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An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis
NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)
NBC Logo History (1926-2011)
The Michael J. Fox Show Official Trailer - NBC
Dateline NBC - To catch a predator 12
The Blacklist Official Trailer - NBC
Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue - Golden Globe Awards
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2013-14 NBC Primetime Fall Preview Show
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Hosted by noted reporters Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley, this program presents in-depth coverage of news stories in the tradition of 60 Minutes and 20/20. Rather than just reading news reports, as most news shows do, the reporters for this show research their subjects and interview the people closely involved to create an informative work of investigative journalism.

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An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis
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  • Updated: 21 Aug 2013

An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis

Watch the Premier League on NBC and NBC Sports Network starting Saturday, August 17th. Coach Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) has just arrived in England to coach the ...
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NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)
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  • Updated: 27 Jul 2013

NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)

On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, MSNBC replayed the Today Show/NBC News coverage from that morning in real-time and without...
  • published: 22 Aug 2012
  • views: 60509
  • author: mckinnism1
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NBC Logo History (1926-2011)
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NBC Logo History (1926-2011)

all nbc logos but not the nbc tv presents from 3/17/1949.
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The Michael J. Fox Show Official Trailer - NBC
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  • Updated: 20 Aug 2013

The Michael J. Fox Show Official Trailer - NBC

The Michael J. Fox Show, coming Thursdays this fall to NBC. Subscribe now to The Michael J. Fox Show: http://bit.ly/MichaelJFoxShow Get more The Michael J. F...
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Dateline NBC - To catch a predator 12
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  • Updated: 20 Aug 2013

Dateline NBC - To catch a predator 12

REAL Pedophiles - REAL Convictions - Chris Hansen Predator gets tasered : 38:39 I DO NOT own any of this video. 00:00 - 00:45 TV series (Danny Lux - John D...
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The Blacklist Official Trailer - NBC
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  • Updated: 20 Aug 2013

The Blacklist Official Trailer - NBC

The Blacklist, coming Mondays this fall to NBC. Subscribe now to The Blacklist: http://bit.ly/NBCBlacklist Get more The Blacklist: http://www.nbc.com/the-bla...
  • published: 12 May 2013
  • views: 6190634
  • author: NBCBlacklist
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Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue - Golden Globe Awards
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  • Duration: 7:26
  • Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue - Golden Globe Awards

Hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey poke fun at the star-studded audience! Subscribe now to NBC: http://full.sc/y8sIqD Get more Golden Globe Awards: NBC: http://w...
  • published: 14 Jan 2013
  • views: 1460300
  • author: NBC
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NBC Olympic Style - PSY Gangnam Style Parody
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  • Duration: 5:31
  • Updated: 19 Aug 2013

NBC Olympic Style - PSY Gangnam Style Parody

Join TEAM TEDDIE! http://full.sc/XQtZwq iTunes link: http://bit.ly/QjLTBD Amazon link: http://amzn.to/PAa2AC An NBC-Olympic-themed version of PSY "Gangnam St...
  • published: 14 Sep 2012
  • views: 2491392
  • author: teddiefilms
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NBC SEGUNDA PELE VIDEO OFICIAL MATURIDADE
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  • Updated: 22 Jul 2013

NBC SEGUNDA PELE VIDEO OFICIAL MATURIDADE

VIDEO OFICIAL NBC SEGUNDA PELE REALIZADO SÉRGIO DUQUE.
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Dracula Official Trailer - NBC
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  • Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Dracula Official Trailer - NBC

Dracula, coming Fridays this fall to NBC. Subscribe now to Dracula: http://bit.ly/NBCDracula Get more Dracula: http://www.nbc.com/dracula/ Like Dracula: http...
  • published: 13 May 2013
  • views: 903558
  • author: nbcDracula
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2013-14 NBC Primetime Fall Preview Show
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2013-14 NBC Primetime Fall Preview Show

The official fall preview for the National Broadcasting Company Television Network's 87th season. Sean Hayes, Megan Hilty and more NBC stars introduce the Fall Primetime lineup. Original Airdate: Sunday September 1, 2013 (NBC-TV)
  • published: 02 Sep 2013
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Gymnastics World Championships 2013 Antwerp Events Finals MAG and WAG (NBC)
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Gymnastics World Championships 2013 Antwerp Events Finals MAG and WAG (NBC)


  • published: 14 Oct 2013
  • views: 3609
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Yessian Music - NBC
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Yessian Music - NBC "Upfront Peacock Open"

Client: NBC Entertainment Marketing - Magic VP Creative Director: Brad Gensurowsky Designer: Gus Vouniozos Producer: Kari St.Clair Music and Sound Design: Ye...
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Hassan Rohani interview with American NBC (Farsi)
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Hassan Rohani interview with American NBC (Farsi)

Hassan Rohani full interview with American TV NBC in Persian language. Credit Lenziran Newsvideo ------------------------------------------------------------------- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News on Wednesday that the country will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has the clout to make a deal with the West on the disputed atomic program. "In its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete authority," Rouhani told Ann Curry, NBC News national and international correspondent and anchor at large, in his first interview with a U.S. news outlet since his election. "The problem won't be from our side," he said at the presidential compound in Tehran. "We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem." Asked whether Iran would ever build a nuclear weapon, Rouhani noted that the country has repeatedly pledged that "under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever." "We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb, and we are not going to do so," he said. "We solely are looking for peaceful nuclear technology." Rouhani's comments are the latest in a slew of signs that he is cautiously open to defrosting relations with the U.S., which were in deep freeze under the isolating leadership of his predecessor, the inflammatory Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. He and President Obama have exchanged letters in which they traded views on "some issues." "From my point of view, the tone of the letter was positive and constructive," Rouhani said of the note he got from the White House congratulating him on his June election, in which he defeated five hard-liners. "It could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future. I believe the leaders in all countries could think in their national interest and they should not be under the influence of pressure groups. I hope to witness such an atmosphere in the future." White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday that in the letter, Obama told Rouhani the U.S. is open to a resolution to the nuclear impasse in which Iran can prove its atomic program is peaceful. But he also conveyed the need to act quickly because the window for a diplomatic deal "will not remain open indefinitely," Carney said. On another pressing topic, Rouhani was questioned about his views on Iran's close ally Syria and its promise to give up chemical weapons under the threat of air strikes from the U.S. He said he could give no guarantees on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad, just days after he was quoted by his country's official news agency as saying he would accept any Syrian president elected by the people. By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Read more here http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/18/20561148-irans-president-rouhani-we-will-never-develop-nuclear-weapons?lite
  • published: 21 Sep 2013
  • views: 361
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  • An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis
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    An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis
  • NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)
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    NBC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks (Part 1 of 2)
  • NBC Logo History (1926-2011)
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    NBC Logo History (1926-2011)
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    The Michael J. Fox Show Official Trailer - NBC
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    41:58
    Dateline NBC - To catch a predator 12
  • The Blacklist Official Trailer - NBC
    4:15
    The Blacklist Official Trailer - NBC
  • Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue - Golden Globe Awards
    7:26
    Amy and Tina's Opening Monologue - Golden Globe Awards
  • NBC Olympic Style - PSY Gangnam Style Parody
    5:31
    NBC Olympic Style - PSY Gangnam Style Parody
  • NBC SEGUNDA PELE VIDEO OFICIAL MATURIDADE
    3:48
    NBC SEGUNDA PELE VIDEO OFICIAL MATURIDADE
  • Dracula Official Trailer - NBC
    2:26
    Dracula Official Trailer - NBC
  • 2013-14 NBC Primetime Fall Preview Show
    25:48
    2013-14 NBC Primetime Fall Preview Show
  • Gymnastics World Championships 2013 Antwerp Events Finals MAG and WAG (NBC)
    1:10:33
    Gymnastics World Championships 2013 Antwerp Events Finals MAG and WAG (NBC)
  • Yessian Music - NBC
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    Yessian Music - NBC "Upfront Peacock Open"
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    46:26
    Hassan Rohani interview with American NBC (Farsi)

An American Coach in London: NBC Sports Premier League Film featuring Jason Sudeikis

Watch the Premier League on NBC and NBC Sports Network starting Saturday, August 17th. Coach Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) has just arrived in England to coach the ...

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An Amer­i­can Coach in Lon­don: NBC Sports Pre­mier League Film fea­tur­ing Jason Sudeikis
Watch the Pre­mier League on NBC and NBC Sports Net­work start­ing Sat­ur­day, Au­gust 17th. Coa...
pub­lished: 03 Aug 2013
96:55
NBC News Cov­er­age of the Septem­ber 11, 2001, Ter­ror­ist At­tacks (Part 1 of 2)
On the fifth an­niver­sary of the 9/11 at­tacks on the Unit­ed States, MSNBC re­played the Toda...
pub­lished: 22 Aug 2012
8:57
NBC Logo His­to­ry (1926-2011)
all nbc logos but not the nbc tv pre­sents from 3/17/1949....
pub­lished: 15 Feb 2011
3:24
The Michael J. Fox Show Of­fi­cial Trail­er - NBC
The Michael J. Fox Show, com­ing Thurs­days this fall to NBC. Sub­scribe now to The Michael J...
pub­lished: 13 May 2013
41:58
Date­line NBC - To catch a preda­tor 12
REAL Pe­dophiles - REAL Con­vic­tions - Chris Hansen Preda­tor gets tasered : 38:39 I DO NOT o...
pub­lished: 27 Jan 2013
au­thor: Chris Hansen
4:15
The Black­list Of­fi­cial Trail­er - NBC
The Black­list, com­ing Mon­days this fall to NBC. Sub­scribe now to The Black­list: http://bit...
pub­lished: 12 May 2013
au­thor: NBCBlack­list
7:26
Amy and Tina's Open­ing Mono­logue - Gold­en Globe Awards
Hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey poke fun at the star-stud­ded au­di­ence! Sub­scribe now to NBC...
pub­lished: 14 Jan 2013
au­thor: NBC
5:31
NBC Olympic Style - PSY Gang­nam Style Par­o­dy
Join TEAM TED­DIE! http://​full.​sc/​XQtZwq iTunes link: http://​bit.​ly/​QjLTBD Ama­zon link: htt...
pub­lished: 14 Sep 2012
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3:48
NBC SE­GUN­DA PELE VIDEO OFI­CIAL MA­TURI­DADE
VIDEO OFI­CIAL NBC SE­GUN­DA PELE RE­AL­IZA­DO SÉRGIO DUQUE....
pub­lished: 20 May 2008
2:26
Drac­u­la Of­fi­cial Trail­er - NBC
Drac­u­la, com­ing Fri­days this fall to NBC. Sub­scribe now to Drac­u­la: http://​bit.​ly/​NBCDracu...​
pub­lished: 13 May 2013
25:48
2013-14 NBC Prime­time Fall Pre­view Show
The of­fi­cial fall pre­view for the Na­tion­al Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­ny Tele­vi­sion Net­work's 87th ...
pub­lished: 02 Sep 2013
70:33
Gym­nas­tics World Cham­pi­onships 2013 Antwerp Events Fi­nals MAG and WAG (NBC)
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pub­lished: 14 Oct 2013
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Yessian Music - NBC "Up­front Pea­cock Open"
Client: NBC En­ter­tain­ment Mar­ket­ing - Magic VP Cre­ative Di­rec­tor: Brad Gen­surowsky De­signe...
pub­lished: 10 Jun 2011
46:26
Has­san Ro­hani in­ter­view with Amer­i­can NBC (Farsi)
Has­san Ro­hani full in­ter­view with Amer­i­can TV NBC in Per­sian lan­guage. Cred­it Lenzi­ran Ne...
pub­lished: 21 Sep 2013
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A Day in Cal­i­for­nia
A Day in Cal­i­for­nia is com­prised of 10,000+ in­di­vid­u­al pho­tographs, taken on be­gin­ner Cano...
pub­lished: 05 Aug 2011
2:45
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Like us on Face­book we'll buy you a beer! www.​facebook.​com/​brainfarmcinema Visit our webs...
pub­lished: 15 Apr 2012
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photo: US Army / Specialist Michelle C. Lawrence
File - Sgt. Kevin Fischer, Sight Security Team 1st Battalion 161st Field Artillery, signals his security team to fill in the security perimeter, August 22, 2011, in the deserts of Djibouti.
Edit WorldNews.com
02 Nov 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but. our country, right or wrong!" -Stephen Decatur, U.S. Naval Officer. In the First U.S.-Barbary States War, on October 31, 1803, Commodore Stephen Decatur devised a secret plan to sail into Tripoli's harbor and either salvage or set ablaze the USS Philadelphia ... U.S ... As the U.S ... slavery and the slave trade....(size: 7.6Kb)
photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mehsud
File - In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, right, holds a rocket launcher with his comrades in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border.
Edit The Independent
02 Nov 2013
The Pakistan Taliban is expected to announce a new chief after its leader for the past four years was killed in a CIA drone strike – a move that will likely complicate efforts to hold peace between Pakistan’s government and the militant outfit ... Mr Mehsud’s cousin, uncle and one of his guards were among those said to have also been killed ... Mr Mehsud was widely reported to have been killed in 2010, only for him to later emerge alive ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)
photo: AP
In this photo provided to the AP, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, police officers stand near an unidentified weapon in Terminal 3 of the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013.
Edit The Guardian
02 Nov 2013
TAMI ABDOLLAH. Associated Press= LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man carrying a note that said he wanted to "kill TSA" pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two others, authorities said ... His condition was not disclosed ... He had apparently been living in Los Angeles ... --- ... World news....(size: 6.1Kb)
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In this photo taken with a mobile phone on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, police look down on a burnt out army personal carrier following an attack by Boko Haram in Damaturu, Nigeria.
Edit Reuters
04 Nov 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed 70 people in three attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent days, officials said on Monday, a sign that a military crackdown is failing to subdue the Islamist insurgency ... The sect wants to carve out an Islamic state in a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims, making it the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil exporter....(size: 2.1Kb)




