the Open Directory Project with the nickname " dmoz " ( Directory of Mozilla ) due to its similarity to the Mozilla project.

When the Upper was dropped from Upper Saxony, a different region had acquired the Saxon name, ultimately replacing the name's original meaning.

When creating this chapel the monks of Peterborough had thought of how they had acquired it and built into the chapel a narrow tower-just big enough for a monk to climb to the top by an internal stair and stand guard over Oswald's Arm 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

When Willesden acquired the house and land in 1899, they named the park Gladstone Park after the old Prime Minister.

When it was finally adopted by the British Army in 1803, it immediately acquired the inventor's name: the shrapnel shell.

When Netscape was acquired by AOL he wrote a famous bulletin explaining the nature of the Free Software Mozilla code.

When Jewel acquired Star Market in 1964, the first Osco Drug in New England was opened, and some were next to Star Market locations and were branded as " Star-Osco ".

When The Jewel Companies Inc. acquired Buttrey Food Stores in 1966, many of the stores were converted to a combination store format and bannered as " Buttrey-Osco " with common checkout stands but separate store management, all under one roof.

When Dark Horse acquired the license two years later, he appeared in numerous projects based on the franchise as well.

When one of the Peugeot racers remained in the United States during World War I and parts could not be acquired from France for the 1914 season, owner Bob Burma had it serviced in the shop of Harry Miller by a young mechanic named Fred Offenhauser.

When the Japanese acquired Taiwan in 1895 after the First Sino-Japanese War, they retained Taipei as the capital of the island, and also advanced extensive urban planning in Taipei.

When he married, he acquired Jesmond Dene House, a house to the west of Jesmond Dene, Newcastle and began to landscape and improve land that he bought within the Dene.

When Gibson acquired the trademark in 1994, the company announced that it would defend its right to Dobro's exclusive use.

When Shehadie was knighted in 1976, Bashir acquired the title ' Lady Shehadie ', but seldom uses it, preferring to use her maiden name.

When she married Maximilian I of Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the provinces were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1482, with the exception of the Duchy of Burgundy itself, which, with an appeal to Salic law, had been reabsorbed into France upon the death of Mary's father, Charles the Bold.

The following evening Profumo's brother-in-law, Lord Balfour of Inchrye, remarked on live television that " When a man has by self-indulgence acquired the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence requires no more than a sense of the ridiculous ".

When Chrysler left Willys in 1921 after an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control from John Willys, he acquired a controlling interest in the ailing Maxwell Motor Company.