The financial terms of Mr. Brokaw's new NBC contract were not disclosed.

Union members have twice rejected NBC contract offers.

Tarses had 18 months left on her NBC contract when she started talking to ABC early last year.

Mr. Shoemaker's NBC contract expired with no further auditions.

Mr. Leno said yesterday he had agreed to an extension of his NBC contract to keep him as host of the "Tonight" show through 2003.

In 1946, Crosby revolutionized the entertainment world when he walked out on his NBC contract, which forbade him from prerecording his radio show.

Riley is in the first year of a four-year NBC contract that pays him $400,000 a year.

The NBC contract, which was announced on Nov. 9, will increase the number of regular-season televised games to 20-26, up from 16.

The three-year NBC contract represents Albert's fourth job, one year after he had been jobless.

Reeves was a great success, and signed an NBC contract for "three and a half."