- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSylvester Laflin Weaver Jr.
- Nickname
- Pat
- No one in the broadcast television industry -- in the U.S. or abroad -- will doubt for an instant that Sylvester (Pat) Weaver has been its foremost creative force. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Elenor Isabel (Dixon) and Sylvester Laflin Weaver. From commercial television's nascent days at the end of the 1940s, Weaver virtually pioneered the very concepts of morning TV and late-night TV. Aside from those formats, he championed only excellence in television programming. It was by his wisdom that early TV escaped from the captivity of the rules of radio and would soon blossom into the medium that it has become.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>
- SpouseElizabeth Inglis(January 23, 1942 - March 15, 2002) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- RelativesDoodles Weaver(Sibling)
- 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 The Tonight Show (1953).
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