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NBC News will be taking over the 10 PM Tuesday timeslot to air a series of live primetime specials on the coronavirus crisis. NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic will air Tuesdays at 10 PM ET beginning March 31 for three consecutive weeks across NBC, MSNBC and live-streaming outlet NBC News Now. The timeslot…

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt says that the coronavirus crisis is “potentially the biggest story I’ll ever cover,” a superlative that takes into account a career that saw momentous events including 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis. On Thursday at 10 PM ET, Holt will anchor NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus…

The final Nielsen numbers for the just-completed 2018-2019 network news season are in, and ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished first in total viewers and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt beat its rivals in key demographics. But viewership was flat or down across the board, even as the networks…

A half a century ago tomorrow, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with a pledge that they "came in peace for all mankind." As seemingly all of the human race watched, six hours after the Eagle had landed, Neil Armstrong took that remarkable "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and became the first person to…

Joe Biden wasn't mentioned at all by Elizabeth Warren and the nine Democratic dwarfs Wednesday night at the first debate. But today the former Vice President and clear 2020 front-runner was center stage in Miami and the man to beat. Even with Biden, a breakout by Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders, the…

Ronald Reagan used to quip that the 11th Commandment was "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." But Wednesday, the Democrats seeking the Great Communicator's old job generally appropriated the notion for themselves in a debate that was mainly characterized by its policy wonk approach and being the most…

NBC News announced the five moderators for the first Democratic presidential primary debate, set for a two-night run June 26-27: Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart. The two-night event, featuring 10 candidates each night, will take place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the…

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt’s reporting on President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey comes full circle in a sit-down with Comey, airing on Wednesday night’s newscast. "You go before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you talk about a lot of things, the Clinton e-mail server, but you…

Jenn Suozzo, previously senior broadcast producer at NBC’s Nightly News With Lester Holt, has been elevated to executive producer on the network’s nightly newscast. The move comes after the July departure of EP Sam Singal; Suozzo, the former EP of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, had been Singal’s No. 2, and had taken…

President Donald Trump set aside his complaints about tech companies and foreign leaders, at least for the moment, to return to his comfort zone of blasting the TV news business. In three morning tweets (which followed a re-tweet of a Breitbart News post explaining Kanye West’s loyalty to Trump), the president said…

Based on a true story, Spike Lee’s forthcoming BlacKkKlansman follows John David Washington’s Ron Stallworth, the first Black Colorado Springs officer who successfully went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, ultimately becoming the leader of its local chapter and gaining the trust of Grand Wizard David Duke…

Sam Singal has stepped down as EP of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Singal's No.2, Nightly News’ senior broadcast producer Jennifer Suozzo, is taking over on interim basis. Suozzo formerly worked at MSNBC, including EP of Andrea Mitchell Reports. Singal was Holt's ep on Weekend Nightly News from 2011 to 2015, when…