Notable members of the Astor family attended Columbia, while some recent business graduates include investor Warren Buffett, former CEO of PBS and NBC Larry Grossman, and chairman of Wal-Mart S. Robson Walton.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

* Julian Goodman, former CEO and chairman of the board of NBC

Notables attending included: New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey ; violinist Fritz Kreisler ; James A. Farley ; Metropolitan Opera manager Rudolph Bing ; NBC chairman David Sarnoff ; CBS chairman William S. Paley ; Broadway composer Richard Rodgers ; and Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer.

He left NBC in 1991, moving to Paramount Pictures to become its chairman.

Fox hosted Way Out Games ( 1976 – 1977 ), a Saturday-morning series for CBS, then later spent a year ( 1977 – 1978 ) running children's programming for NBC and eventually became a chairman of the board for Population Communications International, a nonprofit dedicated to " technical assistance, research and training consultation to governments, NGOs and foundations on a wide range of social marketing and communications initiatives ", for which he is still an honorary chairman.

Shortly thereafter, Tinker left MTM to become chairman of NBC, then the number three network, and subsequently a pilot was ordered.

* Bob Wright, American television businessman and president, CEO, and chairman of NBC

He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.

Salomon left the Navy in 1948 and eventually discussed his idea of a documentary series with one of his Harvard classmates, Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television and the son of David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA ( then the owner of NBC ).

* Bob Wright ( born 1943 ), United States television businessman and former president, CEO, and chairman of NBC

NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol added that it wasn't cost-effective for NBC to be putting out the kind of money that Major League Baseball wanted.

In May 2004, NBC's parent company, General Electric, acquired Vivendi Universal Entertainment to create NBC Universal ; Wright, who orchestrated the deal, was named chairman and CEO of the new company.

Noble tried valiantly to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but was hampered by financial problems and the pressure of competing with long-established NBC and CBS, and by 1951 was forced to enter negotiations to merge the network with United Paramount Theaters, headed by Leonard Goldenson ; Goldenson would become chairman of the ABC network, while Noble remained on the ABC board of directors for the remainder of his life.

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.

Ebersol was chairman of NBC Sports until May 2011.

Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters.

However, NBC Universal TV Entertainment chairman Jeff Gaspin stated that while those conversations have yet to take place, he stated that they " wish Conan the best.

The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a " personal favorite " of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff as well as comedian Bill Maher.

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 ".

* Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal

Comedian Jeff Altman had a contract with NBC, and, on that basis, he was offered work hosting the show to compensate for the fact that the leads were un-versed in English.

As the 1981-82 season ranked No. 68 out of 105 shows, NBC executives planned a daytime version of the primetime series to debut in September 1982, but that never occurred despite the fact a bible for a third season had been drafted by Jeff Freilich.

The following Dateline NBC producers were dismissed: Jeff Diamond, executive producer ; David Rummel, senior producer ; and Robert Read, producer of the report on the pickups.

In February 2007, Wright, after 21 years, was succeeded by Jeff Zucker, who was named president and CEO of NBC Universal.

In contrast, Jeff Sharlet, who was interviewed on NBC News and wrote a book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, and an article in Harper's about his experience serving as an intern in the Fellowship, has stated that the organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to " Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden " as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their " brothers ".

Jeff Sharlet, in contrast, told NBC News that when he was an intern with the Fellowship " we were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao " and that Hitler's genocide " wasn't an issue for them, it was the strength that he emulated.

* Jeff Hullinger-sports anchor ( 1982-1984 ; now with WXIA NBC in Atlanta, political reporter / anchor )

Norman Jay Rambeau ( November 13, 1941 – March 21, 1994 ), professionally known as Dack Rambo, was an American actor, most notable for appearing as Walter Brennan's grandson Jeff in the ABC series The Guns of Will Sonnett, as Steve Jacobi in All My Children, as cousin Jack Ewing on CBS's Dallas, and as Grant Harrison on the NBC soap opera Another World.

The show only lasted one season however, and Engvall returned to making the rounds of comedy clubs and the occasional television appearance until 1996 when he was cast with fellow comic and best friend Jeff Foxworthy in the NBC version of The Jeff Foxworthy Show.

Altman also had a starring role as the host of the short-lived NBC variety show Pink Lady and Jeff in 1980 which TV Guide later ranked 35 on its " 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time " list.

