A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

A female NBC Nightly News employee is reported to have been exposed to anthrax.

The line was perceived as a slap at NBC Nightly News main anchor John Chancellor, who due to his background as a foreign correspondent, felt the network should weigh its news more heavily toward world events, and had kept Franco's deathwatch at the top of the headlines.

** Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer ( NBC Nightly News ) ( d. 2010 )

Donna Cox, leader of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA and a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her team have thrilled millions of people with visualizations for the Oscar-nominated IMAX film " Cosmic Voyage ," the PBS NOVA episodes " Hunt for the Supertwister " and " Runaway Universe ," as well as Discovery Channel documentaries and pieces for CNN and NBC Nightly News.

* The last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that the entire game is gone.

After Letterman was introduced on Late Show's very first episode, NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him " reasonably well ".

The launch was shown on NBC Nightly News in a five-minute segment on the bottom of the Sunday broadcast that week.

By 1992, however, the Evening News had fallen to third place, where it remained until Bob Schieffer, who acted as the interim anchor between Rather and Katie Couric, saw the Evening News rise to # 2 ahead of ABC World News Tonight in the wake of the death of Peter Jennings but remaining behind NBC Nightly News.

At the end of Rather's time as anchor, the CBS Evening News lagged behind the NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight in the ratings, although it was still drawing approximately 7 million viewers a night.

Dr. Poe's story was highlighted on NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, USA Today and other forms of national, state, and local media.

* Tom Brokaw, journalist, writer, former anchorman NBC Nightly News

Later, NBC created American Almanac, which she co-hosted with Roger Mudd, after Mudd left the NBC Nightly News, where he co-anchored for two years with Tom Brokaw.

* Alaska News Nightly, a headline news radio program broadcast on the Alaska Public Radio network.

The company was featured in magazine articles in such mainstream publications as Rolling Stone Magazine and was featured on the NBC Nightly News.

Pardo is noted for his long association with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as The Price is Right, Jeopardy !, and NBC Nightly News.

Pardo squeezed in many other assignments at NBC, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ( until 1999 ), WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, and Wheel of Fortune ( during two special on-location weeks in 1988, when the show originated from New York and was using substitute announcers after Jack Clark's death ).

After extensive renovations of the associated studios, NBC essentially merged its entire news operation into one building, and all MSNBC broadcasts, as well as the NBC Nightly News program, originate in the new studios.

Ratings slowly climbed to the point where World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the most-popular network evening newscast.

By 1997, Nightly News had solidified its first place rating, a spot it would retain solely for ten years.

* " Huntley-Brinkley Report / NBC Nightly News Ticker " ( August 3, 1970 – November 10, 1972 ; the theme had been used since 1962, when the program was still The Huntley-Brinkley Report )

As of June 2010, NBC Nightly News is carried on TVB Pearl live at 7: 30am, and is currently the only American network news carried on TVB Pearl after the CBS Evening News had disappeared from ATV's schedule.

When the story was covered by NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on February 25, 2003, Vines finally broke his silence on the issue, claiming that his statements had been overemphasized in media reports, and that he had not intended to evoke hate.

24 July 1780, describes the blooming and fading of the " Nightly Cereus " which had a 125mm dia.

He had also filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News.

The group were among the first in contemporary rock & roll to experiment with a Moog, though the instrument had been used before ( notably by bands such as The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel and The Monkees, whose Daily Nightly was the first rock recording to feature the Moog.

The station had a one-hour primetime newscast called The 9 O ' Clock Nightly News starting in 1989, which featured anchors Liz Talbot and Duane Gay.

The ITV Nightly News had only been 20 minutes long and this remained the case for the ITV News at Ten.

After spending the 1970s with NBC as an NBC Nightly News and Today Show correspondent, he moved to ABC World News Tonight and 20 / 20 at ABC in the 1980s.

She later moved to NBC, where she anchored the weekend edition of the Today Show and the Sunday NBC Nightly News, as well as various special reporting assignments in the U. S. and elsewhere.

On June 12, 2006, ESPN announced that Outside the Lines Nightly ( now Outside the Lines First Report ) would be moved to 3: 30 pm ET as part of the afternoon lineup on ESPN.

A blog, The Daily Nightly, has been started to add insight into how the broadcast is put together.

Nightly News is the only network evening newscast that airs at the same time on most affiliates, 6: 30 / 5: 30 p. m. ET / CT, seven nights a week thus allowing Nightly News to lead into NBC's Sunday primetime lineup at 7 / 6 p. m. ET / CT ( in comparison, some ABC and CBS stations air the Sunday editions of their network's evening newscasts at 6 / 5 p. m. ET / CT ).

On November 29, 2011, a fire alarm went off in the studio a few seconds into the Nightly News Eastern Time Zone Broadcast.

Good Morning America continued to threaten Today into the 1980s, especially after Brokaw left Today to become NBC Nightly News co-anchor with Roger Mudd for seventeen months before being named Nightly Newss sole anchor.

This content includes behind the scenes blogs such as " The Daily Nightly ", a narrative of the broadcast day and a window into the editorial process at NBC Nightly News ; " World Blog ," where correspondents and producers based overseas share their insight on news events ; " First Read ," analysis of the day's political news from the NBC News Political Unit ; “ allDAY ”, allowing viewers to see behind the scenes of Today ; and Zeitgeist, a satirical video blog hosted by MSNBC's Willie Geist.

On November 11, 2010, KQED and NBR Worldwide, LLC, the owners of PBS ' Nightly Business Report, reached into an agreement to open a bureau in the Silicon Valley in order to enhance coverage of NBR.

) His performance on the Monkees song " Daily Nightly " ( written by Michael Nesmith ) from the LP Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was the first use of a synthesizer on a rock recording.

* On December 12, 2011 Koppel made his first appearance on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as a reporter.

On February 2, 1980, NBC Nightly News became the first media outlet to break the story that FBI personnel were targeting members of Congress in a sting operation.

Because NBC Nightly News usually required three commercial breaks, only the first commercial is aired with promos from TVB.

When his animated editorial cartoons, Peters Postscripts, began on NBC Nightly News in 1981, it was the first time animated editorial cartoons appeared regularly on a prime-time network news program.

The program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set the NBC Nightly News was using at the time.

His triumph was featured on Today with Katie Couric and the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. In 1996, he carried the Olympic Torch through Phoenix and was selected for the first annual Distinguished Arizonan Award by the Governors Council.

In other areas of NBC, Silverman revitalized the news division, which resulted in Today and NBC Nightly News achieving parity with their competition for the first time in years.

One of the first comedy segments within the show was the " Nightly / Daily Sports Report ", a Daily Show-type satirical look at the latest sports news reported at an anchor desk, which soon became a daily staple in the show for its first year.

Swayze is the first person shown in the montage of former anchorpersons that currently begins the NBC Nightly News.

When these smaller jets were first mooted, there was much interest in the fact that they would not have a lavatory on board, with articles discussing the matter in the New York Times and items on NBC Nightly News.