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American television and radio network
This article is about the bleedin' television and radio network. For NBC Philippines, see Nation Broadcastin' Corporation. For other uses, see NBC (disambiguation).
"Peacock Network" redirects here. For the streamin' service, see Peacock (streamin' service).
National Broadcastin' Company
Terrestrial television network
(1926–1993, 2012–2014, 2016–present)
Sports radio network
Brandin'
National and Worldwide
June 19, 1926; 94 years ago (1926-06-19)
by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), General Electric (GE), and Westinghouse
Big TV Starts Here[1]
Comedy Starts Here (comedy programmin')
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City
(Comcast)
NBC Entertainment
(NBCUniversal Television and Streamin')
Radio: November 15, 1926; 94 years ago (1926-11-15)
Television: April 30, 1939; 81 years ago (1939-04-30)
Picture format
1080i (HDTV)
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs; experimentally broadcastin' at 1080p and 2160p UHD in some programs through NBC affiliate WRAL-TV)
NBC Radio Network
NBC's second logo from 1931 to 1942
NBC's fourth logo from 1946 to 1952
NBC's fifth logo from 1952 to 1953
NBC's sixth logo from 1953 to 1959
NBC's seventh logo from 1956 to 1979
NBC's ninth logo from 1975 to 1979
NBC's tenth logo from 1979 to 1986
NBC's eleventh logo from 1986 to 2010
NBC's twelfth and previous logo from 2010 to 2013
NBC's Valentine's Day logo for 2011
NBC's current Halloween logo
NBC's current Christmas logo
The National Broadcastin' Company[a] (NBC) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial radio and television network owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the feckin' NBC Tower), and Philadelphia (at the bleedin' Comcast Technology Center). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the feckin' company's innovations in early color broadcastin'; it became the bleedin' network's official emblem in 1979.
Founded in 1926 by the feckin' Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the feckin' oldest major broadcast network in the feckin' United States. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. At that time, the feckin' parent company of RCA was General Electric (GE), grand so. In 1932, GE was forced to sell RCA and NBC as a bleedin' result of antitrust charges. Right so. In 1986, control of NBC passed back to General Electric (GE) through its $6.4 billion purchase of RCA. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. GE immediately began to liquidate RCA's various divisions, but retained NBC. After the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright became chief executive officer of NBC; he would remain in that position until his retirement in 2007, when he was succeeded by Jeff Zucker.
In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, formin' NBC Universal. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Comcast purchased an oul' controllin' interest in the bleedin' company in 2011, and acquired General Electric's remainin' stake in 2013.[2] Followin' the bleedin' Comcast merger, Zucker left NBCUniversal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke.
NBC has thirteen owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the bleedin' United States and its territories, some of which are also available in Canada and/or Mexico via pay-television providers or in border areas over-the-air; NBC also maintains brand licensin' agreements for international channels in South Korea and Germany.[3]
1.1.1 Earliest stations: WEAF and WJZ
1.1.2 Red and Blue Networks
1.1.3 Chimes
1.1.4 New beginnings: The Blue Network becomes ABC
1.1.5 Definin' radio's golden age
1.1.6 Decline
1.1.7 Restoration
1.2.1 Color television
1.2.2 1970s doldrums
1.2.3 Tartikoff's turnaround
1.2.4 "Must See TV"
1.2.5 New century, new problems
1.2.6 Comcast era (2011–present)
2 Programmin'
2.1 NBC News
2.2 Daytime programmin'
2.3 Children's programmin'
2.4 Specials
2.5 Programmin' library
4 Related services
4.1 Video-on-demand services
4.2 NBC HD
4.3 NBCi
5 Evolution of the NBC logo
6 International broadcasts
6.1 Canada
6.2 Europe and the oul' Middle East
6.2.1 NBC Super Channel becomes NBC Europe
6.3.2 Nicaragua
6.3.3 Canal de Noticias
6.4 Caribbean
6.4.1 Bahamas
6.4.2 Netherlands Antilles
6.5 Puerto Rico
6.6 Bermuda
6.7 Pacific
6.7.1 Guam
6.7.2 American Samoa
6.7.3 Federated States of Micronesia
6.8 Asia
6.8.1 NBC Asia and CNBC Asia
6.8.2 Regional partners
6.9 Australia
7 Criticism and controversies
8 Presidents of NBC Entertainment
11 Further readin'
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The Comcast Buildin' in New York City (or the oul' GE Buildin', originally the bleedin' RCA Buildin'; pictured in 2005), the feckin' headquarters of NBC
Radio[edit]
Earliest stations: WEAF and WJZ[edit]
Durin' a holy period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA) acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T).[4] Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had a competin' outlet in Newark pioneer station WJZ[5] (no relation to the oul' radio and television station in Baltimore currently usin' those call letters), which also served as the oul' flagship for a bleedin' loosely structured network. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, and moved to New York City.[6] A peacock was used as the oul' NBC logo. for the first time back in 1956 it was around the feckin' time that color televisions started to spread, to be sure. the oul' colorful bird had the bleedin' mission of motivatin' people to step into the world of colors and give up your old ones Black white TV. Right so. but why did they choose a holy peacock among all the bleedin' birds? for the bleedin' variety of colors and also to show proud they were of their new transfer technologies at that time the proud phrase of a peacock was very popular with its 11 feathers.
today the feckin' peacock's tail now has 6 colors and each one represents one of NBC's divisions: news, sports, entertainment, stations, networks and productions called NBC the oul' peacock.
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WEAF acted as a feckin' laboratory for AT&T's manufacturin' and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. The Bell System, AT&T's telephone utility, was developin' technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, usin' both wireless and wired methods. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. The creation of WEAF in 1922 offered an oul' research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained an oul' regular schedule of radio programs, includin' some of the oul' first commercially sponsored programs, and was an immediate success. Here's a quare one. In an early example of "chain" or "networkin'" broadcastin', the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island; and with AT&T's station in Washington, D.C., WCAP.
New parent RCA saw an advantage in sharin' programmin', and after gettin' an oul' license for radio station WRC in Washington, D.C., in 1923, attempted to transmit audio between cities via low-quality telegraph lines. Chrisht Almighty. AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. Bejaysus. The early effort fared poorly, since the feckin' uninsulated telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric and other electrical interference.
In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its embryonic network were incompatible with the feckin' company's primary goal of providin' an oul' telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the bleedin' station to RCA in a holy deal that included the right to lease AT&T's phone lines for network transmission.[7]
Red and Blue Networks[edit]
Main articles: NBC Radio Network and Blue Network
NBC networks, 1933
RCA spent $1 million to purchase WEAF and Washington sister station WCAP, shuttin' down the latter station, and merged its facilities with survivin' station WRC; in late 1926, it subsequently announced the oul' creation of an oul' new division known as the National Broadcastin' Company.[8] The division's ownership was split among RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its foundin' corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%) and Westinghouse (which owned the remainin' 20%). Stop the lights! NBC officially started broadcastin' on November 15, 1926.
WEAF and WJZ, the oul' flagships of the feckin' two earlier networks, were operated side by side for about a feckin' year as part of the oul' new NBC. On January 1, 1927, NBC formally divided their respective marketin' strategies: the oul' "Red Network" offered commercially sponsored entertainment and music programmin'; the "Blue Network" mostly carried sustainin' – or non-sponsored – broadcasts, especially news and cultural programs. Here's a quare one. Various histories of NBC suggest the color designations for the two networks came from the color of the bleedin' pushpins NBC engineers used to designate affiliate stations of WEAF (red) and WJZ (blue), or from the use of double-ended red and blue colored pencils.
Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a feckin' bank in the mid-1960s.
On April 5, 1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network, also known as the oul' Pacific Coast Network, the cute hoor. This was followed by the debut of the feckin' NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18, 1931, that's fierce now what? The Orange Network carried Red Network programmin', and the Gold Network carried programmin' from the Blue Network. Initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programmin' for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. In 1936, the oul' Orange Network affiliate stations became part of the Red Network, and at the feckin' same time, the oul' Gold Network became part of the oul' Blue Network.
In the feckin' 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, called the oul' NBC White Network.
In 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupyin' the upper floors of an oul' buildin' designed by architect Floyd Brown.[9] NBC outgrew the oul' Fifth Avenue facilities in 1933.[9]
In 1930, General Electric was charged with antitrust violations, resultin' in the feckin' company's decision to divest itself of RCA. Would ye swally this in a minute now?The newly separate company signed leases to move its corporate headquarters into the oul' new Rockefeller Center in 1931. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. John D. Here's a quare one for ye. Rockefeller, Jr., founder and financier of Rockefeller Center, arranged the bleedin' deal with GE chairman Owen D. Stop the lights! Young and RCA president David Sarnoff. When it moved into the bleedin' complex in 1933, RCA became the lead tenant at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, known as the bleedin' "RCA Buildin'" (later the feckin' GE Buildin', now the oul' Comcast Buildin'), which housed NBC's production studios as well as theaters for RCA-owned RKO Pictures.[10]
Chimes[edit]
Main article: NBC chimes
Entrance at the bleedin' Comcast Buildin'.
The iconic three-note NBC chimes came about after several years of development. The three-note sequence, G-E'-C', was first heard over Red Network affiliate WSB in Atlanta,[11] with a feckin' second inversion C-major triad as its outline, to be sure. An executive at NBC's New York headquarters heard the oul' WSB version of the notes durin' the bleedin' networked broadcast of a feckin' Georgia Tech football game and asked permission to use it on the feckin' national network. I hope yiz are all ears now. NBC started to use the chimes sequence in 1931, and it eventually became the first audio trademark to be accepted by the bleedin' U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.[12][13]
A variant sequence with an additional note, G-E'-C'-G, known as "the fourth chime", was used durin' significant events of extreme urgency (includin' durin' World War II, especially in the bleedin' wake of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; on D-Day and durin' disasters). The NBC chimes were mechanized in 1932 by Rangertone founder Richard H. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. Ranger; their purpose was to send a low-level signal of constant amplitude that would be heard by the various switchin' stations manned by NBC and AT&T engineers, and to be used as a holy system cue for switchin' individual stations between the bleedin' Red and Blue network feeds. Contrary to popular legend, the feckin' G-E'-C' notes were not originally intended to reference to the feckin' General Electric Company (an early shareholder in NBC's foundin' parent RCA and whose Schenectady, New York radio station, WGY, was an early affiliate of NBC Red), bejaysus. The three-note sequence remains in use by the feckin' NBC television network, most notably incorporated into the oul' John Williams-composed theme music used by NBC News, "The Mission" (first composed in 1985 for NBC Nightly News).
New beginnings: The Blue Network becomes ABC[edit]
Further information: Blue Network and American Broadcastin' Company
NBC Tower in Chicago.
In 1934, the oul' Mutual Broadcastin' System filed a bleedin' complaint to the feckin' Federal Communications Commission (FCC), followin' the bleedin' government agency's creation, claimin' it ran into difficulties tryin' to establish new radio stations in a market largely controlled by NBC and the Columbia Broadcastin' System (CBS). Here's another quare one for ye. In 1938, the FCC began an oul' series of investigations into the feckin' monopolistic effects of network broadcastin'. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? A report published by the oul' commission in 1939 found that NBC's two networks and its owned-and-operated stations dominated audiences, affiliates and advertisin' in American radio; this led the oul' commission to file an order to RCA to divest itself of either NBC Red or NBC Blue.
After Mutual's appeals were rejected by the oul' FCC, RCA filed its own appeal to overturn the oul' divestiture order. Chrisht Almighty. However, in 1941, the oul' company decided to sell NBC Blue in the feckin' event its appeal was denied. In fairness now. The Blue Network was formally named NBC Blue Network, Inc, for the craic. and NBC Red became NBC Red Network, Inc. Jaysis. for corporate purposes. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Both networks formally divorced their operations on January 8, 1942,[14] with the bleedin' Blue Network bein' referred to on-air as either "Blue" or "Blue Network", and Blue Network Company, Inc. servin' as its official corporate name. NBC Red, meanwhile, became known on-air as simply "NBC".[15] Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. placed a bleedin' $7.5 million bid for NBC Blue, an offer that was rejected by NBC executive Mark Woods and RCA president David Sarnoff.
After losin' on final appeal before the bleedin' U.S. C'mere til I tell ya. Supreme Court in May 1943, RCA sold Blue Network Company, Inc., for $8 million to the feckin' American Broadcastin' System, a feckin' recently founded company owned by Life Savers magnate Edward J. Right so. Noble. After the feckin' sale was completed on October 12, 1943,[16] Noble acquired the rights to the Blue Network name, leases on landlines, the bleedin' New York studios, two-and-a-half radio stations (WJZ in Newark/New York City; KGO in San Francisco and WENR in Chicago, which shared a holy frequency with Prairie Farmer station WLS); contracts with actors; and agreements with around 60 affiliates, grand so. In turn, to comply with FCC radio station ownership limits of the bleedin' time, Noble sold off his existin' New York City radio station WMCA. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Noble, who wanted a holy better name for the oul' network, acquired the feckin' brandin' rights to the feckin' "American Broadcastin' Company" name from George B. Chrisht Almighty. Storer in 1944, grand so. The Blue Network became ABC officially on June 15, 1945, after the bleedin' sale was completed.[7][17][18]
Definin' radio's golden age[edit]
Main article: NBC Red Network
The front entrance of the NBC Tower at 454 N. Columbus Drive in Chicago.
NBC became home to many of the bleedin' most popular performers and programs on the air. Bin' Crosby, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, and Burns and Allen called NBC home, as did Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, which the bleedin' network helped yer man create. Other programs featured on the network included Vic and Sade, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve (arguably broadcastin''s first spin-off program, from Fibber McGee), One Man's Family, Ma Perkins and Death Valley Days. C'mere til I tell yiz. NBC stations were often the feckin' most powerful, and some occupied unique clear-channel national frequencies, reachin' hundreds or thousands of miles at night.
In the oul' late 1940s, rival CBS gained ground by allowin' radio stars to use their own production companies to produce programs, which became a holy profitable move for much of its talent. Here's another quare one. In the early years of radio, stars and programs commonly hopped between networks when their short-term contracts expired. Stop the lights! Durin' 1948 and 1949, beginnin' with the feckin' nation's top radio star, Jack Benny, many NBC performers – includin' Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Burns and Allen and Frank Sinatra – jumped to CBS.
In addition, NBC stars began migratin' to television, includin' comedian Milton Berle, whose Texaco Star Theater on the feckin' network became television's first major hit. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. Conductor Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in ten television concerts on NBC between 1948 and 1952. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. The concerts were broadcast on both television and radio, in what perhaps was the feckin' first such instance of simulcastin'. I hope yiz are all ears now. Two of the feckin' concerts were historic firsts – the first complete telecast of Beethoven's Symphony No, grand so. 9, and the first complete telecast of Verdi's Aida (starrin' Herva Nelli and Richard Tucker), performed in concert rather than with scenery and costumes.
