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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.
Mar 18, 2002 · March 18, 2002 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Sylvester L. “Pat” Weaver, a visionary television executive whose programming innovations, including NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and “Today” show,...
The brainchild of NBC president Pat Weaver, TODAY was conceived back in the early 1950s as a two-hour morning TV show that would be both entertaining and informative. Though he'd settled on the ...
Mar 17, 2002 · Mar 17, 2002 3:10pm PT. Pat Weaver dies at 93. Pioneer of NBC, father of Sigourney Weaver. By Richard Natale. Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, television pioneer responsible for the creation of...
Weaver was the creative force behind Fred Allen's popular radio show Town Hall Tonight in the 1930s. As an executive with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the 1950s, he created such enduring programs as the Today show and the Tonight show. Source for information on Pat Weaver: Encyclopedia of World Biography dictionary.
Jan 14, 2022 · Weaver, the founding producer, went on to run all of NBC Entertainment. Decades later, wunderkind executive producer Jeff Zucker went on to run all of NBC.
Mar 18, 2002 · March 17, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. EST. 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...
