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52 unusual facts about NBC


Aca Obradović

For that, he made a television broadcasting contract with the NBC worth two million dollars, with condition to set a Soviet and Czechoslovak team to play in finals, unfortunately for him, that plan has failed due to Soviet embassy prohibited their team to perform, just before the final match.

Adelaide Kane

In April 2010, Kane starred in the television film Secrets of the Mountain on NBC.

Alfonso D'Artega

Perhaps his most widely recognized composition in the U.S. is "The NBC Chimes Theme".

Alvin Cooperman

In 1951, he got a job with NBC as a production manager, and he produced several successful television series' in the 1960s, including 'Shirley Temple's Fairy Tales' and The Untouchables.

Antonio Rebollo

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Arc Angels

Arc Angels made their network television debut on the NBC show, Late Night with David Letterman, on June 9, 1992, performing "Living In A Dream".

Bert Firman

In 1929 Firman was given a six-month contract to be a guest conductor at N.B.C., becoming the first British bandleader to broadcast in America.

Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane

For years the film was under negotiation for development as a prime time series on NBC by Carnahan and producer Bob Levy.

Broom-Hilda

Thirteen episodes were produced, and the series ran for one season on NBC.

Carl Weiss

Weiss's son—Carl Weiss, Jr., an infant at the time—has since vigorously disputed the assertion, most notably in a 1993 interview on the NBC program Unsolved Mysteries.

Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street

In 1963, he served as an academic adviser for the NBC educational program, Exploring.

Dan Curtis

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

David Caspe

He is currently in pre-production for his newest pilot, Marry Me for NBC, starring Casey Wilson and Ken Marino, with Seth Gordon attached to direct.

Eliot Frankel

Eliot Frankel (1923 – February 4, 1990) was a three-time Emmy Award recipient as a NBC producer and University Professor

Farley's Eatery and Pub

Actor Steve Carell, who portrays Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom, allegedly told reporters he would personally fly to Scranton to "cut the ribbon" if Farley's were to place a "Michael Scott Burger" on their menu.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20, 1975.

George Younce

His television appearances include the "Rex Humbard Hour", the "Gospel Singing Jubilee", the “Bill Gaither Homecoming Hour”, NBC’s Today Show, The Nashville Network, “Prime Time Country”, and “The Statler Brothers Show”.

Harry Mazer

He has written twenty-two novels, including The Solid Gold Kid, The Island Keeper, Heroes Don't Run, and Snow Bound, which was adapted as an NBC after school special, as well as one work of poetry and a few short stories.

Human Destination

"Silver Wind" was used in the fourth episode of Trauma (TV series), airing October 19th, 2009 on the American commercial television network, NBC.

James Rowland Angell

He remained president of Yale University his retirement in 1937, at which point he became educational counselor of the National Broadcasting Company.

Joe Dean

He coined the phrase "String Music" and is also known for other phrases such as, "Stufferino" and "Lexington, K-Y." During his run, he worked with NBC, TBS, ESPN, TVS and Jefferson Pilot.

John L. Kelley

In 1960, he took a leave of absence to serve as the National Teacher on NBC's Continental Classroom television program.

Karen Chandler

She made her national debut on Benny Goodman's NBC radio showcase on July 8, 1946, singing "I Don't Know Why," and became the Goodman Orchestra's featured vocalist for the remainder of that year.

Kate Swift

She worked as a copy runner in the NBC newsroom, and later joined the Women’s Army Corps as a writer and editor for the Army’s information and education department.

Kävik the Wolf Dog

A made-for-TV movie based on the book aired under the Sunday Big Event umbrella on NBC in 1979.

KTVC

A newly created digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KMTR carries the CW Television Network, a merger of the two disbanding networks' programming assets, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with MyNetworkTV, a network from News Corporation, the parent company of Fox.

Mack Reynolds

Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek.

