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   Who is Pat Weaver?

   • Pat Weaver was born in Los Angeles on December 21, 1908, one of four children of Sylvester L. Weaver and Isabel Dixon Weaver. Weaver's father was a successful roofing manufacturer. As a young man, Weaver worked in his father's Los Angeles sales office and New York business office, but he did not enjoy the business.

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   How did Pat Weaver influence NBC?

   • NBC’s current chairman, Bob Wright, called Weaver “the first major creative force in television programming and one of the most innovative executives in the history of television. Pat’s influence on NBC is still seen by millions of viewers every day, from the ‘Today’ show to ‘The Tonight Show’ and much else in between.”

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   How did Pat Weaver die?

   • 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 introduction, has died. He was 93. Weaver died Friday night of pneumonia at his home in Santa Barbara, but his death was not reported until late Saturday.

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   Why did John Weaver create today?

   • In 1951, Weaver finally sold an idea for a show he had been developing for several years: an early morning news show that both educated and entertained. Weaver named the show Today. After finally convincing the network that people would watch television that early in the morning, Weaver began the creation of Today.

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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 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.

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   Mar 18, 2002 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. 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...

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   Pat Weaver. 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. Weaver was the creative force behind Fred Allen's popular radio show Town Hall Tonight in the 1930s.

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   Mar 17, 2002 · By Richard Natale. 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...

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   Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, Jr., perhaps the medium’s most creative executive, virtually fashioned television as it exists today. During the days when the new medium was still the plaything of sponsors and their advertising agencies, Weaver determined that the control of television must shift to the networks.

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   Mar 17, 2002 · LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Sylvester ``Pat'' Weaver, who created NBC's ``Today'' and ``Tonight'' shows, brought opera and a flurry of new commercials to TV and shaped the way Americans watched the...

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    Mar 18, 2002 · LOS ANGELES -- Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, 93, who created NBC's "Today" and "Tonight" shows, brought opera and a flurry of new commercials to television and shaped the way Americans watched...