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NBC Nightly News

NBC 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.[1][2] NBC Nightly News is produced from Studio 1A at NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. Select 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.

NBC Nightly News
Also known as
  • Weekdays:
  • NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (2015–present)
GenreNews program
Created byReuven Frank
Directed byChristian Alicea
Susan King
Presented byWeekdays:
Lester Holt
Saturdays
Jose Diaz-Balart
Sundays
Hallie Jackson
Narrated byBill Hanrahan
Howard Reig
Michael Douglas
Bill Wolff
Theme music composerFred Weinberg Productions (1977)
Henry Mancini (1977–1982)
Joseph Paul Sicurella,
Tony Smythe &
Bob Christianson (1982–1985)
John Williams (1985–present)
Opening theme"The Mission" (1985–present)
(for past themes, see section)
Ending themeSame as opening
ComposerJohn Williams
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons50
Production
Executive producerMeghan Rafferty
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time30 minutes
Production companyNBC News Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseAugust 3, 1970 (1970-08-03) –
present
Related

Since 2015, the broadcast has been anchored by Lester Holt on weeknights, José Díaz-Balart on Saturday[3] and Hallie Jackson on Sunday. Previous anchors have included John Chancellor, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams and Kate Snow.

The program 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) was composed by John Williams.

History edit

John Chancellor and David Brinkley (1970–1982) edit

 
Original title card, used from 1970 to 1972.
 
NBC Nightly News title card, used from 1972 to 1975.

NBC Nightly News replaced The Huntley–Brinkley Report in August 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 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 the space missions of Apollo 12 and Apollo 13.

 
Brinkley provided commentary several times per week in the 1970s.

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 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 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.

Tom Brokaw (1982–2004) edit

On April 5, 1982, Tom Brokaw, who had been serving as anchor of Today since 1976, joined 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 the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, EDSA Revolution, Loma Prieta earthquake, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Andrew. [citation needed] 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 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. [citation needed] 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 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[4]) in the viewership wars.

 
Brokaw with Vladimir Putin before an interview on June 2, 2000.

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 the second tower, Brokaw said:

This is war. This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States.[5][6]

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 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 (2004–2015) edit

Brian Williams, a frequent substitute for Brokaw for NBC Nightly News, succeeded him as 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 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 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.

 
Former set of NBC Nightly News, pictured in 2008
 
NBC Nightly News control room.
 
Williams in 2011

During Williams' tenure as main anchor of the program, Lester Holt and Kate Snow often substituted while he was on vacation or on assignment; other substitute anchors included 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 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 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 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.

Embellishment scandal/suspension and replacement edit

On February 4, 2015, Williams apologized on the program for having “conflated” on numerous occasions an account that he had been aboard 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.[7][8][9] 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”.[10]

 
Lester Holt (pictured in 2012), current anchor of NBC Nightly News

Amid that controversy and questions over Williams' claims that made regarding his experiences while reporting from New Orleans on 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 the weeknight broadcasts.[11][12][13]

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 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 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."[14][15] NBC announced that weekend anchor Lester Holt would anchor the program in the interim.[16]

Lester Holt (2015–present) edit

 
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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 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.[17]

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.[18][19] With his promotion to main anchor, Holt is the first African-American solo weeknight anchor of a major network newscast.[20] 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.[21]

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, 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.[citation needed]

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 was announced that executive producer Jennifer Suozzo would be departing the program and Meghan Rafferty would be interim executive producer on August 16, 2021.[22]

On September 13, 2021, NBC Nightly News permanently moved from Studio 3C to Studio 1A, also the home of Today.[23]

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 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 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.[24][25]

 
Logo used from November 27, 2020, to June 18, 2023
 
Current logo symbol of NBC Nightly News, first introduced on June 19, 2023.[26]
 
Vertical logo symbol of NBC Nightly News, first introduced on June 19, 2023.

Weekend editions edit

NBC first offered 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.[27] The Saturday edition of 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, 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 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.

