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Diane Sawyer begins at ABC's `World News'
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NEW YORK — Diane Sawyer follows quickly on the heels of Charles Gibson's retirement to launch a new era as anchor of ABC News' flagship evening newscast on Monday.
FILE -This Sept. 8, 2008 file photo shows Diane Sawyer, of "Good
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ABC remains deliberately low-key about Sawyer newscast shift
New York -- Diane Sawyer follows quickly on the heels of Charles Gibson's retirement to launch a new era as anchor of ABC News' flagship evening newscast on Monday.
Women now hold two of the three jobs, top jobs on what have always been considered the
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Stars make fans dreams come true on TV Land
Vivica A. Fox's episode of TV Land's "Make My Day" involves taking her biggest supporter on an impromptu photo shoot.
In the spirit of the holiday season, Vivica A. Fox, Jesse Metcalfe, Lil John and Vincent Pastore, among others, are helping
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2009 TVNewser Poll Results: Brian Williams #1
We continue providing the results from a round of polls we asked on Jan 1. 2009. One of the questions we asked was, By This Time Next Year Which Network News Broadcast Will Be #1?
59% of you said NBC "Nightly News with Brian Williams" would remain in
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Brian Williams Marks Passing of Most Decorated Modern War Hero, Colonel Robert Howard
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams took a moment to remember Vietnam War veteran, retired Colonel Robert Howard, who was awarded many honors for his heroic service, including the Medal of Honor, eight purple hearts, four Bronze
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USA Weekend December 25-27
See the Dec. 25-27 issue of USA WEEKEND Magazine, available in The Sunday Town Talk, for these stories.
Dont cry for Brian Williams or for TV news.
This is a good time for television news, says the anchor of NBC Nightly News. And, he jokes, not just
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ABC, NBC to Carry Pres. Obama Statement on Flight 253 Terror Attempt
TVNewser has learned ABC's Diane Sawyer and NBC's Brian Williams will anchor special reports this afternoon for their networks as Pres. Obama makes remarks about stepped up airport security after the attempted attack on Northwest Flight 253 on
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No immediate ratings change after anchor switches
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anchor changes at ABC's two biggest newscasts have so far
done nothing to shake NBC's dominance in the ratings.
The Nielsen Co. says Diane Sawyer of ABC's "World News" finished behind NBC's
Brian Williams on her first night and first
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No immediate ratings change after network anchor switches
NEW YORK Anchor changes at ABC's two biggest newscasts did nothing during their first week to shake NBC's dominance in the ratings.
NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams averaged 9.37 million viewers on the first week that Diane Sawyer anchored
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No immediate ratings change after anchor switches
NEW YORK — Anchor changes at ABC's two biggest newscasts did nothing during their first week to shake NBC's dominance in the ratings.
NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams averaged 9.37 million viewers on the first week that Diane Sawyer anchored
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In News, Word Continues to Spread
We have seen the future of news, and it is—Twitter? Jon Stewart? Glenn Beck? The answer, it seems, is “yes” to all three as a mashup of new media and new voices speaks to a disaffection with traditional news outlets and a broadening mistrust of
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Thinking About Going Back to School Online? Western Governors University Provides Guidelines for Determining Whether 'Online' is Right for You
Online university encourages prospective students to consider "fit" before they enroll
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For many working adults, the New Year brings a resolution to go back to school to finish a bachelor's or master's
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ABC, NBC, CBS to Carry Obama Statement on Homeland Security Meeting
The three networks will produce special reports as Pres. Obama makes remarks after meeting this afternoon with 20 homeland security and law enforcement officials at the White House. The group is discussing the glitches which allowed a Nigerian man to
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Still 'D'oh' nuts for 'The Simpsons' at 20
Forget for a moment about the 20th anniversary now upon us of the most famous, beloved, imitated (and occasionally condemned) animated series in the long and spotted span of TV history.Forget all the tributes and the mountains of admiring prose you may
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A 3-D 'Simpsons' special: Daffy, delicious, delightful
Sorry to disappoint, but there is no 3-D, or ice (but definitely check out the last scene) in the 'Simpsons' 20th anniversary special. Instead, expect a potpourri documentary that covers - with admirable thoroughness - the past 20 years, including
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ABC's Diane Sawyer in Afghanistan
PASADENA -- Diane Sawyer is in Afghanistan, her first overseas trip
as anchor of ABC's "World News."
She'll anchor from Kabul on Monday and Tuesday and travel with the
top U.S. commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. ABC "Good
Morning America
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Diane Sawyer In Afghanistan
PASADENA, Calif. — Diane Sawyer is in Afghanistan, her first overseas trip as anchor of ABC's "World News."