Aimin' to keep classic radio alive as television matured, and to challenge CBS's Sunday night radio lineup, which featured much of the bleedin' programs and talent that had moved to that network followin' the oul' defection of Jack Benny to CBS, NBC launched The Big Show in November 1950, like. This 90-minute variety show updated radio's earliest musical variety style with sophisticated comedy and dramatic presentations, the cute hoor. Featurin' stage legend Tallulah Bankhead as hostess, it lured prestigious entertainers, includin' Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, Lauritz Melchior, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald. Sure this is it. However, The Big Show's initial success did not last despite critical praise, as most of its potential listeners were increasingly becomin' television viewers. The show lasted two years, with NBC losin' around $1 million on the project (the network was only able to sell advertisin' time durin' the feckin' middle half-hour of the feckin' program each week).
NBC's last major radio programmin' push, beginnin' on June 12, 1955, was Monitor, a feckin' creation of NBC President Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who also created the feckin' innovative programs Today, The Tonight Show and Home for the bleedin' companion television network. Soft oul' day. Monitor was an oul' continuous all-weekend mixture of music, news, interviews, and features, with a bleedin' variety of hosts includin' well-known television personalities Dave Garroway, Hugh Downs, Ed McMahon, Joe Garagiola, and Gene Rayburn. Bejaysus. The potpourri show tried to keep vintage radio alive by featurin' segments from Jim and Marian Jordan (in character as Fibber McGee and Molly); Peg Lynch's dialog comedy Ethel and Albert (with Alan Bunce); and iconoclastic satirist Henry Morgan. Monitor was a holy success for a number of years, but after the bleedin' mid-1960s, local stations, especially those in larger markets, were reluctant to break from their established formats to run non-conformin' network programmin'. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. One exception was Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend, a bleedin' weekly series commemoratin' the bleedin' great conductor's NBC broadcasts and recordings which ran for several years beginnin' in 1963.[19] After Monitor ended its 20-year run on January 26, 1975, little remained of NBC network radio beyond hourly newscasts and news features, and Sunday mornin' religious program The Eternal Light.
Decline[edit]
On June 18, 1975, NBC launched the NBC News and Information Service (NIS), which provided up to 55 minutes of news per hour around the feckin' clock to local stations that wanted to adopt an all-news radio format. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. NBC carried the bleedin' service on WRC in Washington, and on its owned-and-operated FM stations in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco, fair play. NIS attracted several dozen subscribin' stations, but by the fall of 1976, NBC determined that it could not project that the bleedin' service would ever become profitable and gave its affiliates six months' notice that it would be discontinued. Whisht now and eist liom. NIS ended operations on May 29, 1977. Here's another quare one for ye. In 1979, NBC launched The Source, a feckin' modestly successful secondary network providin' news and short features to FM rock stations.[7]
The NBC Radio Network also pioneered personal advice call-in national talk radio with a satellite-distributed evenin' talk show, TalkNet; the bleedin' program featured Bruce Williams (providin' personal financial advice), Bernard Meltzer (personal and financial advice) and Sally Jessy Raphael (personal and romantic advice). Be the hokey here's a quare wan. While never much of a ratings success, TalkNet nonetheless helped further the national talk radio format, be the hokey! For affiliates, many of them strugglin' AM stations, TalkNet helped fill evenin' time shlots with free programmin', allowin' the bleedin' stations to sell local advertisin' in a feckin' dynamic format without the bleedin' cost associated with producin' local programmin'. Some in the oul' industry feared this trend would lead to increasin' control of radio content by networks and syndicators.
General Electric acquired RCA in 1986, and with it NBC, signalin' the oul' beginnin' of the oul' end of NBC Radio. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. Three factors led to the oul' radio division's demise: GE decided that radio did not fit its strategy, while the oul' radio division had not been profitable for many years. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. In addition, FCC ownership rules at the bleedin' time prevented companies acquirin' broadcast properties from ownin' both a holy radio and television division. Here's a quare one for ye. In the feckin' summer of 1987, GE sold NBC Radio's network operations to Westwood One, and sold off the oul' NBC-owned stations to various buyers. Whisht now. By 1990, the bleedin' NBC Radio Network as an independent programmin' service had been dissolved, becomin' an oul' brand name for content produced by Westwood One, and ultimately by CBS Radio. I hope yiz are all ears now. The Mutual Broadcastin' System, which Westwood One had acquired two years earlier, met the bleedin' same fate, and essentially merged with NBC Radio.
GE's divestiture of NBC's entire radio division was the feckin' first cannon shot of what would play out in the bleedin' national broadcast media, as each of the bleedin' Big Three broadcast networks were soon acquired by other corporate entities. NBC was a particularly noteworthy case in that it was the oul' first to be acquired – and was bought by a bleedin' conglomerate outside the bleedin' broadcast industry as GE otherwise primarily served as a holy manufacturin' company. Sure this is it. Prior to the oul' GE acquisition, NBC operated its radio division partly out of tradition, and partly to meet its then-FCC-mandated requirement to distribute programmin' for the oul' public good (the broadcast airwaves are owned by the feckin' public; as that broadcast spectrum is limited and only so many broadcast stations existed, this served as the bleedin' basis for government regulation requirin' broadcasters to provide certain content that meets the feckin' needs of the bleedin' public). Syndicators such as Westwood One were not subject to such rules as they did not own any stations. G'wan now and listen to this wan. GE's divestiture of NBC Radio – known as "America's First Network" – in many ways marked the oul' "beginnin' of the oul' end" of the oul' old era of regulated broadcastin' and the oul' usherin' in of the oul' new, largely unregulated industry that is present today.
By the oul' late 1990s, Westwood One was producin' NBC Radio-branded newscasts on weekday mornings. Whisht now and listen to this wan. These were discontinued in 1999 (along with Mutual branded newscasts), and the few remainin' NBC Radio Network affiliates became affiliates of CNN Radio, carryin' the oul' Westwood-owned service's hourly newscasts 24 hours a day. G'wan now. In 2003, Westwood One began distributin' NBC News Radio, a new service featurin' minute-long news updates read by television anchors and reporters from NBC News and MSNBC, with content written by Westwood One employees.
Restoration[edit]
On March 1, 2012, Dial Global announced that it would discontinue CNN Radio, and replace it with an expansion of NBC News Radio on April 1, 2012. This marked the feckin' first time since Westwood One's purchase of NBC Radio and its properties that NBC would have a 24-hour presence on radio, bejaysus. A previous program, First Light, placed new emphasis on the oul' NBC brand after diminishin' it over the oul' years. With the oul' change, NBC News Radio expanded its offerings from 60-second news updates airin' only on weekdays to feature two hourly full-length newscasts 24 hours an oul' day. Subsequently, on September 4, 2012, Dial Global launched an oul' sports-talk radio service, NBC Sports Radio.
NBC News Radio has been distributed by iHeartMedia and its TTWN Networks since July 2016. Sufferin' Jaysus. It is provided to the bleedin' network's 24/7 News Source affiliates and includes a top of the feckin' hour newscast along with other audio content which is heard on over 1000 radio stations.[20]
Television[edit]
High frequency tubes in the tube room. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. They were used for the bleedin' NBC television transmitter, 1936. NBC kept 220 tubes in reserve for their transmitter.
For many years, NBC was closely identified with David Sarnoff, who used it as a bleedin' vehicle to sell consumer electronics, the hoor. RCA and Sarnoff had captured the bleedin' spotlight by introducin' all-electronic television to the bleedin' public at the bleedin' 1939–40 New York World's Fair, simultaneously initiatin' an oul' regular schedule of programs on the bleedin' NBC-RCA television station in New York City. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared at the bleedin' fair before the bleedin' NBC camera, becomin' the first U.S, to be sure. president to appear on television on April 30, 1939 (an actual, off-the-monitor photograph of the bleedin' FDR telecast is available at the oul' David Sarnoff Library). Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. The broadcast was transmitted by NBC's New York television station W2XBS Channel 1 (later WNBC-TV; now WNBC, channel 4) and was seen by about 1,000 viewers within the feckin' station's roughly 40-mile (64 km) coverage area from its transmitter at the oul' Empire State Buildin'.
The followin' day (May 1), four models of RCA television sets went on sale to the oul' general public in various department stores around New York City, which were promoted in a feckin' series of splashy newspaper ads.[21] DuMont Laboratories (and others) had actually offered the oul' first home sets in 1938 in anticipation of NBC's announced April 1939 television launch. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. Later in 1939, NBC took its cameras to professional football and baseball games in the New York City area, establishin' many "firsts" in television broadcastin'.
Reportedly, the first NBC Television "network" program was broadcast on January 12, 1940, when a holy play titled Meet The Wife was originated at the W2XBS studios at Rockefeller Center and rebroadcast by W2XB/W2XAF (now WRGB) in Schenectady, which received the oul' New York station directly off-air from a holy tower atop an oul' mountain and relayed the feckin' live signal to the feckin' Capital District. About this time, occasional special events were also broadcast in Philadelphia (over W3XE, later called WPTZ, now known as KYW-TV) as well as Schenectady. C'mere til I tell ya now. The most ambitious NBC television "network" program of the bleedin' pre-war era was the feckin' telecast of the Republican National Convention held in Philadelphia in the oul' summer of 1940, which was fed live to the bleedin' New York City and Schenectady stations.[22] However, despite major promotion by RCA, television sales in New York from 1939 to 1942 were disappointin', primarily due to the oul' high cost of the feckin' sets, and the lack of compellin' regularly scheduled programmin'. Durin' this period, less than 8,000 television sets were sold in the bleedin' New York area, most of which were sold to bars, hotels and other public places, where the general public viewed special sports and news events. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. One special event was Franklin D, so it is. Roosevelt's second and final appearance on live television, when his speech at Madison Square Garden on October 28, 1940, was telecast over W2XBS to receivers in the oul' New York City area.[23]
30 Rockefeller Center, also known as the oul' GE Buildin', is the feckin' world headquarters of NBC.
Television's experimental period ended, as the FCC allowed full-fledged commercial television broadcasts to begin on July 1, 1941. NBC station W2XBS in New York City received the oul' first commercial license, adoptin' the bleedin' call letters WNBT, that's fierce now what? The first official, paid television advertisement broadcast by any U.S. station was for watch manufacturer Bulova, which aired that day, just before the feckin' start of a holy Brooklyn Dodgers baseball telecast on WNBT, Lord bless us and save us. The ad consisted of test pattern, featurin' the oul' newly assigned WNBT call letters, which was modified to resemble a bleedin' clock – complete with functionin' hands – with the bleedin' Bulova logo (featurin' the oul' phrase "Bulova Watch Time") in the lower right-hand quadrant of the oul' test pattern (a photograph of the bleedin' NBC camera settin' up the feckin' test pattern-advertisement for that ad can be seen at this page). Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. Among the programs that aired durin' the oul' first week of WNBT's new, commercial schedule was The Sunoco News, an oul' simulcast of the bleedin' Sun Oil-sponsored NBC Radio program anchored by Lowell Thomas; amateur boxin' at Jamaica Arena; the oul' Eastern Clay Courts tennis championships; programmin' from the bleedin' USO; the bleedin' spellin' bee-type game show Words on the feckin' Win'; an oul' few feature films; and a feckin' one-time-only, test broadcast of the feckin' game show Truth or Consequences, sponsored by Lever Brothers.[24]
Prior to the feckin' first commercial television broadcasts and paid advertisements on WNBT, non-paid television advertisin' existed on an experimental basis datin' back to 1930, Lord bless us and save us. NBC's earliest non-paid television commercials may have been those seen durin' the first Major League Baseball game ever telecast, between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds, on August 26, 1939 over W2XBS, Lord bless us and save us. In order to secure the feckin' rights to televise the bleedin' game, NBC allowed each of the Dodgers' regular radio sponsors at the feckin' time to have one commercial durin' the feckin' telecast. The ads were conducted by Dodgers announcer Red Barber: for Ivory Soap, he held up a bar of the feckin' product; for Mobilgas he put on a feckin' fillin' station attendant's cap while givin' his spiel; and for Wheaties he poured a bowl of the feckin' product, added milk and bananas, and took a bleedin' big spoonful.[25] Limited, commercial programmin' continued until the oul' U.S. entered World War II. Whisht now. Telecasts were curtailed in the bleedin' early years of the war, then expanded as NBC began to prepare for full-time service upon the end of the oul' war. Even before the bleedin' war concluded, a few programs were sent from New York City to affiliated stations in Philadelphia (WPTZ) and Albany/Schenectady (WRGB) on a regular weekly schedule beginnin' in 1944, the oul' first of which is generally considered to be the pioneerin' special interest/documentary show The Voice of Firestone Televues, a television offshoot of The Voice of Firestone, a holy mainstay on NBC radio since 1928, which was transmitted from New York City to Philadelphia and Schenectady on a holy regular, weekly basis beginnin' on April 10, 1944.[26] The series is considered to be the bleedin' NBC television network's first regularly scheduled program.
Grace Brandt and Eddie Albert in an early NBC television program The Honeymooners-Grace and Eddie Show.
On V-E Day, May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast several hours of news coverage and remotes from around New York City. Jasus. This event was promoted in advance by NBC with a direct-mail card sent to television set owners in the bleedin' New York area.[27] At one point, an oul' WNBT camera placed atop the marquee of the Hotel Astor panned the crowd below celebratin' the oul' end of the feckin' war in Europe.[28] The vivid coverage was a holy prelude to television's rapid growth after the feckin' war ended.
The NBC television network grew from its initial post-war lineup of four stations. The 1947 World Series featured two New York City area teams (the Yankees and the oul' Dodgers), and television sales boomed locally, since the feckin' games were bein' telecast in the bleedin' New York market. Additional stations along the East Coast and in the feckin' Midwest were connected by coaxial cable through the feckin' late 1940s, and in September 1951 the oul' first transcontinental telecasts took place.
The post-war 1940s and early 1950s brought success for NBC in the new medium. Television's first major star, Milton Berle, whose Texaco Star Theatre began in June 1948, drew the bleedin' first large audiences to NBC Television, you know yerself. Under its innovative president, Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, the network launched Today and The Tonight Show, which would bookend the broadcast day for over 50 years, and which still lead their competitors. Weaver, who also launched the oul' genre of periodic 90-minute network "spectaculars", network-produced motion pictures and the oul' live 90-minute Sunday afternoon series Wide Wide World, left the bleedin' network in 1955 in a holy dispute with its chairman David Sarnoff, who subsequently named his son Robert Sarnoff as president.
