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Word: nbc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned back to the scene with the assailant." During those numbing, terrifying seconds, says Brown, 32, a Viet Nam veteran, "I had to keep telling myself, 'Hank, do your job. Keep rolling. If you do it, it will help ABC and the police.' " Adds NBC Cameraman Sheldon Fielman, 42, who, eerily, had joined NBC the day President Kennedy was killed: "When it was over, me and my partner went back into the lobby and just shook. My leg was in spasms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Story Made for Television | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...finally find the NBC van where we are to pick up our tickets. NBC has graciously provided us with two seats at the game. But the lady in the van has graciously misplaced them. While she searches, we walk around the park...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: A New Beginning | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...drizzle has stopped. We go back to the van, but the lady says our tickets still haven't arrived. She asks us if we'd like to wait in NBC's VIP tent since we have had to wait so long. The drizzle is back. We accept...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: A New Beginning | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...launch wouldn't be a launch without television. CBS and NBC reopened the old studio shacks they had used during the glory days. ABC, which had closed its down, had to build a new one. But the ABC structure--complete with studio and panoramic plate-glass windows for viewing the launch--was installed backwards. It faced not pad 39A, from which the shuttle blasts off, but a swamp. So ABC had to call a crane to turn the entire two-story pine box around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Officials Predict Shuttle Success | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission of my messengers Peter and Paul. And to you, ABC, I say that you shall relate the story of my brave people at the Battle of Masada." And the third elder, the Pharisee of NBC, asked: "What about me, Lord?" And the Lord God said: "Sorry, Man of Silver, this isn 't your year." But for the good elders, God did part the Red Ink, and the words and pictures of the Lord were brought to the houses of the children of Nielsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Networks Get Religion | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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