Kids edition edit

In April 2020, NBC News began producing 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.[28] Beginning on October 31, 2020, occasional editions of NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition have aired on Saturdays on NBC.[29]

Nightly News anchors edit

Weekdays edit

The following are people who have been the principal news anchors for the NBC television network's flagship weekday evening-news program, titled since 1970 as NBC Nightly News, as well as its predecessor programs.

Weekends edit

Weekend anchors have included the following:

Announcer edit

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 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, the weeknight broadcast introduced an opening by Academy Award winning actor/producer Michael Douglas[31] until it was discontinued on June 18, 2015, and was replaced by Wolff.

Theme music/Intros edit

  • "Huntley-Brinkley Report/NBC Nightly News Ticker" (August 3, 1970 – November 10, 1972; the theme had been used since 1962, when the program was still The Huntley-Brinkley Report)
  • "NBC News Ticker" (November 13, 1972 – April 22, 1977)
  • "NBC TV-Radio Newspulse" by Fred Weinberg Productions (April 25, 1977 – September 5, 1977)
  • "NBC Nightly News" by Henry Mancini (September 6, 1977 – June 29, 1979)
  • "NBC News" by Joseph Paul Sicurella, Tony Smythe, and Bob Christianson (1979–1985)
    • Original version (July 2, 1979 - April 2, 1982)
    • Electronic version (April 5, 1982 – September 6, 1985)
  • "The Mission" by John Williams (September 9, 1985 – Present)

From late 2007 through 2012, the intro commenced with a timeline showing 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.

Notable incidents edit

In September 2001, a letter containing anthrax was addressed to then NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw as part of 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 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 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.[32] 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 select stations.[33] NBC News apologized for 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 [34]

International broadcast edit

Ongoing edit

Canada edit

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 the Canadian border, NBC affiliates WDIV, WGRZ, and WPBN (through WGTQ's HD2 channel) air live broadcasts of NBC Nightly News without cable.

Caribbean edit

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.

Europe/MENA edit

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 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.[35]

In Great Britain in 2022 and 2023, NBC News Now was available on Sky and Virgin Media as 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.

Hong Kong edit

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.).

Philippines edit

In the Philippines, NBC Nightly News returned on Philippine cable and satellite TV starting January 1, 2021, broadcast live daily at 7:30 AM (or 6:30 AM during daylight saving time in the US) on TAP Edge. Starting October 26, 2021, broadcasts of the program were moved to sister channel TAP TV (However, the program will be pre-empted on the other days to give way for the live coverage of ISU Figure Skating Championships events).

US Armed Forces edit

NBC Nightly News is broadcast on AFN|news, a channel that is available to several American military bases and ships around the world through the American Forces Network.

Discontinued edit

Philippines edit

In the Philippines, NBC Nightly News was aired Mondays through Fridays at 8:30 AM (after Daybreak), Saturdays at 9:00 AM and Sundays at 10:00 AM local time; it is also rebroadcast at 5:30 PM each weeknight, 1:30 PM on Saturdays, 4:30 AM on Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10:00 PM on Sundays and daily at 1:30 AM local time on 9TV (formerly as Talk TV and Solar News Channel). The newscast was discontinued in February 2015 as a part of transitory preparations as 9TV eventually re-branded to CNN Philippines on March 16, 2015.

Bermuda edit

The East Coast feed of the program was broadcast in Bermuda on local NBC affiliate VSB-TV in the British Overseas Territory; the station ceased broadcasting on August 31, 2014. Access to the programme in the Bahamas remains through cable feeds of WNBC/New York or WTVJ/Miami.

Video-on-demand edit

NBC Nightly News is also available worldwide as an audio podcast,[36] and can be streamed on demand from the NBC News website[37] the night of its original broadcast after 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Beginning with the March 27, 2018, broadcast, Nightly News broadcasts have also started appearing on NBC News's YouTube channel. On January 25, 2015, NBC began indicating that the video podcast of the program would be discontinued[38] and refers users to the news division's website or mobile apps to view editions of Nightly News on mobile devices, although such apps are not compatible with devices that feature podcast support such as early generation Apple TV or Roku devices (current-gen devices offer access to an NBC News app with newscast replays). The video podcast was discontinued on February 14, 2015.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Both anchored six days a week during early 1969.
  2. ^ Chancellor, McGee, and Brinkley rotated seven days a week.

