#Dateline narrator voice series#

Past contributing anchors were Bryant Gumbel, who left NBC in 1997, Maria Shriver, who left NBC in 2004, and Katie Couric, who left NBC in 2006. When Today moved to its current facility, NBC Studio 1A, in 1994, Dateline took over Studio 3B and received its own brand-new dedicated set. The program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set that was used at the time for NBC Nightly News.

#Dateline narrator voice series#

NBC capitalized on its relationship with CNBC and MSNBC by airing repackaged stories seen on past Dateline broadcasts on the retrospective series Headliners and Legends and Time and Again. By 1999, any one individual Dateline edition placed in Nielsen's top 10 most-watched television programs among total viewers during most weeks. The program featured sensationalized news stories and drew in viewers with stories aired in multiple installments. In its prime, from 1995 to 1999, Dateline provided significant breaking news coverage. It was considered to be a singular program rather than multiple weekly programs, and included many teasers and multiple installment interviews (NBC later tried a similar strategy of 'stripping' with The Jay Leno Show in 2009). ĭateline was the first 'multi-night' franchise that 'established brand power by ' stripping' editions,' a strategy by NBC's entertainment division to place the program in the same time slot every week. Editions first began to be removed in the spring of 2001, with the main Tuesday slot being eliminated in 2004. The number of nights that the program aired began to be reduced due to viewer exhaustion and the rise of equally economic and popular reality television programming. Gradually, the program expanded with the addition of a third night (on Friday) in 1994 and a fourth night (on Monday) in 1997, peaking at five nights a week with Sundays in mid-19. Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric joined the program when the previously separate newsmagazine Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric was converted into Dateline Wednesday.

The program debuted on March 31, 1992, initially airing only on Tuesdays, with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley serving as its co-anchors.

In February 2021, the program aired its first ever docuseries, 'The Widower', a five-hour true crime saga about a man who married six women, four of whom died.ĭateline is historically notable for its longevity on the network. Two-hour feature-length editions sometimes air on any given scheduled evening, often to fill vacancies in the primetime schedule on the program's respective nights due to program cancellations. Special Weekend encore editions also air at 9:00 p.m. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics.

American TV series or program Dateline NBCĭateline NBC is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC.