A Sunday morning talk show is a television program with a news / talk / public affairs –hybrid format that is broadcast on Sunday mornings. This type of program originated in the United States , and has since been used in other countries.
134-559: NBC Nightly News or just Nightly News (titled as NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News , the news division of the NBC television network in the United States. First aired on August 3, 1970, the program is currently the second most watched network newscast in the United States, behind ABC 's World News Tonight . NBC Nightly News
268-936: A Chinook helicopter shot down by enemy fire from a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he was in fact aboard a helicopter that followed behind it. This came after he received criticism by U.S. soldiers for embellishing the story when a segment from the January 30, 2015, broadcast recounting the incident was posted on the program's Facebook page. The revelation spurred negative press towards Williams, including some asking for him to be fired by NBC News, although Paul Rieckhoff , founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , stated that “persecuting [Williams] over this mistake will do little to help our veterans and service members”. Amid that controversy and questions over Williams' claims that made regarding his experiences while reporting from New Orleans on
402-520: A technical director , floor director audio technician , and a television crew of operators running character graphics (CG), teleprompters , and professional video cameras . Most news shows are broadcast live. Radio news is transmitted through the medium of radio , meaning it is audio-only. It was a dominant form of information dissemination to households from the 1910s–1940s before home televisions became cheap and common. Radio news has persisted, often with short updates at certain intervals on
536-608: A 10-minute newscast at 10:55 pm, following The National , these were expanded to a half-hour and moved to 11:00 p.m. during the fall of 2012). Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6:00 am, and ending at 9:00 am). Unlike in the United States, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot are relatively uncommon (three Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – CKND-DT , CFSK-DT , and CFRE-DT – and Victoria, British Columbia independent station CHEK-DT are
670-527: A Saturday evening newscast in 1961, with Sander Vanocur anchoring the NBC Saturday Night Report . Four years later, NBC correspondents Ray Scherer and Robert MacNeil were partnered at the anchor desk on The Scherer-MacNeil Report on Saturdays, continuing until 1967. At that time, the network replaced it with a second weekend airing of The Frank McGee Report , which had been airing on Sundays for several years by that point. The Saturday edition of
804-658: A broadcast on HBO for a few years despite starting as a YouTube channel, for example, eventually transferring the show to their own network called Viceland and later Vice On TV. Outside the realm of traditional news organizations with paid journalists are citizen journalists , independents who report on their own and use sites such as YouTube to display their content. Independents also heavily cover commentary on news: while most independents cannot originally report on anything other than local issues due to budgetary concerns, opinions are cheaper. As such, Internet journalism has many video broadcasts & podcasts of opinion closer to
938-485: A channel number or call letters , the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit. The Big Three broadcast television networks produce morning and evening national newscasts. These newscasts are focused on world news, national news, and sometimes local news items that have some national significance. ( Good Morning America First Look , Good Morning America , and ABC World News are broadcast by ABC , CBS broadcasts
1072-419: A commercial-free rebroadcast of all five shows in rapid succession, beginning at 12 noon Eastern . Other radio stations rebroadcast some of the shows with commercials on Sunday afternoons. Many local television stations (both commercial and non-commercial ) also produce their own programs that air in this time frame, generally focusing on local or state politics rather than national issues, and may play off
1206-446: A competitor, tended not to use live broadcast as a style, except when streaming existing television programs. Another change in news broadcasts in the 2000s, at least in the United States, was a rediscovered interest in health news and consumer news – areas of special interest to women that had traditionally been written off as too minor for the evening newscasts, but proved to be steady sources of viewer curiosity and ratings. Unlike in
1340-516: A conversion to HD, which was completed in 2009. The Nightly News set in Studio 3C , which had been in use since January 27, 1992, was retired on May 4, 2007. The broadcast temporarily relocated to Studio 8G on the same set as of May 8, 2007, used for the studio segments seen during the network's Sunday Night Football broadcasts and its pregame show , and where NBC's 2006 Congressional election coverage originated. After months of construction, Studio 3C
1474-440: A daily flagship evening newscast Noticias Telemundo , along with weekday morning program Hoy Día (which replaced Un Nuevo Día in 2021) and weekday afternoon newsmagazine Al Rojo Vivo ; Estrella TV , which produces the weekday-only flagship news program Noticiero Estrella TV and the primetime newscast Cierre de Edición ; and Azteca América , which produces morning, early and late evening newscasts on weekdays under
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#17328512228201608-498: A day, often filling late afternoon, primetime, and late night hours with news-based talk programs, documentaries, and other specialty programming. More often, AM radio stations will air a 6½-minute newscast at the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio , CNN Radio , NPR , Fox News Radio , or ABC News Radio , or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air
1742-449: A decade. Williams rose to new levels of popularity for his live spot reporting during and after the 2005 hurricane season . With the transition to Williams, the show recognized its past in its opening seconds, with small photos of past anchors and sets and the voices of John Cameron Swayze , Huntley, Brinkley, Chancellor, and Brokaw, as well as an orchestral version of the "G-E-C" NBC Chimes serving as an intro bumper, before going into
1876-482: A financial news channel, while Sun News Network briefly operated from 2011 to 2015 as a conservative -leaning competitor to the other national news channels. There are also a handful of regional news channels, such as CP24 (which covers the Greater Toronto Area ), and Global News: BC 1 , which covers Vancouver. CityNews Channel formerly operated as a competitor to CP24, although that channel shut down after
2010-555: A larger network affiliate or whose operations are jointly managed through a shared service or local marketing agreement . In cases where a station with an existing news department enters into a news share agreement, it will result either the two departments merging or the outright conversion of newscast production from in-house to outsourced production. Minor network affiliates involved in news share agreements will often carry far fewer hours of local newscasts than would be conceivable with an in-house news department to avoid competition with
2144-665: A late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today , and sister network CNBC 's Mad Money on weeknights). Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision , which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news program Noticiero Univision seven nights a week (and was the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks until Telemundo resumed its weekend newscasts in October 2014), along with weekday afternoon newsmagazine Primer Impacto and weekday morning program Despierta America ; Telemundo , which has
