- When he first joined NBC, TV was run on the radio model. Sponsors owned shows, controlled their content and sometimes even dictated when they aired. His ideas took away some of that control. He had the network produce its own shows and then sell commercial time to several advertisers, helping fund the medium. For his contributions, he received two Emmy awards and was inducted into the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 1985.
- Father of Trajan Weaver and Sigourney Weaver
- Graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.
- Served in the US Navy in WWII.
- Creator of Today (1952) and Tonight! (1953).
- On the 1947 Spike Jones record "William Tell Overture," narrator Doodles Weaver names one of the race horses "Flying Sylvester"--an inside joke referring to Sylvester, who is his brother.
- Father-in-law of Jim Simpson.
- Older brother of Doodles Weaver.
- His father was a roofing manufacturer in Los Angeles, CA.
- President and Chairman of National Broadcasting Company (NBC) from 1949-56; in that capacity, he created and/or presided over the birth of such shows as Today (1952), Tonight! (1953), and the radio series "Monitor" which ran from 1955-75.
- Worked at NBC from 1949, when there were only 2,000,000 TV sets in the country, until 1956, when he resigned as chairman of the board.
- Grandfather of Charlotte Simpson.
- Son of Sylvester Laflin Weaver and wife Annabel Dixon.
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