Edit noodls
05 Nov 2013
(Source ... Denali Media Holdings Closes Purchase of Anchorage CBS Affiliate and Southeast Alaska NBC Affiliates ... ("GCI") (NASDAQ.GNCMA) announced today that it had closed on the acquisition of the CBS affiliate KTVA-TV of Anchorage from the Alaska Broadcasting Company, Inc., and of two NBC affiliates in Southeast Alaska, KATH-TV in Juneau and KSCT-TV in Sitka, from North Star Broadcasting based in Juneau ... HUG#1740107 ... (noodl....(size: 2.5Kb)
Edit Cinema Blend
05 Nov 2013
Disneyland may have already moved forward with its holiday decorations, but we still have to get through Thanksgiving before we can pull those trees and other holiday decorations out ... NBC has just announced all of the details for this year’s Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ... ET to noon ET. NBC’s Today anchors, including Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie will be on hand to host the big event ... Here’s NBC’s big list ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
Edit The Examiner
05 Nov 2013
Community will (finally) return for its fifth season Thursday, January 2nd on NBC. Who's excited to see Vince Gilligan's on-screen debut? ....(size: 0.8Kb)
Edit Zap2it
05 Nov 2013
Vince Gilligan, the man who brought us "Breaking Bad," is heading to "Community.". According to EW.com, Gilligan will make his acting debut on the NBC comedy, playing a "smooth-talking gold digger." ... "Community" returns for Season 5 on Thursday, Jan ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Edit The Examiner
05 Nov 2013
You know the one ... Recently, Fox News and other mainstream media outlets like NBC News and CBS reported that while the president was continuously lying to the American people, administration documents indicate that the administration officials at HHS and the IRS were saying something quite different since July 2010 ... And according to NBC News, at least 12 to 14 million Americans will be stripped of their healthcare insurance soon ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
Edit Newsday
05 Nov 2013
Galleries ... Others include the Muppet family of "Sesame Street" and the Robertson family of "Duck Dynasty.". The first hour of the 9 a.m.-to-noon telecast will feature Carrie Underwood and members of the cast of NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" Following tradition, the Radio City Rockettes will perform, and cast members of Broadway musicals will sing selections from "Matilda," "Motown ... 0 ... 'JFK....(size: 2.7Kb)
Edit WPXI
05 Nov 2013
Former Carnegie Mellon University student and Pittsburgh Apple employee James Wolpert will perform live on NBC’s “The Voice” Monday. Wolpert made the live rounds after knocking out Juhi during the knockout rounds. Wolpert performed “More Than a Feeling” by Boston against Juhi’s rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard it Through the Grapevine.”. Wolpert talked to us about competing against Juhi, whom he called a friend ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
Edit Houston Chronicle
05 Nov 2013
"Jackass Presents ... ___. The top 20 movies at U.S ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros....(size: 3.8Kb)
Edit Seattle Post
05 Nov 2013
Three West Coast Talents launch Art of Craft – a creative and celebratory brand that gives back while honoring craftsmen through limited-edition product. Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) November 04, 2013 ... This is Art of Craft; a brand that believes craft should be celebrated ... How It Works ... music ... He’s served as lead anchor for networks like ESPN, NBC and E! Entertainment and serves as a brand ambassador of Nike and the Red Bull Media House....(size: 6.7Kb)
Edit San Francisco Chronicle
05 Nov 2013
Three West Coast Talents launch Art of Craft – a creative and celebratory brand that gives back while honoring craftsmen through limited-edition product. Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) November 04, 2013 ... This is Art of Craft; a brand that believes craft should be celebrated ... How It Works ... music ... He’s served as lead anchor for networks like ESPN, NBC and E! Entertainment and serves as a brand ambassador of Nike and the Red Bull Media House....(size: 6.7Kb)
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04 Nov 2013
As this mobile alert from NBC News shows, if you watch “NBC Nightly News” tonight you’ll see exclusive images from that midair collision of two skydiving planes in Wisconsin this weekend. What you may not now is that NBC News paid “in ......(size: 1.3Kb)
Edit IMDb
04 Nov 2013
Reporting from Jerusalem NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt took a trip around the dial of his previous posts, and his current one, this morning at the Innovative TV conference ......(size: 1.0Kb)
Edit New York Daily News
04 Nov 2013
NBC News has shelled out nearly $200,000 for the rights to footage taken from the helmet cams of skydivers who survived a shocking midair collision over northern Wisconsin that sent one small plane plummeting to the ground Saturday ...NBC News is proud to have this remarkable footage of human survival for use across all of our platforms and broadcasts, including an hour-long ‘Dateline’ special,” a network rep told The News....(size: 2.4Kb)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Type Former broadcast radio network;
Broadcast television network
Country United States
Availability National
Founded by David Sarnoff in 1926
Slogan Every Day is Full of Color.
More Colorful.
Headquarters GE Building
New York City
Owner RCA (1926-1986)
General Electric (1986-present)
NBCUniversal (2004-present)
Key people Steve Burke, CEO
Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Universal Television Entertainment
Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Universal Television Entertainment
Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBC Sports
Steve Capus, President, NBC News
Launch date November 15, 1926 (radio)
July 1, 1938 (television)
Dissolved 2003 (radio)
Former names NBC Red Network
Picture format 480i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Callsigns NBC
Callsign meaning National Broadcasting Company
Affiliates Lists:
By state or By DMA
Official website NBC.com
Alternate NBC logo with former wordmark, sometimes used on air. This was the main logo from 1986 to 2011, when it received the 3D overhaul shown in the infobox.

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," due to its stylized peacock logo, created originally for color broadcasts.

Formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC was the first major broadcast network in the United States. In 1986, control of NBC passed to General Electric (GE), with GE's $6.4 billion purchase of RCA. GE had previously owned RCA and NBC until 1930, when it had been forced to sell the company as a result of antitrust charges.

After the 1986 acquisition, the chief executive of NBC was Bob Wright, until he retired, giving his job to Jeff Zucker. The network is currently part of the media company NBCUniversal, which is a joint venture of Comcast and General Electric since 2011 (and before that, jointly owned by GE and current Universal Music Group parent Vivendi). As a result of the merger, Zucker left NBC and was replaced by Comcast executive Steve Burke.

NBC has 10 owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates in the United States and its territories.[1][2]

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History[link]

NBC Headquarters in New York City

Radio[link]

Earliest stations: WEAF and WJZ[link]

During a period of early broadcast business consolidation, the radio-making Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had acquired New York radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T). An RCA shareholder, Westinghouse, had a competing facility in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ (no relation to the radio and TV stations in Baltimore currently using those call letters), which also served as the flagship for a loosely structured network. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, and moved to New York.[3]

WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&T's manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&T's telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, using both wireless and wired methods. The 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF had a regular schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs, and was an immediate success. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with the Outlet Company's WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island; and with AT&T's station in Washington, D.C., WCAP.

New parent RCA saw an advantage in sharing programming, and after getting a license for station WRC in Washington, D.C., in 1923, attempted to transmit audio between cities via low-quality telegraph lines. AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the uninsulated telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric and other electrical interference.

In 1925, AT&T decided WEAF and its embryonic network were incompatible with AT&T's primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&T's phone lines for network transmission.

Red and Blue Networks[link]

RCA spent $1 million to buy WEAF and Washington sister station WCAP, shut down the latter station and merged its facilities with surviving station WRC, and announced in late 1926 the creation of a new division known as The National Broadcasting Company.[4] The new division was divided in ownership among RCA (fifty percent), General Electric (thirty percent), and Westinghouse (twenty percent). NBC launched officially on November 15, 1926.

WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On January 1, 1927 NBC formally divided their respective marketing strategies: the Red Network offered commercially sponsored entertainment and music programming; the Blue Network mostly carried sustaining or non-sponsored broadcasts, especially news and cultural programs. Various histories of NBC suggest the color designations for the two networks came from the color of the push pins NBC engineers used to designate affiliates of WEAF (red) and WJZ (blue), or from the use of double-ended red and blue colored pencils. A similar two-part/two-color strategy appeared in the recording industry, dividing the market between classical and popular offerings.

Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.

On April 5, 1927, NBC reached the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network, also known as The Pacific Coast Network. This was followed by the debut on October 18, 1931, of the NBC Gold Network, also known as The Pacific Gold Network. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network. Initially the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. In 1936 the Orange Network name was dropped and network affiliate stations became part of the Red Network. At the same time the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations in the 1930s called the NBC White Network.

Prior to occupying its location at Rockefeller Center, NBC had occupied upper floors of a building at 711 Fifth Avenue developed by Floyd Brown, himself an architect.[5] Home of NBC from its construction in 1927,[5] the broadcast company occupied floor designed by Raymond Hood – who designed the tenants multiple studios as "a Gothic church, the Roman forum, a Louis XIV room and, in a space devoted to jazz, something “wildly futuristic, with plenty of color in bizarre designs.”[5] NBC outgrew 711 Fifth Avenue in 1933.[5]

In 1930, General Electric was compelled by antitrust charges to divest itself of RCA, which it had founded. RCA moved its corporate headquarters into the new Rockefeller Center in 1933, signing the leases in 1931. RCA was the lead tenant at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the RCA Building (now the GE Building). The building housed NBC studios, as well as theaters for RCA-owned RKO Pictures. Rockefeller Center's founder and financier John D. Rockefeller, Jr., arranged the deal with the chairman of GE, Owen D. Young, and the president of RCA, David Sarnoff.[6]

Chimes[link]

GE Building entrance

The famous three-note NBC chimes came about after several years of development. The three note sequence G-E'-C' were heard first over Atlanta's WSB.[7] The chimes outline what is known to musicians as a second inversion C Major triad. Someone at NBC in New York heard the WSB version of the notes during the networked broadcast of a Georgia Tech football game and asked permission to use it on the national network. NBC started to use the three notes in 1931, and it was the first audio trademark to be accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.[8][9] A variant sequence was also used that went G-E'-C'-G, known as "the fourth chime" and used during wartime (especially in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor), on D-Day, and disasters. The NBC chimes were mechanized in 1932 by Richard H. Ranger of the Rangertone company; their purpose was to send a low level signal of constant amplitude that would be heard by the various switching stations manned by NBC and AT&T engineers, and thus used as a system cue for switching different stations between the Red and Blue network feeds. Contrary to popular legend, the three musical notes, G-E'-C', did not originally stand for NBC's previous parent corporation, the General Electric Company; although GE's radio station in Schenectady, New York, WGY, was an early NBC affiliate, and GE was an early shareholder in NBC's founding parent RCA. General Electric did not own NBC outright until 1986. G-E'-C' was incorporated into John Williams' theme music for the NBC Nightly News, and is still used on NBC-TV. A variant with two preceding notes is used on the MSNBC cable television network. NBC's radio branch no longer exists.

