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Jay Leno (born 1950) Host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009 and 2010 to 2014. David Letterman (born 1947) Former host Late Night with David Letterman 1982–1993; later joined CBS. Conan O'Brien (born 1963) Hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, signed on to host The Tonight Show starting June 2009. later ...
High culture dominated commercial network television programming in the 1950s with the first television appearances of Leonard Bernstein (on Omnibus) and Arturo Toscanini, the first telecasts from Carnegie Hall, the first live U.S. telecasts of plays by Shakespeare, the first telecasts of Tchaikovsky's ballets The Sleeping Beauty and The ...
Enrique Gratas (deceased), Estrella TV, formerly Univisión; David Gregory, NBC News; Roger Grimsby (deceased) formerly of WABC-TV, KGO-TV and WNBC; Bryant Gumbel, former anchor of NBC's Today and CBS' The Early Show; Savannah Guthrie, current co-anchor of NBC's Today; Tamron Hall, formerly of NBC's Today, NBC News and MSNBC
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 ...
His was the first voice ever heard on television in Baltimore. [5] McKay remained with the station until 1950. In January and February of 1950, McKay broadcast the first ever televised network college basketball games for CBS, calling seven games featuring Navy in Annapolis, Maryland, using his birthname, Jim McManus. [6]
Frank McGee (September 12, 1921 – April 17, 1974) was an American television journalist, best known for his work with NBC from the late 1950s into the early 1970s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life and education
Kate Aitken, radio and television personality of the 1930s to 1950s; Madeleine Allakariallak, former anchor of Igalaaq on CFYK-DT; Andrew Allan, national head of CBC Radio Drama from 1943 to 1955; Tom Allen, host of About Time on CBC Music, formerly Shift; Barbara Amiel; Aba Amuquandoh; Steve Armitage, former CBC-Sports reporter and play-by ...
Although both anchors initially disliked it, the sign-off became famous. Huntley and Brinkley gained great celebrity themselves, with surveys showing them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart or the Beatles. The gregarious Huntley remained the same, a friend commenting in 1968 that "Chet is warm, he's friendly, he's ...