History Creator / NBC

* ''Series/ThenCameBronson'' (1969-1970)

After 2000, ratings on NBC started to slip across the board, and the glory days of the 1980s-90s gave way to years of seemingly intractable poor performance. The once-invincible Thursday night block faced stiff competition in the UsefulNotes/{{ratings}} by ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' and ''Series/{{CSI}}'' on Creator/{{CBS}} and by ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' on Creator/{{ABC}}, causing the network to slip into fourth place with ratings more like those on Creator/TheCW than the other three major networks.

NBC (through [=NBCUniversal=]) also owns many other channels, among them Creator/{{Syfy}}, Creator/{{USA|Network}} (home of shows like ''Series/{{Monk}}'' and ''Series/{{Psych}}'') Bravo, Oxygen, [[Creator/TheENetwork E!]], the US version of the Olympic Channel, Golf Channel and Creator/UniversalKids. [=NBCUniversal=] also owns plenty of regional sports and news networks. (previously under Comcast) This means that there is often some synergization between the networks, such as former Comcast channel Versus becoming the NBC Sports Network and Golf Channel and Sprout getting their own blocks on NBC (Golf Channel on NBC and NBC Kids, respectively). Local stations with a Comcast Sportsnet in the market also have had their sports department merged in for cost efficiencies. Creator/{{G4TV}} was originally planned to become Esquire Network, but that fell through for various reasons; the network would close on December 31, 2014.

In May 2014, NBC and the IOC shocked everybody by announcing that the Olympics would remain on NBC and their sister networks until '''[[LongRunner 2032]]''' in an unprecedented deal which means that NBC is the major funder of the Olympic movement; in other countries the rights are purchased by each broadcaster by individual Olympiad due to budget concerns. This means that nearly half of the Olympics in the television age would air on NBC, with anyone born after 1998 not even associating it being carried by another network in their lifetime.

* '''''Series/DaysOfOurLives''''' (1965-present)

* '''''[[Series/MagnumPI2018 Magnum P.I.]]''''' (TBA)
* '''''Series/MakingIt''''' (2018-present)

* '''''Series/{{New Amsterdam|2018}}''''' (2018-present)

** ''Series/NightCourt2023'' (2023-present)

** '''''Series/{{Quantum Leap|2022}}''''' (2022-)

* '''''Series/TheWheel''''' (2022)

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' (2000)

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* '''''Series/TheVoice''''' (2011-present)

* '''''Series/TheWall''''' (2016-present)

* '''''Series/TheWeakestLink''''' (2001-02, 2020-present)
* ''Series/TheWesterner'' (1960

* ''Series/AdamTwelve'' (1968-75)

Some of the biggest flops in the network's history, such as ''Series/{{Supertrain}}'', ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'', and [[DorkAge the 1980-81]] [[SeasonalRot season]] of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', date from this era, with only a few successes (such as ''Real People'', ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', ''Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters'') to speak of. The final straw was the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, which prompted the US Olympic team to boycott the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames 1980 Moscow Olympics]] — and NBC, having bet the farm on Olympic programming that year, found itself broadcasting an event that Americans, without the home team to root for, couldn't care less about (it only did a grudging ClipShow to keep the diehards who couldn't care less about politics happy). Between RCA funding bad investments in an attempt to diversify (something that had been going on since a management change in the mid-1960s), the TroubledProduction that was the [[UsefulNotes/{{CED}} SelectaVision video disc]], the shift in TV sales from US brands to Japanese ones [[note]](indeed, some of ''RCA's own products'' {specifically their VHS UsefulNotes/{{VCR}}s} were already being made in Japan by Panasonic, which was itself a side effect of [=SelectaVision=]'s endless delays[[/note]], and NBC's continued poor performance, some wondered if the network would be shut down or sold off to keep RCA from going bankrupt.

Indeed, even much of NBC's ''own staff'' thought little of Silverman. On ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', series writer and occasional performer Creator/AlFranken satirized Silverman in a May 10, 1980 Weekend Update commentary titled "A Limo For The Lame-O" (part of an ongoing series of commentaries about the 1980s being "the Al Franken decade"), calling Silverman "a total unequivocal failure" and showing a chart of the top 20 network shows, pointing out that there were no big N's on the list under the "Network" heading; he further said that because of this, Silverman didn't deserve a limo but Franken himself ''did''. Silverman, ostensibly '''not''' one to take a joke, nixed Lorne Michaels' request that Franken succeed him as executive producer of ''SNL'', which not only killed any hope of the 1980s truly being the Al Franken decade, but caused Michaels to be replaced with Jean Doumanian instead, leading to the show's DorkAge in the 1980-81 season. Creator/JohnnyCarson also fought a dispute with Silverman, attempting to take his ''Tonight Show'' to ABC; this dispute was resolved with a cut-down of [[Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson the show]] from 90 to 60 minutes in September of 1980.