Williams to Take Over NBC 'Nightly News'
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Tom Brokaw's successor is a NASCAR dad who considers pizza night with the kids sacred &#151; thin crust, please &#151; and listened to hundreds of hours of White House tapes from the Johnson administration for fun. Brian Williams, whose tenure began Thursday, is no stranger to regular viewers of NBC's "Nightly News," but his success depends on whether viewers grow to know and like him as much as his predecessor.
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He signed off Wednesday on NBC Nightly News for the first time in more than 20 years without his traditional &quot;See you back here tomorrow night.
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NEW YORK  - "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams says his recent five-day stint in Iraq "left my head spinning because the story lines are all over the place."
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CNN said Monday that it has hired anchor Campbell Brown of NBC News, one day after she announced on "Weekend Today" that she would be leaving as host.
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CBS News is expected to change management at its morning show, bringing a hard-charging former "Good Morning America" executive producer to help a program that's spent generations stuck in third place.
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Comedian Conan O&#39;Brien has been picked to succeed Jay Leno as host of NBC&#39;s ``Tonight Show&#39;&#39; when Leno&#39;s contract expires in 2009, the television network owned by General Electric Co.
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Brian Williams is the new anchor for NBC Nightly News, taking over for long time anchor Tom Brokaw, who signed off during Wednesday&#39;s broadcast.
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CNN News Group on Monday said it has  tapped an online media CEO as its new president overseeing U.S.  news, just a little over a year after it hired a former local  TV newsman to run its domestic operations.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - The executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams is being replaced three weeks after ABC overtook the show in the ratings.
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After nearly 23 years at the anchor desk, Tom Brokaw will sign off for good at the end of NBC Nightly News Wednesday night. Hours before then, however, he got choked up during an appearance on The Today Show Wednesday morning.
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Entertainment giant NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co. , will announce this week a new, younger chief executive to help it better compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Sunday.
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By Journal staff and wire reports  If approved, the purchase will give Boston's NBC-affiliate Channel 7 ownership of two Boston news broadcasts. Both are expected to be consolidated at Channel 7.   * * *    The Boston television station that broadcasts a 10 p.m.
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The executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News" with Brian Williams is being replaced three weeks after ABC overtook the show in the ratings.
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Facing a ratings challenge from ABC, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" turned to a new executive producer who will be the first woman in a decade to lead a weeknight newscast.
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NBC Universal television chief Jeff Zucker -- longtime heir apparent to chief executive Bob Wright -- will be promoted to the network's top job early in the coming week, taking over an operation making massive cuts on the television side to beef up its Internet presence.
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NBC News is dropping Dateline NBC anchor Stone Phillips in a cost-cutting move when his contract expires at the end of June
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NEW YORK - NBC chose the 50th anniversary of the "Tonight" show on Monday to announce that Jay Leno will be succeeded by "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien in five years - or thousands of jokes from now.    The unusual succession plan solves a delicate problem for NBC, blocking other networks from poaching O'Brien to move him to an earlier time slot...