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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.
Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. 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.
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.
Mar 15, 2002 · Sylvester L. “Pat" Weaver Jr. was an American radio advertising executive, who became 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 25, 2002 · The television world lost one of its brightest luminaries on March 15 with the death of Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, the creator of NBC's Today and Tonight shows.
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 the...
Jan 13, 1994 · He began that job in the early days of the medium - in 1949 - and was the creator of two of television's longest running shows, the "Today" show and the "Tonight" show. WEAVER started...
