Word: nbc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ELECTION DAY 1980. At 8:14 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, just under three hours before the polls closed in California, NBC News announced that, based on exit polling. Ronald Reagan would be the next president. Meanwhile, California Democratic congressman James C. Corman was hanging onto a slim lead in his reelection bid. By the end of the night, however, Corman had lost his seat by only 752 votes out of the 150,000 cast...
...turn out, hurting those on the ticket whose races have not yet been decided. Ostensibly, had Carter's fate not been prematurely broadcast on national television, more Democrats would have decided to vote between six and eight o'clock Pacific time, probably returning Corman to his seat. But instead, NBC went public and Bobbi Fiedler is now the representative for California's 21st Congressional District...
Carson will celebrate his 20th anniversary in customary fashion this Sunday, Oct. 3, with a two-hour special (NBC, 9-11 p.m. E.D.S.T.) that will feature the usual complement of comedy, conversation and glitz, along with video-taped glimpses at the family album. If a few things go wrong along the way, so much the better. Carson's comedy thrives on crisis. It is fueled by failure. Carson craves bad jokes. They are the rough sand he turns into pearls...
...N.F.L.'s wealth and worries flow from television, and the strike represents a crisis for both industries. Renegotiations and readjustments between the league and the networks and between the networks and their advertisers could be devastating all around. At 30-sec. rates ranging from $80,000 on an NBC Sunday afternoon to $150,000 on an ABC Monday night, advertisers had been prepared to spend $400 million this year for the attention of pro football fans...
Each network had a different plan to try to hold on to the audience: ABC showing movies, CBS rerunning games from last season and, in the nearest alternative to live N.F.L. football, NBC reprising the Canadian Football League it dropped nearly 30 years ago. (In Canada, there are always twelve men on the field, it is never fourth down, and signaling for a fair catch is not only unmanly but futile.) The first reactions of advertisers to all three ideas were polite but unenthralled. Then the National Collegiate Athletic Association authorized one college football game for each Sunday...