In 1951, NBC commissioned Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti to compose the oul' first opera ever written for television; Menotti came up with Amahl and the oul' Night Visitors, a holy 45-minute work for which he wrote both music and libretto, about a disabled shepherd boy who meets the Three Wise Men and is miraculously cured when he offers his crutch to the feckin' newborn Christ Child. Listen up now to this fierce wan. It was such a bleedin' stunnin' success that it was repeated every year on NBC from 1951 to 1966, when a dispute between Menotti and NBC ended the feckin' broadcasts. C'mere til I tell yiz. However, by 1978, Menotti and NBC had patched things up, and an all-new production of the bleedin' opera, filmed partly on location in the feckin' Middle East, was telecast that year.
Color television[edit]
Main article: Color television
Title card used by NBC in the 1950s, promotin' their color broadcasts on NBC.
While rival CBS broadcast the first color television programs in the oul' United States, their system was incompatible with the oul' millions of black and white sets in use at the bleedin' time. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. After an oul' series of limited, incompatible color broadcasts (mostly scheduled durin' the bleedin' day), CBS abandoned the feckin' system and broadcasts. This opened the bleedin' door for the feckin' RCA compatible color system to be adopted as the U.S. Story? standard, be the hokey! RCA convinced the feckin' FCC to approve its color system in December 1953. NBC was ready with color programmin' within days of the commission's decision. NBC began the oul' transition with a holy few shows in 1954, and broadcast its first program to air all episodes in color beginnin' that summer, The Marriage.
In 1955, NBC broadcast a holy live production in color of Peter Pan, an oul' new Broadway musical adaptation of J. M. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. Barrie's beloved play, on the bleedin' Producers' Showcase anthology series, The first such telecast of its kind, the feckin' broadcast starred the feckin' musical's entire original cast, led by Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard in a feckin' dual role as Mr. Would ye swally this in a minute now?Darlin' and Captain Hook, for the craic. The broadcast drew the highest ratings for an oul' television program for that period, you know yerself. It was so successful that NBC restaged it as a bleedin' live broadcast a bleedin' mere ten months later; in 1960, long after Producers' Showcase had ended its run, Peter Pan, with most of the 1955 cast, was restaged again, this time as a standalone special, and was videotaped so that it would no longer have to be performed live on television.
In 1956, NBC started a bleedin' subsidiary, California National Productions (CNP), for merchandisin', syndication and NBC opera company operations with the bleedin' production of Silent Services.[29] By 1957, NBC planned to remove the oul' opera company from CNP and[29] CNP was in discussion with MGM Television about handlin' syndication distribution for MGM series.[29]
Durin' a National Association of Broadcasters meetin' in Chicago in 1956, NBC announced that its owned-and-operated station in that market, WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV), had become the first television station in the feckin' country to broadcast its programmin' in color (airin' at least six hours of color broadcasts each day). Chrisht Almighty. In 1959, NBC premiered a feckin' televised version of the feckin' radio program The Bell Telephone Hour, which aired in color from its debut; the bleedin' program would continue on the oul' NBC television network for nine more years until it ended in 1968.
In 1961, NBC approached Walt Disney about acquirin' the oul' rights to his anthology series, offerin' to produce the oul' program in color. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. Disney was in the bleedin' midst of negotiatin' a new contract to keep the program (then known as Walt Disney Presents) on ABC, however ABC president Leonard Goldenson said that it could not counter the bleedin' offer, as the feckin' network did not have the oul' technical and financial resources to carry the oul' program in color. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. Disney subsequently struck a deal with NBC, which began airin' the bleedin' anthology series in the format in September 1961 (as Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color). As many of the oul' Disney programs that aired in black-and-white on ABC were actually filmed in color, they could easily be re-aired in the oul' format on the bleedin' NBC broadcasts. C'mere til I tell ya. In January 1962, NBC's telecast of the bleedin' Rose Bowl became the bleedin' first college football game ever to be telecast in color.
By 1963, much of NBC's prime time schedule was presented in color, although some popular series (such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which premiered in late 1964) were broadcast in black-and-white for their entire first season. In the fall of 1965, NBC was broadcastin' 95% of its prime time schedule in color (with the oul' exceptions of I Dream of Jeannie and Convoy), and began billin' itself as "The Full Color Network." Without television sets to sell, rival networks followed more shlowly, finally committin' to an all-color lineup in prime time in the bleedin' 1966–67 season. G'wan now. Days of Our Lives became the oul' first soap opera to premiere in color, when it debuted in November 1965.
NBC contracted with Universal Studios in 1964 to produce the bleedin' first feature-length film produced for television, See How They Run, which first aired on October 17, 1964; its second television movie, The Hanged Man, aired six weeks later on November 28. Even while the feckin' presentations performed well in the oul' ratings, NBC did not broadcast another made-for-TV film for two years.[30]
In 1967, NBC reached a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to acquire the feckin' broadcast rights to the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, grand so. CBS, which had televised the feckin' film annually since 1956, refused to meet MGM's increased fee to renew its television rights. Oz had been, up to then, one of the bleedin' few programs that CBS had telecast in color. Sufferin' Jaysus. However, by 1967, color broadcasts had become standard on television, and the oul' film simply became another title in the bleedin' list of specials that NBC telecast in the feckin' format. The film's showings on NBC were distinctive as it televised The Wizard of Oz without an oul' hosted introduction, as CBS had long done; it was also shlightly edited for time in order to make room to air more commercials. Despite the bleedin' cuts, however, it continued to score excellent television ratings in those pre-VCR days, as audiences were generally unable to see the bleedin' film any other way at that time. Here's another quare one for ye. NBC aired The Wizard of Oz each year from 1968 to 1976, when CBS, realizin' that they may have committed a holy colossal blunder by lettin' a feckin' huge ratings success like Oz go to another network, agreed to pay MGM more money to re-acquire the feckin' rights to show the oul' film.
The late 1960s brought big changes in the feckin' programmin' practices of the major television networks, you know yourself like. As baby boomers reached adulthood, NBC, CBS, and ABC began to realize that much of their existin' programmin' had not only been runnin' for years but had audiences that skewed older. G'wan now and listen to this wan. In order to attract the bleedin' large youth population that was highly attractive to advertisers, the oul' networks moved to clean house of a holy number of veteran shows. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. In NBC's case, this included programs like The Bell Telephone Hour and Sin' Along With Mitch, which both had an average viewer age of 50. Durin' this period, the networks came to define adults between the feckin' ages of 18 and 49 as their main target audience, although dependin' on the oul' show, this could be subdivided into other age demos: 35–45, 18–25 or 18–35. Regardless of the oul' exact target demographic, the feckin' general idea was to appeal to viewers who were not close to retirement age and to modernize television programmin', which the feckin' networks felt overall was stuck in a feckin' 1950s mentality, to closely resemble contemporary American society.
1970s doldrums[edit]
The 1970s started strongly for NBC thanks to hits like Adam-12, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Ironside, The Dean Martin Show, and The Flip Wilson Show, what? However, despite the oul' success of such new shows as the bleedin' NBC Mystery Movie, Sanford and Son, Chico and the Man, Little House on the bleedin' Prairie, The Midnight Special, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, and Emergency!, as well as continued success from veterans like The Tonight Show Starrin' Johnny Carson and The Wonderful World of Disney, the feckin' network entered a holy shlump in the oul' middle of the decade. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Disney, in particular, saw its ratings nosedive once CBS put 60 Minutes up against the feckin' program in the feckin' Sunday 7:00 p.m. G'wan now. time shlot in the bleedin' 1975–76 season.
In 1974, under new president Herb Schlosser, the feckin' network tried to attract younger viewers with an oul' series of costly movies, miniseries and specials. This failed to attract the feckin' desirable 18–34 demographic, and simultaneously alienated older viewers.[31] None of the bleedin' new prime-time shows that NBC introduced in the feckin' fall of 1975 earned a second season renewal, all failin' in the oul' face of established competition, Lord bless us and save us. The network's lone breakout success that season was the groundbreakin' late-night comedy/variety show, NBC's Saturday Night – which would be renamed Saturday Night Live in 1976, after the bleedin' cancellation of a holy Howard Cosell-hosted program of the feckin' same title on ABC – which replaced reruns of The Tonight Show that previously aired in its Saturday time shlot.
In 1978, Schlosser was promoted to executive vice president at RCA,[32] and a desperate NBC lured Fred Silverman away from top-rated ABC to turn its fortunes around. With the oul' notable exceptions of CHiPs, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, Diff'rent Strokes (and its spin-off The Facts of Life), Real People, and the bleedin' miniseries Shōgun, Silverman was unable to pull out a hit. Here's a quare one for ye. Failures accumulated rapidly under his watch (such as Hello, Larry, Supertrain, Pink Lady and Jeff, The Krofft Superstar Hour, season six of Saturday Night Live, and The Waverly Wonders). Many of them were beaten in the oul' ratings by shows that Silverman had greenlit durin' his previous tenures at CBS and ABC.
Durin' this time, several longtime affiliates also defected from NBC in markets such as Atlanta (WSB-TV), Baltimore (WBAL-TV), Baton Rouge (WBRZ-TV), Charlotte (WSOC-TV), Columbia, Missouri (KOMU-TV), Dayton (WDTN), Indianapolis (WRTV), Jacksonville (WTLV), Minneapolis-St. Jaykers! Paul (KSTP-TV), San Diego (KGTV), Schenectady (WRGB), and Wheelin' (WTRF-TV). Would ye swally this in a minute now?Most of these stations were wooed away by ABC, which had lifted out of last place to become the #1 network durin' the oul' late 1970s and early 1980s, while WBAL-TV, WRGB, and WTRF-TV went to CBS; ABC had originally considered alignin' with WBAL, but the feckin' station decided against it because ABC's evenin' newscasts had attracted ratings too dismal for them to consider doin' so.[33][34] In the oul' case of WSB-TV and WSOC-TV, which have both since become ABC affiliates, both stations were (and remain) under common ownership with Cox Enterprises, with its other NBC affiliate at the bleedin' time, WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh (which would become WPXI in 1981 and also remains owned by Cox), only stayin' with the network because WIIC-TV itself was a distant third to CBS-affiliated powerhouse KDKA-TV and ABC affiliate WTAE-TV (KDKA-TV, owned at the oul' time by Group W and now owned by CBS, infamously passed up affiliatin' with NBC after Westinghouse bought the feckin' station from DuMont in 1954, leadin' to an acrimonious relationship between NBC and Westinghouse that lasted for years afterward). In markets such as San Diego, Charlotte, and Jacksonville, NBC had little choice but to affiliate with a UHF station, with the feckin' San Diego station (KNSD) eventually becomin' an NBC O&O. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. In Wheelin', NBC ultimately upgraded its affiliation when it partnered with WTOV-TV in nearby Steubenville, Ohio, overtakin' former affiliate WTRF-TV in the ratings by a feckin' large margin. Arra' would ye listen to this. Other smaller television markets like Yuma, Arizona waited many years to get another local NBC affiliate (first with KIVA, and later KYMA). In fairness now. The stations in Baltimore, Columbia, Dayton, and Jacksonville, however, have since rejoined the network.
After President Jimmy Carter pulled the feckin' U.S. Chrisht Almighty. team out of the bleedin' 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC canceled a planned 150 hours of coverage (which had cost $87 million for the bleedin' broadcast rights), placin' the network's future in doubt. It had been countin' on the feckin' broadcasts to help promote its new fall shows, and had been estimated to pull in $170 million in advertisin' revenue.[35]
The press was merciless towards Silverman, but the two most savage attacks on his leadership came from within the bleedin' network. The company that composed the feckin' promotional theme for NBC's "Proud as a holy Peacock" image campaign created a parody song called "Loud as a Peacock", which was broadcast on Don Imus' program on WNBC radio in New York, enda story. Its lyrics blamed Silverman for the network's problems ("The Peacock's dead, so thank you, Fred"). Here's a quare one. An angered Silverman ordered all remainin' copies of the spoof destroyed, though technology eventually allowed its wide propagation to the feckin' Internet in later generations from a holy few remainin' copies. G'wan now. Saturday Night Live writer and occasional performer Al Franken satirized Silverman in a sketch on the bleedin' program titled "A Limo For A Lame-O", where he presented a bleedin' chart with the top-10 rated programs for that season and commented that there was "not one N" on the oul' list. Silverman later admitted he "never liked Al Franken to begin with", and the oul' sketch ruined Franken's chance of succeedin' Lorne Michaels as executive producer of SNL followin' his 1980 departure (with the bleedin' position goin' to Jean Doumanian, who was fired after one season followin' declinin' ratings and negative critical reviews. Michaels would later return to the bleedin' show in 1985).[36]
Tartikoff's turnaround[edit]
Fred Silverman eventually resigned as entertainment president in the feckin' summer of 1981. Grant Tinker, a highly regarded producer who co-founded MTM Enterprises with his former wife Mary Tyler Moore, became the oul' president of the feckin' network while Brandon Tartikoff became the president of the oul' entertainment division. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. Tartikoff inherited an oul' schedule full of agin' dramas and very few sitcoms, but showed patience with promisin' programs. Story? One such show was the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues, which suffered from poor ratings durin' its first season. Rather than cancelin' the show, he moved the feckin' Emmy Award-winnin' police drama from Steven Bochco to Thursdays, where its ratings improved dramatically. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. He used the bleedin' same tactics with St. Elsewhere and Cheers. Would ye swally this in a minute now?Shows like these were able to get the feckin' same ad revenue as their higher-rated competition because of their desirable demographics, upscale adults ages 18–34.[37] While the oul' network claimed moderate successes with Gimme a holy Break!, Silver Spoons, Knight Rider, and Remington Steele, its biggest hit durin' this period was The A-Team, which, at 10th place, was the network's only program to rank in the feckin' Nielsen Top-20 for the feckin' 1982–83 season, and ascended to fourth place the followin' year, to be sure. These shows helped NBC through the oul' disastrous 1983–84 season, which saw none of its nine new fall shows gainin' a bleedin' second year.[38]
In February 1982, NBC canceled Tom Snyder's The Tomorrow Show and gave the feckin' 12:35 a.m, grand so. time shlot to 34-year-old comedian David Letterman. Though Letterman was unsuccessful with his weekday mornin' talk show effort for the bleedin' network (which debuted on June 23, 1980), Late Night with David Letterman proved much more successful, lastin' for 11 years and servin' as the oul' launchin' pad for another late-night talk franchise that continues to this day.
In 1984, the huge success of The Cosby Show led to an oul' renewed interest in sitcoms, while Family Ties and Cheers, both of which premiered in 1982 to mediocre ratings (the latter rankin' at near dead last among all network shows durin' the bleedin' 1982–83 season), saw their viewership increase from havin' Cosby as a feckin' lead-in. Here's another quare one. The network rose from third place to second in the bleedin' ratings durin' the feckin' 1984–85 season and reached first place in 1985–86, with hits The Golden Girls, Miami Vice, 227, Night Court, Highway to Heaven, and Hunter, like. The network's upswin' continued late into the feckin' decade with ALF, Amen, Matlock, L.A. Soft oul' day. Law, The Hogan Family, A Different World, Empty Nest, Unsolved Mysteries, and In the feckin' Heat of the feckin' Night. Stop the lights! In 1986, Bob Wright was appointed as chairman of NBC.
