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WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
This is a list of U.S. weekly (or smallest available unit for time period) television ratings archives from 1948 through 1997. (Primarily Nielsen ratings) National Nielsen ratings for United States television viewing began in March 1950.
On the same token however, Nielsen ratings for NBC broadcasts of WNBA games slipped [36] from 2 million households reached in 1997—the WNBA's inaugural season—to 1.5 million in 1999. [37] The average rating for the first 9 of the 10 [38] WNBA games NBC carried in the 2001 season [39] was only 1.1, compared to a 2.0 rating its first season. [40]
It aired every weeknight at 7:30 PM, and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor (as mentioned, the nightly Lowell Thomas NBC radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT—now WNBC—for a time in the early 1940s and the previously mentioned Richard Hubbell, Ned Calmer ...
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network which is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal.The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower).
While WNAC had been the perennial trailer among Boston's three VHF television news broadcasts, with Scarborough as anchor the station managed to best its rivals in the 6pm newscast ratings. Scarborough joined NBC News in March 1974 as co-anchor along with Jim Hartz of WNBC-TV's then-new 5:00 PM newscast, NewsCenter 4 (later renamed News 4 New ...
Movie 4 (also known as Movie Four) is a television program that aired at various times, but predominantly weekday afternoons, on various television stations on channel 4, including WNBC-TV in New York City from 1956 to 1974. WNBC's program aired top-rank first-run movies and other future classics from Hollywood, as well as foreign films. As ...
MCA TV International handled syndication of MCA TV's programs outside of the United States, but throughout 1987, MCA TV International, alongside Paramount International Television had inked an agreement with Chinese Central Television to offer 100 drama hours, which represented, was the largest license to date, and making it the two Hollywood ...