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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 ...
Award Theatre (also known by its full title, Schaefer Award Theatre) was a recurring television showcase of major first-run motion pictures aired between 1959 and 1968, and revived briefly in 1970. In New York City, the program ran primarily on WCBS-TV (Channel 2), except for two occasions in 1970 when it was shown on WNBC-TV (Channel 4).
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 ...
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).
NBC Owned Television Stations (formerly NBC Local Media and NBC Television Stations Division (TVSD) [4]) is the division of NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations (NBCUniversal), a subsidiary of Comcast that oversees the NBC owned-and-operated television stations, Cozi TV network, LXTV and Skycastle Entertainment, its in-house marketing and promotion company.
Live at Five or Live at 5 is a name used by several television stations to refer to their 5:00 pm newscasts or talk shows, including (but not limited to): . Live at Five (WNBC TV series) in New York City, United States
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 ...
When ratings for the news block crumbled in 1980, WNBC decided to pour its resources into its 6 p.m. newscast, which would feature its best reporters, while the 5 p.m. newscast would be more of an interview and lifestyle program with news headlines featured at the top of the show.