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12-month paid fellowship with NBC
The distinctive NBC page uniform, with a photo of Jack McBrayer , who portrayed NBC page Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock
The NBC Page Program is a 12-month paid fellowship at the NBCUniversal studios in New York City and Universal City, California .[1] NBC Studios in New York City. Notable people who began their careers as NBC pages include Gregory Peck , Eva Marie Saint , Regis Philbin , Michael Eisner , Ted Koppel , Trevor Moore and Aubrey Plaza .[2]
Background [ edit ]
NBC Page giving a tour in 2009 at Rockefeller Center .
NBC began the page program in 1933 at its Rockefeller Center headquarters,[3] owned-and-operated stations , such as WRC in Washington, D.C. where future Today Show Willard Scott was an NBC page.
Selection is highly competitive, with only 212 pages selected a year out of more than 16,000 applicants.[4] Ivy League universities.[5] [6]
Pages regularly get to work on such programs as The Tonight Show Saturday Night Live PR ), marketing, development, TV music services, and production in a variety of shows and special projects. Many pages go on to careers with NBC or other broadcast media, and a number have become celebrities or leaders of the industry in their own right.[6]
In popular culture [ edit ]
In the NBC sitcom 30 Rock Saturday Night Live Tina Fey , Jack McBrayer portrays a zealous, smiling, do-good NBC page named Kenneth Parcell , who appears as a page through the show's seven seasons despite pages usually only being employed for a year.[2] immortal ) based on his looks. (For example, in Season 5's "When it Rains, it Pours", Kenneth is seen nostalgically packing away a signed photograph of Fred Allen from 1947, dedicated: "Kenneth, you're the TOPS!" into a box marked "NBC Memories 1945-1967".)
Notable NBC pages [ edit ]
Dave Garroway , former NBC page
Notable former NBC pages include:
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Steinhauser, Si (8 May 1935). "Radio Chiefs Train Studio Guides For Bigger Posts In Broadcasting" . The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 27 November 2010 .
^ "Home | NBCUnicareers" . NBCUniversal Careers . Retrieved 9 December 2014 .
^ Johnson, Jenna (2011-05-12). "Life of an NBC page isn't quite like '30 Rock' . The Washington Post .
^ a b c d e f g Buckley, Cara (October 13, 2008). "For NBC Pages, 'Please Follow Me' Is a Fervent Wish" . The New York Times . Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
^ Grimes, William (24 December 2010). "Clay Cole, Host of TeenageDance Shows, dies at 72" . The New York Times . Retrieved 27 December 2010 .
^ Murray, Michael D., ed. (1998). Encyclopedia of television news ISBN 1-57356-108-8 . Retrieved July 15, 2010 .
^ Barber-Just, Christina, "Live on Today: Sara Haines '00 makes her mark on America's number one morning show" , SAQ , Spring 2010, Smith College Alumni Association
^ "Mickey and Becki" . Mickey and Becki. Archived from the original on 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2015-03-07 .
^ "Home" .
^ "Announcer Gene Rayburn" . American Profile . 2003-10-05. Retrieved 2018-11-06 .
^ "Willard Scott — Weather Reporter and Centenarian" . MSNBC . 2004-12-10. Archived from the original on 2004-12-11. Retrieved February 4, 2008 .
^ "The War Room's Michael Shure Dishes On Current TV, Tom Brokaw, And Dan Abrams" . Mediaite. 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-09-03 .
^ Needleman, Sarah E. (2009-09-29). "Lara Spencer and 'The Insider' . The Wall Street Journal New York : Dow Jones . ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 11 December 2013 .
^ "Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Star of '77 Sunset Strip' and 'The F.B.I.', Dies at 95" . The New York Times . May 3, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NBC_page&oldid=1233659758 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● M a s s m e d i a o c c u p a t i o n s ● E n t e r t a i n m e n t o c c u p a t i o n s ● N B C ● M a s s m e d i a i n N e w Y o r k C i t y ● U n i v e r s a l C i t y , C a l i f o r n i a H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n i s d i f f e r e n t f r o m W i k i d a t a ● A r t i c l e s w i t h a p r o m o t i o n a l t o n e f r o m J a n u a r y 2 0 2 4 ● A l l a r t i c l e s w i t h a p r o m o t i o n a l t o n e
● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 1 0 J u l y 2 0 2 4 , a t 0 7 : 2 0 ( U T C ) . ● T e x t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r t h e C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s A t t r i b u t i o n - S h a r e A l i k e L i c e n s e 4 . 0 ;
a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