References edit

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External links edit

  • Official website  
  • NBC Nightly News Audio Podcast
  • NBC Nightly News at IMDb  

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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 1 2 NBC Nightly News is produced from Studio 1A at NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City Select 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 NBC Nightly NewsAlso known asWeekdays NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt 2015 present GenreNews programCreated byReuven FrankDirected byChristian AliceaSusan KingPresented byWeekdays Lester Holt SaturdaysJose Diaz Balart SundaysHallie JacksonNarrated byBill HanrahanHoward ReigMichael DouglasBill WolffTheme music composerFred Weinberg Productions 1977 Henry Mancini 1977 1982 Joseph Paul Sicurella Tony Smythe amp Bob Christianson 1982 1985 John Williams 1985 present Opening theme The Mission 1985 present for past themes see section Ending themeSame as openingComposerJohn WilliamsCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons50ProductionExecutive producerMeghan RaffertyCamera setupMulti cameraRunning time30 minutesProduction companyNBC News ProductionsOriginal releaseNetworkNBCReleaseAugust 3 1970 1970 08 03 presentRelatedHuntley Brinkley Report ABC World News Tonight CBS Evening NewsSince 2015 the broadcast has been anchored by Lester Holt on weeknights Jose Diaz Balart on Saturday 3 and Hallie Jackson on Sunday Previous anchors have included John Chancellor David Brinkley Tom Brokaw Brian Williams and Kate Snow The program 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 was composed by John Williams Contents 1 History 1 1 John Chancellor and David Brinkley 1970 1982 1 2 Tom Brokaw 1982 2004 1 3 Brian Williams 2004 2015 1 3 1 Embellishment scandal suspension and replacement 1 4 Lester Holt 2015 present 2 Weekend editions 3 Kids edition 4 Nightly News anchors 4 1 Weekdays 4 2 Weekends 5 Announcer 6 Theme music Intros 7 Notable incidents 8 International broadcast 8 1 Ongoing 8 1 1 Canada 8 1 2 Caribbean 8 1 3 Europe MENA 8 1 4 Hong Kong 8 1 5 Philippines 8 1 6 US Armed Forces 8 2 Discontinued 8 2 1 Philippines 8 2 2 Bermuda 9 Video on demand 10 See also 10 1 Notes 11 References 12 External linksHistory editJohn Chancellor and David Brinkley 1970 1982 edit nbsp Original title card used from 1970 to 1972 nbsp NBC Nightly News title card used from 1972 to 1975 NBC Nightly News replaced The Huntley Brinkley Report in August 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 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 the space missions of Apollo 12 and Apollo 13 nbsp Brinkley provided commentary several times per week in the 1970s 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 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 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 Tom Brokaw 1982 2004 edit On April 5 1982 Tom Brokaw who had been serving as anchor of Today since 1976 joined 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 the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster EDSA Revolution Loma Prieta earthquake the fall of the Berlin Wall and Hurricane Andrew citation needed 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 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 citation needed 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 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 4 in the viewership wars nbsp Brokaw with Vladimir Putin before an interview on June 2 2000 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 the second tower Brokaw said This is war This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States 5 6 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 the ice rink at Rockefeller Plaza and cherry pickers tallied the electoral vote count on the facade 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 2004 2015 edit Brian Williams a frequent substitute for Brokaw for NBC Nightly News succeeded him as 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 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 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 nbsp Former set of NBC Nightly News pictured in 2008 nbsp NBC Nightly News control room nbsp Williams in 2011During Williams tenure as main anchor of the program Lester Holt and Kate Snow often substituted while he was on vacation or on assignment other substitute anchors included 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 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 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 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 Embellishment scandal suspension and replacement edit On February 4 2015 Williams apologized on the program for having conflated on numerous occasions an account that he had been aboard 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 