New beginnings: The Blue Network becomes ABC[link]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had, since its creation in 1934, investigated the monopolistic effects of network broadcasting. The FCC found that NBC's two networks and its owned-and-operated stations dominated audiences, affiliates and advertising in American radio. In 1939 the FCC ordered RCA to divest itself of one of the two networks. RCA fought the divestiture order, but in 1940 divided NBC into two companies in case an appeal was lost. The Blue Network became NBC Blue Network, Inc. and NBC Red became NBC Red Network, Inc. Both networks formally divorced operations on January 8, 1942,[10] and the Blue Network was referred to on the air as either Blue or Blue Network, with official corporate name Blue Network Company, Inc. NBC Red, on the air, became known simply as NBC.

After losing its final appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1943, RCA sold Blue Network Company, Inc., for $8 million to Life Savers magnate Edward J. Noble, completing the sale on October 12, 1943.[11] Noble got the network name, leases on land-lines and the New York studios; two-and-a half stations (WJZ in Newark/New York; KGO in San Francisco, and WENR in Chicago, which shared a frequency with Prairie Farmer station WLS); and about 60 affiliates. Noble wanted a better name for the network and in 1944 acquired the rights to the name American Broadcasting Company from George Storer. The Blue Network became ABC officially on June 15, 1945, after the sale was completed.

NBC Tower in Chicago

Defining radio’s golden age[link]

The front entrance of the NBC Tower at 454 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL.

In the golden days of network broadcasting, 1930 to 1950, NBC was at the pinnacle of American radio. NBC broadcast radio's earliest mass hit, Amos 'n' Andy, beginning in 1926–27 in its original fifteen-minute serial format. The show set a standard for nearly all serialized programming in the original radio era, both comedies and soap operas. The appeal of the two struggling title characters landed a broad audience, especially during the Great Depression.

NBC became home to many of the most popular performers and programs on the air. 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 network helped him create. Other programs were Vic and Sade, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve (arguably broadcasting's first spin-off program, from Fibber McGee), One Man's Family, Ma Perkins, and Death Valley Days. NBC stations were often the most powerful, and some occupied unique clear-channel national frequencies, reaching many hundreds or thousands of miles at night.

In the late 1940s, rival Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) gained ground by allowing radio stars to use their own production companies, which was profitable for them. In early radio years, stars and programs commonly hopped between networks when their short-term contracts expired. In 1948–49, beginning with the nation's top radio star, Jack Benny, many NBC performers (including Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Burns and Allen and Frank Sinatra) jumped to CBS.

In addition, NBC stars began moving toward television, including comedian Milton Berle, whose Texaco Star Theater on NBC became television's first major hit. Conductor Arturo Toscanini conducted ten television concerts on NBC between 1948 and 1952. The concerts were simulcast on both TV and radio, perhaps the first such instance in which this was done. Two of them were historic firsts – the first complete telecast of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and the first complete telecast of Verdi's Aida, performed in concert rather than with scenery and costumes. The Aida telecast starred Herva Nelli and Richard Tucker.

Aiming to keep classic radio alive as television matured, and to challenge CBS's Sunday night radio lineup, much of which had jumped from NBC with Jack Benny, NBC launched The Big Show in November 1950. This 90-minute variety show updated radio's earliest musical variety style with sophisticated comedy and dramatic presentations. Featuring stage legend Tallulah Bankhead as hostess, it lured prestigious entertainers, including Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, Lauritz Melchior, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Ella Fitzgerald. But The Big Show's initial success did not last despite critical praise, as most of its potential listeners were increasingly becoming television viewers. The show endured two years, with NBC losing perhaps a million dollars on the project (they were only able to sell advertising time during the middle half-hour every week).

NBC's last major radio programming push, beginning June 12, 1955, was Monitor, a creation of NBC President Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who also created the innovative NBC television programs Today Show, Tonight Show, and Home. Monitor was a continuous all-weekend mixture of music, news, interviews and features, with a variety of hosts including well-known television personalities Dave Garroway, Hugh Downs, Ed McMahon, Joe Garagiola and Gene Rayburn. The potpourri show tried to keep vintage radio alive by featuring 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 success for a number of years, but after the mid-1960s, local stations, especially in larger markets, were reluctant to break from their established formats to run non-conforming network programming. One exception was Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend, a weekly series commemorating the great conductor's NBC broadcasts and recordings which began in 1963 and ran for several years.[12] After Monitor went off the air January 26, 1975, little remained of NBC network radio beyond hourly newscasts and news features, and The Eternal Light on Sunday mornings.

Last years of NBC Radio[link]

Beginning 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 clock to local stations that wanted to adopt an all-news format. NBC aired the service on WRC in Washington and on its owned-and-operated FM stations in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. NIS attracted several dozen subscribing stations, but by the fall of 1976 NBC determined that it could not project that the service would ever become profitable and gave the subscribers six months' notice that it would be discontinued. NIS operations ended on May 29 1977. In 1979, NBC started The Source, a modestly successful secondary network providing news and short features to FM rock stations.

The NBC Radio Network also pioneered personal advice call-in national talk radio with a satellite-distributed talk show in the evening entitled TalkNet, featuring Bruce Williams (personal financial advice), Bernard Meltzer (personal/financial advice) and Sally Jesse Raphael (personal / romantic advice). While never much of a ratings success, TalkNet nonetheless helped further the national talk radio format. For affiliates, many of them struggling AM stations, TalkNet helped fill the evenings with free programming, allowing the stations to sell local advertising in a dynamic format without the cost associated with producing local programming. Some in the industry feared this trend would lead to ever-more control of radio content by networks and syndicators.

GE acquired RCA in 1986, and with it NBC, signaling the beginning of the end of NBC Radio. There were three factors that led to its demise. First, GE decided that radio did not fit its strategy. Second, the radio division had not been profitable for many years. Finally, FCC rules at the time prevented a new owner from owning both a radio and TV division. In the summer of 1987, GE sold NBC Radio's network operations to Westwood One, and sold off the NBC-owned stations to different buyers. By 1990, the NBC Radio Network as an independent programming service was pretty much gone, becoming a brand name for content produced by Westwood One, and ultimately by, ironically, CBS Radio. The Mutual Broadcasting System, which Westwood One had acquired two years earlier, met the same fate, and essentially merged with NBC Radio.

It should be noted that GE's divestiture of NBC's entire radio division was the first cannon shot of what would play out in the national broadcast media, as each of the Big 3 broadcast networks were soon acquired by other corporate entities. The NBC case was particularly noteworthy in that it was the first to be bought—and was bought by a corporate behemoth outside the broadcast industry as GE is a manufacturer. Prior to the acquisition by GE, NBC operated its radio division partly out of tradition, and partly to meet its then-FCC-mandated requirement to distribute programming for the public good. (The broadcast airwaves are owned by the public, that broadcast spectrum is limited, there are only so many broadcast stations to go around which was/is the basis for broadcast regulation requiring certain content for the public good.) Syndicators such as Westwood One were not subject to such rules as they owned no stations. Thus did GE's divestiture of NBC Radio – "America's First Network" – in many ways mark the "beginning of the end" of the old broadcasting era and the ushering in of the new, largely unregulated industry that we see today.

By the late 1990s, Westwood One was producing NBC Radio-branded newscasts, on weekday mornings only. In 1999, these were discontinued, and the few remaining NBC Radio Network affiliates began to receive CNN Radio-branded newscasts around the clock. But in 2003, Westwood One began distributing a new service called NBC News Radio, consisting of one-minute news updates read by television anchors and reporters from NBC News and MSNBC. The content, however, is written by employees of Westwood One – not NBC News.

Restoration of NBC Radio[link]

On March 1, 2012 Dial Global announced the CNN Radio would be discontinued and replaced by an expansion of NBC News Radio on April 1, 2012. This marks the first time since Westwood One bought NBC Radio and its properties that NBC would have round the clock presence on radio. A previous NBC program "First Light" placed new emphasis on the NBC brand after diminishing it over the years.

NBC News Radio will offer 2 hourly full-length newscasts 24/7. Previously, it had only offered 60 second updates during weekdays.

Television[link]

High frequency tubes in the tube room. They were used for the 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 vehicle to sell consumer electronics. It was Sarnoff who ruthlessly stole innovative ideas from competitors,[citation needed] using RCA's muscle to prevail in the courts.[citation needed] RCA and Sarnoff had dictated the broadcasting standards put in place by the FCC in 1938,[citation needed] and captured the spotlight by introducing all-electronic television to the public at the 1939–40 New York World's Fair, simultaneously initiating a regular schedule of programs on the NBC-RCA television station in New York City. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared at the fair, before the NBC cameras, becoming the first U.S. president to appear on television on April 30, 1939. The David Sarnoff Library has available an actual, off-the-monitor photograph of the FDR telecast. The broadcast was transmitted by NBC's New York television station W2XBS Channel 1 (now WNBC-TV channel 4) and was seen by about one thousand viewers within the station's roughly 40-mile (64 km) coverage area from their Empire State Building transmitter location.

The next day, May 1, four models of RCA television sets went on sale to the general public in various New York City department stores, promoted in a series of splashy newspaper ads. It is to be noted that DuMont (and others) actually offered the first home sets in 1938 in anticipation of NBC's announced April 1939 start-up. Later in 1939, NBC took its cameras to professional football and baseball games in the New York City area, establishing many "firsts" in the history of television.

Actual NBC "network" broadcasts (more than one station) began about this time with occasional special events – such as the British King and Queen's visit to the New York World's Fair – being seen in Philadelphia (over the station which would become WPTZ, now KYW) and in Schenectady (over the station which would become WRGB), two pioneer stations in their own right. The most ambitious NBC television "network" program of this pre-war era was the telecasting of the Republican National Convention in 1940 from Philadelphia, which was fed live to New York and Schenectady.[13] However, despite major promotion by RCA, television set sales in New York in the 1939–1940 period were disappointing, primarily due to the high cost of the sets, and the lack of compelling regular programming. Most sets were sold to bars, hotels and other public places, where the general public viewed special sporting and news events.

30 Rockefeller Center, also known as the GE Building, is the world headquarters of NBC.

Television's experimental period ended, and the FCC allowed full commercial telecasting to begin on July 1, 1941. NBC's New York station W2XBS received the first commercial license, adopting the call letters WNBT (later WNBC-TV, now simply WNBC). The first official, paid television commercial on that day broadcast by any station in the United States was for Bulova Watches, seen just before the start of a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball telecast on NBC's WNBT, New York. A test pattern, featuring the newly assigned WNBT call letters, was modified to look like a clock, complete with functioning hands. The Bulova logo, with the phrase "Bulova Watch Time", was shown in the lower right-hand quadrant of the test pattern. A photograph of the NBC camera telecasting the test pattern-advertisement for that first official TV commercial can be seen at this page. Among programming on the opening weekend of WNBT's programming was amateur boxing at Jamaica Arena, the Eastern Clay Courts tennis championships, programming from the USO, a spelling bee-type game show called "Words on the Wing," a few feature films, and the television debut of the game show Truth or Consequences.[14]

Limited programming continued until the U.S. entered World War II. Telecasts were curtailed in the early years of the war, then expanded as NBC began to prepare for full service upon the war's end. Even before the war ended, a few programs were sent from New York to affiliated stations in Philadelphia (WPTZ) and Albany/Schenectady (WRGB) on a regular weekly schedule beginning in 1944. On V-E Day, May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast hours of news coverage, and remotes from around New York City. This event was pre-promoted by NBC with a direct-mail card sent to television set owners in the New York area.[15] At one point, a WNBT camera placed atop the marquee of the Hotel Astor panned the crowd below celebrating the end of the war in Europe. The vivid coverage was a prelude to television's rapid growth after the war ended.