2278-655: A linear channel, resulting in NBC Nightly News' s broadcasts on the channel being seen in the UK, both as a live broadcast and as a replay. In Hong Kong , the program is broadcast live (or delayed ) on TVB Pearl daily at 7:30 AM Hong Kong Time (corresponding to 18:30, or 6:30 PM, in the Eastern Time Zone of the U.S.). News broadcasting#Television News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or
2412-515: A local cable operator and are distributed solely through cable television and IPTV system operators. Some broadcast television stations also operate cable channels (some of which are repeated through digital multicasting ) that air the station's local newscasts in the form of live simulcasts from the television station, with rebroadcasts of the newscasts airing in time periods between the live broadcasts. A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts
2546-545: A local news operation, such as is the case with Fox News Channel and the Fox network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates (most of which use the Fox (channel #) News brand for their newscasts), due to the network's controversially perceived conservative-leaning political content that differs from the Fox broadcast stations' independent and generally nonpartisan reporting. Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24 hours
2680-662: A more fragmented market and government reluctance to interfere as closely. Increased choice in channels led to viewers declining to watch overly serious newscasts; successful network news shows tended to be ones that either focused on entertainment or at least mixed it in, such as morning talk shows or news magazines such as Today and 60 Minutes . Audiences that prefer more serious news have migrated to news-focused stations such as CNN , Fox News , and MSNBC for American examples. These changes have been criticized as having effects on larger society. An example from television in Italy
2814-520: A nightly primetime show in 2016. The three free-to-air commercial broadcasters air general morning news programs Weekend Sunrise ( Seven ), Weekend Today (Nine) and Studio 10 (Ten) which include some political coverage. Similar programming to Sunday morning talk shows are aired on other days in Canada, including: Similar practice occurs in the UK , in the form of shows such as The Andrew Marr Show on
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#17328512228202948-435: A panel of (usually between four and six) guests. Depending on the country, some programs may also incorporate contribution reports from members of the network or television station's reporting staff on certain news stories featured in that week's edition. However, if breaking news occurs during the program, the regular format is often unseen or limited that week in order to provide rolling live news coverage. (*) - time listed
3082-653: A presidential candidate may appear on Meet the Press one week, This Week the next, and Fox News Sunday the week after that. Currently, only two Sunday morning political programs exist in Australia - Insiders on the ABC and Sunday Agenda on Sky News Australia . Former shows include Network Ten 's Meet the Press (1992-2013), Nine Network 's Sunday (1981–2008), The Bolt Report (2011-2015) and Speers on Sunday on Sky News Australia (2018-2019). The Bolt Report became
3216-420: A recording he had made before his retirement was used on the program until December 14, 2007. When the show was broadcast on remote or a new substitute anchor was used, Reig recorded a new introduction in a Miami studio. Since Holt took over as anchor, the weekend editions have been voiced by Bill Wolff , who had also worked occasionally on special weekday editions when Reig was unavailable. On December 17, 2007,
3350-548: A relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a remote contribution edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom. They may also be edited in mobile editing vans, or satellite vans or trucks (such as electronic news gathering vehicles), and transmitted back to the newsroom. Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck , satellite truck , or via online streaming. Roles associated with television news include
3484-422: A result of a local press pool arrangement. Many local and national news organizations such as Dallas station WFAA-TV and CBS News provided continuous coverage of the events and aftermath for five days. The November 24, 1963, assassination of Kennedy's accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was fed to NBC by a remote unit on loan to its Dallas affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV ) from competitor KTVT , and
3618-945: A state, such as Inside California Politics for Nexstar-owned stations in California or Inside Texas Politics for Tegna-owned stations in Texas. The member stations of PBS also often produce their state/local political affairs programming to air on Friday nights as a lead-out of Washington Week . The prominent guests appearing on these programs include U.S. Senators , U.S. Representatives , state governors , candidates for President and Vice president , cabinet secretaries, White House officials, and directors of federal agencies . U.S. military leaders, ambassadors , and religious leaders as well as prominent journalists and commentators . Members of prominent think tanks such as Brookings , Center for American Progress , AEI , Cato , Hoover , and Heritage also are often invited to appear on
3752-576: A substantial portion of the audience it held during the Walter Cronkite era and slid to third place (where it still remains as of 2017) in the viewership wars. On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9:30 a.m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center , and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight. Following the collapse of
3886-430: A substantially lower weekly newscast output compared to its English-language counterparts (usually limited to half-hour broadcasts in the evening, and often airing only on weeknights). Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform newscast titles based solely on network affiliation, U.S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts; some title their newscasts using
4020-596: A three-minute commentary segment, "David Brinkley's Journal," from Washington several times a week. On June 7, 1976, NBC brought Brinkley back to the anchor desk and tried the dual-anchor approach once again. Initially, Chancellor and Brinkley both reported from New York City, however Brinkley would later return to Washington. Chancellor again became sole anchor of Nightly News on October 10, 1979, with Brinkley once again providing commentaries until he left NBC for ABC News in 1981, where he became host of that network's new Sunday morning interview show This Week . Despite
4154-411: A two-minute report at the bottom of the hour. FM stations, unless they feature a talk radio format, usually only air an abbreviated weather forecast. Some also air minute-long news capsules featuring a quick review of events, and usually only in drive time periods or in critical emergencies, since FM stations usually focus more on playing music. Traffic reports also air on FM stations, depending on
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4288-405: A version of NBC Nightly News targeted at children ages 6 to 16, featuring stories aimed at children. This edition is hosted by Lester Holt and new episodes premiere every Thursday on NBC News' YouTube channel. Beginning on October 31, 2020, occasional editions of NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition have aired on Saturdays on NBC. The following are people who have been the principal news anchors for
4422-417: A whole; it was unveiled by NBC during an event honoring of 75 years of televised newscasts on NBC. The rebrand includes a new on-air graphics scheme intended to create fewer distractions from the content of stories, as well as a new stylized “N” emblem (reminiscent of the network's 1979–86 "Proud N" logo) that can be split apart to display headlines, and is better-suited for digital platforms. NBC first offered
