NBC Nightly News

American television program

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Host of NBC Nightly News, 1982–2004 Tom Brokaw at NBC studios, New York City, 2000.

NBC Nightly News is a prominent American television news program that airs on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network. Currently anchored by Lester Holt, who became the first Black person to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast, the program has a long history of delivering news to American households. Holt is slated to step down from the anchor chair in the summer of 2025.1

The program is part of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast Corporation. NBC itself is the oldest broadcasting network in the United States, originating from a radio program in 1926. Over the years, NBC has been a pioneer in television, introducing innovations like color television and developing popular shows such as Today and The Tonight Show. NBC Nightly News continues this legacy of broadcast journalism.23

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Tom Brokaw
…selected Brokaw to coanchor the Nightly News with Roger Mudd. After a year, network executives made Brokaw the sole anchor of the show. He was in competition with news anchors Dan Rather at CBS and Peter Jennings at ABC, and for the next two decades the three anchors represented the…
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…selected Brokaw to coanchor the Nightly News with Roger Mudd. After a year, network executives made Brokaw the sole anchor of the show. He was in competition with news anchors Dan Rather at CBS and Peter Jennings at ABC, and for the next two decades the three anchors represented the…
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Lester Holt
…named full-time weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News, a position he held until 2015. In February of that year, Holt was appointed interim anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News after permanent anchor Brian Williams was suspended for having made inaccurate statements about his involvement in various events. In June…
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…named full-time weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News, a position he held until 2015. In February of that year, Holt was appointed interim anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News after permanent anchor Brian Williams was suspended for having made inaccurate statements about his involvement in various events. In June…
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