Foxworthy had cast best friend Engvall in the NBC version of The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and featured Larry on his nationally syndicated, weekly, country radio show The Foxworthy Countdown.

He would also, with far less success, commission The Brady Bunch Hour for ABC in 1976 and Pink Lady and Jeff and " The Susan Anton Show " for NBC in 1980, series that were extremely poorly received.

* Jeff Finch-news anchor ( later NBC Radio news anchor )

The station had to rely on KNBC meteorologist Pablo Pereira on weekends for a time being until on May 22, 2009, when TVNewser reported that Jeff Ranieri was leaving NBC News in New York to join KNTV.

* Jeff Zucker, an American television executive and Chief Executive Officer of the NBC Universal Television Group

In the Civil War television series The Americans, broadcast by NBC in 1961, he played Jeff, the younger brother who joined Confederate Army, in opposition to Ben, the older brother ( played by Darryl Hickman ), who joined the Union Army.

In Japan, they are remembered for a run of pop-chart hits from roughly 1976 to 1979, but in the United States, they are best known for their short-lived 1980 NBC TV variety show Pink Lady, later released on DVD under the title Pink Lady and Jeff.

On February 14, 2012, cctivist shareholder Daniel S. Loeb, of Third Point Partners, named Wolf as part of the proposed slate of directors for the board of Yahoo, Inc. Third Point ’ s other nominees are Jeff Zucker, the former chief executive of NBC Universal ; Harry Wilson ( businessman ) and the former Treasury Department official and a former hedge fund executive.

Martin said about his departure, " I am very grateful to everyone at Wolf Films and NBC Universal Television, especially Dick Wolf and Jeff Zucker, for allowing me this once in a lifetime opportunity, I'm going to miss Dennis ( Farina ), Epatha ( Merkerson ) and the rest of the cast and crew, and I can't wait to return next year.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

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 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.

Sandler told Conan O ' Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Farley from the show in 1995.

According to the magazine TV Guide, NBC told Blocker he was too old to play the Hoss scion, but gave him the role of an unrelated newspaper reporter.

The story of the trial was told in a 1982 miniseries for NBC Little Gloria ...

" Macdonald made his final appearance as Weekend Update anchor in December 1997, after NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer — a longtime friend of Simpson, who had previously told Michaels to not let his friendship affect the show — demanded his dismissal from the segment, despite Michaels ' protest that making the change in the middle of the season would be difficult for the show.

Arriving shortly before airtime at the Philadelphia studios, Cantor was reportedly told to cut the song because the NBC New York censors considered some of the lyrics too risqué.

( The show's head writer, Goodman Ace, later told radio host Richard Lamparski that Allen's lucrative NBC contract was a large factor in getting him on the show, though Allen also wrote the segments on which he appeared and consulted with the respected Ace and staff on other portions of the show.

NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, " First Person Singular ", which is told entirely from the point-of-view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed.

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 ...

NBC also asked for a premise pilot which told the story of how Laura Holt met the man who became Remington Steele.

He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who took Christophe to an orphanage when the boy was 5.

Russert told this story to Jay Leno when he was a guest on The Tonight Show on NBC on June 6, 2006.

During this time, NBC executives told the bald Scott to wear a hairpiece.

When Enright subsequently told him the promise could not be kept because he had sold his shows to NBC itself, Stempel called Jack O ' Brian, a columnist who covered television for the Journal-American.

Just as Pat is about to reveal the truth, an audience member ( played by Adam Sandler ) suddenly stands up and screams at Pat not to tell, declaring that NBC will be bereft of comedy if Pat told, as the hit programs Cheers was ending its run and David Letterman was leaving the network.

close friend of Coe told NBC News that he invokes Hitler to show the power of small groups — for good and bad.

At an interview in English after the press conference, Schabowski told the NBC reporter Tom Brokaw that " it is no question of tourism.

In 1967, NBC, which at the time had an extremely low tolerance of local pre-emptions, told WSOC to start clearing all of NBC's programming or they would pull their affiliation.

But it was wonderful, I grew up reading about Snow White and fantasizing about being the fairest of them all, and there I was ... My manager told me that NBC had offered me the role of Snow White and I said, ' I'll take it.

The first few years of Law & Order had mediocre ratings and finally after the close of the 1992-1993 season, NBC told creator / executive producer Dick Wolf that they would cancel the show, unless he added a few women to the all-male cast.

After the dress rehearsal, NBC Symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini told Menotti, " This is the best you've ever done.