4556-581: A year and a half of operation in May 2013 The U.S. CNN, Fox News, HLN, and MSNBC, as well as a number of other international news channels (such as, most commonly, Al Jazeera English and BBC World News ) are authorized for distribution by Canadian television providers by the CRTC . Local TV stations in the United States normally broadcast local news three to four times a day on average: commonly airing at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, or 6:00 a.m.; noon; 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. in
4690-414: Is network news , in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of very significant breaking news events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News ; in some cases, viewers may have trouble differentiating between the cable channel and either a counterpart network news organization or
4824-518: Is America with Dennis Wholey , Washington Week , and Inside Washington , and the originally PBS, later commercially syndicated The McLaughlin Group . FishbowlDC includes all the shows listed in Daniel W. Reilly's definition for Politico' s "Sunday Morning Tip Sheet," plus CN8 's Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham and other programs, including CNN's Reliable Sources , Fareed Zakaria GPS , Beyond
4958-401: Is a study of Mediaset 's rollout in Italy in the 1980s found that Mediaset's programming was slanted against news and educational content than its competitor RAI ( Radiotelevisione italiana ). A study in 2019 found that individuals in regions with an earlier rollout of Mediaset were more susceptible to populist appeals and less interested in "sophisticated" political arguments. The study said
5092-474: Is broadcast live over most NBC stations from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time seven days a week; the "Western Edition" of the program occasionally features breaking news and/or updated information on news stories covered during the original telecast for Pacific Time Zone viewers, and some stations in that time zone carry it live at 3:30 p.m. PT to lead into their late afternoon local news blocks. Its current theme music, " The Mission " (which debuted in 1985)
5226-621: Is one famous example, although similar styles took place on the BBC in the United Kingdom, on shows in the Eastern Bloc, and so on, with high viewership concentrated in just a few prestige newscasts. This was something of an artifact of both technology and media culture: few channels were available, and those that did tended to take news casting seriously, even if lighter news could potentially have gotten more viewers. Government regulation also affected
5360-879: Is produced from Studio 1A at NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City . Selected Los Angeles –based editions broadcast from The Brokaw News Center in Universal City, California , or when broadcasting from Washington, D.C. , either from the NBC News bureau based at WRC-TV in the Tenleytown neighborhood, or NBC's secondary studio overlooking Capitol Hill . Since 2015, the broadcast has been anchored by Lester Holt on weeknights, José Díaz-Balart on Saturday and Hallie Jackson since 2024 on Sunday. Previous anchors have included John Chancellor , David Brinkley , Tom Brokaw , Brian Williams and Kate Snow . The program
5494-640: Is relatively uncommon on Canadian television; for many years, the closest program having similarities to the format was CTV's news and interview series Question Period ; Global would eventually debut the political affairs show The West Block in November 2011. Canada is host to several 24-hour news channels on specialty television, including CBC News Network and CTV News Channel in English, and Ici RDI and Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) in French. BNN Bloomberg operates as
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5628-471: Is the first African-American solo weeknight anchor of a major network newscast. Max Robinson was co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1978 to 1983, and Gwen Ifill was a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour from 2013 to 2016. On June 27, 2016, NBC Nightly News switched to a full 16:9 letterbox presentation, with the existing graphics package being re-positioned for the 16:9 format. On October 10, 2016,
5762-462: Is the time scheduled by the network, local affiliates may delay the show to later slots to accommodate local news or other programming (**) - considered the traditional "big five" Sunday shows Other English language examples include NBC's syndicated The Chris Matthews Show , Bloomberg Television 's Political Capital with Al Hunt , the PBS roundtables (often broadcast other days than Sunday) This
5896-1022: Is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors . A frequent inclusion is live or recorded interviews by field reporters . Television news programs inform and discuss current events via the medium of television. A "news bulletin" or a " newscast " are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on events. Programs can vary their focus; some newscasts discuss largely international or national matters, while others will focus on regional and local news events. Example providers of generalist broadcast news shows focusing on national and international matters include BBC News , NBC News , CNN , Fox News Channel , CNA , and Al Jazeera . In addition to general news outlets, there are many specialized news outlets. ESPNews , Fox Sports , and Eurosport News cover sports journalism topics; CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business Network are examples that cover business news . Local programming covers
6030-543: The CBS News Mornings , CBS Mornings , and the CBS Evening News , and NBC produces Early Today , Today , and NBC Nightly News ) as well as weekly newsmagazine series (NBC's Dateline ; ABC's 20/20 and Nightline ; and CBS's CBS News Sunday Morning , 48 Hours , and 60 Minutes ). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7:00 a.m. (English-language network morning shows air live in
6164-483: The Late Show with David Letterman and on Nightly News itself only a few nights before several war veterans who had been with Williams in 2002 claimed that Williams had not been present at the time of the crash, but showed up about an hour later to report on it. Williams issued an apology, saying he had "misremembered" the story in his head and it had been a genuine accident, but many critics accused Williams of fabricating
6298-557: The 2001 anthrax attacks . Brokaw was not harmed, but two NBC News employees were infected. On April 18, 2007, NBC News received a package containing a "multimedia manifesto" from Seung-Hui Cho , the gunman responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting that occurred two days earlier, the deadliest school shooting in American history. Upon the package's discovery, NBC News handed the package over to federal authorities. The specific details of
6432-505: The BBC and Sunday Live with Adam Boulton on Sky News . However, these shows have a somewhat-broader range, often interviewing figures from the arts, popular entertainment, and sports in addition to political leaders, similar in format to CBS News Sunday Morning in the United States. The first such Sunday show in Britain was Weekend World , which was produced by London Weekend Television for
6566-610: The Big Three ; CNN, Fox News , and MSNBC . Conversely, several cable news channels exist that carry news reports specifically geared toward a particular metropolitan area, region, or state such as New York City's NY1 (which focuses on the entire New York metropolitan area ) and News 12 Networks (which serves portions of the area outside Manhattan ), Orlando 's News 13 (which is also carried in areas surrounding Greater Orlando ), Tampa, Florida 's Bay News 9 , and Washington, D.C.'s NewsChannel 8 . These channels are usually owned by