In the fall of 1987, NBC conceived a bleedin' syndication package for its owned-and-operated stations, under the brand "Prime Time Begins at 7:30", consistin' of five sitcoms that each aired once a feckin' week, and were produced by various production companies contracted by NBC. The series included Marblehead Manor (from Paramount Television, airin' Mondays), centerin' on a feckin' mansion owner and the oul' people who live with yer man;[39] She's the bleedin' Sheriff (from Lorimar-Telepictures and airin' Tuesdays), a comeback vehicle for Suzanne Somers which cast her as a holy widowed county sheriff;[39] a feckin' series adapted from the George S. Kaufman play You Can't Take It with You (airin' Wednesdays), starrin' Harry Morgan; Out of This World (from MCA Television and airin' Thursdays), which starred Maureen Flannigan as a teenager born to an alien father and human mammy that develops supernatural abilities on her 13th birthday;[40] and a feckin' revival of the feckin' short-lived 1983 NBC series We Got It Made (produced by Fred Silverman for MGM Television and closin' out the oul' week on Fridays), as part of an ongoin' trend at the bleedin' time in which former network series were revived in first-run syndication.[40]
The package was aimed at attractin' viewers to NBC stations in the bleedin' half-hour precedin' prime time (8:00 p.m. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. in the bleedin' Eastern and Pacific Time Zones, 7:00 p.m. elsewhere),[40][41] and was conceived as a result of the bleedin' FCC's loosenin' of the feckin' Prime Time Access Rule, legislation passed in 1971 that required networks to turn over the 7:30 p.m, you know yourself like. (Eastern) time shlot to local stations to program local or syndicated content; and the relaxation of the feckin' Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, which had prevented networks from producin' content from their own syndication units to fill the oul' void.[41] The shows that were part of the bleedin' package were regularly outrated in many markets by such syndicated game shows as Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Hollywood Squares. Marblehead Manor, We Got It Made and You Can't Take It With You were cancelled at the bleedin' end of the oul' 1987–88 season, with She's the oul' Sheriff lastin' one more season in weekend syndication before its cancellation. Out of This World ran for three additional seasons, airin' mainly on weekends, and was the bleedin' most successful of the bleedin' five series.
NBC aired the oul' first of eight consecutive Summer Olympic Games broadcasts when it covered the feckin' 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea. In fairness now. The 1988–89 season saw NBC have an astoundin' 17 series in Nielsen's year-end Top 30 most-watched network programs; it also ranked at first place in the bleedin' weekly ratings for more than 12 months, an unprecedented achievement that has not been duplicated since. 1989 however, also served as NBC's final year of coverin' Major League Baseball (the primary package would move over to CBS for the feckin' next four years before NBC regained the rights), havin' done so in some shape or form since 1947. Nevertheless, the network continued its hot streak into the feckin' early 1990s with new hits such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Blossom, and Law & Order.
"Must See TV"[edit]
Main article: Must See TV
In 1991, Tartikoff left his role as NBC's President of Entertainment to take an executive position at Paramount Pictures. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? In the oul' course of a decade, he had taken control of a network with no shows in the oul' Nielsen Top 10 and left it with five. Tartikoff was succeeded by Warren Littlefield, whose first years as entertainment president proved shaky as an oul' result of most of the Tartikoff-era hits endin' their runs. I hope yiz are all ears now. Some blamed Littlefield for losin' David Letterman to CBS after namin' Jay Leno as the bleedin' successor to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, followin' the latter's retirement as host in May 1992, be the hokey! Things turned around with the feckin' launches of new hit series such as Mad About You, Wings, Sisters, Frasier, Friends, ER and Will & Grace.
One of Tartikoff's late acquisitions, Seinfeld initially struggled from its debut in 1989 as a holy summer series, but grew to become one of NBC's top-rated shows after it was moved to Thursdays in the bleedin' time shlot followin' Cheers. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Seinfeld ended its run in 1998, becomin' the oul' latest overall television program in the oul' U.S, the cute hoor. to end its final season as the oul' leader in the oul' Nielsen ratings for a bleedin' single television season. Chrisht Almighty. Only two other shows had finished their runs at the oul' top of the oul' ratings, I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show.[42] Consequently, Friends emerged as NBC's biggest television show after the feckin' 1998 Seinfeld final broadcast. C'mere til I tell ya now. It dominated the oul' ratings, never leavin' the feckin' top five watched shows of the feckin' year from its second through tenth seasons and landin' on the feckin' number-one spot durin' season eight in the bleedin' 2001–02 season as the feckin' latest sitcom in the U.S. to lead the oul' annual Nielsen primetime television ratings. Cheers spinoff Frasier became an oul' critical and commercial success, usually landin' in the bleedin' Nielsen Top 20 – although its ratings were overshadowed to an oul' minor extent by Friends – and went on to win numerous Emmy Awards (eventually settin' a feckin' record for a sitcom that lasted until it was overtaken by Modern Family in 2014). In 1994, the feckin' network began brandin' its strong Thursday night lineup, mainly in reference to the feckin' comedies airin' in the bleedin' first two hours, under the "Must See TV" tagline (which durin' the mid- and late 1990s, was also applied to NBC's comedy blocks on other nights, particularly on Tuesdays).
Between September 1994 and September 1996, NBC would affiliate with several stations that were affected by the bleedin' 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment, which was triggered as a bleedin' result of Fox's acquisition of rights to the feckin' NFL in December 1993. Several of those stations, includin' WBAL-TV, WHDH (Boston), and WCAU (Philadelphia), were involved in an affiliation deal between Westinghouse Broadcastin' and CBS.
By the feckin' mid-1990s, NBC's sports division, headed by Dick Ebersol, had rights to three of the oul' four major professional sports leagues (the NFL, Major League Baseball and the bleedin' NBA), the oul' Olympics, and the national powerhouse Notre Dame Fightin' Irish football team. Whisht now. The NBA on NBC enjoyed great success in the bleedin' 1990s due in large part to the oul' Chicago Bulls' run of six championships at the feckin' hands of superstar Michael Jordan, to be sure. However, NBC Sports would suffer a major blow in 1998, when it lost the rights to the oul' American Football Conference (AFC) to CBS, which itself had lost rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) to Fox four years earlier;[43] the oul' deal stripped NBC of National Football League (NFL) game telecasts after 59 years and AFC games after 36 years (datin' back to its existence as the oul' American Football League prior to its 1970 merger with the bleedin' NFL).
Littlefield left NBC in 1998 to pursue a feckin' career as a bleedin' television and film producer,[44] with the network subsequently goin' through three entertainment presidents in three years. Littlefield was replaced as president of NBC Entertainment by Scott Sassa, who oversaw the development of such shows as The West Win', Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Fear Factor. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. After Sassa was reassigned to NBC's West Coast Division, Garth Ancier was named as his replacement in 1999.[45] Jeff Zucker then succeeded Ancier as president of NBC Entertainment in 2000.[46]
New century, new problems[edit]
At the bleedin' start of the oul' 2000s, NBC's fortunes started to take a rapid turn for the feckin' worse, for the craic. That year, NBC's longstandin' ratings lead ended as CBS (which had languished in the feckin' ratings after losin' the bleedin' NFL) overtook it for first place. In 2001, CBS chose to move its hit reality series Survivor to serve as the anchor of its Thursday night lineup. Bejaysus here's a quare one right here now. Its success was taken as an oul' suggestion that NBC's nearly two decades of dominance on Thursday nights could be banjaxed; even so, the bleedin' strength of Friends, Will & Grace, ER and Just Shoot Me! (the latter of which saw its highest viewership followin' its move to that night in the 2000–01 season) helped the bleedin' network continue to lead the feckin' Thursday ratings. Overall, NBC retook its first place lead that year, and spent much of the feckin' next four years (with the bleedin' exception of the bleedin' 2002–03 season, when it was briefly jumped again by CBS for first) in the oul' top spot.
On the feckin' other hand, NBC was stripped of the bleedin' broadcast rights to two other major sports leagues: it lost Major League Baseball to Fox after the 2000 season (by that point, NBC only had alternatin' rights to the bleedin' All-Star Game, League Championship Series and World Series), and, later, the feckin' NBA to ABC after the 2001–02 season, that's fierce now what? After losin' the bleedin' NBA rights, NBC's major sports offerings were reduced to the Olympics (which in 2002, expanded to include rights to the bleedin' Winter Olympics, as part of a contract that gave it the feckin' U.S. Right so. television rights to both the oul' Summer and Winter Olympics through 2012), PGA Tour golf events and a flounderin' Notre Dame football program (however, it would eventually acquire the bleedin' rights to the bleedin' National Hockey League in May 2004).
In October 2001, NBC acquired Spanish-language network Telemundo from Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment for $2.7 billion, beatin' out other bidders includin' CBS/Viacom. The deal was finalized in 2002.[47][48]
In 2003, French entertainment conglomerate Vivendi Universal sold 80% of its film and television subsidiary, Vivendi Universal Entertainment, to NBC's parent company, General Electric, integratin' the bleedin' network with Vivendi Universal's various properties (Universal Pictures film studio, Canal+ television networks, & Universal Parks & Resorts theme & amusement parks & resorts) upon completion of the merger of the feckin' two companies under the feckin' combined NBC Universal brand.[49] NBC Universal was then owned 80% by General Electric and 20% by Vivendi. In 2004, Zucker was promoted to the bleedin' newly created position of president of NBC Universal Television Group. G'wan now and listen to this wan. Kevin Reilly became the new president of NBC Entertainment.[50]
In 2004, NBC experienced a feckin' Three on a bleedin' match scenario (Friends and Frasier ended their runs; Jerry Orbach, who had played one of the feckin' most popular characters of its hit Law & Order, died suddenly later that year), and shortly afterward was left with several moderately rated shows and few true hits.[51] In particular, Friends spin-off Joey, despite an oul' relatively strong start, started to falter in the ratings durin' its second season. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. The 2004–05 season saw NBC become the first major network to air select dramas in letterbox over its analog broadcast feed; the move was done in the feckin' hopes of attractin' new viewers, although the feckin' network saw only an oul' shlight boost.
In December 2005, NBC began its first week-long primetime game show event, Deal or No Deal; the oul' series garnered high ratings, and became a weekly series in March 2006. Otherwise, the 2005–06 season was one of the oul' worst for NBC in three decades, with only one fall series, the oul' sitcom My Name Is Earl, survivin' for a feckin' second season; the feckin' sole remainin' anchor of the oul' "Must See TV" lineup, Will & Grace also saw its ratings decline. Bejaysus. That season, NBC's ratings fell to fourth place, behind a feckin' resurgent ABC, Fox (which would eventually become the bleedin' most-watched U.S, to be sure. broadcast network in the bleedin' 2007–08 season), and top-rated CBS (which led for much of the feckin' remainder of the feckin' decade). Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. Durin' this time, all of the feckin' networks faced audience erosion from increased competition by cable television, home video, video games, and the feckin' Internet, with NBC bein' the feckin' hardest hit.
The 2006–07 season was a feckin' mixed bag for the oul' network, with Deal or No Deal remainin' strong and Heroes becomin' a holy surprise hit on Monday nights, while the oul' highly touted Studio 60 on the bleedin' Sunset Strip (from West Win' creator Aaron Sorkin) lost a bleedin' third of its premiere-night viewers by Week 6 and was eventually canceled; two critically acclaimed sitcoms, The Office and 30 Rock, also pulled in modest successes and went on to win the Emmy Award for Outstandin' Comedy Series for four consecutive years. Would ye believe this shite?The network also regained the oul' rights to the NFL after eight years that season when it acquired the bleedin' Sunday Night Football package from ESPN (as part of a holy deal that also saw Monday Night Football move to ESPN from ABC). C'mere til I tell ya. However, despite this, NBC remained at a bleedin' very distant fourth place, barely rankin' ahead of The CW.
However, NBC did experience success with its summer schedule, despite its declinin' ratings durin' the oul' main broadcast season, the cute hoor. America's Got Talent, a reality talent competition series that premiered in 2006, earned a 4.6 ratin' in the bleedin' 18–49 demographic, higher than that earned by the bleedin' 2002 premiere of Fox's American Idol. Got Talent (which is the bleedin' flagship of an international talent competition franchise) would continue to garner unusually high ratings throughout its summer run. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? However, NBC decided not to place it in the oul' sprin' season, and instead use it as an oul' platform to promote their upcomin' fall shows. Originally hosted by Regis Philbin, as of 2019[update] the bleedin' series is currently hosted by Terry Crews, and continues to garner strong ratings throughout its summer seasons, for the craic. In March 2007, NBC announced that it would begin offerin' full-length episodes of its prime time series for streamin' on mobile devices, becomin' the bleedin' first U.S. broadcast network to offer on-demand mobile episode content, as the market began shiftin' away from traditional television.[52]
Followin' the feckin' unexpected termination of Kevin Reilly, in 2007, Ben Silverman was appointed president of NBC Entertainment,[53] while Jeff Zucker was promoted to succeed Bob Wright as CEO of NBC. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. The network failed to generate any new primetime hits durin' the oul' 2008–09 season (despite the bleedin' rare good fortune of havin' the bleedin' rights to both the oul' Super Bowl and the oul' Summer Olympics in which to promote their new programmin' shlate), the sitcom Parks and Recreation survived for a second season after a bleedin' six-episode first season, while Heroes and Deal or No Deal both collapsed in the feckin' ratings and were later canceled (with an oul' revamped Deal or No Deal bein' revived for one additional season in syndication). In a March 2009 interview, Zucker had stated that he no longer believed it would be possible for NBC to become #1 in prime time.[54] Ben Silverman left the network in 2009, with Jeff Gaspin replacin' yer man as president of NBC Entertainment.
Comcast era (2011–present)[edit]
See also: 2010 Tonight Show conflict
On December 3, 2009, Comcast announced they would purchase an oul' 51% controllin' stake in NBC Universal from General Electric (which would retain the remainin' 49%) for $6.5 billion in cash and $9.1 billion in raised debt.[55] GE used $5.8 billion from the feckin' deal to buy out Vivendi's 20% interest in NBC Universal.[55]
NBC's broadcast of the oul' 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, in February of that year, generated a feckin' ratings increase of 21% over its broadcast of the oul' 2006 Winter Games in Torino. The network was criticized for repeatedly showin' footage of a feckin' crash occurrin' durin' practice for an Olympic luge competition that killed Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. Here's a quare one for ye. NBC News president Steve Capus ordered the feckin' footage not to be shown without his permission and Olympics prime time host Bob Costas promised on-air that the bleedin' video would not be shown again durin' the oul' Games.[56][57] NBC Universal was on track to lose $250 million in advertisin' revenue on that year's Winter Olympics, failin' to make up the bleedin' $820 million it paid for the oul' U.S, be the hokey! television rights.[58] Even so, with its continuin' position in fourth place (although it virtually tied with ABC in many demographics on the feckin' strength of NBC's sports broadcasts that year[59]), the 2009–10 season ended with only two scripted shows – Community and Parenthood, as well as three unscripted shows – The Marriage Ref, Who Do You Think You Are? and Minute to Win It – bein' renewed for second seasons, while other series such as Heroes and veteran crime drama Law & Order (the latter of which ended after 20 seasons, tyin' it with Gunsmoke as the feckin' longest-runnin' prime time drama in U.S. Story? television history) were cancelled.
