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M11 NBC.jpg|An NBC exec in ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]'' rejects [[the Muppets]]' show pitch. |
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| − | Sat nbc 1985.jpg|The [[Gummi Bears]] on a print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1985. |
+ | Sat nbc 1985.jpg|The [[Gummi Bears]] and [[Spider-Man]] on a print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1985. |
Sat nbc 1986.jpg|[[Gruffi Gummi|Gruffi]] and [[Tummi Gummi]] on a print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1986. |
Sat nbc 1986.jpg|[[Gruffi Gummi|Gruffi]] and [[Tummi Gummi]] on a print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1986. |
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Sat87-1.jpg|[[Tummi Gummi]] on a localized print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1986 (in this case, KNBC in [[Los Angeles, California]]). |
Sat87-1.jpg|[[Tummi Gummi]] on a localized print ad for NBC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1986 (in this case, KNBC in [[Los Angeles, California]]). |
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Revision as of 05:47, 20 July 2016
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is one of the four major television networks in the United States. From 1961 to 1981, and 1988 to 1990, it aired the Disney anthology television series, which first ran on ABC from 1954 to 1961 as Disneyland. Upon its move to NBC, it changed its name to Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and later renamed Wonderful World of Disney. From 1985 to 1989, Disney's first animated television series, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, aired on NBC on Saturday mornings.
Today, NBC is a subsidiary of NBC Universal, which, in turn, is owned by General Electric. In 2009, it was announced that cable system owner Comcast would gradually take over NBC Universal operations from GE, paying US $20 billion over a ten year period.
In 1938, The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air aired on NBC radio stations to promote the February 1938 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 1950, Disney's very first television special, One Hour in Wonderland, aired on NBC to promote the upcoming release of Alice in Wonderland.'
The Buena Vista Television-produced game show Win, Lose or Draw (which was revived on the Disney Channel in 2014) aired on the network's daytime lineup from 1987 to 1989 with Vicki Lawrence as host; some of NBC's owned-and-operated stations, including WTVJ in Miami, aired the concurrent syndicated edition until 1990.
In the 2011 film The Muppets, NBC is one of the three networks that turn down The Muppet Telethon, the others being FOX and Univision.
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