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NBC News aired the first regularly scheduled television newscast in American history on the 21st of February, 1940, anchored by Lowell Thomas. The broadcast aired weeknights at 6:45 pm and reached an audience of roughly five thousand television sets.
The Huntley-Brinkley Report debuted on the 29th of October, 1956, pairing anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. Created by producer Reuven Frank, the program outperformed CBS News in viewership for much of its fourteen-year run.
NBC interrupted programming at 1:45 pm on the 22nd of November, 1963, to report that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. The network broadcast seventy-one hours of uninterrupted coverage, including the only live footage of the fatal shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby in the Dallas Police Headquarters basement.
NBC suspended Brian Williams for six months in February 2015 after he admitted to telling an inaccurate story about his experience during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Lester Holt replaced him on an interim basis and was named permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News on the 18th of June, 2015.
After a ten-month investigation by Ronan Farrow and NBC producer Rich McHugh, NBC News chose not to publish the story about Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct. The piece ran in the New Yorker magazine with very few changes and won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in April 2018. Farrow later said in his book Catch and Kill that two sources within American Media, Inc. stated the story was killed because Weinstein threatened to expose Matt Lauer's misconduct.
Versant is a new company announced by Comcast in November 2024 to hold most of NBCUniversal's cable networks, including CNBC and MSNBC. MSNBC completed the separation from NBC News and rebranded as MS NOW on the 15th of November, 2025, reducing the scope of the NBC News division.