NBC - It’s a Whole New NBC - Fall 1992 - Network Promos

Here’s a compilation of NBC promos for the 1992–93 season, with its slogan “It’s a Whole New NBC”. The campaign debuted on June 14, 1992 (a little more earlier than usual in comparison with other previous fall campaigns). By the time these promos aired, several hit shows just ended their runs on the network, such as The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, Night Court, Dear John, Matlock and In The Heat of the Night (the latter two shows were picked by ABC and CBS, respectively). Johnny Carson decided to leave The Tonight Show and was replaced by Jay Leno. NBC dropped to second-place in the ratings after six consecutive seasons on top. And Cheers, which was entering its eleventh and final season, was the only NBC show inside the top-ten. The network’s only true hits for the season were the fall sitcom Mad About You, and the mid-season entry Homicide: Life on the Street. Other new shows joined the network, but were critical and ratings failure; such as Here and Now (starring former Cosby star Malcolm Jamal-Warner), Out All Night (starring Patti Labelle). When the season started, it was a real struggle on every night, even on Thursdays and Saturdays, which were used to be NBC’s powerhouse biggest nights previously. No longer having Cosby on Thursdays, its spin-off A Different World saw its ratings collapse dramatically. Same for Empty Nest, which no longer had The Golden Girls as its fellow sitcom anymore. On Mondays, “The Fresh Prince/Blossom Hour” reached its viewership peak, with Fresh Prince ending inside the top-20, and Blossom inside the top-30 for the first time. Other good thing NBC did midway through the season is moving Seinfeld to Thursdays permanently, after spending a couple of years of struggling viewership on Wednesdays. As a result, Seinfeld ended inside the top-30 for the first time. After the season ended, Mad About You was added to the lineup through the summer of 1993, laying the foundations for what would become the lineup who ended dominating the rest of the 1990s: MUST SEE TV. However, NBC dropped to third place at the end of the 1992-93 season… but that would change in three years. Aside from the Cheers hugely-successful series finale, other popular shows on the network ended its run, such as A Different World and Quantum Leap, which ratings also plummeted when it was moved to Tuesdays. When I’ll Fly Away was canceled, Sam Waterston joined the cast of Law & Order, which was gaining momentum at that time.