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NBC

The common abbreviation for the National Broadcasting Company, which was the first major broadcasting network in the United States. NBC launched as a radio network in 1926 and began television broadcasts in 1938 (it ended its radio component in 2003). With a market share of more than 40% of the viewing audience, it is very popular among advertisers who wish to disseminate their messages to as wide a group as possible.

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And some banks won't make it,'' Obama told NBC television.

Republicans warned on stimulus plan

The dramatic footage was taken by pool correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded in the mosque had also apparently been shot by the Marines.

Video killing probe; Marine taken from front over shooting

The Coalition Provisional Authority had been withholding information about the attack but Bremer acknowledged the event when asked by journalists following a report by NBC television network.

LEAD: Bremer confirms he survived ambush near Baghdad

'The point of no return - where they are on the verge or on the way to get nuclear capabilities - is much, much smaller now, could be even a matter of a year or so', he told NBC television last week".

IRAN - July 15 - US Rebuffs Tehran Offer Of Nuclear Talks

Speaking on the NBC Television program Meet the Press, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice condemned the latest Middle East violence, saying the attack is an attempt to undermine two important summits in the region last week.

Officials: Latest Palestinian Attack Should Not Derail Peace Process

The comment confirmed a report by Tuesday's NBC television network which said Bush is preparing an ultimatum for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein -- disarm in short order or face military action -- and indicated the United States may go ahead and attack Iraq as soon as the end of next week without a U.N.

U.S. may attack Iraq next week if U.N rejects new resolution

Coffee label attract people in the 35- to 46-year-old range while retaining its core audience, the huge promotional, advertising and marketing effort features Carson Daly, the popular host of the "Total Request Live" show on the MTV cable television network and host of the NBC television network's "Last Call with Carson Daly," and Chris Klug, the men's parallel giant slalom snowboard bronze medal winner at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

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"We think that they have every chance of prevailing, " he said in an interview with NBC television. "The more teams we get on the ground, the more effectively we'll bring air power to bear on the Taliban lines."

Taliban authorities' control restricted 'to some enclaves' CAMPAIGN: More elite forces go in, says US general

Wells' Dairy has announced that actor Kelsey Grammer, who stars as Frasier in the NBC television series of the same name, has signed on to produce another series of commercials for Wells' Blue Bunny Premium Ice Creams and Frozen Novelties.

Kelsey Grammer lends voice to Blue Bunny

outbid media giants to buy San Francisco's NBC television station KRON for $823 million in a deal announced in November.

San Francisco station deal worth $823 million

American audiences got their first glimpse of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors as a 1951 NBC Television special.

Have dances, will travel: the late John Butler, a versatile and prolific choreographer, spread his abundant talent around the world, creating ballets for concert performance, for opera, and for television

Johnson, who joined Showtime in 1984 and was promoted to his current position in 1990, is also a rarity in the cable industry because he started his career in television as an NBC Television page while attending UCLA in the early 1970s.