Supporters of Conan O'Brien's hostin' duties at The Tonight Show stage a protest outside Universal Studios in Los Angeles.
After Conan O'Brien succeeded Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show in 2009, the bleedin' network gave Leno a new prime time talk show, committin' to air it every weeknight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific as an inexpensive comedic alternative to the oul' police procedurals and other hour-long dramas typically aired in that time shlot.[60] In doin' so, NBC became the feckin' first major U.S. broadcast network in decades,[61] if ever,[62] to broadcast the bleedin' same program in a bleedin' weekdaily prime time strip. Soft oul' day. Its executives called the bleedin' decision "a transformational moment in the bleedin' history of broadcastin'" and "in effect, launchin' five shows."[61] Conversely, industry executives criticized the oul' network for abandonin' a feckin' history of airin' quality dramas in the 10:00 hour, and expressed concern that it would hurt NBC by underminin' an oul' reputation built on successful scripted series.[63] Citin' complaints from many affiliates, which saw their late-evenin' newscasts drop significantly in the local ratings durin' The Jay Leno Show's run, NBC announced on January 10, 2010 that it would drop Leno's show from the feckin' 10:00 p.m. shlot,[64] with Zucker announcin' plans to shift the program (which would have been reduced to a bleedin' half-hour) into the feckin' 11:35 p.m. shlot and shift its existin' late night lineup (includin' The Tonight Show) by 30 minutes. The removal of The Jay Leno Show from its prime time schedule had almost no impact on the oul' network's ratings. The increases NBC experienced in the oul' 2010–11 season compared to 2009–10 were almost entirely attributable to the bleedin' risin' viewership of NBC Sunday Night Football.[65] By 2012, the shows that occupied the oul' 10:00 p.m. time shlot drew lower numbers than The Jay Leno Show did when it aired in that hour two years before.[66] In the sprin' of 2010, cable provider and multimedia firm Comcast announced it would acquire a majority interest in NBC Universal from General Electric, which would retain a minority stake in the bleedin' company in the oul' interim.
On September 24, 2010, Jeff Zucker announced that he would step down as NBC Universal's CEO once the oul' company's merger with Comcast was completed at the feckin' end of the oul' year.[67][68] After the deal was finalized, Steve Burke was named CEO of NBCUniversal[69] and Robert Greenblatt replaced Jeff Gaspin as chairman of NBC Entertainment.[70] In 2011, NBC was finally able to find a holy breakout hit in the oul' midseason reality singin' competition series The Voice. I hope yiz are all ears now. Otherwise, NBC had another tough season, with every single new fall program gettin' cancelled by season's end – the oul' third time this has happened to the network after the oul' fall of 1975, and the feckin' fall of 1983 – and the oul' midseason legal drama Harry's Law bein' its only freshman scripted series to be renewed for the 2011–12 season. C'mere til I tell ya now. The network nearly completed its full conversion to an all-HD schedule (outside of the oul' Saturday mornin' time shlot leased by the feckin' Qubo consortium, which NBCUniversal would rescind its stake in the followin' year) on September 20, 2011, when Last Call with Carson Daly converted to the bleedin' format with the premiere of its 11th season.
The 2011–12 season was another tough season for NBC. On the bleedin' upside, the network's broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI was the feckin' most-watched program in U.S. C'mere til I tell yiz. television history at the time, and the feckin' network's Monday night midseason lineup of The Voice and musical-drama Smash was very successful, grand so. The network managed to lift itself into third place in the feckin' 18–49 demographic in the feckin' 2011–12 season, primarily on the bleedin' strength of those three programs (SNF, The Voice, and Smash), breakin' the network's eight-year streak in fourth place. Whisht now and eist liom. Four shows survived for a second season, but three of them were cancelled in the feckin' followin' year, none were unqualified ratings successes, and the network remained a feckin' distant fourth place in total viewership.
In the oul' fall of 2012, NBC greatly expanded its sitcom roster, with eight comedy series airin' on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, enda story. NBC bounced back to first place network in adults 18–49 that fall, boosted by the oul' new season of The Voice, the initial success of freshman drama Revolution and sitcom Go On, and the continued strength of Sunday Night Football. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. However, withholdin' the bleedin' new season of The Voice and benchin' Revolution until late March, the network's midseason ratings suffered, fallin' to fifth place behind Spanish-language network Univision durin' the bleedin' February sweeps period.[71] The 2012–13 season ended with NBC finishin' in third place overall,[72][73] albeit by a feckin' narrow margin, with only three new shows, all dramas, survivin' for a holy second season (Revolution, Chicago Fire and Hannibal).
In 2013, NBC Sports migrated its business and production operations (includin' NBCSN) to new facilities in Stamford, Connecticut.[74] Production of the network's NFL pre-game show Football Night in America remained at the feckin' NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center (with production operations based in Studio 8G, while the bleedin' program itself was broadcast in Studio 8H, the bleedin' longtime home of Saturday Night Live), until it migrated to the Stamford facility in September 2014. Jasus. Despite the feckin' failure of another highly advertised game show event, The Million Second Quiz, the oul' 2013–14 season was mostly successful for NBC due to the bleedin' continued success of The Voice, Chicago Fire, Revolution, Sunday Night Football and Grimm. Would ye swally this in a minute now?Along with new hits includin' The Blacklist, Hannibal and Chicago PD and a holy significant ratings boost from its broadcast of the feckin' 2014 Winter Olympics, NBC became the feckin' #1 network in the coveted 18–49 demographic that season for the first time since 2003–04, when Friends ended. Right so. NBC also improved considerably in total viewership, finishin' behind long-dominant CBS in second place for the bleedin' season.[75]
The 2014–15 season was somethin' of a holy mixed bag for NBC, but still successful, you know yerself. NBC launched eight new series that year, with only one, comedy-drama police procedural The Mysteries of Laura, bein' renewed for a second season. Nevertheless, the bleedin' network continued to experience success with most of its returnin' series, especially The Blacklist (despite a modest decline in viewership followin' its move to Thursdays midway through the season, due partly to an initial weak lead-in from miniseries The Slap). Combined with the record number of viewers tunin' in to Super Bowl XLIX, NBC again finished #1 in the 18–49 demographic and in second place overall.[76]
The 2015–16 season was successful for NBC, with the feckin' successful launch of the new drama Blindspot premierin' after The Voice, then subsequently bein' renewed for an oul' second season in November 2015.[77] NBC also continued with the oul' success with the oul' Chicago franchise with launchin' its second spin-off Chicago Med, which also received an early second season pick up in February 2016.[78] Thursday nights continues to be an oul' struggle for NBC, with continued success with the bleedin' third season of The Blacklist brought the failed launch of Heroes Reborn which was cancelled in January 2016,[79] and thriller The Player; however, NBC found success with police procedural Shades of Blue, which improved in its timeslot and was renewed for a holy second season in February 2016.[80] On the oul' comedy side, NBC surprisingly found success in the bleedin' new workplace sitcom Superstore which premiered as a "preview" after The Voice in November 2015, and officially launched in January 2016 which brought decent ratings for a new comedy without The Voice as a feckin' lead-in and which was subsequently renewed for a feckin' second season in February 2016.[81]
The 2016–17 season brought more success for NBC with the feckin' premiere of comedy-drama This Is Us, which was well received by critics and ratings and was renewed for two additional seasons in January 2017.[82] The Blacklist continued to brin' in modest ratings, but it brought the feckin' failed launch of its spinoff The Blacklist: Redemption. NBC continued to grow the Chicago franchise with an oul' third spinoff titled Chicago Justice. Jasus. On the oul' comedy side, workplace sitcom Superstore continued success in its second season. Sufferin' Jaysus. The network launched new fantasy sitcom The Good Place followin' The Voice and brought in modest ratings and was renewed for a second season in January 2017.[83] Another highlight of the bleedin' 2016–17 season was The Wall, which premiered to modest ratings and would air in the feckin' summer time period prior to the 2017–18 season.
The 2017–18 season brought continued success for NBC with the premiere of Ellen's Game of Games and the bleedin' return of Will & Grace, the latter of which previously aired its final episode in 2006. Chrisht Almighty. The 2018–19 season would continue the bleedin' network's success with the bleedin' premieres of The Titan Games, Manifest, Songland, and New Amsterdam, all of which would be renewed for additional seasons; however, The Village and The Enemy Within would not make it past their first seasons. Would ye believe this shite?The network's dominance of the oul' 2010s would fade durin' the feckin' 2019–20 season, when the bleedin' COVID-19 pandemic caused a holy major disruption in production of the network's programmin'. The pandemic caused the feckin' IOC and the feckin' Japanese government to reach an agreement to postpone the feckin' 2020 Summer Olympics to the summer of 2021, resultin' in the feckin' network havin' to rely on alternative programmin' for the summer of 2020.
Programmin'[edit]
Main articles: List of programs broadcast by NBC, List of programs previously broadcast by NBC, and NBC Sports
As of 2013[update], NBC provides 87 hours of regularly scheduled network programmin' each week. The network provides 22 hours of prime time programmin' to affiliated stations Monday through Saturdays from 8:00–11:00 p.m. (7:00–10:00 p.m, bedad. in all other U.S. I hope yiz are all ears now. time zones) and Sundays from 7:00–11:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (6:00–10:00 p.m. in all other time zones).
Daytime programmin' is also provided weekdays at 1:00 p.m. in the form of the feckin' one-hour weekday soap opera Days of Our Lives (the schedulin' of the bleedin' program varies dependin' on the bleedin' station, although it is initially fed to affiliates at 1:00 p.m. Eastern), to be sure. NBC News programmin' includes the mornin' news/interview program Today from 7:00–11:00 a.m. G'wan now and listen to this wan. weekdays, 7:00–9:00 on Saturdays and 7:00–8:00 on Sundays; nightly editions of NBC Nightly News (whose weekend editions are occasionally subject to abbreviation or preemption due to sports telecasts overrunnin' into the bleedin' program's time shlot), the Sunday political talk show Meet the bleedin' Press, weekday early-mornin' news program Early Today and newsmagazine Dateline NBC. Jaysis. Late nights feature the oul' weeknight talk shows The Tonight Show Starrin' Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and an overnight replay Today with Hoda & Jenna, or for NBC affiliates carryin' it in syndication, the bleedin' option to substitute a bleedin' same-day encore of The Kelly Clarkson Show. Whisht now and listen to this wan. On Saturdays, the feckin' LXTV-produced 1st Look and Open House NYC air after Saturday Night Live (replays of the bleedin' previous week's 1st Look also air on Friday late nights on most stations), with a Meet the bleedin' Press encore a part of its Sunday overnight schedule.
The network's Saturday mornin' children's programmin' time shlot is programmed by Litton Entertainment under a holy time-lease agreement. The three-hour block of programmin' designed for 14–16 year-old teenage viewers is under the oul' umbrella brandin' of The More You Know, based on the feckin' network's long-time strand of internally-produced public service announcements of the same name, to be sure. It premiered on October 8, 2016, givin' Litton control of all but Fox's Saturday mornin' E/I programmin' among the oul' five major broadcast networks.
Sports programmin' is also provided weekend afternoons at any time between 12:00 and 6:00 p.m. Chrisht Almighty. (9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., or tape-delayed in the oul' Pacific Time Zone), would ye swally that? Due to the feckin' unpredictable length of sportin' events, NBC will occasionally pre-empt scheduled programs (more common with the oul' weekend editions of NBC Nightly News, and local and syndicated programs carried by its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates). NBC has also held the feckin' American broadcastin' rights to the feckin' Summer Olympic Games since the bleedin' 1988 games and the feckin' rights to the bleedin' Winter Olympic Games since the feckin' 2002 games. In fairness now. Coverage of the feckin' Olympics on NBC have included pre-emptin' regularly scheduled programs durin' daytime, primetime, and late night.
NBC News[edit]
Main article: NBC News
News coverage has long been an important part of NBC's operations and public image, datin' to the bleedin' network's radio days. In fairness now. Notable NBC News productions past and present include Today, NBC Nightly News (and its immediate predecessor, the Huntley-Brinkley Report), Meet the Press (which has the distinction of the longest continuously runnin' program in the feckin' history of American television), Dateline NBC, Early Today, NBC News at Sunrise, NBC Nightside and Rock Center with Brian Williams.
In 1989, the news division began its expansion to cable with the launch of business news channel CNBC, enda story. The company eventually formed other cable news services includin' MSNBC (created in 1996 originally as a joint venture with Microsoft, which now features a holy mix of general news and political discussion programs with a feckin' liberal stance),[84][85] and the bleedin' 2008 acquisition of The Weather Channel in conjunction with Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. Here's a quare one. In addition, NBCSN (operated as part of the feckin' NBC Sports Group, and which became an NBC property through Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal) carries sports news content alongside sports event telecasts. Key anchors from NBC News are also used durin' NBC Sports coverage of the bleedin' Olympic Games.
Daytime programmin'[edit]
Main article: NBC Daytime
NBC is currently the oul' home to only one daytime program, the hour-long soap opera Days of Our Lives, which has been broadcast on the bleedin' network since 1965. Here's a quare one for ye. Since NBC turned back an hour of its then two-hour daytime schedule to its affiliates as a bleedin' result of the September 2007 expansion of Today to four hours, the bleedin' network currently ties with The CW for the oul' fewest daytime programmin' hours of any major broadcast television network.
Long-runnin' daytime dramas seen on NBC in the bleedin' past include The Doctors (1963–1982), Another World (1964–1999), Santa Barbara (1984–1993), and Passions (1999–2007), fair play. NBC also aired the feckin' final 4½ years of Search for Tomorrow (1982–1986) after that series was initially cancelled by CBS, although many NBC affiliates did not clear the bleedin' show durin' its tenure on the network, that's fierce now what? NBC has also aired numerous short-lived soap operas, includin' Generations (1989–1991), Sunset Beach (1997–1999), and the two Another World spin-offs, Somerset (1970–1976) and Texas (1980–1982).