6700-744: The Eastern Time Zone and tape delayed for the remaining time zones, while the Spanish-language morning shows air live in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones and are tape delayed in the Pacific Time Zone); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live twice, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time /5:30 p.m. Central time for the East Coast before another "Western Edition" live broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time /7:30 p.m. Mountain time . Today
6834-666: The ITV network from 1972 to 1988. There are several political Sunday morning talk shows in Japan, most are often broadcast live from studios in Tokyo (Nichiyō Tōron: Kioichō, Shin Hōdō 2001: Daiba, Sunday Frontline: Roppongi), Jiji Hōdan is usually prerecorded on Friday evening. Nichiyō Tōron by public broadcaster NHK often features one politician from every party represented in the National Diet, in many cases
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#17328512228206968-554: The Omni Television station group). Canadian television stations normally broadcast newscasts between two and four times a day: usually at noon, 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00, and 11:00 p.m. (there are some variations to this: stations affiliated with CTV usually air their late evening newscasts at 11:30 pm, due to the scheduling of the network's national evening news program CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. in all time zones; most CBC Television -owned stations formerly carried
7102-540: The Report ran for about a year and a half. On January 4, 1969, the Huntley-Brinkley Report was expanded to Saturday evenings, with the main anchors working solo on alternating weeks. When lower-than-expected ratings occurred, the network pulled the pair off Saturdays and assigned others such as McGee and Vanocur to anchor the broadcast. On August 2, 1970, two days after the weekday Huntley-Brinkley broadcast ended,
7236-652: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster , EDSA Revolution , Loma Prieta earthquake , the fall of the Berlin Wall , and Hurricane Andrew . As anchor, Brokaw conducted the first one-on-one American television interviews with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Vladimir Putin . He was the only network anchor in Berlin when the Berlin Wall fell. Brokaw's presence slowly attracted viewers, and during
7370-584: The " Telecopter ", a helicopter equipped for newsgathering use that was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of its time. The modern-day coverage of major breaking news events came to fruition following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963; the news of Kennedy's death was first announced by Eddie Barker , the news director at KRLD-TV (now KDFW ) in Dallas , who passed along word from an official at Parkland Hospital ; Barker's scoop appeared live simultaneously on CBS and ABC as
7504-752: The 1970s, when they adopted the NBC Nightly News name. When Chancellor became sole anchor of the weeknight editions in August 1971, separate anchors were named for the weekend editions. The weekend editions may occasionally be abbreviated or preempted due to NBC Sports telecasts that overrun into the program's time slot. During the NFL season, the Sunday editions air live in every time zone at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, immediately prior to Football Night in America and Sunday Night Football . In April 2020, NBC News began producing
7638-483: The 1990s, Nightly News battled for the viewership lead with World News Tonight . He and Katie Couric hosted a prime-time newsmagazine , Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric , that aired from 1993 to 1994 before being folded into the multi-night Dateline NBC program. By 1997, NBC Nightly News had solidified its first place standing in the ratings , a spot it would retain solely for ten years. The once-dominant CBS Evening News , anchored by Dan Rather , had lost
7772-620: The 20 largest U.S. media markets). Duopolies and outsourcing agreements have also affected Fox stations in a similar manner; although Fox is considered to be a major network on the same level as NBC, ABC, and CBS and has urged its affiliates since the early 1990s to broadcast local news, about half of its stations broadcast local news programming through news share agreements with many of the remainder operating their own news departments. Several stations affiliated with Spanish-language networks (such as Univision , Telemundo , and UniMás ) or also broadcast their own newscasts, these stations often produce
7906-592: The Canadian border, NBC affiliates WDIV , WGRZ , and WPBN (through WGTQ 's HD2 channel) air live broadcasts of NBC Nightly News without cable. The Antillean, Cayman, and some of the Leeward islands air live episodes of NBC Nightly News through Miami-based NBC affiliate WTVJ , which is carried by cable provider FLOW TV as part of their lineup. NBC Nightly News is broadcast live on CNBC Europe at 12:30 AM CET (11:30 PM GMT and 10:30 PM during DST respectively), although
8040-472: The Internet tends to be a la carte, however – rather than a recap show of the issues of the day like a TV or radio show, Internet news sites will usually allow the browser to find the one story they are interested in and watch a video strictly on that, even if said video might have been a segment of a larger show. Internet native news shows do exist such as Vice News , but they tend to seep elsewhere: Vice News ran
8174-519: The NBC television network's flagship weekday evening-news program, titled since 1970 as NBC Nightly News , as well as its predecessor programs. Weekend anchors have included the following: Bill Hanrahan handled the announcing duties for the newscast until his retirement in 1983, as he had done for the predecessor Huntley-Brinkley Report . The next announcer for the program was long-time NBC staff announcer Howard Reig . He retired to Florida in 2005, but
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#17328512228208308-540: The Politics with William Bennett and POTUS08 's Post Politics Program used to be listed in this category but are no longer considered so. C-SPAN 's Newsmakers , TV One 's Washington Watch , Hearst Television 's Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien , Gray Television 's Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren , Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures , and (until Tim Russert 's 2008 death) MSNBC 's Tim Russert Show among several others. C-SPAN Radio provides
8442-519: The Press , ABC's This Week , CBS' Face the Nation , Fox's sole news program Fox News Sunday , Univision's Al Punto , and Telemundo's Enfoque ); of these programs, Meet the Press holds the distinction of being the longest-running American television program as it has aired since November 6, 1947. The U.S. is one of the few countries in which broadcast networks provide overnight or early morning national news programs, in addition to those airing in
8576-535: The Sunday edition of the programme is not shown due to the channel broadcasting live business programming on Sundays at that time of day. It also airs on the 24-hour news network OSN News in MENA Region, with the weekday editions airing immediately after their original telecast in the U.S. and the weekend edition being simulcast live. In Great Britain in 2022 and 2023, NBC News Now was available on Sky and Virgin Media as
8710-462: The Sunday morning talk shows. Various studies have criticized the shows for inviting predominantly white male guests. A study of the three shows on ABC, CBS and NBC from 1997 to 2005 found that the balance between Republicans and Democrats was fairly equal (52% Republicans), 61% of the journalists on the shows were conservative during the Clinton administration and that rose to 69% when George W. Bush's
8844-542: The United States, most Canadian television stations have license requirements (enforced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ) to offer locally produced newscasts (or any local programming, for that matter) in some form. Educational television stations are exempt from these requirements as are multicultural television stations, however some stations licensed as multicultural outlets do produce local newscasts in varied languages (such as
