Nbc famous quotes
07-15-2025
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It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.
-- Al Michaels -
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
-- Amy Poehler -
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
-- Ann Curry -
I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC
-- Ashleigh Banfield -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
-- Barbara Walters -
The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
-- Bill Vaughan -
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment, .. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.
-- Bob Wright -
Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.
-- Brian Roberts -
The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.
-- Carson Daly -
NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.
-- Carson Daly -
What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.
-- Cecily Strong -
I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.
-- Dave Foley -
When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
-- Dick Gregory -
I did do an American pilot, but it wasnt shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called The Philanthropist, and it was for NBC.
-- Dominique McElligott -
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
-- Gabriel Macht -
NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.
-- Gillian Jacobs -
USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.
-- Gore Vidal -
Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.
-- Isaiah Mustafa -
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
-- Jane Pauley -
We had President Obama on the show last night. I think the president enjoys visiting NBC because we're the only place that has lower numbers than he does.
-- Jay Leno -
The worst thing about losing this job: I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare.
-- Jay Leno -
I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
-- Jeff Zucker -
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
-- Jessica Savitch -
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
-- Jim Henson -
I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.
-- Jim Lampley -
Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
-- John Oliver -
It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.
-- Keith Olbermann -
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
-- Lara Spencer -
When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.
-- Lee Cowan -
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
-- Leonard Maltin -
If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.
-- Lindsay Davenport -
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving new meaning to the established JFK chronology, hes created a brand new one altogether.Surrounded by Enemiesis an exhilarating ride, full of twists and turns that never were, but surely could have been.
-- Melissa Rosenberg -
One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
-- Michael Gartner -
I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
-- Rachel Nichols -
I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.
-- Skitch Henderson -
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
-- Tabitha Soren -
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.
-- Willard Scott -
After making insulting remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump has been kicked off of NBC and Univision. On the bright side, Trump's hair has a new show on Animal Planet.
-- Conan O'Brien -
NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.
-- Conan O'Brien -
NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To Extradition.'
-- Conan O'Brien -
There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, 'Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby.'
-- Conan O'Brien -
After Donald Trump's derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially cancelled Celebrity Apprentice. Think about it: Donald Trump isn't even president yet, and he's already made America a better place!
-- Conan O'Brien -
NBC executives say that if Donald Trump does run for president, they will not renew The Apprentice. So some good may come out of this.
-- Conan O'Brien -
NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.
-- Conan O'Brien -
I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.
-- Joyce Giraud -
Relatively speaking, I know what my other deficiencies are. Cosmetically, I'm not 28 and stunning. The fact that NBC appreciates what I do means a great deal to me because I know that without my reporting skills and my experience and all of that, I might not have a fighting chance.
-- Michele Tafoya -
I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it as an event. I'll be honest, we did shoot it with the idea of it being an on-going series, but because I am insane when I get to the end of a season and they give you a big, giant cliff-hanger with no answers, I insisted that we provide all the answers to the questions that we set up, at the beginning.
-- Remi Aubuchon -
And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would have one. But, there will be none of those maddening teases that we're going to tell you the answers and then we don't tell you the answers. That gave NBC the idea of making it a mini-series.
-- Remi Aubuchon -
I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.
-- Remi Aubuchon -
It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.
-- Robert Greenblatt -
Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.
-- Ben Shapiro -
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
-- Deborah Copaken -
I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
-- Will McDonough