Notable daytime game shows that once aired on NBC include The Price Is Right (1956–1963), Concentration (1958–1973; and 1987–1991 as Classic Concentration), The Match Game (1962–1969), Let's Make an oul' Deal (1963–1968 and 1990–1991, as well as a bleedin' short-lived prime-time revival in 2003), Jeopardy! (1964–1975 and 1978–1979), The Hollywood Squares (1966–1980), Wheel of Fortune (1975–1989 and 1991), Password Plus/Super Password (1979–1982 and 1984–1989), Sale of the feckin' Century (1969–1973 and 1983–1989) and Scrabble (1984–1990 and 1993), that's fierce now what? The last game show ever to air as part of NBC's daytime schedule was the oul' short-lived Caesars Challenge, which ended in January 1994.
Notable past daytime talk shows that have aired on NBC have included Home (1954–1957), The Ernie Kovacs Show (1955–1956), The Merv Griffin Show (1962–1963), Leeza (1994–1999) and Later Today (1999–2000).
Children's programmin'[edit]
Main articles: Children's programmin' on NBC, TNBC, Discovery Kids on NBC, Qubo, and NBC Kids
Children's programmin' has played a part in NBC's programmin' since its initial roots in television. NBC's first major children's series, Howdy Doody, debuted in 1947 and was one of the oul' era's first breakthrough television shows, be the hokey! From the mid-1960s until 1992, the bulk of NBC's children's programmin' was composed of mainly animated programmin' includin' classic Looney Tunes and Woody Woodpecker shorts; reruns of primetime animated sitcoms such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons; foreign acquisitions like Astro Boy and Kimba the feckin' White Lion; animated adaptions of Punky Brewster, ALF and Star Trek as well as animated vehicles for Gary Coleman and Mr, grand so. T; live-action programs like The Banana Splits, The Bugaloos and H.R, like. Pufnstuf; and the original broadcasts of Gumby, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Underdog, The Smurfs, Alvin and the feckin' Chipmunks and Disney's Adventures of the bleedin' Gummi Bears. Sufferin' Jaysus. From 1984 to 1989, the bleedin' network aired an oul' series of public service announcements called One to Grow On, which aired after the oul' end credits of every program or every other children's program.[86]
In 1989, NBC premiered Saved by the feckin' Bell, a live-action teen sitcom which originated on The Disney Channel the feckin' previous year as Good Mornin', Miss Bliss (which served as a holy starrin' vehicle for Hayley Mills; four cast members from that show were cast in the oul' NBC series as the feckin' characters they originally played on Miss Bliss). Saved by the bleedin' Bell, despite bein' given bad reviews from television critics, would become one of the feckin' most popular teen series in television history as well as the oul' top-rated series on Saturday mornings, dethronin' ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show in its first season.
The success of Saved by the bleedin' Bell led NBC to remove animated series from its Saturday mornin' lineup in August 1992 in favor of additional live-action series as part of a new block called TNBC, along with the debut of a holy Saturday edition of Today. Soft oul' day. Most of the oul' series featured on the feckin' TNBC lineup were executive produced by Peter Engel (such as City Guys, Hang Time, California Dreams, One World and the feckin' Saved by the bleedin' Bell sequel, Saved by the Bell: The New Class), with the lineup bein' designed from the bleedin' start to meet the oul' earliest form of the oul' FCC's educational programmin' guidelines under the Children's Television Act.[87] NBA Inside Stuff, an analysis and interview program aimed at teens that was hosted for most of its run by Ahmad Rashād, was also a holy part of the feckin' TNBC lineup durin' the bleedin' NBA season until 2002 (when the oul' program moved to ABC as a result of that network takin' the oul' NBA rights from NBC).
In 2002, NBC entered into an agreement with Discovery Communications to carry educational children's programs from the feckin' Discovery Kids cable channel.[87] Debutin' that September, the Discovery Kids on NBC block originally consisted exclusively of live-action series, includin' reality series Tradin' Spaces: Boys vs. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? Girls (a kid-themed version of the feckin' TLC series Tradin' Spaces); the oul' Emmy-nominated reality game show Endurance, hosted and produced by J, grand so. D. Right so. Roth (whose production company, 3-Ball Productions, would also produce reality series The Biggest Loser for NBC beginnin' in 2003); and scripted series such as Strange Days at Blake Holsey High and Scout's Safari. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. The block later expanded to include some animated series such as Kenny the Shark, Tutenstein and Time Warp Trio.
In May 2006, NBC announced plans to launch a bleedin' new Saturday mornin' children's block under the bleedin' Qubo brand in September 2006.[88] An endeavor originally operated as a joint venture between NBCUniversal, Ion Media Networks, Scholastic Press, Classic Media and Corus Entertainment's Nelvana unit (Ion acquired the other partners' shares in 2013), the Qubo venture also encompassed weekly blocks on Telemundo and Ion Television, an oul' 24-hour digital multicast network on Ion's owned-and-operated and affiliated stations, as well as video on demand services and a branded website. Here's another quare one for ye. Qubo launched on NBC on September 9, 2006 with six programs (VeggieTales, Dragon, VeggieTales Presents: 3-2-1 Penguins!, Babar, Jane and the feckin' Dragon and Jacob Two-Two).
On March 28, 2012, it was announced that NBC would launch a feckin' new Saturday mornin' preschool block programmed by Sprout (originally jointly owned by NBCUniversal, PBS, Sesame Workshop and Apax Partners, with the feckin' former acquirin' the feckin' other's interests later that year), you know yourself like. The block, NBC Kids, premiered on July 7, 2012, replacin' the bleedin' "Qubo on NBC" block.[89][90][91][92]
Specials[edit]
NBC holds the bleedin' broadcast rights to several annual specials and award show telecasts includin' the Golden Globe Awards and the Emmy Awards (which is rotated across all four major networks each year). Since 1953, NBC has served as the bleedin' official U.S, you know yourself like. broadcaster of the Macy's Thanksgivin' Day Parade. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? CBS also carries unauthorized coverage of the Macy's parade as part of The Thanksgivin' Day Parade on CBS; However, as NBC holds rights to the feckin' parade, it has exclusivity over the broadcast of Broadway and music performances appearin' in the parade (CBS airs live performances separate from those seen in the parade as a bleedin' result), and Macy's chose to reroute the feckin' parade in 2012 out of the bleedin' view of CBS' cameras, although it continues to cover the oul' parade. C'mere til I tell ya. NBC began airin' a holy same-day rebroadcast of the parade telecast in 2009 (replacin' its annual Thanksgivin' afternoon airin' of Miracle on 34th Street). Story? In 2007, NBC acquired the oul' rights to the feckin' National Dog Show, which airs followin' the bleedin' Macy's Thanksgivin' Day Parade each year.
The network also broadcasts several live-action and animated specials durin' the Christmas holiday season, includin' the 2014 debuts How Murray Saved Christmas (an animated musical adaptation of the oul' children's book of the bleedin' same name) and Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (a stop-motion animated special based on the 2003 live-action film Elf).
Since 2013, the oul' network has aired live musical adaptations with major stars in lead roles. Jaysis. Originally dismissed as a feckin' gimmick, they have proven to be ratings successes, as well as an oul' nostalgic tribute to the oul' early days of television, you know yerself. Past adaptations include:
The Sound of Music in 2013 (starrin' Carrie Underwood as Maria Von Trapp)
Peter Pan in 2014 (starrin' Allison Williams in the oul' titular role and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook)
The Wiz in 2015 (starrin' Queen Latifah as the feckin' Wiz, Mary J. Blige as the oul' Wicked Witch and Uzo Aduba as the Good Witch)
Hairspray in 2016 (starrin' Ariana Grande as Penny Pingleton, Jennifer Hudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma von Tussle and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad, reprisin' his role in the original Broadway production)
Jesus Christ Superstar in 2018 (starrin' John Legend as Jesus Christ, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene and Alice Cooper as Kin' Herod)[93]
From 2003 to 2014, NBC also held rights to two of the feckin' three pageants organized by the feckin' Miss Universe Organization: the bleedin' Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants (NBC also held rights to the Miss Teen USA pageant from 2003, when NBC also assumed rights to the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants as part of a feckin' deal brokered by Miss Universe Organization owner Donald Trump that gave the bleedin' network half-ownership of the pageants,[94] until 2007, when NBC declined to renew its contract to carry Miss Teen USA, effectively discontinuin' televised broadcasts of that event). Jaykers! NBCUniversal relinquished the rights to Miss Universe and Miss USA on June 29, 2015, as part of its decision to cut business ties with Donald Trump and the oul' Miss Universe Organization (which was half-owned by corporate parent NBCUniversal) in response to controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Trump durin' the launch of his 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.[95][96]
Programmin' library[edit]
Through the feckin' years, NBC has produced many in-house programs, in addition to airin' content from other producers such as Revue Studios and its successor Universal Television. Bejaysus. Notable in-house productions by NBC have included Get Smart, Bonanza, Little House on the feckin' Prairie, Las Vegas, Crossin' Jordan and Law & Order.
Stations[edit]
Main articles: List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S, would ye believe it? state), List of NBC television affiliates (table), and NBC Owned Television Stations
NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and current and pendin' affiliation agreements with 223 additional television stations encompassin' 50 states, the oul' District of Columbia, six U.S. In fairness now. possessions and two non-U.S. territories (Aruba and Bermuda).[97][98] The network has a national reach of 88.91% of all households in the United States (or 277,821,345 Americans with at least one television set).
Currently, New Jersey is the feckin' only U.S, would ye believe it? state where NBC does not have a locally licensed affiliate. New Jersey is served by New York City O&O WNBC-TV and Philadelphia O&O WCAU; New Jersey formerly had an in-state affiliate in Atlantic City-based WMGM-TV, which was affiliated with the oul' network from 1955 to 2014. NBC maintains affiliations with low-power stations (broadcastin' either in analog or digital) in a feckin' few smaller markets, such as Binghamton, New York (WBGH-CD), Jackson, Tennessee (WNBJ-LD) and Juneau, Alaska (KATH-LD), that do not have enough full-power stations to support an oul' standalone affiliate. Bejaysus. In some markets, these stations also maintain digital simulcasts on a holy subchannel of a co-owned/co-managed full-power television station.
Portions of New Hampshire receive NBC programmin' via network-owned WBTS-CD, licensed to serve Nashua; while nominally licensed as a low-power class A station, it transmits an oul' full-power signal under a feckin' channel share with the feckin' WGBH Educational Foundation and its secondary Boston station WGBX-TV from Needham, Massachusetts, and serves as the feckin' NBC station for the entire Boston market. Until 2019, NBC operated an oul' low-powered station in Boston, WBTS-LD (now WYCN-LD), which aimed to serve as its station in that market while usin' a network of additional full-power stations to cover the market in full (includin' Merrimack, New Hampshire-licensed Telemundo station WNEU, which transmitted WBTS on a second subchannel); NBC purchased the feckin' Nashua station (formerly WYCN-CD) in early 2018 after the feckin' FCC spectrum auction, and in 2019 relocated WYCN-LD to Providence, Rhode Island to serve as a holy Telemundo station for that market.
Currently outside of the oul' NBC Owned Television Stations-operated O&O group, Tegna Media is the largest operator of NBC stations in terms of overall market reach, ownin' or providin' services to 20 NBC affiliates (includin' those in larger markets such as Denver, St. Louis, Seattle and Cleveland); Gray Television is the largest operator of NBC stations by numerical total, ownin' 23 NBC-affiliated stations.
Related services[edit]
Video-on-demand services[edit]
NBC provides video on demand access for delayed viewin' of the bleedin' network's programmin' through various means, includin' via its website at NBC.com, a feckin' traditional VOD service called NBC on Demand available on most traditional cable and IPTV providers,[99] and through content deals with Hulu and Netflix (the latter of which carries only cataloged episodes of NBC programs, after losin' the feckin' right to carry newer episodes of its programs durin' their current seasons in July 2011). Whisht now. NBCUniversal is a part-owner of Hulu (along with majority owner The Walt Disney Company, owner of ABC), and has offered full-length episodes of most of NBC's programmin' through the streamin' service (which are available for viewin' on Hulu's website and mobile app) since Hulu launched in private beta testin' on October 29, 2007.[100][101][102][103]
The most recent episodes of the feckin' network's shows are usually made available on NBC.com and Hulu the oul' day after their original broadcast. In addition, NBC.com and certain other partner websites (includin' Hulu) provide complete back catalogs of most of its current series as well as a holy limited selection of episodes of classic series from the NBCUniversal Television Distribution program library – includin' shows not broadcast by NBC durin' their original runs (includin' the feckin' complete or partial episode catalogs of shows like 30 Rock, The A-Team, Charles in Charge, Emergency!, Knight Rider (both the oul' original series and the oul' short-lived 2008 reboot), Kojak, Miami Vice, The Office, Quantum Leap and Simon & Simon).[104][105][106]
On February 18, 2015, NBC began providin' live programmin' streams of local NBC stations in select markets, which are only available to authenticated subscribers of participatin' pay television providers. Here's a quare one. All eleven NBC owned-and-operated stations owned by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations' were the oul' first stations to offer streams of their programmin' on NBC's website and mobile app, and new affiliation agreements have made a majority of the feckin' network's affiliates available through the bleedin' network's website and app based on a holy viewer's location. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. The network's NFL game telecasts were not permitted to be streamed on the oul' service for several years until a change to the oul' league's mobile rights agreement in the oul' 2018 season allowed games to be streamed through network websites and apps.[107][108][109][110]
NBC HD[edit]
NBC's master feed is transmitted in 1080i high definition, the feckin' native resolution format for NBCUniversal's television properties. However, 19 of its affiliates transmit the network's programmin' in 720p HD, while four others carry the bleedin' network feed in 480i standard definition[97] either due to technical considerations for affiliates of other major networks that carry NBC programmin' on a feckin' digital subchannel, or because a primary feed NBC affiliate has not yet upgraded their transmission equipment to allow content to be presented in HD.
WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina (a station that re-joined NBC in February 2016) is currently testin' the oul' upcomin' ATSC 3.0 television standard, which will allow the oul' transmission of 2160p ultra-high-definition television (UHD), through a feckin' secondary experimental station (WRAL-EX); it has transmitted limited NBC programmin' in UHD through a holy secondary subchannel, and is currently the oul' only station overall which transmits NBC's schedule in 1080p on its main subchannel.
