{"id":166460,"date":"2010-01-11T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88278"},"modified":"2010-01-11T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:16:47","slug":"barbara-walters-%e2%80%9cnbc-offered-me-a-job-last-summer%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166460","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Walters: \u201cNBC Offered Me A Job Last Summer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Desperate times calls for desperate measures and it sounds like The Peacock could use a life preserver. Barbara Walters says NBC News tried to hire her back last June, but she decided to stay at ABC.<\/p>\n

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Walters — who spent 13 years on The TODAY Show<\/em> before leaving the network in the late ’70s — says she met with NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker and other officials.<\/p>\n

“Last June, NBC came to me — NBC was my home for so many years before I came to ABC. And to my amazement, they made me an offer to come back to NBC News. At my age, it was a very flattering offer. … The fact that they would make an offer to someone of my age and consider that I still had years ahead was something that I think says something about them…”<\/em> the 80-year-old journalist said Monday on The View<\/em>.<\/p>\n

NBC was even going to allow her to stay on The View<\/em>, but ultimately chose not to go because she\u2019s happy at ABC.<\/p>\n

“It was a very flattering offer,”<\/em> she adds. \u201cSo I just want to say that in spite of the fact it is young, young, they did make me this offer and now I can publicly thank them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Desperate times calls for desperate measures and it sounds like The Peacock could use a life preserver. Barbara Walters says NBC News tried to hire her back last June, but she decided to stay at ABC. Walters — who spent 13 years on The TODAY Show before leaving the network in the late ’70s — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}