8978-454: The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, including that he contracted dysentery from accidentally ingesting flood water, the news division decided to launch an internal investigation into the matter that would be conducted through its investigative unit. On February 7, 2015, Williams stated in a memo to NBC News staff that he would take himself "off the daily broadcast for the next several days," with Lester Holt substituting for him on
9112-431: The case on the Huntley-Brinkley Report . Brinkley's appearances were always from Washington and McGee's were always from New York. Chancellor moved between those two cities depending on his partner for the evening. In addition to Brinkley as a holdover from the Huntley-Brinkley Report , McGee had earned praise for his anchoring or co-anchoring of space flights, and Chancellor had also earned praise as McGee's co-anchor for
9246-602: The commentary-focused The O'Reilly Factor ). However, their gains did not offset the continuing steep decline in viewership of mainline network news. This era saw diversification and fragmentation proceed even further as new niche networks gained prominence such as the business-focused CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business . Instead, people used the Internet for news rather than television broadcasts, both in mainline sites such as ones runs by newspapers as well as independent blogs and message boards with other Internet-users sharing opinions and news Internet news, while
9380-475: The cost of starting a news department from scratch or because of a lack of studio space. These commonly involve Fox, CW, and MyNetworkTV affiliates (and previously affiliate stations of the now-defunct predecessors of the latter two networks, The WB and UPN ) and in some cases, independent stations; however such agreements exist in certain markets between two co-owned/co-managed Big Three affiliates. News share agreements are most common with stations co-owned with
9514-519: The different NBC News anchors and logos whilst the show's theme song plays followed by showing the NBC News' filming station in New York (It does not appear when telecasts are filmed in other areas like Washington). From 2012 through 2016, the intro was different pictures of the earth which formed into the NBC News' filming station in New York. In September 2001, a letter containing anthrax was addressed to then NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw as part of
9648-490: The early 2000s). CBC Television, Global, and CTV each produce national evening newscasts ( The National , Global National and CTV National News , respectively), which unlike the American network newscasts do not compete with one another in a common timeslot; while Global National airs at the same early evening time slot as the American evening network newscasts, The National ' s 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot competes against primetime entertainment programming on
9782-408: The early evening; and 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Some stations carry morning newscasts at 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00 a.m., midday newscasts at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m., late afternoon newscasts at 4:00 or 4:30 p.m., or early evening newscasts at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. Many Fox affiliates, affiliates of minor networks (such as The CW and MyNetworkTV ), and independent stations air newscasts in
9916-403: The economy and world events such as geopolitical and military conflicts). These programs often feature national leaders in politics and public life as guests to discuss the topics featured in that week's broadcast, in the form of one-on-one interviews with the program's moderator on a particular story as well as roundtable discussions in a multiple-topic debate format involving the moderator and
10050-462: The effect included populist parties in general that offered simple slogans and easy cure-alls, including non-Berlusconi populist parties such as the Five Star Movement . From 2000 to 2010, overall viewership of television broadcast news continued to decline. Some news-adjacent cable programs gained fame and success in this era (such as the comedy-focused The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and
10184-1169: The evening during "prime time", but there are also morning newscasts of two to three hours in length. Rolling news channels broadcast news content 24 hours a day. The advent of the internet has allowed the regular 24-hour-a-day presentation of many video and audio news reports, which are updated when additional information becomes available; many television broadcasters provide content originally provided on-air as well as exclusive or supplementary news content on their websites. Local news may be presented by standalone local television stations, stations affiliated with national networks or by local studios which "opt-out" of national network programming at specified points. Different news programming may be aimed at different audiences, depending on age, socio-economic group, or those from particular sections of society. "Magazine-style" television shows (or newsmagazines ) may mix news coverage with topical lifestyle issues, debates, or entertainment content. Public affairs programs provide analysis of and interviews about political, social, and economic issues. News programs feature one or two (sometimes, three) anchors (or presenters,
10318-404: The few remaining users of the concept), most of which eventually disposed of the hourly update format by the early 2000s. Since the early 1990s, independent stations and stations affiliated with a non- Big Three network have entered into "news share agreements", in which news production is outsourced to a major network station (usually an affiliate of ABC, NBC, or CBS), often to avoid shouldering
10452-548: The final hour of primetime (i.e., 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones or 9:00 p.m. in the Mountain and Central time zones in the U.S.). Stations that produce local newscasts typically broadcast as little as one to as much over twelve hours of local news on weekdays and as little as one hour to as much as seven hours on weekends; news programming on weekends are typically limited to morning and evening newscasts as
10586-473: The first of the three network evening news programs to make the transition (the CBS Evening News began broadcasting in HD on January 7, 2008; ABC World News Tonight began broadcasting in HD on August 25, 2008, during its coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention ). Most news video from on-remote locations continued to be shot in standard definition at the time, while the network's news bureaus underwent
10720-442: The hour, although the medium of radio has generally shifted toward people doing something else such as driving, working or waking up, compared to television. Radio news broadcasts can range from as little as one minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio , or talk radio . Stations that use a "wheel" format tend to keep to a set schedule of certain programming at certain specific minutes on
10854-723: The hour, and one of these segments is frequently a news bulletin. These short bulletins will provide overviews of any breaking news of interest, and may include local concerns such as weather forecasts or traffic reports. The vast majority of professionally produced video or audio news on the Internet tends to be attached to existing news organizations. Radio stations will upload their news reports as streamable podcasts and television networks will sometimes make their broadcasts available over Internet video. Print newspapers will sometimes feature video on their websites for breaking news events and for long-form video journalism. The usual focus on