The NBC television network grew from its initial post-war lineup of four stations. The 1947 World Series featured two New York teams (Yankees and Dodgers), and local TV sales boomed, since the games were telecast in New York. More stations along the East Coast and in the Midwest were connected by coaxial cable through the late 1940s, and in September 1951 the first transcontinental telecasts took place.

The early 1950s brought success for NBC in the new medium. Television's first big star, Milton Berle, drew large audiences to NBC with his antics on Texaco Star Theater. Under its innovative president, Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, the network launched Today and The Tonight Show, which would bookend the broadcast day for over fifty years, and which still lead their competitors. Weaver, who also launched the genre of periodic 90-minute network "spectaculars," network-produced motion pictures, and the live 90-minute Sunday afternoon series Wide Wide World, left the network in 1955 in a 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 first opera ever written for television; Menotti came up with Amahl and the Night Visitors, a forty-five 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 newborn Christ Child. It was such a stunning success that it was repeated every year on NBC from 1951 to 1966, when a quarrel between Menotti and NBC ended the broadcasts. However, by 1978, Menotti and NBC had patched things up, and an all-new production of the work, filmed partly on location in the Middle East, was telecast that year.

Color television[link]

While rivals CBS and DuMont also offered color broadcasting plans, RCA convinced a waffling FCC to approve its color system in December 1953. NBC was ready with color programming within days of the FCC's decision. NBC began with some shows in 1954, and that summer broadcast its first program to air all episodes in color, The Marriage.

  • In 1955, on the television anthology Producers' Showcase, NBC broadcast a live production in color of Peter Pan, a new Broadway musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's beloved play, with the musical's entire original cast, the first such telecast of its kind. Mary Martin starred as Peter and Cyril Ritchard played the dual role of Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. The broadcast drew the highest ratings for a television program up to then. It was so successful that NBC restaged it live a mere ten months later, and 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 TV special on its own, and videotaped so that it would no longer have to be done live on television.
  • In 1956 during a National Association meeting in Chicago, NBC announced that its Chicago TV station WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) was the first color TV station in the nation (at least six hours of color broadcasts a day).
  • The television edition of the radio program The Bell Telephone Hour premiered in color on NBC in 1959, where it continued for nine more years.
  • In September 1961, the Walt Disney anthology television series moved from ABC to NBC, where the show continued its very long run, this time in color. As many of the Disney programs shown in black-and-white on ABC had actually been filmed in color, they could easily be repeated on the NBC edition of the program.
  • The 1962 Rose Bowl was the first color television broadcast of a college football game.

By 1963, much of NBC's prime time schedule was in color, although some popular programs like The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which premiered in late 1964, had their entire first season in black-and-white. In the fall of 1965, NBC achieved 95% color programming in prime time (the exceptions were I Dream of Jeannie and Convoy), and began billing itself as "The Full Color Network". Without television sets to sell, rival networks followed more slowly, finally committing to 100% prime-time color programming in the 1966–67 season. Days of our Lives was the first soap opera to premiere in color.

In 1967, NBC acquired MGM's classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz after CBS, which had televised the film beginning in 1956, refused to meet MGM's increased price for more television showings. Oz had been, up to then, one of the few programs that CBS had telecast in color, but by 1967, color was the norm on TV, and the film became another in the list of color specials telecast by NBC. The network showed the film annually for eight years, beginning in 1968, after which CBS, realizing that they may have committed a colossal blunder by letting this then-huge ratings success go to another network, now agreed to pay MGM more money so that the rights to show the film could revert to them.

Two distinctive features of the film's showings on NBC were:

  1. the film was shown for the first time without a host to introduce it as had always been previously done,
  2. the film was slightly cut to make room for more commercials. Despite the cuts, however, it continued to score excellent television ratings in those pre-VCR days, as audiences were generally unable to see the film any other way at that time.

The late 1960s brought big changes in the programming practices of the major TV networks. As baby boomers reached adulthood, NBC, CBS, and ABC began to realize that much existing programming had not only been on for years, but had a superannuated audience. The large youth population was highly attractive to advertisers and the networks moved to clean house of a number of long-in-the-tooth shows. In NBC's case, this included programming like The Bell Telephone Hour and Sing Along With Mitch Mitchell which were found to have an average viewer age of 50. During this period, the networks came to define 18-49 as their main target age, although depending on the show, this could be subdivided into 35-45 or 18-25 or 18-35. Regardless of the exact target demographic, the general idea was appealing to any viewers who were not close to retirement age and that TV programming was overall stuck in a 1950s mentality and had to be updated to resemble contemporary American society more.

1970s doldrums[link]

The 1970s started strongly for the network thanks to hits like Adam-12, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Emergency!, The Dean Martin Show, and The Flip Wilson Show, but this did not last. In spite of the success of such new shows as the NBC Mystery Movie, Sanford and Son, Chico and the Man, Little House on the Prairie, The Rockford Files, Police Woman and Quincy, M.E., as well as continued success from veterans like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Wonderful World of Disney, the network entered a slump in the middle of the decade. Disney, in particular, saw its ratings nosedive once CBS put 60 Minutes up against it in the 1975–1976 season. In 1974 under new president Herb Schlosser, the network tried to go after younger viewers with a series of costly movies, miniseries and specials. This failed to attract the desirable 18–34 demographic, and alienated older viewers.[16] None of the new prime-time shows NBC introduced in the fall of 1975 earned a second season, all failing in the face of established competition. The network's lone breakout success that season was the groundbreaking late-night comedy/variety show, NBC's Saturday Night – which would soon become Saturday Night Live, in a time slot previously held by reruns of The Tonight Show.

In 1978, Schlosser was promoted to executive vice presidency at RCA,[17] and a desperate NBC lured Fred Silverman away from number-one ABC to turn the network's fortunes around. With the notable exceptions of Diff'rent Strokes, Real People, The Facts of Life, and the mini-series Shogun, he could not find a hit. Failures accumulated rapidly under his watch (such as Hello, Larry, Supertrain, Pink Lady and Jeff, and The Waverly Wonders). Ironically many of them were beaten in the ratings by shows Silverman had greenlighted at CBS and ABC.

Also during this time, NBC suffered the defections of several longtime affiliates in markets such as: Atlanta (WSB-TV), Baltimore (WBAL-TV), Baton Rouge (WBRZ-TV), Charlotte (WSOC-TV), Dayton (WDTN), Indianapolis (WRTV), Jacksonville (WTLV), Minneapolis-St. Paul (KSTP-TV), San Diego (KGTV) and Schenectady (WRGB). Most were wooed away by ABC, which was the number-one network during the late 1970s and early 1980s, while WBAL-TV and WRGB-TV went to CBS. In the case of WSB-TV and WSOC-TV, both were (and remain) under common ownership with Cox Communications, with its other NBC affiliate at the time, WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh (which would become WPXI the following year and also remains owned by Cox), only remaining with the network because WIIC-TV itself was in a distant third to then-CBS affiliate and Group W powerhouse KDKA-TV & pre-existing ABC affiliate WTAE-TV. (KDKA-TV, which is now owned by CBS, infamously passed up affiliating with NBC after Westinghouse Electric bought the station from DuMont in 1954, leading to an acrimonious relationship between NBC and Westinghouse for years afterward.) In markets such as San Diego, Charlotte, and Jacksonville, NBC was forced to replace the lost stations with new affiliates broadcasting on the UHF band, with the San Diego station (KNSD) eventually becoming an NBC O&O. Other smaller television markets like Yuma, Arizona waited many years to get another local NBC affiliate (see TV stations KIVA and KYMA). The stations in Baltimore, Dayton and Jacksonville, however, have since rejoined the network.

When U.S. President Jimmy Carter pulled the American team out of the 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC canceled a planned 150 hours of coverage (which had cost $87 million), and the network's future was in doubt. It had been counting on $170 million in advertising revenues and on the broadcasts to help promote fall shows.[18]

The press was merciless towards Silverman, but the two most savage attacks on his leadership came from within. The company that composed NBC's on-air Proud as a Peacock promo music created a spoof of the ad campaign called "Loud as a Peacock." Radio host Don Imus at WNBC in New York played the parody on-air. This angered Silverman and he ordered all remaining copies of the parody destroyed, though some copies remain. On Saturday Night Live, series writer and occasional performer Al Franken satirized Silverman in an SNL sketch titled "Limo for a Lame-O." As a result, Silverman admitted he "never liked Al Franken to begin with", and the sketch ruined Franken's chance of succeeding Lorne Michaels as executive producer of SNL.[19]

Tartikoff's turnaround[link]

In the summer of 1981, Fred Silverman resigned. Grant Tinker became president of the network and Brandon Tartikoff became chief of programming. Tartikoff inherited a schedule full of aging dramas and very few sitcoms, but showed patience with promising programs. One such show was the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues, which rated poorly in its first season. Instead of canceling it, he moved the Emmy Award-winning police drama to Thursday night where its ratings improved dramatically. He used the same tactics with St. Elsewhere and Cheers. Shows like these were able to get the same ad revenue as their higher-rated, mass-audience competition because of their desirable demographics, upscale, 18–34 year-old viewers.[20] While the network claimed moderate successes with Gimme a Break!, Silver Spoons, Knight Rider and Remington Steele, its biggest hit in this period was The A-Team, which, at tenth place, was the network's only top-20 rated show of the 1982–1983 season, and it reached third place the next year. These shows helped NBC through the disastrous 1983–84 season, in which none of its new fall shows gained a second year.[21]

In 1982, NBC canceled Tom Snyder's The Tomorrow Show and gave the time slot to 34-year-old comedian David Letterman. Though Letterman had an unsuccessful daytime series in 1980, Late Night with David Letterman proved much more successful.

In 1984, the huge success of The Cosby Show led to a renewed interest in sitcoms, while Family Ties and Cheers, both of which premiered in 1982 to mediocre ratings, saw their viewership increase from having Cosby as a lead-in. The network moved from third place to second place that season. It reached first place in the Nielsen rankings in the 1985–86 season, with hits The Golden Girls, Miami Vice, 227, Night Court, Highway to Heaven, and Hunter. The network's upswing continued through the decade with ALF, Amen, Matlock, L.A. Law, The Hogan Family, A Different World, Empty Nest, and In the Heat of the Night. In 1986, Bob Wright became chairman of NBC. In the 1988–1989 season, NBC, which was home to an astonishing 18 of the 30 highest-rated programs, won every week in the ratings for more than 12 months, an achievement that has not been duplicated before or since.

NBC aired the first of seven consecutive Summer Olympic Games broadcasts when it covered the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea. In 2002, the network would add the Winter Olympics, giving NBC the rights to every Olympics through the 2012 London Games.