7 8 9 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 10 nbsp Lester Holt pictured in 2012 current anchor of NBC Nightly NewsAmid that controversy and questions over Williams claims that made regarding his experiences while reporting from New Orleans on 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 the weeknight broadcasts 11 12 13 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 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 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 14 15 NBC announced that weekend anchor Lester Holt would anchor the program in the interim 16 Lester Holt 2015 present edit nbsp Logo used from November 8 1999 to November 7 2004 nbsp Logo used from November 8 2004 to October 21 2007 nbsp Logo used from November 8 2004 to December 1 2004 nbsp Logo used from October 22 2007 to October 9 2016 nbsp Logo used from June 22 2015 to October 7 2016 nbsp Logo used from October 10 2016 to November 26 2020On 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 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 17 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 18 19 With his promotion to main anchor Holt is the first African American solo weeknight anchor of a major network newscast 20 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 21 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 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 citation needed 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 was announced that executive producer Jennifer Suozzo would be departing the program and Meghan Rafferty would be interim executive producer on August 16 2021 22 On September 13 2021 NBC Nightly News permanently moved from Studio 3C to Studio 1A also the home of Today 23 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 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 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 24 25 nbsp Logo used from November 27 2020 to June 18 2023 nbsp Current logo symbol of NBC Nightly News first introduced on June 19 2023 26 nbsp Vertical logo symbol of NBC Nightly News first introduced on June 19 2023 Weekend editions editNBC first offered 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 27 The Saturday edition of 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 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 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 Kids edition editIn April 2020 NBC News began producing 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 28 Beginning on October 31 2020 occasional editions of NBC Nightly News Kids Edition have aired on Saturdays on NBC 29 Nightly News anchors editWeekdays edit The following are people who have been the principal news anchors for the NBC television network s flagship weekday evening news program titled since 1970 as NBC Nightly News as well as its predecessor programs John Cameron Swayze February 16 1948 October 26 1956 Camel News Caravan Chet Huntley and David Brinkley October 29 1956 July 31 1970 Huntley Brinkley Report a John Chancellor Frank McGee and Brinkley August 3 1970 August 13 1971 b Chancellor August 16 1971 June 4 1976 Chancellor and Brinkley June 7 1976 October 9 1979 Chancellor October 10 1979 April 2 1982 Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd April 5 1982 September 2 1983 Brokaw September 5 1983 December 1 2004 Brian Williams December 2 2004 February 6 2015 Lester Holt February 9 2015 present interim until June 22 2015 Weekends edit Weekend anchors have included the following Garrick Utley weekends 1971 1973 and 1990 1993 Sundays 1987 1990 Tom Brokaw Saturdays 1973 1976 Floyd Kalber Sundays 1973 1975 Tom Snyder Sundays 1975 1976 Cassie Mackin Sundays 1976 1977 John Hart Saturdays 1976 1977 Sundays 1977 1982 Jessica Savitch Saturdays some Sundays 1977 1983 Jane Pauley Sundays some Saturdays 1980 1982 Connie Chung Saturdays 1983 1989 Chris Wallace Sundays 1982 1984 1986 1987 John Palmer Sundays 1984 1986 1996 Maria Shriver Saturdays 1989 Sundays 1990 Brian Williams Saturdays some Sundays 1993 1999 Ann Curry Deborah Roberts Elizabeth Vargas Sundays 1993 1995 Giselle Fernandez Sundays 1995 1996 Bob Kur Chris Hansen Chris Jansing Chuck Scarborough Jack Ford Jodi Applegate Len Cannon Maurice DuBois Ann Curry Dawn Fratangelo Kelly O Donnell Faith Daniels Jane Pauley Katie Couric Matt Lauer Sara James Fredricka Whitfield Soledad O Brien Sundays 1996 1999 John Seigenthaler Sundays 1996 1999 weekends 1999 2007 Lester Holt weekends 2007 2015 Kate Snow Saturdays fill in anchor June 20 2020 February 25 2024 Sundays October 4 2015 February 25 2024 30 Jose Diaz Balart Saturdays August 2016 present Sundays fill in anchor 2016 present Various NBC News correspondents Sundays March 3 2024 March 31 2024 Peter Alexander March 3 and March 10 2024 Gadi Schwartz March 17 and March 31 2024 Laura Jarrett March 24 2024 Hallie Jackson Saturdays fill in anchor