About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Top Cat, NBA on NBC, Maverick, Bozo the Clown, Sir Francis Drake, Cheyenne, The Huckleberry Hound Show, General Electric Theater, Father Knows Best, Out of This World, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, Calvin and the Colonel, The Alvin Show, The ABC Sunday Night Movie, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, The Dick Tracy Show, Pete and Gladys, Bus Stop, Herge's Adventures of Tintin, Face to Face, Follow the Sun, Outlaws, Diver Dan, Thriller, Video Village, Supercar, The Law and Mr. Jones, The Everglades, Camouflage, 87th Precinct, The Hathaways, Mrs. G. Goes to College, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, The New Breed, Target: The Corruptors!, Bachelor Father, Frontier Circus, Lawman, Cain's Hundred, Checkmate, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Tales of Wells Fargo, Bronco, Surfside 6, Ichabod and Me, Margie, The Dark Island, Father of the Bride, Straightaway, Garry Halliday, The Clear Horizon, Here's Hollywood, Hennesey, Room for One More, The Brighter Day, Window on Main Street, Adventures in Paradise, The Tall Man, The Roaring 20s, National Velvet, Matty's Funday Funnies, 1, 2, 3 Go!, The Big Payoff, PM East/PM West, The New Bob Cummings Show, Our Five Daughters, The Amazing Mr. Malone, The Bob Newhart Show. Excerpt: NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from 1955 to 1962, and again from 1990 to 2002. The NBA on NBC succeeded the NBA on CBS. During NBC's partnership with the NBA in the 1990s, the league rose to unprecedented popularity for the sport, with ratings surpassing the days of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the mid-eighties. The program started on November 9, 1989 when the NBA and NBC reached an agreement on a four-year, $600 million contract. On April 28, 1993, NBC extended their exclusive broadcast rights to the...