10988-523: The ice rink at Rockefeller Plaza, and cherry pickers tallied the electoral vote count on the façade of 30 Rockefeller Plaza (this tradition has continued with each election since then). Brokaw's final broadcast took place on December 1, 2004, ending 22 years on the Nightly News desk and a 21-year run as the network's chief newsman – a record tenure in NBC's history. Brian Williams , a frequent substitute for Brokaw for NBC Nightly News , succeeded him as
11122-468: The incident on the program's Twitter account: What timing... Fire alarm here at 30 Rock goes off at the exact same time we go on air. All is fine in the building & the show goes on. #NN KFQD simulcasts NBC Nightly News from Anchorage affiliate KTUU . NBC's Seattle, Spokane, Detroit, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Boston, Plattsburgh and Bangor affiliates are separately available through most Canadian cable companies. Because of their markets' proximity to
11256-454: The increased presence of duopolies and outsourcing agreements since the early 2000s, the number of minor network affiliates and independent stations that produce their own newscasts has markedly decreased compared to when duopolies were barred under Federal Communications Commission rules prior to 2000 (as of 2013, there are at least 15 minor network affiliates or independent stations that produce their own local newscasts, most are located within
11390-450: The internet in the field of broadcast journalism . The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom , or by a broadcast network . A news broadcast may include material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts , traffic reports , political commentary , expert opinions, editorial content, and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. An individual news program
11524-714: The larger amount of network programming that those networks carry). In 1990, WEWS-TV in Cleveland conceived a concept known as the "24-Hour News Source" (which has its origins in a news format used by short-lived Boston independent station WXPO-TV when it signed on in 1969), in which supplementary 30-second long news updates were produced at or near the top of each hour outside regular long-form newscasts during local commercial break inserts shown within network and syndicated programming. The format spread to other U.S. television stations (most notably, WISH-TV in Indianapolis , one of
11658-491: The late 1970s, the first local morning news programs debuted. Additional changes in local news content came during the 1980s and 1990s; in January 1989, WSVN in Miami became the first to adopt a news-intensive programming format; rather than fill its schedule with syndicated content as other Fox stations did at the time it joined that network, Ed Ansin (owner of WSVN parent Sunbeam Television ) chose instead to heavily invest in
11792-523: The longest-running network newsmagazine in Canada). CTV's Your Morning is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in Canada, and replaced Canada AM , which aired since 1975. Most CTV owned-and-operated stations west of the Ontario-Manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally produced morning newscasts. The Sunday morning talk show
11926-415: The many examples of smaller stations with a regional focus. Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news program(me)s, differ in content, tone, and presentation style depending on the format of the channel/station on which they appear, and their timeslot. In most parts of the world, national television networks will have bulletins featuring national and international news. The top-rated shows will often air in
12060-418: The market. In some countries, radio news content may be syndicated by a website or company to many stations in a particular region or even the entire country. A notable example is Israel, where there are groups of radio stations that broadcast the same hourly news capsule by an Israeli news website and television station. There are currently two groups of local Israeli stations: one broadcasts news from YNET ,
12194-465: The morning and early evening. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of Up to the Minute and World News Now , respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: NBC News Overnight from 1982 to 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1991 to 1998 (NBC currently does not offer
12328-429: The network expanded its evening newscast to Sundays, which also replaced the Sunday broadcast of The Frank McGee Report . For the first year after the Sunday broadcast began, Chancellor, Brinkley and McGee rotated on the program as they did on weeknights; there were no separate weekend anchors. The Saturday and Sunday broadcasts were respectively titled NBC Saturday Night News and NBC Sunday Night News until sometime in
12462-460: The newly independent unit was renamed ABC (American Broadcasting Company). A general shift over time happened in the style of the evening newscasts in most countries. In the 1950s, television was novel enough that it was considered entertainment. In the 1960s and 70s, television newscasts tended to be unusually "serious" by later standards, featuring more "hard news" and less light entertainment mixed in. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
12596-544: The news landscape: in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission forced networks to abide by strict public-interest requirements that required broadcasting news, while television in the Soviet Union was strictly regulated by the government which looked on frivolous topics with disfavor. In the 1980s and 90s, this tended to fall away as a consequence of cable and satellite technology allowing
12730-435: The newscast debuted an entirely new on-air look with graphics originally optimized for the full 16:9 presentation, including a new program logo replacing variations of the previous one that had been used since November 8, 1999. On July 14, 2017, NBC Nightly News permanently moved back from Studio 3B to Studio 3C. In 2018, NBC Nightly News launched an ongoing series of specials, NBC Nightly Films . On August 11, 2021, it
12864-479: The newspapers. The outbreak of World War II led to a great increase in the quantity of news programming, consuming as much as 20% of the schedules of the major networks. Chief among these reporters was Edward Roscoe Murrow , whose reports from London kept the American public focused on a war far from home. Also, the eventual "big three" were complete in 1945; the FCC forced a sale of NBC Blue due to anti-trust concerns, and
12998-550: The only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5:00 a.m. local newscasts do not exist in Canada. Like with U.S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and City (Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11:00 p.m. newscasts, while all six City-owned broadcast stations produce morning news/talk programs under
13132-461: The opening headlines summary read by Williams; this montage was discontinued on September 17, 2007 except for weekends and nights with substitute anchors until October 2007. On December 4, 2006, Nightly News was presented with "limited commercial interruptions" through a sponsorship arrangement with Philips , marking the first time in its 36-year history that the newscast experimented with reduced advertising. During Williams' tenure as main anchor of
13266-432: The other broadcasts them from Channel 10 . Israeli Army Radio general public stations broadcast the same news capsule every hour, and IBA 's Kol Israel stations broadcast theirs. Sunday morning talk show These programs typically focus on current events that occurred during the previous week, with a main focus on political and sociopolitical topics (including discussions on public policy , national security ,
13400-618: The outsourcing partner's own newscasts, as a result, minor network affiliates involved in these NSAs often will carry a morning newscast from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (in competition with the national network newscasts instead of airing competing with the Big Three affiliates' newscasts) or a primetime newscast at 10:00 pm. Eastern and Pacific or 9:00 pm. Central and Mountain Time, with limited to no newscasts in other traditional news time periods (midday, late afternoon, or early evening). Because of
