6 January 2013 2:42 PM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »

NBC’s top executives took to the press tour stage in Pasadena with a newly discovered personality trait: Cockiness.

Year after year, NBC was hammered by critics at these semi-annual TV critic panels as the network dipped lower and lower in the ratings. With NBC jumping to first place this fall, entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt and reality chief Paul Telegdy, along with programming president Jennifer Salke, faced the hotel ballroom of reporters on Sunday with some Peacock confidence. Greenblatt noted that Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly recently said “a lot of us have our head up our asses.”

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