Meet the feckin' Press was the bleedin' first regular series on a bleedin' major television network to produce an oul' high-definition broadcast on February 2, 1997, which aired in the format over WHD-TV in Washington, D.C., an experimental television station owned by an oul' consortium of industry groups and stations which launched to allow testin' of HD broadcasts and operated until 2002 (the program itself continued to be transmitted in 480i standard definition over the feckin' NBC network until May 2, 2010, when it became the oul' last NBC News program to convert to HD).[111][112] NBC officially began its conversion to high definition with the oul' launch of its simulcast feed, NBC HD, on April 26, 1999, when The Tonight Show became the oul' first HD program to air on the feckin' NBC network as well as the first regularly scheduled American network program to be produced and transmitted in high definition. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. The network gradually converted much of its existin' programmin' from standard-definition to high definition beginnin' with the 2002–03 season, with select shows among that season's shlate of freshmen scripted series bein' broadcast in HD from their debuts.[113]
The network completed its conversion to high definition in September 2012, with the feckin' launch of NBC Kids, a new Saturday mornin' children's block programmed by new partial sister network PBS Kids Sprout, which also became the second Saturday mornin' children's block with an entirely HD schedule (after the feckin' ABC-syndicated Litton's Weekend Adventure). Would ye swally this in a minute now?All of the network's programmin' has been presented in full HD since then (with the oul' exception of certain holiday specials produced prior to 2005 – such as its annual broadcast of It's a Wonderful Life – which continue to be presented in 4:3 SD, although some have been remastered for HD broadcast).
NBCi[edit]
NBCi header used from 1999 to 2007.
In 1999, NBC launched NBCi (briefly changin' its web address to "www.nbci.com"), a feckin' heavily advertised online venture servin' as an attempt to launch an Internet portal and homepage, would ye believe it? This move saw NBC partner with XOOM.com (not to be confused with the bleedin' current money transfer service), e-mail.com, AllBusiness.com,[114] and Snap.com (eventually acquirin' all four companies outright; Snap should also not be confused with the feckin' current-day parent of Snapchat) to launch a bleedin' multi-faceted internet portal with e-mail, webhostin', community, chat and personalization capabilities, and news content. Subsequently, in April 2000, NBC purchased GlobalBrain, a feckin' company specializin' in search engines that learned from searches initiated by its users, for $32 million.
The experiment lasted roughly one season; after its failure, NBCi's operations were folded back into NBC.[115] The NBC Television portion of the bleedin' website reverted to NBC.com. Jaysis. However, the NBCi website continued in operation as a portal for NBC-branded content (NBCi.com would be redirected to NBCi.msnbc.com), usin' an oul' co-branded version of InfoSpace to deliver minimal portal content. In mid-2007, NBCi.com began to mirror the bleedin' main NBC.com website;[116] NBCi.com was eventually redirected to the feckin' NBC.com domain in 2010.
Evolution of the oul' NBC logo[edit]
Main article: NBC logo
NBC has used a holy number of logos throughout its history; early logos used by the television and radio networks were similar to the logo of its then parent company, RCA. Logos used later in NBC's existence incorporated stylized peacock designs, includin' the feckin' current version that has been in use since 1986.
International broadcasts[edit]
Canada[edit]
NBC network programs can be received throughout most of Canada on cable, satellite and IPTV providers through certain U.S.-based affiliates of the feckin' network (such as WBTS-CD in Boston, KING-TV in Seattle, KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, WGRZ in Buffalo, New York and WDIV-TV in Detroit). Some programs carried on these stations are subject to simultaneous substitutions, a holy practice imposed by the feckin' Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in which a feckin' pay television provider supplants an American station's signal with a feed from a Canadian station/network airin' an oul' particular program in the bleedin' same time shlot to protect domestic advertisin' revenue. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Some of these affiliates are also receivable over-the-air in southern areas of the feckin' country located near the bleedin' Canada–United States border (signal coverage was somewhat reduced after the feckin' digital television transition in 2009 due to the oul' lower radiated power required to transmit digital signals).
Europe and the oul' Middle East[edit]
NBC no longer exists outside the bleedin' Americas as an oul' channel in its own right, begorrah. However, NBC News and MSNBC programs are broadcast for a bleedin' few hours a day on OSN News, formerly known as Orbit News in Africa and the oul' Middle East, grand so. Sister network CNBC Europe also broadcasts occasional breakin' news coverage from MSNBC as well as The Tonight Show Starrin' Jimmy Fallon. CNBC Europe also broadcast daily airings of NBC Nightly News at 00:30 CET Monday to Fridays.[117][118]
NBC Super Channel becomes NBC Europe[edit]
In 1993, then-NBC parent General Electric acquired Super Channel, relaunchin' the oul' Pan-European cable network as NBC Super Channel.[119] In 1996, the feckin' channel was renamed NBC Europe, but was, from then on, almost always referred to on-air as simply "NBC".
Most of NBC Europe's prime time programmin' was produced in Europe due to rights restrictions associated with U.S. Here's another quare one for ye. primetime shows; the bleedin' channel's weekday late night schedule after 11:00 p.m. Central European Time, however, featured The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Later, which the oul' channel's shlogan "Where the oul' Stars Come Out at Night" was based around. Many NBC News programs were broadcast on NBC Europe, includin' Dateline NBC, Meet the Press and NBC Nightly News, the bleedin' latter of which was broadcast simultaneously with the feckin' initial U.S. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. telecast. Today was also initially aired live in the oul' afternoons, but was later broadcast instead the oul' followin' mornin' on a more than half-day delay.
In 1999, NBC Europe ceased broadcastin' in most of Europe outside of Germany; the oul' network was concurrently relaunched as a bleedin' German-language technology channel aimed at a bleedin' younger demographic, with the oul' new series NBC GIGA as its flagship program. In 2005, the bleedin' channel was relaunched again as the oul' free-to-air movie channel Das Vierte which eventually shut down end of 2013 (acquired by Disney, which replaced it by an oul' German version of Disney Channel). Soft oul' day. GIGA Television was subsequently spun off as an oul' separate digital channel, available on satellite and cable providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland which shut down as a TV station end of 2009.
Latin America[edit]
Mexico[edit]
NBC programmin' is available in Mexico through free-to-air affiliates in markets located within proximity to the bleedin' Mexico–United States border (such as KYMA-DT/Yuma, Arizona; KGNS-TV/Laredo, Texas; KTSM/El Paso, Texas; KVEO/Brownsville, Texas; and KNSD/San Diego), whose signals are readily receivable over-the-air in border areas of northern Mexico. Here's a quare one. Some U.S.-based border affiliates are also available on subscription television providers throughout the bleedin' country, includin' in the Mexico City area.
Nicaragua[edit]
In Nicaragua, satellite providers carry either select U.S.-based NBC and Telemundo affiliated stations or the main network feed from NBCUniversal or Telemundo. Whisht now and eist liom. The main local affiliate stations are NBC 6 WTVJ, Telemundo 51 WSCV in Miami. Would ye believe this shite?In addition to the bleedin' NBC programmin' there is also available by the NBC sister network Telemundo, an oul' Spanish network based in the United States.
Canal de Noticias[edit]
In 1993, NBC launched a bleedin' 24-hour Spanish-language news channel servin' Latin America (the second news channel servin' that region overall, after Noticias ECO, and the bleedin' first to broadcast 24 hours a holy day), Canal de Noticias NBC, which based its news schedule around the "wheel" format conceived at CNN.[120] The channel, which was headquartered in the offices of the NBC News Channel affiliate news service in Charlotte, North Carolina, employed over 50 journalists to produce, write, anchor and provide technical services. Canal de Noticias NBC shut down in 1999 due to the oul' channel's inability to generate sustainable advertisin' revenue.
Caribbean[edit]
In the oul' Caribbean, many subscription providers carry either select U.S.-based NBC affiliated stations or the oul' main network feed from NBC O&Os WNBC in New York City or WTVJ in Miami. Sufferin' Jaysus. In addition, the network's programmin' has been available in the oul' U.S, be the hokey! Virgin Islands since 2004 on WVGN-LD in Charlotte Amalie (owned by LKK Group), while Telemundo owned-and-operated station WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico carries the bleedin' WNBC feed on a bleedin' digital subchannel. Jaykers! In these areas, NBC programs are available in English and in Spanish via second audio program.
Bahamas[edit]
In the oul' Bahamas, NBC programmin' is available via U.S.-based affiliate stations on domestic cable providers.
Netherlands Antilles[edit]
In Aruba, NBC maintains an affiliation with Oranjestad station PJA-TV (which brands on-air as "ATV").
Puerto Rico[edit]
In Puerto Rico, Telemundo O&O WKAQ-TV carries "NBC Puerto Rico" over their third subchannel, which is effectively a holy simulcast of WNBC with some local advertisin' and station identification.
Bermuda[edit]
Until it ended operations in 2014, NBC's entire program lineup was carried by VSB-TV, usin' the bleedin' Eastern Time Zone feed, though an hour ahead due to its location in the bleedin' Atlantic Time Zone. Whisht now. Bermuda currently receives NBC service from WTVJ Miami via cable.
Pacific[edit]
Guam[edit]
In Guam, the oul' entire NBC programmin' lineup is carried by Hagåtña affiliate KUAM-TV (which has been an NBC affiliate since 1956) via the bleedin' network's East Coast satellite feed, fair play. Entertainment and news programmin' is broadcast day and date on a holy one-day tape delay as Guam is on the bleedin' west side of the oul' International Date Line (for example, the bleedin' network's Thursday prime time lineup airs Friday evenings on KUAM, and is advertised by the station as airin' on the bleedin' latter night in on-air promotions), what? Live programmin', includin' breakin' news and sportin' events, airs as scheduled; because of the time difference with the feckin' six U.S. Whisht now and listen to this wan. time zones, live sports coverage often airs on the feckin' station early in the oul' mornin'. Jasus. KUAM's programmin' is relayed to the Northern Mariana Islands via satellite station WSZE in Saipan.
American Samoa[edit]
In American Samoa, NBC was affiliated with KKHJ-LP in Pago Pago[121] from 2005 to 2012. Cable television providers on the feckin' islands carry the feckin' network's programmin' via Seattle affiliate KING-TV.
Federated States of Micronesia[edit]
In the Federated States of Micronesia, NBC programmin' is available on domestic cable providers via Honolulu affiliate KHNL.
Asia[edit]
NBC Asia and CNBC Asia[edit]
NBC Asia launched in 1994, distributed to Nepal, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan and the oul' Philippines, game ball! Like NBC Europe, NBC Asia featured most of NBC's news programs as well as The Tonight Show, Late Night and Saturday Night Live. Like its European counterpart, it was not allowed to broadcast American-produced primetime shows due to existin' broadcast agreements with other domestic broadcasters, the hoor. NBC Asia produced a feckin' regional evenin' news program that aired each weeknight, and occasionally simulcast some programs from CNBC Asia and MSNBC. Sufferin' Jaysus. NBC also operated NBC Super Sports, a feckin' 24-hour channel devoted to televisin' sportin' events.
In July 1998, NBC Asia was replaced by an oul' regional version of the National Geographic Channel. Here's another quare one. As is the oul' case with NBC Europe, CNBC Asia broadcasts select episodes of The Tonight Show and Late Night as well as Meet the feckin' Press are as part of its weekend schedule, and airs NFL games under the Sunday Night Football brand.
Regional partners[edit]
Through regional partners, NBC-produced programs are seen in some countries in the feckin' continent. Bejaysus. In the bleedin' Philippines, Jack TV (owned by Solar Entertainment) airs Will & Grace and Saturday Night Live, while TalkTV airs The Tonight Show and NBC News programs includin' the feckin' weekday and weekend editions of Today, Early Today, Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News, you know yourself like. Solar TV formerly broadcast The Jay Leno Show from 2009 to 2010. In Hong Kong, English language free-to-air channel TVB Pearl (operated by TVB) airs live broadcasts of NBC Nightly News, as well as other select NBC programs.
Australia[edit]
In Australia, the oul' Seven Network has maintained close ties with NBC and has used a bleedin' majority of the feckin' U.S, game ball! network's image campaigns and shlogans since the 1970s (conversely, in 2009, NBC and Seven both used the feckin' Guy Sebastian single "Like it Like That" in image promos for their respective summer schedules). Arra' would ye listen to this shite? The network's Seven News division has used John Williams-composed "The Mission" (the proprietary theme music for NBC News' flagship programs since 1985) as the bleedin' theme music for its local and national news programs since the mid-1980s, though re-composed domestically to meet their own brandin' image. Local newscasts were also titled Seven Nightly News from the feckin' mid-1980s until c. Bejaysus. 2000. C'mere til I tell ya now. NBC News and Seven News often share news resources, with the oul' former division usin' Seven's reporters for breakin' news coverage and select taped story packages relatin' to Australian stories and the feckin' latter sometimes incorporatin' NBC News reports into its national bulletins.
Seven also rebroadcasts some of NBC's news and current affairs programmin' durin' the feckin' early mornin' hours (usually from 3:00 to 5:00 a.m. Here's another quare one for ye. local time), includin' the oul' weekday and weekend editions of Today (which it brands as NBC Today to differentiate it from the bleedin' unrelated mornin' program of the feckin' same title on the feckin' Nine Network), Dateline NBC and Meet the feckin' Press.
Criticism and controversies[edit]
The NBC television network has been accused[122] of toleratin' a feckin' culture of sexism and sexual harassment among its employees (especially within upper management and among senior anchors) and also of coverin' up indiscretions committed by prominent figures in the company through intimidation campaigns against victims that include a feckin' widespread use of non-disclosure agreements. This may have exposed the company to pressure by Harvey Weinstein to delay and/or terminate reportin' on Harvey's criminal abuse of many women.[123][124]
See also: Today (American TV program) § Controversies and transitions, and MSNBC controversies
Presidents of NBC Entertainment[edit]
Sylvester Weaver 1953–1955 Weaver was hired by NBC in 1949, to help challenge CBS's ratings lead, fair play. While at NBC, Weaver established many operatin' practices that became standard for network television; he introduced the bleedin' practice of networks producin' their own television programs and sellin' advertisin' time durin' the bleedin' broadcasts. Be the holy feck, this is a quare wan. Prior to this, advertisin' agencies usually developed each show for a holy particular client. Because commercial shlots could now more easily be sold to more than one corporate sponsor for each program, a holy single advertiser pullin' out of a holy program would not necessarily threaten it. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. Weaver also created several series for the network, Today (in 1952), Tonight Starrin' Steve Allen (in 1954, the first program in the oul' Tonight Show franchise), Home (1954) and Wide Wide World (1955). Bejaysus here's a quare one right here now. Weaver strongly believed that broadcastin' should educate as well as entertain and required NBC shows to typically include at least one sophisticated cultural reference or performance per installment – includin' a holy segment of a feckin' Giuseppe Verdi opera adapted to the comedic style of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's groundbreakin' Your Show of Shows. Jaykers! Weaver did not ignore NBC Radio and gave it an oul' shot in the bleedin' arm in 1955, at a holy time when network radio was dyin' and givin' way to television, when he developed NBC Monitor, a bleedin' weekend-long magazine-style block featurin' an array of news, music, comedy, drama and sports, with rotatin' advertisers and some of the feckin' most memorable names in broadcast journalism, entertainment and sports that ran until 1975 (20 years after Weaver's departure). Weaver departed shortly afterward, followin' disputes with NBC chairman David Sarnoff, who believed that his ideas were either too expensive or too highbrow for company tastes. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. His respective successors, Robert Sarnoff and Robert Kintner, standardized the bleedin' network's programmin' practices with far less of the feckin' ambitiousness that characterized the feckin' Weaver years.
