NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The first regularly scheduled American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940. Meet The Press is the longest-running television series in American history, airing on NBC every Sunday morning. It is owned by NBCUniversal and Comcast, which owns NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC World, Noticias Telemundo, Sky News, and other news channels.
About NBC News in brief
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The group’s broadcasts are produced and aired from 30 Rockefeller Center, NBCUniversal’s headquarters in New York City. The first regularly scheduled American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940, anchored by Lowell Thomas. Meet The Press is the longest-running television series in American history, airing on NBC every Sunday morning. The Huntley-Brinkley Report had its debut on October 29, 1956, and was anchored by Douglas Edwards and Chet Huntley. During its 14-year run, it exceeded the viewership levels of its competition, CBS News, initially anchored byDouglas Edwards and Nancy Dicker, supported by reporters including John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman, Edwin Van Sander, Tom Pettit, and Ray Scherer. NBC News also offers 70 years of rare historic footage from the NBCUniversal Archives online. It is owned by NBCUniversal and Comcast, which owns NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC World, Noticias Telemundo, Sky News, and other news channels. It also owns NBC Nightly News, the network’s number-one news program, as well as other news and business channels such as CNN, Fox News, ABC News, Fox Sports, and Fox Business, among others. It has been in existence since the 1930s, when it was founded as NBC Television Newsreel.
In 1948, NBC teamed up with Life magazine to provide election night coverage of President Harry S. Truman’s surprising victory over New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. The following year, the Camel News Caravan debuted on NBC. In 1950, David Brinkley began serving as the program’s Washington correspondent, but attracted little attention outside the network until paired with ChetHuntley in 1956. In 1951, NBC News was managed by Director of News Bill McAndrew, who reported to Vice President of News Public Affairs J. Davidson Taylor. In the late 1950s, television’s lates and early 1960s, NBC’s television news coverage assumed an increasingly prominent role in American family life in the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1956, NBC replaced the program with the Huntley–Brinkly Report, which was hosted by Chethuntley and featured celebrities such as Nancy Dickerson, Nancy Dickerson, and Frank Revenven, and Tom Pettits. In 1961, the program was replaced by NBC’s late late-night news show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which featured newsmakers such as David Letterman, Dean Obeidallah, Bob Greene, and Bob Greene. In 1967, the show was replaced with The Today Show with David Frost, who was also a newsman. In 1971, the Today Show became the first network news program to be anchored by a female anchor. In 1973, NBC hired its own film crews and in the early 1980s, it dominated CBS’s competing program, which did not hire its own camera crews until 1953.
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