NBC, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 42Michael Dubin 12Ross Bagdasarian Jr. 5Jimmy Fallon 5Shazi Visram 2Janice Karman 2Chip Wilson 2Robert "Bob" Johnson 1Mark Sisson 1Chieh Huang 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NBC comes up
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
- ▶ 6:44 Michael Dubin So I became a page at the NBC page program. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 Michael Dubin And so, those mini-jobs can be with Saturday Night Live, or Nightly News, or, you know, at that time the Rosie O'Donnell Show was still on the air,
- ▶ 10:22 Michael Dubin So I, I've always been passionate about comedy, and I had heard when I worked at NBC that all of the great comedians that were on SNL had trained in improv, and a lot of them had trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade, which at the time…
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
Advice Line with RJ Scaringe with Rivian
Lenny & Larry’s Protein Snacks: Barry Turner
- ▶ 42:27 Barry Turner Now this is at the height of like the NBC show, Catch a Predator.
Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
- ▶ 30:54 Mark Sisson Of those 20%, 80% are watching ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox.
MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson
- ▶ 6:45 Ally Svenson It was with an NBC affiliate in the Seattle market.
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea
- ▶ 17:33 Andrew Rea Oliver Babish shows up in eight total episodes of the NBC seminal drama, The West Wing.
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
- ▶ 54:26 Shazi Visram And Shine a Light was a competition between American Express and NBC.
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 0:37 Jimmy Fallon Now I just got to convince NBC.
- ▶ 43:09 Jimmy Fallon Now I just got to convince NBC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:57 Guy Raz So, it's 2009, and Jimmy has just become the host of Late Night on NBC.
- ▶ 50:08 Guy Raz Almost two hundred million dollars in revenue for NBC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:17 Jimmy Fallon As long as NBC and the audience would, will have me, I will.
HIBT Lab! The Sorry Girls: Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 7:16 Chieh Huang A lot of the Looney Tunes that was on, uh, some of the X-Men, you know, NBA on NBC back in the day, you know, watching the Knicks versus the Bulls, uh, going out to play basketball.
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
- ▶ 42:34 Chip Wilson So I went on this, uh, program on, I think it was NBC.
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
- ▶ 54:19 Shazi Visram And Shine a Light was a competition between American Express and NBC to shine a light on inspiring new businesses that were actually making it in America.
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman (2017)
- ▶ 2:54 Guy Raz It was one of NBC's biggest hits.
- ▶ 17:06 Janice Karman But, uh, we were, we were very up for it, and as it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.
- ▶ 21:34 Ross Bagdasarian Jr. NBC said to us, hey, um, I know we told you we thought that was a terrible idea and we didn't like the chipmunks, but, um, we now think with those two, uh, platinum albums, maybe that Christmas, uh, special is a good idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:07 Guy Raz After that Christmas special on NBC, um, clearly it was a success because an NBC 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:46 Guy Raz So, it's 1985, and Ross and Janice get through the first season of Alvin and the Chipmunks for NBC. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:23 Guy Raz So, so you are, um, you're making these shows for NBC.
- ▶ 32:19 Guy Raz I mean, it was, it was the television show on NBC. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:56 Guy Raz Here's what I'm curious about, because the show airs on NBC, and, and you are doing original, uh, new episodes until 1990, and then I guess it's in syndication, um, and then you guys decide to move on. 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin
- ▶ 7:04 Michael Dubin So I became a page at the NBC page program. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:27 Michael Dubin You run around NBC, Rockefeller Center, and the studios, and you seat the audiences for the shows, you give tours of the studios, and the trade-off is that they give you an opportunity to take many jobs in different departments. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:40 Michael Dubin And so, those mini-jobs can be with Saturday Night Live, or Nightly News, or, you know, at that time, the Rosie O'Donnell show was still on the air, and you do those, uh, mini-jobs, or assignments for 10 weeks each.
- ▶ 10:42 Michael Dubin So I, I've always been passionate about comedy, and I had heard when I worked at NBC that all of the great comedians that were on SNL had trained in improv, and
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 41:38 Chip Wilson So I went on this, uh, program on, I think it was NBC.
Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
- ▶ 15:39 Robert "Bob" Johnson NBC could have started ESPN if they wanted to, but they didn't.
The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman
- ▶ 1:42 Guy Raz It was one of NBC's biggest hits.
- ▶ 15:54 Janice Karman But, uh, we were, we were very up for it, and as it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.
- ▶ 20:22 Ross Bagdasarian Jr. NBC said to us, hey, um, I know we told you we thought that was a terrible idea and we didn't like the chipmunks, but, um, we now think with those two platinum albums, maybe that Christmas special is a good idea.
- ▶ 22:55 Guy Raz After that Christmas special on NBC, um, clearly it was a success because an NBC 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 Guy Raz So it's 1985, and Ross and Janice get through the first season of Alvin and the Chipmunks for NBC. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Guy Raz So, so you are, um, you're making these shows for NBC.
- ▶ 31:10 Guy Raz I mean, it was, it was the television show on NBC, it was records, it was merchandising, live shows, and, and I guess like syndication, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:35 Ross Bagdasarian Jr. No, not at, NBC didn't get a piece at all.
- ▶ 34:48 Guy Raz Here's what I'm curious about, because the show airs on NBC, and, and you are doing original, uh, new episodes until 1990, and then I guess it's in syndication, um, and then you guys decide to move on. 2 times in the scene