She'll anchor from Kabul Monday and Tuesday, and travel with the top U.S. commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. ABC "Good Morning America
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Mark McGwires Pound of Flesh
In the ten years Brian Williams has anchored the NBC Nightly News, he never once launched a broadcast by lambasting a public figure. Henry Paulson after the economic collapse? George W. Bush after Katrina? Dick Cheney after everything? All were spared
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Third crasher too rubbed shoulders with the powerful
Like the first crasher couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Allen, also posed for plenty of grip-and-grin shots at the state dinner, which were posted on Facebook late Monday by stylist Erwin Gomez. Michaele Salahi visited Gomez's Georgetown salon to
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Notre Dame's 2010 commencement speaker: NBC News' Brian Williams
Tribune Staff Report
SOUTH BEND — Last year's visit by President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame drew weeks of national news attention.
This year's speaker is someone on the other side of the news desk:
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Media Matters staff: LA Times : Fox drops the ball in Haiti coverage
Why dwell on one of our closest
hemispheric neighbors in its hour of dire need, when -- like both Sean
Hannity and Glenn Beck -- you can conduct prolonged, frothy promotional
interviews with Fox's newest contributor, Sarah Palin?
Why focus
on all that
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Brian Williams Tempted to Cuss at Mark McGwire for His Lies; Not So on NBC When Bill Fessed Up About Monica
Greg Pollowitz at NRO Media Blog noted that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams made it personal on Tuesday night, suggesting "Because this is a family broadcast, we probably can’t say what we’d like to about the news today that Mark
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Would someone let Cindy Sheehan know that Cheney's no longer in power?
A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.
They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.
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Network anchors return from Haiti, but a sizable reporting corps remains
All three network news anchors returned from Haiti this weekend and plan to anchor their evening newscasts from New York tonight, a sign that the intense coverage of the earthquake’s wreckage is abating.
But while NBC’s Brian Williams, ABC’s Diane
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MSNBC's Brzezinski Talks Media Bias, Blames Lib Media for Starting Fox News
TVNewser has a transcript par excellence, for your reading pleasure. In sum, Mika Brzezinski has gone off the Big Media reservation again, in a good way. Let’s just say she unwittingly (?) offers praise for a cable news network with much better
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Katie Couric / CBS Timeline (1975-2010)
Our timeline looks at the history of CBS News and Katie Couric during the period 1975-2008. It begins in 1975 when Couric graduated from high school.
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June 1975
Katherine Anne Couric graduates
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Positive Vibe at NBC Affiliates Board Meeting
Both NBC and its affiliates board spoke positively of their
annual meeting in New York today (Jan. 21), saying both parties are happy to
move ahead after the recent Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien drama and work together on
issues such as
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Nets Decry Campaign Finance Ruling, Fail to Hail Victory for Freedom of Speech
The unencumbered ability to sway voters is great for the news media, but journalists are outraged others could re-acquire the same First Amendment rights. Instead of painting a victory for free speech in the Supreme Court's ruling that corporations,
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Covering Haiti, At a Cost
Weeks after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the meter is still running for news organizations that have flooded the region with personnel. The bill for Haiti is expected to come to approximately $1.5 million for each broadcast network, say
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Diane Sawyer quietly makes her mark as ABC News anchor
"Soul-searing heartbreak": That's what Diane Sawyer says she found during her two days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Diane Sawyer is happy to sleep in a bit now that she has shifted from morning duty to anchor of ABC's World News. "I'm always startled that
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Sawyer on the road for much of first month as ABC anchor
A month into her new job as "World News" anchor, Diane Sawyer has piled up enough frequent flier miles to impress even George Clooney's character in "Up in the Air."
Her desire to get out of ABC's New York studio already has set Ms. Sawyer apart from
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Haiti: The journalists behind the story
The story: When a massive earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, Reuters journalists raced to the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince. While Reuters has no bureau in Haiti, we have established long-time freelancers to help on our coverage and we go on
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Karl Frisch: Despite SOTU reportedly mentioning DADT, LGBT voices nearly absent from announced post-address analysis
Despite reports that "don't ask, don't tell" will be tackled in President Obama's State of the Union address tonight, the initial line-up of cable and broadcast network hosts and commentators offering analysis after the speech includes only one openly
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Girls Write Now Spring 2010 series celebrates a new year of developing New York’s best teen writers
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Girls Write Now (GWN), New York City’s premier creative writing and mentoring organization for high school girls, today announced the launch of its spring series, CHAPTERS, celebrating a new year of developing New York’s best teen
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Oprah giving best friend award
Oprah Winfrey will present an award to her best friend, Gayle King, at the New York Women in Communications' Matrix Awards in April.King will be recognized for her work as editor-at-large of O, the Oprah magazine, and on her Sirius XM radio talk show.
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Has Obama lost Jon Stewart?
"Yeah," the candidate said, "I've been going through therapy to make sure that I vote properly."