13534-545: The package contained a DVD disc of Cho reading from a typed manifesto (also in the package), as well as more than 40 pictures of Cho brandishing weapons, including the two handguns believed to have been used in the massacre. Some of the package's contents were shown, albeit copied from the originals and edited for profanity , on the April 18, 2007, edition of NBC Nightly News , with anchor Brian Williams and NBC chief justice correspondent Pete Williams (no relation to Brian) examining
13668-567: The package's contents in the opening moments of the broadcast. On November 29, 2011, a fire alarm went off in the studio a few seconds into the Nightly News Eastern Time Zone broadcast. Despite the false alarm, Brian Williams continued to anchor throughout the entire broadcast. Once the alarm had been turned off, Williams redid the broadcast for the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones, and other selected stations. NBC News apologized for
13802-400: The parties' Diet Affairs Council Chairmen. The latter was generally the case with Kokkai Tōronkai ("Diet forum"), one of several alternating NHK talk shows about political and economic issues sharing the same Sunday morning programming slot before they were replaced by Nichiyō Tōron in 1994. It had initially been a NHK radio talk show and was simultaneously broadcast on television starting in
13936-444: The private broadcast networks, while CTV National News airs against locally produced 11:00 p.m. newscasts on other stations. The National , which has aired on CBC Television since 1954, is the longest-running national network newscast in Canada. All three networks also produce weekly newsmagazines : CBC's The Fifth Estate (aired since 1975), Global's 16x9 (aired since 2008), and CTV's W5 (aired since 1966 and currently
14070-561: The program and took over co-anchor duties in New York City, while Roger Mudd became anchor in Washington. Mudd was dropped from the broadcast and Brokaw became the solo anchor of Nightly News on September 5, 1983, the same day that his ABC competitor, Peter Jennings , became sole anchor of World News Tonight . With Brokaw being the sole anchor, the Nightly News was now completely based in New York City. Among other news items, he covered
14204-432: The program's permanent anchor on December 2, 2004. The program held onto the #1 ratings spot among the network evening newscasts from Williams' first day, averaging about 10 million viewers each week until February 2007, when it slipped behind its closest competitor World News with Charles Gibson . However, NBC Nightly News regained the lead a few months later; it has now been America's most-watched evening newscast for over
14338-531: The program, Lester Holt and Kate Snow often substituted while he was on vacation or on assignment; other substitute anchors included Katie Couric , Matt Lauer , Savannah Guthrie , Tamron Hall , Harry Smith , Jenna Wolfe , Erica Hill , Hoda Kotb , Natalie Morales and Carl Quintanilla , as well as now-former NBC anchors Ann Curry , Campbell Brown , David Gregory , Amy Robach , Peter Alexander , and John Seigenthaler . NBC Nightly News began broadcasting in high definition on March 26, 2007, becoming
14472-473: The programs on a given Sunday. Since Fox News Sunday ' s debut in 1996, several individuals have appeared on all five programs on the same day. William H. Ginsburg , attorney for Monica Lewinsky 's family during the Lewinsky scandal , was the first to perform what would be named in his honor as the " full Ginsburg ." More common is an interviewee appearing on different shows in consecutive weeks; for instance,
14606-566: The radio. NBC began broadcasts in November 1926, with CBS entering production on September 25, 1927. Both initially discussed similar topics, such as election results, presidential inaugurations, and other matters of concern to the general public. However, NBC soon emerged as the dominant force for entertainment talent. In response, CBS President William S Paley focused on giving CBS Radio an upscale reputation with better news as well as commentary programs with well-regarded hosts such as Lowell Thomas . Both broadcasters faced stiff competition from
14740-1106: The reporter provides additional information. Often in situations necessitating long-form reporting on a story (usually during breaking news situations), the reporter is interviewed by the anchor, known as a 'two-way', or a guest involved in or offering analysis on the story is interviewed by a reporter or anchor. There may also be breaking news stories which will present live rolling coverage. Television news organizations employ several anchors and reporters to provide reports (as many as ten anchors, and up to 20 reporters for local news operations or up to 30 for national news organizations). They may also employ specialty reporters that focus on reporting certain types of news content (such as traffic or entertainment ), meteorologists or weather anchors (the latter term often refers to weather presenters that do not have degrees in meteorology earned at an educational institution ) who provide weather forecasts – more common in local news and on network morning programs – and sports presenters that report on ongoing, concluded, or upcoming Packages will usually be filmed at
14874-459: The second tower, Brokaw said: This is war. This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States. On May 28, 2002, Brokaw announced his retirement as anchor of Nightly News , to take effect shortly after the Presidential election in 2004 . During this last time helming the network's presidential election coverage, NBC graphic designers created images of a giant electoral map on
15008-411: The space missions of Apollo 12 and Apollo 13 . With network executives perceiving the instability of this arrangement as a factor in Nightly News losing audience share to the CBS Evening News , NBC discontinued the rotation arrangement, and McGee eventually took over for Hugh Downs as host of Today . Chancellor became the sole anchor of the program on August 9, 1971, with Brinkley providing
15142-740: The station's news department, and replace national newscasts and late-prime time network programs vacated as a result of losing its NBC affiliation (the byproduct of an affiliation switch caused by CBS and WSVN's former network partner NBC buying other stations in the market) with additional newscasts. This model was eventually replicated by many other stations affiliated with the post-1986 television networks as well as some news-producing independent stations (beginning with Fox's 1994 deals with New World Communications and SF Broadcasting that saw several major network stations change their affiliations), and also resulted in even NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates adopting similar scheduling formats (tweaked to account for
15276-595: The station's on-air branding (such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word "News"), others use franchised brand names (like Eyewitness News , Action News and NewsChannel ) for their news programming. Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, which uses
15410-444: The story and called for his resignation. Williams later announced that he would be taking some time off because he had become "too much a part of the news." NBC announced that weekend anchor Lester Holt would anchor the program in the interim. On June 18, 2015, NBC News and MSNBC chairman Andrew Lack announced that Lester Holt would become the main anchor of NBC Nightly News on a permanent basis effective on June 22, 2015, Holt
15544-499: The syndicated news program The Daily Buzz , while some Tribune Broadcasting -owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program called EyeOpener ). 24-hour news channels are devoted to current events around the clock. They are often referred to as cable news channels. The format was originated by the cable television channel CNN (Cable News Network), which was established in 1980. Many other television channels have since been established, including what has become known as