"Must See TV"[link]

In 1991, Tartikoff left NBC to take a position at Paramount Pictures. In one decade he had taken control of a network with no shows in the Nielsen Top 10 and left it with five. Warren Littlefield took his place as president of NBC Entertainment. His start was shaky due to the end of most of the Tartikoff-era hits. Some blamed him for losing David Letterman to CBS after giving The Tonight Show to Jay Leno, following Johnny Carson's 1992 retirement. Things turned around with hit series Friends, Mad About You, Frasier, ER, and Will & Grace. One of Tartikoff's late acquisitions, Seinfeld, initially struggled, but became one of NBC's top-rated shows after it was moved into the timeslot following Cheers. The Must See TV tag line was applied to Thursday night's strong lineup. After popular show Seinfeld ended its run in 1998, Friends became the most popular sitcom on NBC. It dominated the ratings, never leaving the top 5 watched shows of the year in its second through tenth season and landing on the number 1 spot in season eight (2001–2002 season). Frasier was also popular and, despite not being as highly rated as Friends, still usually landed in the top 20 and won numerous Emmy Awards.

By the mid-1990s, NBC's sports division, headed by Dick Ebersol, had rights to three of the four major professional sports organizations (NFL, Major League Baseball and NBA), the Olympics, and the national powerhouse Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. The NBA on NBC enjoyed great success in the 90s due in large part to the Chicago Bulls' run of six championships with superstar Michael Jordan. NBC Sports would suffer a major blow in 1998, however, when it lost the NFL to CBS, which itself had lost rights to FOX four years earlier.

In 1998, Littlefield left NBC.[22] Scott Sassa replaced him as president of NBC Entertainment. Sassa oversaw the development of such shows as The West Wing, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Fear Factor. Sassa then named Garth Ancier as his replacement in 1999. Ancier was responsible for putting The West Wing on the air. Jeff Zucker replaced Ancier as president of NBC Entertainment in 2000.

NBC's Must See TV declined after Friends and Frasier ended their runs in 2004. Friends spin-off Joey (despite a relatively good start) started to fail during its second season.

New century, new problems[link]

At the start of the 2000s, NBC's fortunes took a rapid turn for the worse. In 2001, CBS chose its hit reality series Survivor to anchor its Thursday night line-up. Its success was taken as a suggestion that NBC's nearly two decades of Thursday night dominance could be broken. With the loss of Friends and Frasier in 2004, NBC was left with several moderately rated shows and few true hits. By then, its major sports offerings had been reduced to the Olympics, PGA Tour golf and a floundering Notre Dame football program. NBC's ratings fell to fourth place. CBS led for most of the decade, followed by a resurgent ABC, and Fox (which would eventually become the most watched network for the 2007–08 season). During this time, all of the networks faced shrinking audiences due to increased competition from cable, home video, video games and the Internet, with NBC being the hardest hit.

With the beginning of the 2004–2005 season, NBC became the first major network to produce its programming in widescreen, hoping to attract new viewers; however, the network saw only a slight boost.

In 2004, Zucker was promoted to the newly created position of president of NBC Universal Television Group. Kevin Reilly became the new president of NBC Entertainment.

In December 2005, NBC began its first week-long primetime game show event, Deal or No Deal, garnering high ratings, and returning multi-weekly in March 2006. On sustained success, Deal or No Deal returned in the fall of 2006. Otherwise, the 2005–06 season was one of the worst for NBC in three decades, with only one fall series, the sitcom My Name Is Earl, surviving for a second season. The 2006–07 season was a mixed bag, with Heroes becoming a surprise hit on Monday nights, while the highly touted Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, from the creator of NBC's hit drama The West Wing, lost a third of its premiere-night viewers by week six and was eventually canceled. Sunday Night NFL football returned to NBC after eight years, Deal or No Deal stayed strong, and its comedies The Office and 30 Rock won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for four consecutive years. However, NBC has remained in a very distant fourth place, barely ahead of The CW.

However, NBC did gain success in its summer schedule, despite its falling ratings within the regular broadcast season. America's Got Talent, a reality talent show hosted by Regis Philbin, with its world premiere in 2006, gained a 4.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which was higher than the original premiere of FOX's American Idol in 2002. The show would continue to garner unusually high ratings throughout its summer run. However, NBC decided not to place it in the spring season, and instead use it as a platform to promote their upcoming fall shows. The show is now hosted by Nick Cannon, and continues to garner high ratings throughout its summer seasons.

In 2007, Ben Silverman replaced Kevin Riley as president of NBC Entertainment, while Jeff Zucker succeeded Bob Wright as CEO of NBC. No new primetime hits emerged in the 2008–2009 season (despite NBC's rare good fortune to have both the Super Bowl and the Beijing Olympic Games in which to promote their new offerings), while Heroes and Deal or No Deal both collapsed in the ratings, and both have since been cancelled. NBC Universal President/CEO Jeff Zucker had previously said that NBC no longer believed that they could be No.1 in prime time.[23]

In March 2007, NBC announced that it would offer full-length prime-time television shows like The Office and Heroes on-demand to play on mobile phones. This was a first for the United States, as the market shifts away from traditional television.[24]

In 2009, Jeff Gaspin replaced Ben Silverman as president of NBC Entertainment.

2010 and beyond[link]

NBC aired the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, generating 21% higher ratings than its previous broadcast of the 2006 games in Torino. NBC was criticized for repeatedly showing footage of the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. This led NBC News president Steve Capus to order the footage not to be shown without his permission and announcer Bob Costas to promise that the video would not be shown again during the Games.[25][26] NBC Universal is on track to pull in at least $250 million less from advertisers than the $820 million paid for the US rights to air the Games.[27] Even so, with its continuing position in fourth place (although it virtually tied with ABC in many categories due to the sporting events[28]), the 2009–2010 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 – to be renewed for second terms, while others such as Heroes and Law & Order were canceled, the latter of which after 20 seasons, tying it with Gunsmoke for the record for longest-running scripted drama.

When Conan O'Brien replaced Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show in 2009, the network gave Leno a new talk show, committing to air it every weeknight at 10:00 pm ET/PT (9:00 pm CT/MT), as an inexpensive comedic alternative to the procedurals and other one-hour dramas that typically air during that time slot.[29] In doing so, NBC became the first large United States network in decades,[30] or possibly ever,[31] to broadcast the same show every weekday during prime time hours. Its executives called the decision "a transformational moment in the history of broadcasting" and "in effect, launching five shows."[30] Conversely, industry executives criticized the network for abandoning a history of airing quality dramas at that hour, and that it would hurt NBC by undermining a reputation built on successful scripted shows.[32] In January 2010, however, NBC would end up announcing that Leno's 10 pm show would be canceled, citing complaints from many affiliates, whose local newscasts significantly dropped in the ratings as a result of the change.[33] Zucker attempted to move and shorten The Jay Leno Show to the 11:35 pm–12:05 am time slot and move the existing shows, including The Tonight Show, back 30 minutes. This, however, caused considerable backlash, as O'Brien had not been given any choice or prior notification of the move. Furthermore, his contract guaranteed him a minimum of three years as host and the majority of his staff had moved with him from New York to California less than a year before the show started. O'Brien refused to be a part of the moves if they went through, gaining tremendous public and professional support, and leading to a host and timeslot conflict, with Leno, Zucker and NBC as a whole having seen significant negative backlash against them for their involvement. Leno would end up returning as host of The Tonight Show effective March 1, 2010, while O'Brien accepted a buyout from NBC. O'Brien went on to host a new show, Conan, on cable network TBS starting in November 2010.

Despite the removal of The Jay Leno Show in prime time, the change had almost no impact on the network's ratings. The increases NBC noticed in the 2010 season compared to 2009 were almost entirely attributable to increased ratings for NBC Sunday Night Football.[34] The shows currently in the time slots The Jay Leno Show occupied are drawing lower numbers than The Jay Leno Show did.[35]

Jeff Zucker announced on September 24, 2010 that he would step down as CEO of NBC Universal once Comcast's purchase of NBC was completed at the end of the year. After the purchase was complete, Steve Burke became the new CEO of NBC Universal and Robert Greenblatt replaced Jeff Gaspin as chairman of NBC Entertainment.

The network completed its full conversion to an all-HD schedule (outside of the Saturday morning hours leased by the Qubo consortium) on September 20, 2011, with the premiere of the eleventh season of Last Call with Carson Daly in the format.

By midseason 2010-2011, NBC was able to find some success with its legal drama Harry's Law, with its placement in the top 30 with total viewers, although it scored badly with the 18-49 demographic. On the other hand, its reality singing competition series The Voice became an even greater ratings hit for the network that season. Following its broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI in February 2012, The Voice returned for its second season with 37.61 million viewers. Since then, The Voice, with musical-drama Smash, has made NBC become number one on Monday nights, although ratings for both decreased substantially over the course of the season. NBC renewed several new series for a second season, although none proved to be large ratings successes.

Despite having the most-watched U.S. television broadcast in history (Super Bowl XLVI) and the season's most watched show (NBC Sunday Night Football), NBC finished the 2011-12 season in 3rd place in the 18-49 demographic, with only three fall shows (Grimm, Whitney, and Up All Night) surviving for a second season. However, this broke their losing streak of being in 4th place for the previous 8 seasons.

In the fall of 2012, NBC will greatly expand its roster of comedies, increasing the number to 10, airing on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, up from the 4 that aired in the fall of 2011.

NBC News[link]

NBC News Washington Bureau

News presentation has long been an important part of NBC's operations and public image, dating to the network's radio days. Notable NBC News productions include:

The expansion of the news division to cable has seen the launch of the channels CNBC for business news, MSNBC for general news, with a political orientation, NBC Sports Network for sports news and events, and the acquisition of The Weather Channel.

NBC Nightly News has been the nation's most watched newscast since 1997.[citation needed]

Programming[link]

NBC presently operates on an 87-hour regular network programming schedule. It provides 22 hours of prime time programming to affiliated stations: 8-11pm (ET/PT)/7:00-10:00 pm (CT, MT, AT)/6-9 pm (HT) Monday through Saturday and 7–11 pm on Sundays. Programming is also provided 7–11 am weekdays in the form of Today, which also has a two-hour Saturday and one-hour Sunday edition; the one-hour weekday drama Days of our Lives; nightly editions of NBC Nightly News; the Sunday political talk show Meet the Press; weekday early-morning news program Early Today; late night talk shows The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Last Call with Carson Daly; sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live; and weeknight replays of the fourth hour of Today and CNBC program Mad Money; and a three-hour Saturday morning animation block under the qubo banner. In addition, sports programming is also provided weekend afternoons any time from 12–6 pm. ET, or tape-delayed PT.

Daytime programs[link]

NBC is currently the home of only one daytime soap opera, Days of our Lives, which has been broadcast on the network since 1965.

Long-running NBC Daytime dramas of the past include The Doctors (1963–1982), Another World (1964–1999), Santa Barbara (1984–1993), and Passions (1999–2007). NBC also aired the final four and a half years of Search for Tomorrow (1982–1986) after that series was dropped by CBS, although many NBC affiliates did not air the show during that time. NBC has also aired numerous short-lived soaps, including 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 a Deal (1963–1968, 1990–1991, and a short-lived 2002 primetime revival), 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 Century (1969–1973 and 1983–1989) and Scrabble (1984–1990 and 1993). The final game show to air on NBC's daytime schedule was the short-lived Caesars Challenge, which ended in January 1994.

Children's programming[link]

Children's programming has played a part in NBC's programming since its initial roots in television. In 1947, NBC's first major children's series was Howdy Doody, one of the era's first breakthrough television shows. The series, which ran for 13 years, featured a freckle-faced marionette and a myriad of other characters and hosted by "Buffalo" Bob Smith. Howdy Doody spent most of its run on weekday afternoons.

In 1956, NBC abandoned the children's programming lineup on weekday afternoons, relegating the lineup to Saturdays only with Howdy Doody as their marquee franchise for the series' remaining four years. From the mid-1960s until 1992, the bulk of NBC's children's programming was derived from theatrical shorts like The Pink Panther Show and Looney Tunes, reruns of popular television series like The Flintstones and The Jetsons, foreign acquisitions like Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, original animated series (most notably The Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks in the 1980s), cartoon adaptations of Gary Coleman, Mr. T, Punky Brewster, ALF and Star Trek, and original live-action series including The Banana Splits, The Bugaloos, and H.R. Pufnstuf.

