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He consulted military doctors and described his symptoms over the phone to overseas physicians. They suspected DVT, or deep veinous thrombosis, and advised him to seek proper medical attention. He ignored their advice, swallowed some aspirins, and kept on working.

Caravan era[ edit ] The first, regularly scheduled, American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21,anchored by Lowell Thomasand airing weeknights at 6: It was simply Lowell Thomas in front of a television camera while doing his NBC network radio broadcast, the television simulcast seen only in New York.

Due to wartime and technical restrictions, there were no live telecasts of the conventions, although films of the events were reportedly shown over WNBT the next day. Truman 's surprising victory over New York governor Thomas E. Lacking the graphics and technology of later years, it nonetheless contained many of the elements of modern newscasts.

Murrow 's weekly series, See It Now [8]. InDavid Brinkley began serving as the program's Washington correspondent, but attracted little attention outside the network until paired with Chet Huntley in Television assumed an increasingly prominent role in American family life in the late s, and NBC News was called television's "champion of news coverage.

During much of its year run, it exceeded the viewership levels of its CBS News competition, anchored initially by Douglas Edwards and, beginning in Aprilby Walter Cronkite. NBC's vice president of news and public affairs, J.

Davidson Taylor, was a Southerner who, with producer Reuven Frank, was determined that NBC would lead television's coverage of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. In an era when space missions rated continuous coverage, NBC configured its largest studio, Studio 8Hfor space coverage.

It utilized models and mockups of rockets and spacecraft, maps of the earth and moon to show orbital trackage, and stages on which animated figures created by puppeteer Bil Baird were used to depict movements of astronauts before on-board spacecraft television cameras were feasible.

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NBC's coverage of the first moon landing in earned the network an Emmy Award. Kennedy had been shot in DallasTexas. Eight minutes later, at 1: However, NBC did not begin broadcasting over the air until 1: About 40 minutes later, after word came that JFK was pronounced dead, NBC suspended regular programming and carried 71 hours of uninterrupted news coverage of the assassination and the funeral of the president—including the only live broadcast of the fatal shooting of Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswaldby Jack Ruby as Oswald was being led in handcuffs by law-enforcement officials through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.

Despite the efforts of the network's eventual lead anchor, the articulate, even-toned Chancellor, and an occasional first-place finish in the NielsensNightly News in the s was primarily a strong second.

Tom Brokaw became sole anchor inafter co-anchoring with Roger Mudd for a year, and began leading NBC's efforts.

In andNBC won the top spot in the Nielsens for the first time in years, [17] only to fall back when Nielsen's ratings methodology changed. In lateNightly News again moved into first place, [18] a spot it has held onto in most of the succeeding years.

Brian Williams assumed primary anchor duties when Brokaw retired in December On June 18,it was announced that Holt would become the permanent anchor and Williams would be moved to MSNBC as an anchor of breaking news and special reports beginning in August.

GM discovered the "actual footage" utilized in the broadcast had been rigged by the inclusion of explosive incendiaries attached to the gas tanks and the use of improper sealants for those tanks. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC, which publicly admitted the results of the tests were rigged and settled the lawsuit with GM on the very same day.

This was the largest layoff in NBC News history. David Gregory's last broadcast was August 10, The editing made it appear that Zimmerman volunteered that Martin was black, rather than merely responding to the dispatcher's inquiry, which would support a view that the shooting was racially motivated.

A media watchdog organization accused NBC News of engaging in "an all-out falsehood. Having escaped after five days in captivity, Engel said he believed that a Shabiha group loyal to al-Assad was behind the abduction, and that the crew was freed by the Ahrar al-Sham group five days later.NBC News sat on exculpatory evidence exonerating Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the ludicrous allegations that he had participated in gang rapes when he was in high school.

View images and read the biographies of all CNN News anchors and reporters. Mar 22,  · NBC reporter takes heat for calling deadly London terror attack 'small-bore'. That’s what happened to an unsuspecting reporter who worked for an NBC affiliate in Minnesota last Friday. Jim Bunner, a multimedia journalist with KTTC, is a staunch Trump supporter who even did a celebration video when Trump won the presidency.

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