Mary Pearl Willis Foundation

To mark the 30th year anniversary of the deaths, a memorial listing the names of all identified victims, which includes Congressman Leo Ryan, Robert Brown (NBC camera man), Don Harris (NBC reporter) and Greg Robinson (San Francisco Examiner photographer) was unveiled at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California.

Miss Universe Australia

Miss Universe Australia is a national beauty pageant of Australia owned by national director Deborah Miller that every year selects a representative to go to the international Miss Universe pageant which is owned by Mr. Donald Trump and NBC.

Mr. Edwards

His character was later adapted for the NBC television show, Little House on the Prairie and given the name "Isaiah Edwards."

Mudmen

In addition, the band's music has been featured in popular culture—their single "Lost", from their self-titled debut, was featured in a promotional video for the NBC television show The Black Donnellys, and their single "Animal" was featured in the soundtracks of the video games Burnout 3: Takedown and MX vs. ATV UnleashedThe Campbell Brothers "founding members" appear on the Bob and Dougs 24 anniversary special and have music featured on don cherry's hockey video's 9,19,20.

Nationwide Series

Since 2007, ESPN2 as well as ABC and ESPN have been the exclusive carrier of all Nationwide Series races, replacing Fox, FX, TNT and NBC.

Nestea

Nestea was featured in the NBC's Ctrl webseries as the basis for Stuart's magic keyboard.

New York/New Jersey Hitmen

This team was part of the failed XFL begun by Vince McMahon of the World Wrestling Federation and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

Nguyen Van Lem

Using his personal .38 revolver, General Loan summarily executed Lém in front of AP photographer Eddie Adams and NBC television cameraman Vo Suu.

North Pole, New York

In 1954, Burlington/Plattsburgh-market NBC affiliate WPTZ (channel 5) was licensed to North Pole at the time of its sign-on (as WIRI).

Orestes H. Caldwell

A passionate fan of electronic gadgets, he hosted a weekly show called Radio Magic on NBC in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Patti Wheeler

The company produces motorsports related material and has worked with Fox Sports, SPEED, ESPN, ABC, NBC and CBS for live race programming, documentaries, episodic and news series.

Phil Parsons

He is also the younger brother of the late 1973 Winston Cup champion and former NBC/TNT commentator Benny Parsons.

Playtest

This game was organized at the behest of NBC in order to test the viability of the game's concept.

Poker Superstars season 2 results

On February 5, 2006, NBC aired an 8-player single-table invitational freeroll, winner-take-all tournament for $500,000.

Rakhsh APC

Also there are additional options for buyers such as banks of smoke grenade launchers, NBC system and additional ceramic armour.

Richard H. Ranger

In 1932, he invented the NBC chime machine, an automatic device to reproduce the familiar hand-struck NBC chimes used by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network.

Robert McQueeney

She was a model and an actress in television commercials who appeared regularly in the 1950s on NBC's The Today Show.

Samuel Goldwyn Television

SGT's best known series was the competition series American Gladiators, which was very successful in first-run syndication for seven seasons and has recently been revived on NBC.

Spaceway F2

Although SPACEWAY-2 was originally built by Boeing to be used for broadband Internet access via HughesNet, it has been retrofitted to deliver HD local channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, & Fox) to numerous markets nationwide.

Tamworth Two

The American NBC network and several Japanese media outlets were among the international media to show a great interest in the story and to send reporters to cover the tale.

The Abbott and Costello Show

(The 1953-54 season was telecast locally on WNBT, as NBC's New York flagship station was then known).

The Incredible Jewel Robbery

CBS explained the show as follows: "If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer. Because of his contract terms (Groucho was still doing You Bet Your Life on NBC), his name can't be mentioned, but he is not Jerry Colonna."

The Upsidedown

The Upsidedown's music has been featured extensively on NBC's Trauma (TV series)

Tony Halik

After the war, he was working as a correspondent for NBC for over thirty years.