From 1984 to 1989, One to Grow On PSAs were shown after the end credits of every show or every other children's show.

In 1989, NBC premiered Saved by the Bell, which originated at the Disney Channel as Good Morning, Miss Bliss. Saved by the Bell, despite bad reviews from TV critics, would become one of the most popular teen series in television history as well as the number one series on Saturday mornings, dethroning The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show in its first season.

NBC abandoned the animated series in August 1992 in favor of a Saturday edition of Today and more live-action series under the name TNBC (Teen NBC). Most of the series on the TNBC lineup were series produced by Peter Engel such as City Guys, Hang Time, California Dreams, One World and the Saved by the Bell spinoff, Saved by the Bell: The New Class.[36] NBA Inside Stuff was also a part of the TNBC lineup during the duration of the NBA season.

In 2002, NBC began a deal with Discovery Communications' Discovery Kids channel to air their original FCC-mandated educational programming under the banner Discovery Kids on NBC.[36] The schedule originally consisted of only live-action series, including a kid-themed version of Trading Spaces and J. D. Roth's Emmy-nominated reality game show Endurance, but later expanded to include some animated series such as Kenny the Shark, Tutenstein, and Time Warp Trio.

In May 2006, in order to replace the Discovery Kids Saturday Morning block, NBC announced plans to launch a new children's block on Saturday mornings starting in September 2006 as part of the qubo endeavor teaming parent company NBC Universal with Ion Media Networks, Scholastic Press, Classic Media and Corus Entertainment's Nelvana.[37] Qubo will[when?] include blocks to air on NBC, Telemundo (the Spanish-language network owned by NBC Universal), and Ion Media Networks's Ion Television, as well as a 24/7 digital broadcast kids channel, video on demand services and a branded website.

The "Discovery Kids on NBC" block aired for the final time on September 2, 2006. On Saturday, September 9, 2006, NBC started airing the following qubo programs: VeggieTales, Dragon, VeggieTales Presents: 3-2-1 Penguins!, Babar, Jane and the Dragon, and Jacob Two-Two.

On March 28, 2012, it was announced that NBC, with assistance from PBS Kids Sprout (jointly owned by NBCUniversal, PBS, the Sesame Workshop and Apax Partners), will launch a new Saturday morning pre-school block, called NBC Kids, which will replace the "Qubo on NBC" block.[38][39][40][41]

NBCi[link]

'NBCi' redirects here.

In April 2000, NBC purchased a company that specialized with search engines that learned from the users' searches for $32 million, called GlobalBrain.

In 1999, NBC briefly changed its web address to "NBCi.com", in a heavily advertised attempt to launch an Internet portal and homepage. This move saw NBC teaming up with XOOM.com, e-mail.com, AllBusiness.com,[42] and Snap.com (eventually acquiring all four of them), launching a multi-faceted internet portal with e-mail, webhosting, community, chat, personalization and news capabilities. This experiment lasted roughly one season, failed, and NBCi was folded back into NBC.[43] The NBC-TV portion of the website reverted to NBC.com. However, the NBCi web site continued as a portal for NBC-branded content (NBCi.com redirected to NBCi.msnbc.com), using a co-branded version of InfoSpace to deliver minimal portal content. In mid 2007, NBCi.com began to mirror NBC.com.[44] Starting in 2010, NBCi.com began to redirect to NBC.com.

Evolution of the NBC logo[link]

NBC has used a number of logos throughout its history; early logos were similar to the logo of its then parent company, RCA, but later logos included stylized peacock images.

International broadcasts[link]

Canada[link]

NBC broadcasts from the United States can be received throughout most of Canada, primarily through cable television and satellite television providers, but also over the air in areas close to the Canada – United States border. Aside from simultaneous substitution (a practice that requires paid-TV companies to switch the signal of an American station to a Canadian station when that network is syndicating a program on the American station to protect advertising revenues), the programming and broadcasting are the same as in the United States.

Europe, Latin America and the Middle East[link]

NBC Nightly News and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, are shown on CNBC Europe. NBC is no longer shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both NBC News and MSNBC are shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. MSNBC is also shown occasionally on sister network CNBC Europe during breaking news. Border cities in the Mexico – United States border region can easily receive NBC on-the-air, as well as cable and satellite subscribers across Mexico, especially in the Mexico City area.

NBC Super Channel becomes NBC Europe[link]

In 1993, the Pan-European cable network Super Channel was taken over by General Electric, the parent of NBC, and became NBC Super Channel. In 1996, the channel was renamed NBC Europe, but was, from then on, almost always referred to as simply "NBC" on the air.

Most of NBC Europe's prime time programming was produced in Europe due to rights restriction associated with US primetime shows, but after 11 pm Central European Time on weekday evenings, the channel aired The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Later, hence its slogan "Where the Stars Come Out at Night." Many NBC News programs were broadcast on NBC Europe, including Dateline NBC, Meet the Press and NBC Nightly News, which was aired live. The Today Show was also initially shown live in the afternoons, but was later broadcast the following morning instead, by which time it was more than half a day old.

In 1999, NBC Europe stopped broadcasting to most of Europe. At the same time the network was relaunched as a German language computer channel, targeting a young demographic. The main show on the new NBC Europe was called NBC GIGA. In 2005, the channel was relaunched once again, this time as a free-to-air movie channel under the name "Das Vierte". GIGA started an own digital channel then, which could be received via satellite and many cable networks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The Tonight Show and NBC Nightly News continue to be broadcast on CNBC Europe.

Canal de Noticias[link]

In 1993, NBC began production of Canal de Noticias NBC. This service was beamed to Latin America from the NBC Newschannel headquarters located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over 50 journalists were brought to produce, write, anchor and technically produce a 24 hour news service based on the popular "wheel" conceived at CNN. The service folded in 1997 as sales departments were not able to generate any revenue. After Mexican Noticias ECO, Canal de Noticias NBC holds the distinction of being the first 24 hour news service to be seen in Latin America. Telenoticias, at one point owned by CBS, came later followed by CNN en Español.

Caribbean[link]

In the Caribbean, many cable television and satellite television providers air local NBC affiliates, or the main network feed from WNBC New York City or WTVJ in Miami. A few locally owned NBC affiliates do exist, in Puerto Rico. The island and the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands are the main receivers of NBC programs available in English and Spanish via the SAP option.

Bermuda[link]

NBC's full program lineup is carried by local affiliate VSB-TV, received from the network's East Coast satellite feed.

Netherlands Antilles[link]

In Aruba, the network programming is carried on station PJA-TV (ATV) 15, cable 8.

Asia Pacific[link]

Guam[link]

KUAM-TV is an NBC affiliate in Guam and carries the full NBC program lineup via satellite.

American Samoa[link]

KKHJ-LP is the NBC affiliate for Pago Pago; it signed onto the network in 2005.

NBC Asia and CNBC Asia[link]

In 1995, NBC launched a channel in Asia called NBC Asia available in Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines. Like NBC Europe, NBC Asia featured most of NBC's news programs as well as the Tonight Show and Late Night. Like its European counterpart, it could not broadcast US-produced primetime shows due to rights restrictions. It also had NBC Super Sports for the latest action in selected sporting events. During weekday evenings, NBC Asia had a regional evening news program. It occasionally simulcast some programs from CNBC Asia and MSNBC. In July 1998, NBC Asia was replaced by the National Geographic Channel. As is the case with NBC Europe, however, selected Tonight Show and Late Night episodes and Meet the Press can still be seen on CNBC Asia during weekends. CNBC Asia shows NFL games and also brands them as Sunday Night Football.

Regional partners[link]

Through regional partners, NBC-produced programs are seen in some countries in the region. In the Philippines, Solar Entertainment's Jack TV airs Will & Grace and Saturday Night Live, while TalkTV airs The Tonight Show and NBC News programs like Today Show, Early Today, Weekend Today, Dateline and NBC Nightly News. Solar TV used to air The Jay Leno Show. In Hong Kong, TVB Pearl, the English free-to-air channel operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, airs NBC Nightly News live, as well as selected NBC programming.

Australia[link]

The Seven Network in Australia has close ties with NBC and has used a majority of the network's imaging and slogans since the 1970s. Seven News has featured The Mission as its news theme since the mid 1980s. Local newscasts were named Seven Nightly News from the mid 1980s until around 2000. NBC and Seven will often share news recourses between the two countries. NBC News has been know to use Seven News reporters for live crosses on a developing news story in Australia. Seven News will sometimes also incorporate an NBC News Report into its National bulletins.

Seven rebroadcasts some of NBC's news and current affairs programming between 3am-5.am, including:

In 2009, NBC and Seven Network used Guy Sebastian's No.1 Aria selling song Like it Like That for their summer station promo.

Affiliate world broadcasters of NBC[link]

Library[link]

Through the years, NBC has produced many shows in-house, in addition to airing content from other producers such as Revue Studios and its successor Universal Television.

Notable in-house productions of NBC included Get Smart, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Las Vegas and Crossing Jordan. NBC sold the rights to its pre-1973 shows to National Telefilm Associates in 1973. Today, those rights are owned by CBS Television Distribution.

NBC continues to own its post-1973 productions, through sister company NBC Universal Television Group, the successor to Universal TV. As a result, NBC in a way now owns several other series aired on the network prior to 1973, such as Wagon Train.

See also[link]

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Further reading[link]

  • Hilmes, Michele (2007). NBC: America's Network. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-25081-8, 9780520250819. 
  • Robinson, Marc (2002). Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC. Wiley. 

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Jason Sudeikis

Sudeikis at the premiere of Horrible Bosses, 2011
Born Daniel Jason Sudeikis
(1975-09-17) September 17, 1975 (age 36)
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation Actor, comedian, writer
Years active 1998–present
Home town Overland Park, Kansas
Spouse Kay Cannon (2004–10; divorced)

Daniel Jason Sudeikis (play /sʉˈdkɨs/ sə-DAY-kis; born September 18, 1975) is an American actor and comedian best known for starring as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He also has had a notable breakthrough in the film industry in 2011, starring that year in Hall Pass, Horrible Bosses, and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.

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Early life[link]

Sudeikis was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis[1] in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the son of Kathryn (née Wendt), formerly a travel agent at Brennco who was president of the American Society of Travel Agents, and Daniel Joseph "Dan" Sudeikis, a vice president of business development.[2][3][4][5] His uncle is actor George Wendt, who is best known for his role as Norm Peterson from Cheers.[6] His maternal grandmother's father was photographer Tom Howard.[7] He is of Lithuanian descent on his father's side and German and Irish on his mother's.[8]

As a child, Sudeikis moved with his family to Overland Park, Kansas, which he considers his hometown.[9] He attended Brookridge Elementary School before transferring to Holy Cross Catholic School, both of which are located in Overland Park. He began high school at the Jesuit Rockhurst High School in 1990, later transferring due to academic reasons to Shawnee Mission West High School, where he won the state title in forensics with Drew Keiter, and was a point guard for the boys' basketball team, and graduating in 1994.

Sudeikis occasionally and proudly references Kansas in Saturday Night Live sketches.[9] He is also a longtime Kansas Jayhawks fan[9][10] and has worked University of Kansas themes and well known Lawrence, Kansas, locations into several sketches on SNL.

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Sudeikis began his comedy career performing at ComedySportz (now Comedy City) in Kansas City. While there, he co-founded a sketch comedy troupe called Der Monkenpickel.[citation needed] After moving to Chicago, Sudeikis studied at the Annoyance Theatre and ImprovOlympic, where he was one of the founding members of the long-form team J.T.S. Brown.

He was later cast in The Second City's National Touring Company, and also performed with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. In the early 2000s, he became a founding member of Second City Las Vegas. He continues to frequently perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's weekly improv show ASSSCAT 3000 in New York City.

