Janelle Rodriguez is adding oversight of MSNBC dayside to her plate. Rodriguez, joined NBC from CNN in late 2014 as SVP of editorial for NBC News. She continues in that role while taking on her new MSNBC duties.
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s about to be a family affair at 30 Rock for NBC News anchor Lester Holt and his son, Stefan Holt, who soon will be anchoring […]
KNBC’s Gadi Schwartz Moves To NBC News
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CNN is replacing NBC News as the host of the Republican National Committee’s Super Tuesday debate in February. “The Republican National Committee has decided to move forward without NBC’s participation in our February debate in Houston, Texas. The RNC has awarded the debate to CNN, who will broadcast it on Thursday, Feb. 25, in Houston at a location to be decided,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday.
NBC and producers are feeling more optimistic about the morning-show’s prospects. ABC’s Good Morning America remains the nation’s most-watched morning program — a position it swiped from Today in 2012 amid viewer backlash over the ouster of then-host Ann Curry — but Today has beat GMA steadily among people between 25 and 54, the audience most desired by advertisers.
Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of NBC’s Meet the Press. Here’s an inside look at his fall from the top — and what it says about the state of TV news.
In the news demo the November sweep win is NBC News’ 18th of the last 19. Today’s ratings results are good news for NBC; last year, ABC World News Tonight With David Muir won the November sweep in the news demo, ABC’s first such win in 18 years.
A conference call Monday among ABC, CBS, CNN ,Fox and NBC to discuss issues related to press coverage of the Trump campaign reportedly ended without any set plans, and may lead to no formal action of any kind.
Several broadcast networks are conferring on a possible response to recent actions by the Donald Trump campaign to insist that reporters covering its events remain confined to a holding pen, according to three television news sources — all of whom declined to comment on the record.
Hispanic lawmakers hoped a meeting with top executives from MSNBC and NBC News Wednesday would smooth over hard feelings from Donald Trump’s appearance on Saturday Night Live. Instead, it had the opposite effect. NBC News President Deborah Turness committed a major blunder — as far as the Hispanic lawmakers were concerned — when she described undocumented immigrants as “illegals,” a term that many in the Latino community find highly offensive.
The Today show personality, a year after completing a marathon 34-hour weather forecast, plans to give reports from all 50 states within a week starting Friday. If successful, he’ll try to have it certified as a Guinness World Record, not that anyone has done it before him.
NBC News and MSNBC shook up its ranks on Tuesday, parting ways with NBC’s digital chief Julian March and MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe. NBC-MSNBC Chairman Andy Lack has named Nick Ascheim SVP for digital; he comes over from BBC Worldwide, where he was SVP for consumer digital.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sent an open letter to NBC News chairman Andrew Lack today declaring that they are “suspending the partnership” because the CNBC debate had been conducted “in bad faith.”
The ABC-NBC news ratings war between David Muir and Lester Holt is about to get even more intense. ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir, took its first-ever win for a full year in the all-important C3 Nielsen ad ratings, ABC revealed on Monday.
NBCUniversal isn’t finished tinkering with MSNBC. While the cable-news network’s daytime schedule has largely been reworked since February, there are likely more changes to come, said Andrew Lack, the veteran TV news executive who rejoined the company in April to supervise both NBC News and MSNBC. “It’s just the beginning. We are early days.”
NBC News will broadcast its morning show coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to Washington from an exclusive anchor spot on the White House’s South Lawn. The setup will give the NBC News broadcast the look and feel of the official pope-visit news desk that no other newscast will have.
Former CBS News star Dan Rather, the longest holder of the Evening News chair, has a theory about what happened to Brian Williams at NBC. “When things started coming apart, he didn’t hire an expert to help him,” Rather said Saturday night. “He relied on their PR people. He trusted them. That was his mistake. They threw him under the bus.”
KARE McCoy Heading To NBC News In L.A.
BOSTON (AP) — After six years of helping the Obama administration determine the nation’s food policy, former White House chef and food policy adviser Sam Kass will now report […]
Alex Wallace, a 10-year veteran of NBC News, is leaving the network, effective today. As senior vice president, Wallace has overseen NBC Nightly News as well as Meet the Press, and, since 2014, the Washington bureau.
Holt, who had been sitting in as NBC Nightly News anchor since Brian Williams was suspended, has officially gotten the job he had all but given up on. With the perch comes the responsibility to lead a news organization that is not only trying to repair its reputation, but also striving to keep pace with a rapidly evolving digital landscape, where the moral authority of a network news anchor has faded.
If there were any doubts about Lester Holt’s new position as the official anchor of NBC Nightly News, his new promotional video puts them to rest
NBC’s Brian Williams, in his first interview since being suspended in February, said “ego” drove him to embellish stories about his reporting experiences. “I said things that weren’t true,” he told his colleague Matt Lauer Friday morning in a taped interview on NBC’s Today show.
Step No. 1 is Friday, when Brian Williams faces old colleague Matt Lauer for an interview that will be aired on the Today show and Nightly News. It will be Williams’ first time speaking publicly since being suspended in February for telling tales about his reporting experiences.
Williams was suspended in February for falsely claiming he had been in a helicopter hit by enemy fire during the Iraq War. NBC launched an internal investigation that found Williams “made a number of inaccurate statements about his own role and experiences covering events in the field.” “Brian now has the chance to earn back everyone’s trust,” said Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.
Tip For Williams Watchers: Take A Breath
Assuming everything reported about Brian Williams’ transgressions are true, it’s still important to keep this in perspective. While those grievous errors wouldn’t allow him to return to the anchor seat, it shouldn’t keep him from pursuing his life’s work — assuming he returns humbled and squares with his audience.
NBC and Williams have come to a tentative agreement that will keep Williams at the network after his six-month suspension ends in August. The decision, described by people with knowledge of the plan, ends months of speculation that Williams could leave NBC altogether. Williams will not be returning to the NBC Nightly News anchor chair. Instead, he will have a new role at MSNBC. His fill-in Lester Holt will become NBC Nightly News’ permanent anchor