Last week, though, the president was the punch line. After showing video of Obama speaking to schoolkids, the "Daily Show" host said in amazement: "You set
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New York Women in Communications Announces Presenters for the 2010 Matrix Awards
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 Today, New York Women in Communications announced the 2010 Matrix Award presenters — an extraordinary slate of men and women personally selected by each honoree to join them during the award ceremony.
The 2010 Matrix Awards will take
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N.L. Premier Williams set to have heart surgery in U.S.
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cbc.qwapi.com 13 hours ago — N.L. Premier Danny Williams is scheduled to have surgery this week. (CBC) Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States. CBC News
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Just askin' - Just sayin': White House Deficit Reduction "Sale"
"Cautioning [that] the Obama administration's 'deficit projections...are just that, projections,' NBC's Chuck Todd on Monday evening [February 1] bought into the White House's claim that Democratic health care reform bills that would add millions to
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The Katie Couric Conundrum: What Should CBS Do?
The state of the economy is affecting everyone, and new reports claim that Couric's whopping $15 million a year salary might have to be trimmed a bit if CBS keeps her on board. For comparison, NBC's Brian Williams -- who almost permanently holds the
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Brian Williams on Nightly News: 'It's as Straight Down the Middle as they Come and we Struggle Mightily to do that Each Day'
Both the "Today" show and Williams' flag-shift newscast have increased already substantial leads in the ratings over second-place broadcasts on ABC News since each of those competitors switched anchors in December.
Williams is more likely to become a
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NBC News outpacing prime-time offerings
NEW YORK - Forget Jay Leno. Maybe NBC should have considered Brian Williams for a prime-time job. The week before last, Williams' Nightly News was seen by an average of 10.1 million viewers each evening. Not only was that larger than Leno's audience,
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Snow Delays Vancouver-bound Brian Williams
Snow has already paralyzed Washington D.C. And now inclement weather in New York has grounded NBC Nightly News personnel attempting to get to Vancouver for the XXI Olympic Winter Games.
The plan was to have Brian Williams leave after the broadcast
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Ground Shakes in Illinois: Earthquake or Snow Plow?
At 4:00 am this morning (February 10, 2010), my house shook. Having lived in California for a period of my adult life, I knew what a tremor felt like. Still, living in Illinois, it's not the type of thing you expect to experience in the Midwest. So, of
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Brian Williams Is So Fucking Boring...
His cell phone is on vibrate. He'd love a menage a trois with Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin. Brian Williams unplugged. Sort of. I'm making him far more interesting than this Caspar Milquetoast interview. And do you think he REALLY buys
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Tragedy looms over TV coverage of Olympic opening
NEW YORK—Television networks, including Olympics rights-holder NBC, did not shy away from airing sickening video of the practice run accident that killed a 21-year-old luger from the republic of Georgia on the opening day of the Vancouver Winter Games.
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Luge video ignites backlash
NEW YORK NBC and other networks were criticized Saturday for broadcasting the disturbing video of a Georgian luger who died after flying off the track and slamming into a steel beam during an Olympic training run.
NBC said callers complained, and
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Barney: NBC gets off to solid start with Olympics coverage
Sometimes it's difficult to tell what people get more worked up about — the Olympics, or television's coverage of the Olympics. Oh yes, we do love to beat up on NBC. It's a sport unto itself.
But despite all the inexplicable tape delays, relentless
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Hamlin highlighed on national news program
As Erin Hamlin's big moment approaches, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams featured the Olympic medal contender and her hometown of Remsen on its Monday night program.
The 23-year-old will take her first competitive run down the track at the Whistler
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Nielsen's top 20 prime-time programs for Feb. 8-14
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The first three nights of the Vancouver Olympics are spelling gold for NBC. But Fox is also pleased with the number of viewers for another kind of competition on "American Idol."
The Nielsen Co. said Wednesday that the Winter
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Sawyer pulling in viewers for 'ABC World News'
She's a hit. Newly annointed "ABC World News" anchor Diane Sawyer is soaring way above the competition in the nightly network news ratings race in the Chicago market, though she isn't on top in national Nielsen ratings yet.
Sawyer, who succeeded the
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NBC: Obama Made Dalai Lama Sneak Out of White House Past Line of Trash Bags
Uniquely among Friday’s broadcast network evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams gave his viewers a glimpse into the undignified exit endured by the Dalai Lama, who was made to walk past a number of trash bags as President Obama
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NBC Olympics On-Air Orgasms Torched
NYP's Phil Mushnick: "Did the slick geniuses at NBC stop to consider how absurd and sad it looked and sounded — and could only look and sound — for NBC News anchor Brian Williams, last week, to be reporting on a major U.S. military offensive against
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‘NBC Nightly News’ scores biggest win over ABC, CBS
Being at the Vancouver Games has evidently paid off for NBC and Brian Williams. He easily won the gold medal for ratings last week.
“NBC Nightly News” posted its biggest win over ABC and CBS since the inception of People Meters in 1987. Williams
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Willie Geist's Big Night Out With Brian Williams (VIDEO)
MSNBC's "Way Too Early" host and "Morning Joe" co-host, Willie Geist, has been in Vancouver showing the lighter side of the Olympics.
On Tuesday's "Morning Joe," Willie showed how he himself had some fun over the weekend in Vancouver: a night out with "
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Putting TV on the podium
Remember those U.K. tabloid headlines about the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games being "the worst Olympics ever" and continuing the "downhill slide from disaster to calamity?" Don't seem so prophetic now, do they?
How's this for prophetic? In an
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Gauging Seriousness
In 2008, when Afghanistan was just coming back onto the media’s radar, the New York Times ran a story with a sobering metric:
Coverage of the war in Afghanistan has increased slightly this year, with 46 minutes of total coverage year-to-date compared
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NBC's Brian Williams Ignores Rangel Corruption Charges
After the Democrats regained control of the House in 2006, Nancy Pelosi promised NBC's Brian Williams that she would "drain the swamp" and "turn this Congress into the most honest and open Congress in history." So when news broke that a House Ethics
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U IN DANJA GRL: CBS Eyeing Anderson Cooper for Katie Couric's Job?
In mid-2011, Katie Couric's five-year contract at CBS News will expire, and network executives appear to be exploring a "Plan B" if she departs after her oft-rocky tenure in the anchor's chair. According to the New York Times, that backup plan could
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Tom Brokaw didn't retire, he shifted gears
Reporting from New York -
The day he was scheduled to retire from his job as a foreman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Yankton, S.D., Tom Brokaw's father, known as Red, called his son. "I can't retire," he told the NBC anchor, in an
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Williams: News Is Worth Paying For
NBC Nightly News
anchor and managing editor Brian Williams told a room full of journalists
Thursday (March 4) that news organizations need to invest in the kind of real
reporting that separates facts from information, and the public
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Exercise in law class triggered Roberts rumor
NEW YORK - NBC anchor Brian Williams' train was just pulling into Washington's Union Station on Thursday afternoon when he read an urgent bulletin on his BlackBerry: Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was contemplating stepping down,
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SNL Skit: Gus Galafinakis Invades NBC Shows
Zach Galifianakis hosted Saturday Night Live last night, which made for an odd and yet mostly funny show. In this skit, Gus crashes a number of NBC shows, from The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams to Law and Order. Take a look:
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Williams: I thought Radar's Roberts retirement story seemed odd
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Evening News Ratings: Week of Mar. 1
"NBC Nightly News" remained the top evening news program last week, but, predictably, lost significant viewership week-to-week following two weeks of the Winter Olympics, for which Brian Williams anchored the newscast from Vancouver. "Nightly" lost 1.8
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HD Production Leads Multi-Platform Paralympic Coverage
Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium will deliver a record 57 hours of high-definition television coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in English and French from March 12-21.
This marks the most hours of coverage ever
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Tom Brokaw didn't retire, he shifted gears
joking that they're going to revoke his AARP card at this rate," said NBC News President Steve Capus.
THE DAY he was scheduled to retire from his job as a foreman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Yankton, S.D., Tom Brokaw's father, known as Red,
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Kate Snow Leaving ABC For NBC
Snow, the weekend co-anchor of "Good Morning America" will join NBC News this spring, and will act as a correspondent for "Dateline" as well as contribute to other NBC news properties.
"This is a great day for NBC News," NBC News president Steve Capus
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Topless Surfers Troll Chatroulette as Site Seeks Staying Power
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Alli Galbraith and her boyfriend Johnny Graham have a new pastime. For the past week, they’ve poured themselves glasses of boxed red wine, popped Red Stripe beers and hopped on Chatroulette.com, a site that puts them in video
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Closing Ceremony of 2010 Paralympic Winter Games To Air Live on CTV and RDS, This Sunday
As part of its commitment to new standards in Paralympic Games coverage, CTV Inc. announced today it will televise live coverage of the Closing Ceremony from the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in both English and French.
Taking place in
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NBC Poll Finds ObamaCare Seen as ‘Bad Idea’ by 12 Point Margin, Squelched by Nightly News
First off, about the President’s health care reform plan: People are evenly split on that question, 46-45, despite what each party’s been saying. Most people tell us they don’t approve of the way President Obama has handled the health care issue [41%
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Health debate coming to the end?
By Ann Curry, NBC News anchor
In for Brian Williams tonight, and the Nightly team is scrambling.
That's because in just a matter of days we should know where the long, roaring battle over health care will finally lead us.
Today President Obama
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A warm chair
One of my favorite things about filling in for Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, is actually what happens behind-the- scenes.
When, in the afternoon meetings the broadcast's very smart talents go over the rundown of stories, there is yes passion and