[edit] Saturday Night Live

In 2003, while a regular performer at Second City Las Vegas, he was hired as a sketch writer for Saturday Night Live, and would occasionally make bit appearances as audience members or extras. In May 2005, became a featured player on the show, and was upgraded to repertory status at the beginning of the show's 32nd season on September 30, 2006.

He became famous for his impersonation of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, as well as one-half of the Two A-Holes with Kristen Wiig.

Sudeikis at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.

Other work[link]

Sudeikis had a recurring guest role on the NBC series 30 Rock with friend Tina Fey in early 2007, appearing in a total of seven episodes. He played Floyd DeBarber, a love interest of Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon. He made another appearance as Floyd in a 2008 episode, and appeared again in the Valentine's Day episode airing February 11, 2010, along with Jon Hamm and Dean Winters. Sudeikis last appeared in three episodes towards the end of the show's 4th season in 2010.

Sudeikis did voice work for the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV, playing the role of right-wing radio host Richard Bastion. He also appeared in the 2008 comedy What Happens in Vegas, playing the role of Cameron Diaz's ex-fiancé. In July 2008, Sudeikis co-starred with Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio in the Lorne Michaels produced web-series The Line on Crackle.[11]

Sudeikis appeared in the film The Bounty Hunter, released in March 2010. He co-starred alongside Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, playing a colleague of Aniston's character, who falls in love with her.[12]

Sudeikis is currently a voice actor on the FOX animated comedy series The Cleveland Show. Sudeikis provides the voice for Holt Richter, Cleveland's wannabe hipster neighbor, as well as the voice of Terry Kimple, Cleveland's hard-partying high school buddy, who he now works with at the cable company. After previously being credited as a recurring guest in season one, Sudeikis was bumped up to a series regular beginning in season two.

In May 2010, Sudeikis joined the cast of the 2011 Seth Gordon comedy Horrible Bosses, which also starred Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Charlie Day, and Jason Bateman.[13] Sudeikis co-hosted WWE Monday Night RAW with Going the Distance co-stars Charlie Day and Justin Long on August 16, 2010, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.[14] Sudeikis also played his first lead film role, alongside Owen Wilson, in the 2011 Farrelly Brothers comedy Hall Pass. He had worked with Day when he played the role of Schmitty on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and reprised the role on that show's 7th season finale.

He hosted the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on the June 5, 2011, at the Gibson Amphitheatre.[15][16][17]

In 2012, Sudeikis had a recurring role on the final season of the HBO series Eastbound & Down playing both Shane, Kenny Powers battery mate on the Myrtle Beach Mermen, and Shane's twin brother Cole.[18]

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Recurring characters[link]

  • Vice President Joe Biden
  • Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney[19]
  • Male A-hole of the Two A-Holes with Kristen Wiig
  • Gil, a news anchor who treats his field correspondent Michelle Dison's (Kristen Wiig) misfortunes as amusement
  • One of the guys from the "Song Memories" sketches who is the first to tell strange stories about where he was when he first heard a song
  • Ed Mahoney, a brash man who often makes a fool of himself in public
  • Officer Sikorsky, a police officer who brings in convict Lorenzo McIntosh (Kenan Thompson) in an attempt to "scare straight" the three delinquent teens (Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Andy Samberg, and occasionally the week's guest host) that he often arrests. In the earlier sketches, Officer Sikorsky's last name was Matthews[citation needed]
  • Dancer on What Up With That?, an overzealous background dancer often dressed in a red and white Adidas tracksuit with a 1980s man perm. The Ed Helms/Paul Simon episode reveals that his real name is Vance.
  • One half of Bon Jovi opposite band 'Jon Bovi' appearing on weekend update with Will Forte
  • DJ Supersoak. Spoof on Psychopathic Records recording artist "DJ Clay." Emcee for Kickspit Underground Music with Lil' Blaster (Nasim Pedrad) and MC George Costanza (Jay Pharoah). He has appeared in the "Underground Rock Minute," the "Crunkmas Karnival," the "Kickspit Underground Easter Festival," and the "Columbus Day Assblast" sketches.
  • Pete Twinkle, ESPN Classic host of obscure women's sports with dim-witted Greg Stink (Will Forte) as his co-host
  • Jeff, a disgruntled film and theatre technician who starts unprovoked arguments with the star of the piece.
  • The Devil, who often comes on Weekend Update to point out religious and moral hypocrisy on Earth. On the Emma Stone/Coldplay episode, the Devil gets so upset over the Penn State University sex scandal that he quits his job as The Prince of Darkness and returns to his old job as a customer service representative for Time Warner Cable.[19]
  • Jack Rizzoli, an anchor at WXPD News who always tells veteran reporter Herb Welch (Bill Hader) to do his job.
  • Tommy, a strip club M.C. for Bongo's Clown Room
  • Sensei Mark Hoffman, the faculty adviser and Japanese Studies teacher to Jonathan Cavanaugh-san and Rebecca Stern-Markowitz-san (Taran Killam and Vanessa Bayer, respectively), hosts of "J-Pop America Fun Time Now".

Celebrity impressions[link]

Personal life[link]

Sudeikis married actress and 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon in 2004 but they divorced in 2010. He has two sisters, Lindsay and Kristin. Lindsay is a teacher at Dominican Academy, an all-girls high school in New York. Kristin is an established choreographer and dancer in New York and has appeared on 30 Rock.[1] Sudeikis is reportedly dating actress and fashion model Olivia Wilde.[21]

On May 11, 2012, his father's family history was traced on the NBC program Who Do You Think You Are?[22] It is the third and last season of the NBC series.[23] The story of the Lithuanian immigrants on his father's side was enlightening to him and his father. They learned for the first time the effect of a good father's early death on succeeding generations.

Filmography[link]

Sudeikis at the New York Television Festival, October 17, 2009
Film
Year Film Role
1998 Alien Avengers II Chester the molester
2007 The Ten Tony Contiella
Watching the Detectives Jonathan
Meet Bill Jim Whittman
2008 The Rocker David Marshall
Semi-Pro Danny
What Happens in Vegas Mason
2010 The Bounty Hunter Stewart
Going the Distance Box
2011 Hall Pass Fred
Horrible Bosses Kurt Buckman
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Eric Keppler
2012 The Campaign Mitch
Movie 43 Batman
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2005–present Saturday Night Live Cast Member Series regular
2007 Wainy Days Handsome David 1 episode
2007–2010 30 Rock Floyd 12 episodes
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV Richard Bastion Video game (voice)
Childrens Hospital Dr. Robert "Bobby" Fiscus 2 episodes
2008–2009 Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday Various Series regular
2009–present The Cleveland Show Holt Richter / Terry Kimple Series regular (voice)
2010–2011 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Schmitty 2 episodes
2011 Portlandia Aliki 1 episode
MTV Movie Awards Host 1 episode
2012 Eastbound & Down Shane Gerald/Cole Gerald 5 episodes
"Who Do You Think You Are?" Himself

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  5. ^ Stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, May 11, 2012
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The Blacklist
Origin Melbourne, Australia
Genres Beer Metal
Black Garage Metal
Years active 2001–present
Labels International Trash
Spooky Records
Drug Bust Records
Members
Scott Ian
Ben O'Dowd
Karl Shanley
Craig Bailey
Todd Trevor
Nic Gemmill

The Blacklist is an Australian hard and fast beer metal band formed in Melbourne in late 2001. The band features former members of the Sex Bombs, the Spoilers, the Demolitions and Warped, and play music in a similar vein to Motörhead, the Hookers, Venom and Zeke.

Shortly after their debut album Electric & Evil was released, the Blacklist added a third guitarist to their line-up.

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Biography[link]

Formed in late 2001 by ex-members of the Spoilers and the Sex Bombs, the Blacklist went into the studio in January 2002 to record their debut EP Attacks (International Trash) without having performed live.

The Blacklist’s debut album, Electric and Evil (Spooky Records), was recorded in September 2003 but was not released until late 2004.

The band undertook an extensive European tour in April/May 2005 that saw them cover the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and Slovenia.

The Blacklist completed work on their second album, Total Blacklist (Drug Bust Records), in 2007. The album was released in April 2008.

Sadly (but possibly happily), the whole band died after drinking gallons of dodgy toxic (but very alcoholic) home made beverages while on tour in Slovenia in 2005. At least they died doing what they loved.

Discography[link]

  • Attacks (2002, International Trash)
  • Electric and Evil (2004, Spooky Records)
  • Total Blacklist (2008, Drug Bust Records)

Members[link]

  • Goodtime Gemmill - Throat
  • Ion Scatt the 1st - Axe
  • Hott Todd of Thunder - Axe
  • Man Manly - Axe
  • T-Bone Endowd - Bass
  • Dr No - Drums

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You're staring at your watch,
You're staring at your watch again,
You're staring at your watch,
You're staring at your watch again
You're staring at your watch,
It's one of your neurotic habits,
Like back at the party,
So sick of psycho sycophantics
You're hot,
You're cold,
You can't think about it,
You're like the books along your wall
You're jaded,
Overrated,
There's no doubt about it,
So here's a new book for you to read
You're talking to yourself,
You're talking to yourself again,
You're talking to yourself,
You're talking to yourself again
You're talking to yourself,
About a friend who was put away,
For breaking in labs,
And once again, you've got nothing of value to say
You're hot,
You're cold,
You can't think about it,
You're like the books along your wall
You're jaded,
Overrated,
There's no doubt about it,

Lately, I've been
Living in my head
The rest of me is dead
I'm dying for truth
Make me believe
No more left and right
Come on take my side
I'm fighting for you
I'm fighting for you
Pleased to meet you, take my hand
There is no way back from here
Pleased to meet you, say your prayers
There is no way back from here
But I don't care, no way back from here
Wake me, I'm ready
Something don't seem right
I was dreaming
I was talking to you
Memory, mend me
No one's seen my share
Things I can't repair
I'm breaking to you
I'm breaking to you
Pleased to meet you, take my hand
There is no way back from here
Pleased to meet you, say your prayers
There is no way back from here
But I don't care, no way back from here, yeah
Pleased to meet you, take my hand
There is no way back from here
Pleased to meet you, say your prayers
There is no way back from here

NPC's a guy
Who likes to get high
No one knows his name
He goes by n.p.c.
Small on the outside
Big on the inside
No one knows his name
He goes by n.p.c
NPC , NPC , NPC , NPC...
NPC's a guy
He likes to get high
No one knows his name

I no longer feel where do my heart belong
This shivering wind has frozen it to the core
And the rain that whips my face covers my tears
These dark shades of night hides my fears
There's no way, no way back
Wherever I'm walking
I hide behind my smile
And it hurts me inside
I cry without shedding a tear
I'm sorry, this ends here
Still the wind blows and the rain falls on me
And I know there's no way, no way back
Forever I'm walking
[2x]
I hide behind my smile
And it hurts me inside
I cry without shedding a tear

Can I get a friend, will I ever make amends
In spite of all the rules I bend
And the fact I never lend you my money or my heart
Cause I'm too state-of-the-art
All my answers fall apart don't you know
So I stand around and look my best
But no one cares to see
And I know that no one cares unless
There's nothing else to see
I can see in your eyes that your happiness lies
In your no compromise way of seeing things
Cause today I've found
That we will always see things differently
We never agree but it'd be much more easy
If we both would try to meet in the median
It's all just the same, it's all one vicious game
That I'm caught up inside and I don't know why
So I stand around and look my best
But no one cares to see
And I know that no one cares unless
They're watching N.B.C.
I can see in your eyes that your happiness lies
In your no compromise way of seeing things
And I'm sorry that I was the source of the problem
Please accept my humble apologies
Cause today I've found