15678-584: The talk radio model. Hyper-local news is also more feasible on the Internet: issues such as school board meetings streamed on video, town parades, and so on. Silent news films were shown in cinemas from the late 19th century. In 1909 Pathé started producing weekly newsreels in Europe. Pathé began producing newsreels for the UK in 1910 and the US in 1911. News broadcasts in the United States were initially transmitted over
15812-407: The terminology varies around the world) segueing into news stories filed by a reporter (or correspondent) by describing the story to be shown; however, some stories within the broadcast are read by the presenter themselves; in the former case, the anchor "tosses" to the reporter to introduce the featured story; likewise, the reporter "tosses" back to the anchor once the taped report has concluded and
15946-486: The time); usually these programs aired as supplements to network-supplied evening news programs or leadouts for primetime programming. Reports featured on local and national television newscasts during this time were generally provided via film or still photography; eventually, videotape began to be used to provide live coverage of news events. The 1950s also saw the first use of airborne newsgathering; most notably, in 1958, Los Angeles television station KTLA began operating
16080-547: The title of the network shows, such as Hartford, Connecticut 's WFSB-TV , a CBS affiliate which titles their weekly program dealing with state and local issues Face the State , a title also seen on KTVN in Reno / Carson City, Nevada and WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , all of which serve state capital cities. Station groups may also syndicate programming to air on affiliates within
16214-442: The umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto 's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ). Overall umbrella titles for news programming use the titling schemes " (Network or system name) News " for network-owned stations or " (Callsign) News " for affiliates not directly owned by a network or television system (although the latter title scheme was used on some network-owned stations prior to
16348-448: The umbrella title Hechos . In the cases of Univision and Telemundo, both of their evening news programs compete with national evening news programs on their English-language competitors. Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program from 1996 to 1997 with Fox After Breakfast ; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air
16482-410: The uniform news and general branding NewsChannel 4 ). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like Daybreak , Good Morning (city or region name) , First at Four , Live at Five , Eleven @ 11:00 , or Nightcast . These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide
16616-498: The variable scheduling of network sports programming (if a station is affiliated with a network with a sports division) usually prevents most stations from carrying midday newscasts (however a few stations located in the Eastern and Pacific time zones do produce weekend midday newscasts). From the 1940s to the 1960s, broadcast television stations typically provided local news programs only one to two times each evening for 15 minutes (the normal length for many locally produced programs at
16750-563: The various changes, Chancellor was never able to break the grip that Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News had on the American news viewer, although Nightly News was sometimes a strong second place in the evening news ratings for most of the 1970s. After stepping down from the anchor desk on April 2, 1982, Chancellor remained on the program as an editorial commentator until his retirement in 1993. On April 5, 1982, Tom Brokaw , who had been serving as anchor of Today since 1976, joined
16884-453: The weeknight broadcast introduced an opening by Academy Award winning actor/producer Michael Douglas until it was discontinued on June 18, 2015, and was replaced by Wolff. NBC Nightly News and all NBC News programs had an animation of the Statue of Liberty for their opening sequences from September 1985 to April 1988. From late 2007 through 2012, the intro commenced with a timeline showing
17018-543: The weeknight broadcasts. On February 10, 2015, Williams was suspended without pay for six months due to the scandal which arose after he came under fire for fabricating a story about his reporting on the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. Williams claimed to have been reporting in Iraq in 2002 when the helicopter he was traveling on was hit by an RPG and he was forced to land. He had told the story several times, including his appearances on
17152-482: Was announced that executive producer Jennifer Suozzo would be departing the program and Meghan Rafferty would be interim executive producer on August 16, 2021. On September 13, 2021, NBC Nightly News permanently moved from Studio 3C to Studio 1A, also the home of Today . On June 19, 2023, NBC Nightly News underwent its first large-scale rebrand since the Brian Williams era as part of a wider rebranding of NBC as
17286-556: Was composed by John Williams . NBC Nightly News replaced The Huntley–Brinkley Report on August 3, 1970 upon Chet Huntley 's retirement. At first, David Brinkley , John Chancellor , and Frank McGee rotated duties as anchors. At least one, usually two, and very rarely all three anchored the program on a given night. Except for the few nights when one of the men solo anchored, each evening's program included one anchor based in New York City and one in Washington, D.C. , as had been
17420-551: Was on a scheduled vacation on the day of the announcement, with Today presenter Savannah Guthrie serving as interim anchor of the broadcast that week. After his suspension ended in August, Brian Williams was reassigned to MSNBC where he previously served as both an anchor and correspondent. Holt previously served as interim anchor of the weeknight broadcasts from August 6, 2013 to September 2, 2013, when Williams went on medical leave from NBC News in order to undergo knee replacement surgery. With his promotion to main anchor, Holt
17554-571: Was president. In 2010, a study found that a relatively small number of senior senators, all of whom were white males, accounted for the majority of all Congressional guests on the five most popular shows. In 2021, the Women's Media Center published a study that showed overall 70% of the guests were male. The programs are generally aired live or pre-recorded, broadcasting from Washington, D.C. , providing easy access to many political leaders. Many individuals appear via satellite or in studio for two or more of
17688-518: Was re-opened on October 22, 2007, with the introduction of a new set for Nightly News ; sister cable network MSNBC 's new set in Studio 3A was also inaugurated at that time. On October 24, 2011, the broadcast moved to Studio 3B, which also served as the homebase of Williams' short-lived newsmagazine for NBC, Rock Center . On February 4, 2015, Williams apologized on the program for having “conflated” on numerous occasions an account that he had been aboard
17822-511: Was the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News , a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948. All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings (NBC's Meet
17956-466: Was the first murder to have been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The coverage provided by the local stations eventually led to further investments and technological developments to provide real-time news; newsgathering vehicles equipped with satellites began to be used on the local and national levels beginning in the 1970s. During the 1960s and 1970s, many stations began to provide additional news programming, beginning with midday news programs; in
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