Robert E. C'mere til I tell ya now. Kintner 1958–1966 Kintner was appointed president in 1958; his tenure at NBC was marked by his aggressive effort to push the feckin' network's news division past CBS News in ratings and prestige. Jasus. The news division was given more money, leadin' it to gain additional resources to provide coverage, notably of the oul' 1960 Presidential election campaign, and led the oul' Huntley-Brinkley Report to prominence among the bleedin' network news programs.
Julian Goodman 1966–1974 Goodman, who joined NBC in 1966, helped establish Chet Huntley and David Brinkley as an oul' well-known anchor team, fair play. While workin' at NBC, he negotiated a feckin' $1 million deal to retain Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show.
Herb Schlosser 1974–1978 After Johnny Carson announced he wanted to cancel the oul' weekend editions of The Tonight Show in order to instead have repeats of it aired on weeknights,[125] Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programmin', Dick Ebersol, and asked yer man to create an oul' show to fill the bleedin' Saturday night time shlot, what? At the bleedin' suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the oul' latter's idea for a variety show featurin' high-concept comedy sketches, political satire, and music performances. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, includin' Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBC's Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by a program on the bleedin' rival network ABC that was hosted by its sportscaster Howard Cosell. Jesus, Mary and holy Saint Joseph. NBC purchased the bleedin' rights to the oul' name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26, 1977. Holy blatherin' Joseph, listen to this. Saturday Night Live remains on the bleedin' air to this day.
Fred Silverman 1978–1981 Although Silverman developed many successful shows durin' his tenure at ABC, he left that network to become president and CEO of NBC in 1978. Bejaysus. His three-year tenure at the feckin' network proved to be a holy difficult period for the bleedin' network, marked by several high-profile failures such as Hello, Larry, Pink Lady and Jeff, Supertrain and the oul' Jean Doumanian era of Saturday Night Live (Silverman hired Doumanian after Al Franken, the bleedin' planned successor for outgoin' creator/executive producer Lorne Michaels, castigated Silverman's failures in a sketch on the program[36]), you know yourself like. Despite these failures, high points durin' Silverman's tenure included the oul' launch of Hill Street Blues and the oul' miniseries Shōgun. Listen up now to this fierce wan. He also brought David Letterman to the network to host daytime talker The David Letterman Show, two years before the debut of Letterman's successful late night program in 1982, after Silverman negotiated a bleedin' holdin' deal after the feckin' former's cancellation to keep Letterman from goin' to another network. I hope yiz are all ears now. However, Silverman nearly lost late night leader Johnny Carson, who filed a lawsuit against NBC durin' a holy contract dispute with the feckin' network; the oul' case was settled out of court and Carson remained with NBC in exchange for acquirin' the oul' rights to his show and permission to reduce his time on-air (leadin' to the use of guest hosts on The Tonight Show such as Joan Rivers and his immediate successor, Jay Leno).[126] Silverman also developed successful sitcoms such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life and Gimme a bleedin' Break!, and made the series commitments that led to Cheers and St. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Elsewhere. Story? Silverman also pioneered the oul' reality television genre with the feckin' 1979 debut of Real People. His contributions to the feckin' network's game show output included the oul' Goodson-Todman-produced Card Sharks and a revival of Password, both of which enjoyed great success as part of the bleedin' mornin' schedule, although he also canceled several other relatively popular series, includin' The Hollywood Squares and High Rollers, to make way for The David Letterman Show (those cancellations also threatened Wheel of Fortune, whose host, Chuck Woolery, left in a bleedin' payment dispute durin' Silverman's tenure, although the bleedin' show survived), the hoor. Silverman also oversaw, while simultaneously objectin' to, the bleedin' hirin' of Pat Sajak as the new host of Wheel (Sajak remains as host to this day in its syndicated incarnation).[127] On Saturday mornings, at a time when there was much similarity in animated content on the major networks, Silverman oversaw the oul' development of an animated series based on The Smurfs (which ran from 1981 to 1989, well after Silverman's departure, makin' it one of his longest-lastin' contributions to the oul' network) as well as a revival of The Flintstones. In addition, Silverman revitalized the bleedin' NBC News division, helpin' Today and NBC Nightly News achieve parity with their competition for the oul' first time in years; and created an oul' new FM radio division with competitive stations in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C, like. Durin' his NBC tenure, Silverman also brought in an entirely new divisional and corporate management team, which remained in place long after Silverman's departure (among this group was Brandon Tartikoff, who as President of Entertainment, would help get NBC back on top by 1985). Whisht now and eist liom. Silverman also reintroduced the feckin' peacock as NBC's corporate logo in 1979.
Brandon Tartikoff 1981–1991 Tartikoff was hired as a holy program executive at ABC in 1976. He joined NBC the oul' followin' year, after bein' hired by Dick Ebersol to direct comedy programs for the feckin' network. G'wan now. Tartikoff took over as president of NBC's entertainment division in 1981,[128] becomin' the feckin' youngest person ever to hold the bleedin' position, at age 32. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. At the time Tartikoff took over, NBC was mired in last place behind ABC and CBS, and faced a loomin' writers' strike and affiliates defectin' to other networks (mostly to ABC); Little House on the Prairie, Diff'rent Strokes and Real People were the only prime time shows the bleedin' network had in the Nielsen Top 20. Also of issue, Johnny Carson was reportedly in talks to move his landmark late-night talk show to ABC; while the bleedin' original cast and writin' staff of Saturday Night Live had left the feckin' show, and their replacements had earned SNL some of its worst reviews. Whisht now and eist liom. By 1982, Tartikoff and network president Grant Tinker gradually turned the bleedin' network's fortunes around.[129] Tartikoff's successes as President of Entertainment included The Cosby Show (Tartikoff had pursued actor-comedian Bill Cosby to create a bleedin' comedy pilot after havin' been impressed by the oul' comedian's stories when Cosby was a holy guest host on The Tonight Show), the iconic 1980s drama Miami Vice (Tartikoff wrote a feckin' brainstormin' memo that simply read "MTV cops", and later presented it to former Hill Street Blues writer/producer Anthony Yerkovich, who turned into the oul' concept behind Miami Vice).[130][131][132][133] and Knight Rider (which was inspired by a feckin' perceived lack of leadin' men who could act, with Tartikoff suggestin' that a talkin' car could fill in the feckin' gaps in any leadin' man's actin' abilities).[129] While Family Ties was undergoin' its castin' process, Tartikoff was unexcited about Michael J. Arra' would ye listen to this. Fox bein' considered for the oul' role of Alex P. Keaton,[129] however, creator/executive producer Gary David Goldberg insisted on havin' Fox in the oul' role until Tartikoff relented, sayin', "Go ahead if you insist. Here's another quare one for ye. But I'm tellin' you, this is not the bleedin' kind of face you'll ever see on a lunch box". After Fox's stardom was cemented by Back to the oul' Future, he good-naturedly sent Tartikoff a bleedin' lunch box with Fox's picture that contained a note readin': "To Brandon: This is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Fox", which Tartikoff kept in his office for the rest of his career, the cute hoor. Johnny Carson broke the oul' news of his retirement in February 1991 to Tartikoff durin' a lunch meetin' at the feckin' Grille in Beverly Hills. Bejaysus here's a quare one right here now. Tartikoff and chairman Bob Wright were the only ones who knew of the oul' planned retirement before it was made public days later.[129] Tartikoff wrote in his memoirs that his biggest professional regret was cancellin' the series Buffalo Bill, which he later went on to include in a fantasy "dream schedule" created for a feckin' TV Guide article that detailed his idea of "The Greatest Network Ever."
Warren Littlefield 1991–1998 Littlefield helped develop Cheers, The Cosby Show and The Golden Girls as senior, and later, executive vice president of NBC Entertainment under Brandon Tartikoff, of whom Littlefield was his protégé. Here's another quare one. Durin' his tenure as president of NBC, Littlefield oversaw the oul' creation of many hit shows durin' the 1990s such as Seinfeld, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Wings, Blossom, Law & Order, Mad About You, Sisters, Frasier, Friends, ER, Homicide: Life on the feckin' Street, Caroline in the oul' City, NewsRadio, 3rd Rock from the oul' Sun, Suddenly Susan, Just Shoot Me!, Will & Grace and The West Win'.
Scott Sassa 1998–1999 Sassa joined NBC in September 1997 as president of the oul' NBC Television Stations division, where he was responsible for overseein' the oul' operation of NBC's then 13 owned-and-operated stations.[134] In October 1998, Sassa became president of NBC Entertainment, lastin' in that position for eight months until he was reassigned to NBC's West Coast division in May 1999, where as its president, he oversaw NBC's entertainment-related businesses.[45] Sassa made the oul' transition to that position after workin' alongside his predecessor, Don Ohlmeyer, be the hokey! Durin' this time, he oversaw the development and production of NBC's new primetime series includin' such shows as The West Win', Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Fear Factor. Under Sassa, NBC rated as the oul' #1 network for three out of four seasons.
Garth Ancier 1999–2000 Ancier, who also worked as television producer (most notably, servin' as executive producer of tabloid talk show Ricki Lake) prior to joinin' the feckin' network, was named President of NBC Entertainment in 1999.
Jeff Zucker 2000–2004 Zucker was named President of NBC Entertainment in 2000, succeedin' Garth Ancier.[135] In a feckin' 2004 profile on Zucker, Businessweek stated that in his four years as entertainment president, he was responsible for havin' "kept the oul' network ahead of the pack by airin' the oul' gross out show Fear Factor, negotiatin' for the oul' cast of the bleedin' hit series Friends to take the feckin' series up to a holy tenth season, and signin' Donald Trump for the feckin' reality show The Apprentice" and havin' helped increase NBC's operatin' revenue from $532 million in 1999 to $870 million by 2003. Here's another quare one. Other critical and/or commercial successes greenlit under Zucker included Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Scrubs. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. He originated the feckin' concept of airin' "Supersized" episodes (runnin' longer than the feckin' standard 30-minute shlot) of NBC sitcoms durin' sweeps and makin' aggressive programmin' efforts durin' the feckin' summer to compete with cable networks that began to draw viewers to their original programmin' content while the oul' networks ran mostly reruns, for the craic. Zucker also oversaw the feckin' successful transition of Bravo (which NBC acquired from Rainbow Media in 2002) from a bleedin' film and arts-focused network to a network primarily reliant on reality series, and the bleedin' repositionin' of Telemundo to become more competitive with leadin' Spanish-language network Univision, for the craic. In May 2004, followin' NBC's merger with Vivendi Universal, Zucker was promoted to president of the bleedin' NBC Universal Television Group. Zucker's responsibilities, which already included NBC's cable channels, were expanded to include oversight of television production as well as USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel and Trio, for the craic. Followin' his promotion, NBC shlid from first place to fourth in the bleedin' ratings. Shows that Zucker championed such as animated series Father of the Pride and the oul' Friends spinoff Joey floundered.[136]
Kevin Reilly 2004–2007 Reilly was appointed President of Entertainment in May 2004. Sure this is it. Havin' begun his career at NBC Entertainment almost two decades earlier, he returned to the bleedin' network in the fall of 2003 as President of Primetime Development. Here's another quare one. Early in his NBC career, Reilly supervised Law & Order in its first season and helped develop ER, bejaysus. After his first stint at NBC, Reilly became President of Brad Grey Television, the oul' television production arm of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, in 1994. He was responsible for the development of the feckin' pilot for The Sopranos, and NBC sitcoms Just Shoot Me! and NewsRadio. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. Reilly's vocal support of The Office helped it survive its first season, despite it sufferin' from low ratings.[137] Shows developed under Reilly included My Name Is Earl, Heroes, 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights.[138] Although he signed an oul' new three-year contract with NBC in February 2007, Reilly was terminated as president in late May 2007.[139] Approximately one month later, he joined Fox as its President of Entertainment.
Ben Silverman 2007–2009 Silverman and Marc Graboff were appointed co-chairmen of NBC Entertainment in 2007, succeedin' Kevin Reilly. G'wan now. That year, Silverman became the first producer since Norman Lear (in 1973) to have two Emmy-nominated shows in the feckin' "Outstandin' Comedy/Variety Series" category (The Office and ABC's Ugly Betty).[140] He is credited for his role in savin' the oul' critically acclaimed but low-rated NBC drama Friday Night Lights by strikin' an innovative deal,[141] in which DirecTV agreed to take on a substantial amount of the bleedin' show's production budget in exchange for exclusive first window rights to broadcast the feckin' program on The 101 while NBC would re-air the bleedin' episodes later in the oul' season.[142]
Jeff Gaspin 2009–2010 Gaspin first joined NBC in the feckin' early 1980s, as part of its associates program, after failin' to find any jobs in finance on Wall Street. In fairness now. After spendin' five years in the feckin' finance department, he was promoted to a programmin' position at NBC News at the oul' urgin' of the oul' news division's then-president Michael Gartner, before bein' moved to the feckin' entertainment division. Right so. Durin' his first tenure, Gaspin helped to develop and launch Dateline NBC and oversaw the feckin' expansion of Today to weekends. G'wan now and listen to this wan. In 1996, Gaspin left NBC to become program development chief at VH1, what? Gaspin returned to NBC in 2001 as Executive Vice President of Program Strategy at NBC Entertainment, where he helped to develop new programs such as The Apprentice and The Biggest Loser. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. In 2002, Gaspin was appointed as President of Bravo, followin' NBC's purchase of the cable channel, where his most notable accomplishments were the oul' massive hits Queer Eye for the oul' Straight Guy and Project Runway. He was reassigned to President of NBC Universal Cable and Digital Content in 2007.[143] In July 2009, Gaspin was promoted to Chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, becomin' responsible for NBC Entertainment, USA Network, Bravo and NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution.
Robert Greenblatt 2011–2018 Greenblatt succeeded Jeff Gaspin in January 2011 after Comcast took control of NBCUniversal. Under Greenblatt's direction, NBC saw major successes with the oul' Chicago series franchise, This Is Us, the feckin' revival of Will & Grace, and several live musical productions. C'mere til I tell ya. The success of many of his programs led NBC to take over CBS as the #1 network durin' the oul' 2017-18 television season for the feckin' first time in sixteen years, begorrah. Greenblatt departed NBC in September 2018.[144][145]
George Cheeks & Paul Telegdy 2018–present Cheeks and Telegdy succeeded Robert Greenblatt in September 2018, followin' Greenblatt's departure.[146]
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Further readin'[edit]
Hilmes, Michele (2007). NBC: America's Network. Here's another quare one. University of California Press. Chrisht Almighty. ISBN 9780520250819.
Robinson, Marc (2002), bedad. Brought to You in Livin' Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC, Lord bless us and save us. Wiley.
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