April 6 2024 present Sundays April 7 2024 present Announcer editBill 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 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 the weeknight broadcast introduced an opening by Academy Award winning actor producer Michael Douglas 31 until it was discontinued on June 18 2015 and was replaced by Wolff Theme music Intros editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed October 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Huntley Brinkley Report NBC Nightly News Ticker August 3 1970 November 10 1972 the theme had been used since 1962 when the program was still The Huntley Brinkley Report NBC News Ticker November 13 1972 April 22 1977 NBC TV Radio Newspulse by Fred Weinberg Productions April 25 1977 September 5 1977 NBC Nightly News by Henry Mancini September 6 1977 June 29 1979 NBC News by Joseph Paul Sicurella Tony Smythe and Bob Christianson 1979 1985 Original version July 2 1979 April 2 1982 Electronic version April 5 1982 September 6 1985 The Mission by John Williams September 9 1985 Present From late 2007 through 2012 the intro commenced with a timeline showing 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 Notable incidents editIn September 2001 a letter containing anthrax was addressed to then NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw as part of 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 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 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 32 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 select stations 33 NBC News apologized for 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 amp the show goes on NN 34 International broadcast editOngoing edit Canada edit See also List of United States television stations available in Canada 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 the Canadian border NBC affiliates WDIV WGRZ and WPBN through WGTQ s HD2 channel air live broadcasts of NBC Nightly News without cable Caribbean edit 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 Europe MENA edit 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 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 35 In Great Britain in 2022 and 2023 NBC News Now was available on Sky and Virgin Media as 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 Hong Kong edit 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 Philippines edit In the Philippines NBC Nightly News returned on Philippine cable and satellite TV starting January 1 2021 broadcast live daily at 7 30 AM or 6 30 AM during daylight saving time in the US on TAP Edge Starting October 26 2021 broadcasts of the program were moved to sister channel TAP TV However the program will be pre empted on the other days to give way for the live coverage of ISU Figure Skating Championships events US Armed Forces edit NBC Nightly News is broadcast on AFN news a channel that is available to several American military bases and ships around the world through the American Forces Network Discontinued edit Philippines edit In the Philippines NBC Nightly News was aired Mondays through Fridays at 8 30 AM after Daybreak Saturdays at 9 00 AM and Sundays at 10 00 AM local time it is also rebroadcast at 5 30 PM each weeknight 1 30 PM on Saturdays 4 30 AM on Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 00 PM on Sundays and daily at 1 30 AM local time on 9TV formerly as Talk TV and Solar News Channel The newscast was discontinued in February 2015 as a part of transitory preparations as 9TV eventually re branded to CNN Philippines on March 16 2015 Bermuda edit The East Coast feed of the program was broadcast in Bermuda on local NBC affiliate VSB TV in the British Overseas Territory the station ceased broadcasting on August 31 2014 Access to the programme in the Bahamas remains through cable feeds of WNBC New York or WTVJ Miami Video on demand editNBC Nightly News is also available worldwide as an audio podcast 36 and can be streamed on demand from the NBC News website 37 the night of its original broadcast after 9 00 p m Eastern Time Beginning with the March 27 2018 broadcast Nightly News broadcasts have also started appearing on NBC News s YouTube channel On January 25 2015 NBC began indicating that the video podcast of the program would be discontinued 38 and refers users to the news division s website or mobile apps to view editions of Nightly News on mobile devices although such apps are not compatible with devices that feature podcast support such as early generation Apple TV or Roku devices current gen devices offer access to an NBC News app with newscast replays The video podcast was discontinued on February 14 2015 See also editCNBCNotes edit Both anchored six days a week during early 1969 Chancellor McGee and Brinkley rotated seven days a week References edit Bill Carter April 1 2010 Olympics 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