(This is the way it should sound)
This is the way it should sound
Ya heard (what what)
Yo B, we don't even like half these faggott niggas anyway
(what what what)
I'm on my own muthafuckin' wheel (yeah, what what what)
You know what I'm sayin'
The real shit, you know B
My black family (what what what)
Slick Finga (clah clah clah)
Harlem World eatin' (yeah yeah)
Charli Baltimore (what what what)
Nore (yeah yeah what what what)
Cam'Ron nigga (yeah yeah)
Killa Cam nigga (what what what)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yo, all around I rip this
The song had to clip it
The cats in the street, nearly killing over snippets
Birds out to feed 'em bread, so he can eat her head
I'm almost 21, but I still pee in the bed
Had to flead the FED's, all be trife
And I got a crush on Edith (who, Archie's wife!)
Yo not Monaghomy, pornograhy
On the outside, lookin' apauled you see
Tell my girls, I really like photography
On snap shots naked, the wildest boys
First night, head whop, and our salads tossed
While you in a mean neon, I'm with Celine Dion
Throw her in the bed, she the next one I pee on
Say what bitch
Phase two
Yeah yeah
What what what
What what
What what what
What what what
What what what
Split that ass yo
Split that ass
Yeah uh, what
Yo yo yo
Yo, N-O-R-E eatin'
Fuck ya'll, niggas get hurt
You know I rock a Soul Train wit' a Cam'Ron's shirt
Doin' cartwheels, all my niggas got Hot Wheels
You a double A-R god, the bluntiest
You know we throw away, blunts for my niggas that's dead
Pour a Law Liqour, drink a long ligga
Then again I never beat, for my nigga Digga
You know I got, navigators, so we won't get lost
N-O-R-E eatin', these Queens niggas call me the Force
At the airainment, Thugged Out
Untertainment, throw around and fuck 'em if the judge say shit
And I - get - what - niggas face it
Fools ain't ever know, the ghetto's be the baddest click
Charli's Angels, tangle with Devil's - Advocate
Hoes mad cause our pussy's got the fattest clits
It's estatic shit, how we gon' have a bitch
Under pressure, the Un undress her
That's a tester, that's just the best flirt, to the best skirt
Ever make it to networks
Like N.B.C., N.O.R.E., B'More and Cam'Ron
Anything we put our hands on, soak up like a tampon, plan on
For puttin' out the hottest LP's
Since - shiiit yo, you gon' have to tell me
Cause this is hip hop, meneaja twat
And ya'll jealous cause what I'm fuckin' wit' the two hottest
Underground fellas, what!
Aye yo Iraq, Harlem World, Philly
(San Juan) Un-shit
N.O.R.E., Charli, Cam'Ron
Mansons, Stasons, Richards
(Plan on)
Cali, Houston, New York
(Jam on)
Aye yo Iraq, Harlem World, Philly
(San Juan) Un-shit
N.O.R.E., Charli, Cam'Ron
Atlanta, Chi-Town, V.A.
(Plan on)
D.C., N.C., S.C.
(Jam on)
What!
Yo, all on the ballers shit
Nore, but we could call a chick
Head is what we all could get, biggest to the smallest dick
She gon' swallow all of it
Harlem gon' have a ball with that
After I get her pregnant, yo we goin' to the mall with it
Yeah nigga, you know the lie, fuck that bitch
The only reason I don't kiss her, is cause she sucked his dick
Yo I don't even try ta, us up bro
Fuck dat hoe
Pussy stinkin' anyway, let her go
Yo ya'll niggas stay fuckin' with them grimmy chicks
On the real though, I wonder where ya'll find these chicks
The rest is evident, I'm the type to split on niggas
But if they right, I'll fuck around and spit on niggas
And if they into that hot shit, I'll let 'em hit my spot quick
But first they gotta pop shit
If not then they gettin' drop kicked
And I like 'em all, Black Jack ya'll
Near 21, all others gettin' cut cut
So be it, you see me!
Aye yo Iraq, Harlem World, Philly
(San Juan) Un-shit
N.O.R.E., Charli, Cam'Ron
Mansons, Stasons, Richards
(Plan on)
Cali, Houston, New York
(Jam on)
Aye yo Iraq, Harlem World, Philly
(San Juan) Un-shit
N.O.R.E., Charli, Cam'Ron
Atlanta, Chi-Town, V.A.
(Plan on)
D.C., N.C., S.C.
(Jam on)

There’s no way to describe it,
there's no way to explain,
it's a wonderful night in a unique place.
It’s a brisk blend of people; it's the sharing of pain
and an overtime goal in a ranger's game.
Boogie down New York it's the end of a day,
a new dawn is waiting in a desperate state.
you're still for me number one,
I’ll be sad when I’m gone,
can't you see I won't be the same without you.
I was mesmerized and fascinated,
hypnotized and elevated,
your energy I’ll take away with me.
Staying alive and searching for fame
or escape to the park slip-sliding away,
do you feel the sensation? Come on get it right,
hard times will demand an open mind.
Boogie down New York it's the end of a day,
a new dawn is waiting in a desperate state.
you're still for me number one,
I’ll be sad when I’m gone,
can't you see I won't be the same without you.
I was mesmerized and fascinated,
hypnotized and elevated,
your energy I’ll take away with me.
Life without foreplay, fast and insane,
yeah, hide from the fury, try to hold on in vain.
you're still for me number one,
I’ll be sad when I’m gone,
can't you see I won't be the same without you.
I was mesmerized and fascinated,
hypnotized and elevated,

Take the veil upon your face
You know that I must be the answer to your prayers
Lies surround us all like stone
You cannot break the spell, you're acting on your own
(Though not a word was spoken, everything was heard)
Pray, there's no way back again
Between the now and then
From the window to the shore
No way back anymore
To the fountain of your dreams
You chose the twisting path of fantasy
You couldn't quite believe the wisdom of your soul
You won't forget the past, you can't let go
And every day you see the devil on the wall
Way beyond imagining, remembering your face
Pray, there's no way back again
Between the now and then
From the window to the shore
No way back anymore
Through the time that lies between the waking and the
dream

There's a time in your life
Where you have to decide
Wrong or right
Only time will tell
If it leads the right way
Then there's no way back
You've reached the point of no return
THERE'S NO WAY BACK
No there's no undo you got to live with your mistakes
THERE'S NO WAY BACK
Remember that cold day when you make that decision
The pressure leads to go wrong
It's all of you in this fucking decision
Don't look back
Forget the fast
We all make mistakes
THERE'S NO WAY BACK
No there's no undo
NO WAY BACK
No there's no return
We all make mistakes
Don't look back
Forget the fast
We all make mistakes
THERE'S NO WAY BACK
No there's no undo
NO WAY BACK
No there's no return
Things you've done

[Verse 1:]
The injustice become done
More blood than a gallant drum
Pumped in attack my back weighing a ton
Vents the one man battalion
Rhymes is pounding with the pulse of a thousand
Public housing, grandma died in a mess filled part shit-box
So I'm taking the wrist watch
And the gold chain too
Crews get played kinda rough like Cold Train do
(Word) that's the business of war
The art of keeping them sick - keeping them poor
Keeping you slave, you not free - You paid or you not
Rape the rooftop of the master
Architecht of disaster
Pulling out tongues in your throat, Nicaragua
El Salvador raw - corporate sluts get hung from the 15th floor
[Chorus:]
I'm mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV
Dangerous fuck from the PSC
I'm mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV
Dangerous fuck from the PSC
[Verse 2:]
This is it break the scar
Bass guitar sound bizzare
Lost in the belly of the Baghdad ER
We are - slaves in the bowles of the beast
Bloody from the chainsaw lease
Vents in effect like greenhouse
When I burn the drum I take critical beats out
Feel the wrath of the rat bag
Coming through with alot of crew carrying a black flag
Drop the wax on a plate
Living in a zoo but the cage can't take the primate
Mind-state like an anarchy, analyst
Smoke up their canopy
Move like a ninja, creep on the humble
Talk to police get jumped in a jungle
We stumble around without purpose
Keep the Government nervous
[Chorus:]
Feeling like mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV
Dangerous fuck from the PSC
I'm mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV
Dangerous fuck from the PSC
[Verse 3:]
Living life in a cemetery
Watch the madness of military
Give their young man a gun but he's still a fairy
Killing everything with a pulse
Watch the truth pervert 'till it false
Chemical assault, weapons of mass destruct
Gas them up, bullshit - that's what's up
We don't want no pass of your conflict
Southern Cross in effect I'm a convict
And I'm a let them know
My right to rule my life and I can't let it go
Can't let em' whip again
Whoever you vote for the Government gets in
Testing, one-two
Anyone there?
Talk about change but I bet he run scared
Now fuck you, you ain't done nothing for us
And the blood block coming to crush
[Chorus:]
I'm mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV
Dangerous fuck from the PSC
I'm mad
Something like PMD
You fucking with a hardcore MPC
Well line up your video MTV

[Intro:]
Yeah, my name is Riley, son
But you know what niggas call me?
AKA, Riley Escobar, know what I'm saying?
Cause I be in the streets you know?
I got all kinds of names like HR Paper Stacks
Uh, also known as AKA Horse Choker, uh
[Verse 1: Logic]
Hey, yo, I'll chop you up in sixteen pieces
In front of your nieces, while I'm eating Reese's
And won't even offer them any, yes I spit plenty
This is East Coast flow at its finest
In the studio, where you find us, put a bullet where your spine is
At sixteen I was skipping school and smoking chronic
While you was learning about English, Big L was teaching Ebonics
I spit fire so demonic, writing code like I'm Masonite
A Jedi master breaking it down like old plaster
No medication for this track cause this is how a psycho rips
My bank account is like a cino bolt, your pocket's microchips, uh
Motherfucker, I dare you to test it, hope you're well rested
Whoop your ass and get arrested, in a double breasted
Louis Vuitton diamond encrested tailor made suit
Now that's All Sinatra Everything
I explode like hollow tips on contact
Chronologically murder schmoe there's no bringing Joe back
Puffing cubans and sipping Cognac
Mafietic mentality, introduce me to this beat and it's fatality
I kill mics like Conrad Murray
Sharp like Hanzo steel, the rest is obtuse
I get loose when sipping Goose and rhyme like Doc Seuss
Flow tight like noose, whoop ass like Bruce, no time for a truce
Alphabetical mathematic addict
I spit sixteens so erratic you think it was a semi-automatic
I know by now you thinking "Oh my God, he let them have it"
But that was just a loan, time to collect like I'm Capone
Reep what I've sewn, in other words that is the throne
Chilling while homies smoking marijuan'
If you thinking that this shit is wack well then you're dead wrong
Cause for every emotion and every mood I have a song
For the club, for the streets, for the whip and for the sheets
Cause this is where intellect and versatility meets
I'm Young Sinatra, backstage chilling with BobbySoxers
I got ya
[Outro:]
Yeah!
You wanna fuck with us?!

Wake up, wake up where, where am I,
Slowly slowly open in my eyes
Blinded blinded by the sky light light light yeah
Where am, where am I coming from
What is taking me so alone
Feels like I've been stuck in another time time time
When the lights falls on your face
I see everything has changed
Chorus:
And there's no way back now, there's only you
You make someone I never knew
And there's no, no, no way back from loving you
No looking over I'm slaughter then I
'Cause I found forever in your eyes
And there's no, no, no way back from loving you
Baby
Ohhh
Empty pages slink in front of us
I was daising years to hear of us
You make me forget who I was before baby
Was it weaker light you and I
Did you find me in another life
I can't ignored what's in front of me
When the lights falls on your face
I see everything has changed
Chorus:
And there's no way back now, there's only you
You make someone I never knew
And there's no, no, no way back from loving you
No looking over I'm slaughter then I
'Cause I found forever in your eyes
And there's no, no, no way back from loving you
Baby
No way back, no there's no way back
And I won't listen
To the noise inside my head
No way back, no there's no way back
And I won't hear the voice of here
I make my choice and there's no way back from here

Don´t be afraid of your love
Don´t be afraid of your lust
Don´t hide yourself from your fear
Don´t hide yourself from your pain
No way back
Come and love me
No way back
Come and fuck me
No way back
Come and love me
No way back