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Dave Garroway Paired with J. Fred Muggs At the end of every show, Garroway held up his hand and said “Peace” - his trademark

Dave Garroway - John Chancellor - Hugh Downs - Barbara Walters (“TODAY Girl” who broke the mold in “a victory of brains over mannequin beauty”) - Tom Brokaw - Bryant Gumbel (Gumbel/Pauley Team) -Katie Couric/Gumbel - Matt Lauer/Couric - Lauer/Meredith Vieira - Lauer/Ann Curry - Lauer/Savannah Guthrie

weaver's folly

boc in 1996

july 15, 1996

october 2007

The Doctors, TODAY, Dateline, Election Night 2000, Your Total Health with Hoda Kotb

Break the Bank, That Was the Week That Was, Late Night with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Dr. Oz, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Meredith Vieira Show

Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater, Broadway Open House, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour, The Jack Paar Tonight Show

“Mr. Television,” he and his show were responsible for a remarkable rise in the sale of TV sets

Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon

in Studio 6B drew 4 million viewers

Philco Television Playhouse, Goodyear Playhouse, The Alcoa Hour, Concentration, Jeopardy, The TODAY Show, Donahue, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Caroline Rhea Show, The Jane Pauley Show, The Greatest American, Football Night in America

David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers

Live from Studio 8H, 1948 Election Headquarters, Space Command Center, What’s My Liner?, Bride and Groom, The Match Game, Sale of the Century

Nation’s first broadcast network, Founded by David Sarnoff, general manager of RCA Inaugural broadcast on November 15, 1926 from ballroom of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Two radio networks: Red and Blue (became ABC) TODAY was the first early morning news program Tonight Show was first successful late night show, First to broadcast a program in color in 1953

1986: GE acquired RCA (and NBC) 1989: CNBC 1996: MSNBC 2002: Bravo + Telemundo 2004: NBC acquired Universal Studios 2011: NBC Universal acquired by Comcast

NBC Microphone Set against a background of lightning bolts communicating that TV would have all of radio’s immediacy and excitement

Xylophone with letters N, B, C Reference to “bing-bong-bing” chimes heard first on NBC radio in 1927

Brightly colored Peacock Pushing the color TV

“NBC” stacked typographic animated logo

Blue/Red N

merging of N and the bird

New peacock with 6 feathers News, Sports, Entertainment, Television Stations, Television Network, Operations and Technical Services

purchased American Cable Systems (founder)

“Communication” and “Broadcast”

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