Word: nbctv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of all this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television and won a bright new feather for his very old hat. In a space of eight months, Berle's Texaco Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) has made him the undisputed No. 1 performer on U.S. TV. His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven...
Griffiths' profit record at RCA since he took over in 1976 has generally been good. Subsidiaries like Hertz rent-a-car have helped bolster income, but NBCTV, once RCA's proud peacock, has lagged sadly behind the other networks...