XEX-AM

During the 1940s, XEX was affiliated with the Mutual Radio Network as its Latin American flagship; its sister stations were also flagship stations of Latin American networks of competing radio networks, XEW-AM with NBC and XEQ-AM with CBS.


Adam Hauck

Adam quickly found work as a writer and producer on the nightly FX talk show, "The X Show", then later worked on Comedy Central's "Beat the Geeks", and several reality TV shows, including MTV's "Road Rules" and NBC's "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?"

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II

In the early 1950s, he was a regular panelist on the NBC game show Who Said That? along with H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, and American actress Dagmar.

America This Morning

The newscast is currently anchored by John Muller and Diana Perez, who also serve as anchors of ABC's overnight news program World News Now (it is the only early morning news program using a two-anchor format as the CBS Morning News and NBC's Early Today maintain a solo anchor).

Ashley Webster

Webster also helped launch the news department of NBC affiliate WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1996 as the station's first anchor and news director, and also anchored at CBS affiliate KSWT-TV in Yuma, Arizona.

Berry Johnston

Johnston has also played on the NBC Poker After Dark Series, most recently in 2008 among some of his fellow World Series of Poker Main Event Champions.

Britten family

The family first appeared on March 1, 2012 in the United States on NBC, in "Pilot", and last appeared on May 24, 2012, in "Turtles All the Way Down".

Byron Thames

After meeting actor/director Michael Landon, Thames was cast in the NBC television network dramatic television series Father Murphy in 1981 at the age of eleven opposite actor and former NFL athlete Merlin Olsen.

Chuck Scarborough

Scarborough was the host of the syndicated programs Images – A Year in Review and Memories...Then and Now in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and also co-anchored the NBC network documentary series Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Maria Shriver and Mary Alice Williams.

College rugby

The success of the inaugural 2010 tournament lead to a second tournament in 2011 at PPL Park in Philadelphia, again televised live by NBC.

David O. Selznick

But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.

Douglas Edwards

CBS News historian Gary Paul Gates, in Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News, recorded a conversation between veteran CBS and NBC news executives musing over the shift from Edwards and Swayze to the Huntley-Brinkley and Cronkite newscasts, and Edwards's continuation at CBS compared to Swayze's later familiarity as a pitchman for Timex, after both men had fallen from their formerly lofty television perches.

From These Roots

The show was seen on NBC, and was the first successful soap opera vehicle for Ann Flood who later became well known for, and spend the better part of two decades as, Nancy Karr on The Edge of Night.

Geo Da Silva

His single singles "I'll Do You like a Truck" was used in the TV show The Office on NBC, and in a national Greek series named Lakys o Glykoulis on Mega Channel.

George Crumbley

After being rebuffed by ABC, NBC, and CBS, he turned to Vic Piano, founder of the Mizlou Television Network, then a fledgling independent TV network.

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

ITN World News

Secondly, many popular programmes from NBC began appearing on the channel: comedy programmes from NBC included The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Saturday Night Live; news programmes from NBC included Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw.

Jim Brochu

His television work includes regular stints as Father James on "All My Children," Judge Julius Weyburn on "The Young and The Restless," Officer Jerry Chandler on the cult-classic "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and the befuddled bailiff on NBC's "Sirota's Court" with Michael Constantine.

Kate Is Enough

The episode first premiered on March 22, 2012 in the United States on NBC, was simultaneously broadcast on Global in Canada, and was subsequently aired on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2012.

KCWY-DT

On September 1, 2003, KCWY became the new NBC affiliate in the Casper market after NBC severed its affiliation with longtime affiliate KTWO-TV.

KFXF

Until K13XD went on the air in August 1996, KFXF also carried a handful of CBS shows, such as 60 Minutes, The Young and the Restless and Late Show with David Letterman, after KTVF relinquished their longtime affiliation with the network for NBC on April 1.

KFXK-TV

That arrangement makes the two stations sister to NBC affiliate KETK-TV and all three share studios on Richmond Road (near the Texas 323 Loop) in Tyler.

