NBC Nightly News

American television program

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Brokaw

  • Tom Brokaw
    In 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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Holt

  • Lester Holt
    In 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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