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    Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002) was an American broadcasting executive who was president of NBC between 1953 and...
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    a British actress and a native of Colchester, England. Weaver's father, Sylvester "Pat" Weaver Jr., was an American television executive born in Los Angeles...
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    to Sylvester Laflin Weaver, a wealthy roofing contractor, and Nellie Mabel (Amabel) Dixon Weaver. His older brother was Pat Weaver, who served as the president...
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    married Pat Weaver (1908–2002), an American broadcasting executive. He was president of NBC television between 1953 and 1955. After marrying Weaver, she...
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  • programs until 1972. Pat Weaver, a former president of NBC, twice attempted to launch his own television network; daughter Sigourney Weaver once said, "it was...
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  • director Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. (see Pat Weaver, above) Warren Weaver (1894–1978), mathematician and author of Weaver's memorandum for machine...
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    on home video. The 90-minute live series was produced by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver and directed by Max Liebman, who had been producing musical revues at...
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  • known use of the phrase was in a speech about television by NBC president Pat Weaver at the Institute of Practitioners of Advertising in London on September...
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  • Sylvester Weaver may refer to: Sylvester Weaver (musician) (1897–1960), American blues guitarist Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (1908–2002), American radio and...
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    11pm to midnight. One of the pioneering TV creations of NBC president Pat Weaver, it demonstrated the potential for late-night programming and led to the...
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  • "Wingnut" Weaver (born 1965) is an American surfer. He has appeared in several of Bruce Brown's surf films, starring in three of them alongside Pat O'Connell...
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  • "Pat" Solitano Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (De Niro and Weaver)....
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  • Caesar Walter Cronkite Joyce Hall Rod Serling Ed Sullivan Sylvester "Pat" Weaver 3rd induction (1986) Steve Allen Fred Coe Walt Disney Jackie Gleason...
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  • home-entertainment medium. The show was the brainchild of Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, whose career bridged classic radio and television's infancy and who...
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    Weaver George Bricker Regis "Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter" (2.09) "A Black Day for Mayberry" (4.07) Weaver was the brother of former NBC president Pat Weaver...
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    entertainment show, on NBC. One of the pioneering TV creations of NBC president Pat Weaver, it demonstrated the potential for late-night programming and led to the...
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    program oriented toward women, which was conceived by network president Pat Weaver to complement the network's Today and Tonight programs. In 1954, she appeared...
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    11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the East Coast. While Today developer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver often is credited as the Tonight creator, Allen often pointed out that...
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    Theater in the fall of 1948. In early 1949, Caesar and Liebman met with Pat Weaver, vice president of television at NBC, which led to Caesar's first series...
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  • and comedian Irene Ryan while the principal speaker was NBC president Pat Weaver. References: Ogilvie, Jack W. (1971). "A.C.E. Calendar of Events". In...
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  • Mazer, made cameo appearances in the film. Sigourney Weaver, whose father Sylvester "Pat" Weaver had been a top network television executive, also worked...
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    Miss Monitor on NBC's Monitor, a 40-hour weekend radio show developed by Pat Weaver. Born in Midville, Georgia, the daughter of a banker, Thurman originally...
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  • Frost, Regis Philbin, Alan Thicke, Jerry Lewis, Joan Rivers, David Brenner, Pat Sajak, Ron Reagan, Dennis Miller, and most notably Steve Allen, Arsenio Hall...
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    Novel about Love and TV (Doubleday, 1957), based on television pioneer Pat Weaver; it took Kovacs only 13 days to write. The book took its title from the...
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    George Daniel "Buck" Weaver (August 18, 1890 – January 31, 1956) was an American shortstop and third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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    old, and Mennella trained him. He appeared on the Perry Como Show and Pat Weaver of the Today Show saw potential in him; Mennella had an appointment with...
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  • on June 12, 1955, was Monitor, a creation of NBC President Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who also created the innovative programs Today, The Tonight Show and...
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    In 1980, he appeared in the short-lived police series Stone with Dennis Weaver. Hingle played Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three...
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    by Willie Geist. Today anchors started out as "Communicators". Creator Pat Weaver envisioned a person whose responsibilities would go beyond the bounds...
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  • habits began to be reflected in overall television ratings. Sylvester "Pat" Weaver was fired in 1956 after his strategy of programming highbrow "spectacular"...
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