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

Kurt Schemers

Schemers started his terrestrial on-air career in Phoenix, Arizona on 1190 AM, a NBC affiliate station.

Lorena Rojas

In 2005, she starred in her most acclaimed telenovela El cuerpo del deseo, beside Andrés García, Mario Cimarro, Erick Elías, & Sonia Noemí, among others, which proved to be an international success, broadcast by Telemundo NBC.

Maury Povich

In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).

MirCorp

While the mission was being undertaken, the management of MirCorp was able to announce a number of commercial contracts, including that of the agreement with NBC and Mark Burnett.

National Republican Trust Political Action Committee

On November 1, 2008, just days before the United States presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain, NBC ran an NRT anti-Obama ad featuring Jeremiah Wright during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

New York Television Festival

It features a "Premiere Week" screening series, which now debuts new shows from networks including NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The CW, and HBO.

Paul Andrew Hutton

Dr. Hutton has appeared in, written or narrated over 150 television documentaries on CBS, NBC, PBS, Discover, Disney Channel, TBS, TNN, A&E, and the History Channel.

Pittsburg, Kansas

In late 2012, NBC news anchor Brian Williams, who started his career in Pittsburg, Kansas as a journalist at KOAM-TV, covered the local story of a fried chicken war between Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's on the Travel Channel.

Quincy, Illinois

With regards to television service, Quincy and the surrounding region are served by affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and the CW networks.

Race caller

In track and field, one of the most prominent race callers is Tom Hammond of NBC Sports, who also anchors the network's horse-racing coverage.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Reuven Frank

He paired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley for the first time to co-anchor NBC's coverage of the 1956 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

Richard Pildes

During the 2000 Presidential election controversy, he had an exclusive media contract with NBC and appeared frequently on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, MSNBC, and WNBC-TV.

Robert Kotler

As a spokesperson for cosmetic surgeons, he regularly appears on radio and television, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News; on such shows as Oprah, Deborah Norville Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Your World with Neil Cavuto, EXTRA, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Roger Perry

One of his best known roles was that of Captain John Christopher in NBC's Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".

Smilin' Jack Smith

In 1953, Smith briefly hosted the NBC game show Place the Face, only to be replaced by Jack Bailey, who in turn was followed by Bill Cullen.

Steve Overton

Born on July 21, 1958, Steve Overton is best known in the Tampa Bay area for his 17 years as spokesman for the WFLA-TV (NBC) signature consumer feature "Eight On Your Side," in which Steve grilled Central Florida businesses over poor customer service and fraud.

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.

Swin Cash

In the off-season, Cash has appeared as a studio analyst on ESPN's NBA Fastbreak (according to ESPN.com) and during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, she alternated with Teresa Edwards in presenting in-game commentary for NBC's presentation of the women's basketball tournament from the network's New York broadcast studios.

The Nate Berkus Show

Broadcasting & Cable reported that NBC syndicated daytime programming, aside from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, "have been largely out of the daytime game, primarily because of low to lukewarm ratings for Bonnie Hunt's show.

Valerie Brisco-Hooks

Brisco races Cliff (Bill Cosby) at the Penn Relays in The Cosby Show episode Off to the Races, first aired Thursday May 8, 1986 on NBC.

Werner Höfer

He gained popularity as the host of the Sunday TV discussion show Internationaler Frühschoppen, modeled on NBC's Meet the Press and running from 1952 to 1987.

Wilmer Fields

He earned MVP honors in the 1956 NBC tournament, putting his name alongside greats such as Satchel Paige (1935), Red Barkley (1941), George Archie (1943), Cot Deal (1944-1945), Bill Ricks (1949), Pat Scantlebury (1950), Daryl Spencer (1955) and Clyde McCullough (1955).

WKDH

WKDH was owned by Southern Broadcasting, but was operated by the Spain family, owners of NBC affiliate WTVA through a local marketing agreement (LMA).