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Sylvester Laflin " Pat " Weaver Jr. [2] (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002) was an American broadcasting executive who was president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcasting 's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment.
18 Mac 2002 · Sylvester L. “Pat” Weaver, a visionary television executive whose programming innovations, including NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and “Today” show, continue to flourish half a century after their...
Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (born 1908) was responsible for some of the most innovative and entertaining programming on both radio and television. He saw radio through its infancy and then moved on to television.
17 Mac 2002 · Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, television pioneer responsible for the creation of the “Today” and “Tonight” shows while he was president of the NBC TV network, died Friday of pneumonia at his Santa...
Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver, Jr. (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002) was an American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been well-known for his commercial broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment.
4 Sep 2022 · This article reexamines Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver’s plans for cultural uplift via NBC television in the 1950s. His ambitions have been the subject of much scholarly research, which often notes his ‘Operation Frontal Lobes’ as influential, citing academic articles published in the 1990s as authoritative.
“Spend an hour with Pat Weaver,” television critic Cecil Smith once observed, “and he’ll spin you a universe of ideas. The last visionary.” This tribute originally appeared in the Television Academy Hall of Fame program celebrating Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, Jr's induction in 1985.
