On September 24th 1996, WILD FEED TV producer Jed Rosenzweig received the first of several letters from NBC's legal department, threatening him with jail time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and fines. The network's letter demanded -- in no uncertain terms -- that Rosenzweig abandon any plans to include NBC feeds as part of a local cablecast of WILD FEED TV in New York City.

Specifically, NBC's lawyers objected to a published report that one episode of the program presented a full half hour feed of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. This otherwise innocuous feed included one revealing moment where the NBC anchor gossiped about his CBS rival, Dan Rather. Claiming copyright infringement and violations of the Communications Act, the Safe Streets Act and several other federal statutes, the network succeeded in blocking WILD FEED TV's cablecast of the Brokaw Feed.

Click here to read the legal correspondence between NBC's lawyers and Rosenzweig in late September 1996, followed by Rosenzweig's letter to NBC News Vice President William Wheatley, written several weeks later.