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  • Kelly Clarkson (Associated Press)

    Tuning In to TV

    Promoting the newsmagazine "Rock Center" in advance of its Halloween-night debut has been something of a challenge for anchor Brian Williams and his NBC News colleagues.


  • Lester Holt new host of 'Dateline NBC'

    Lester Holt will replace Ann Curry as host of the newsmagazine "Dateline NBC" when it begins its 20th season on Sept. 23.


  • NBC hires ex-NPR chief Schiller as digital officer

    NBC News is hiring former National Public Radio chief Vivian Schiller, who left this year in the midst of a political controversy, to run its digital operation.


  • Longtime TV producer Jeff Gralnick dies at 72

    Jeff Gralnick, a longtime television producer who helped shape CBS' "60 Minutes" and make "NBC Nightly News" the top-rated show, has died. He was 72.


  • This Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 picture shows, from left, the 'Today Show' team Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Meredith Vieira and Al Roker at the Friars Club Roast of 'Today Show' host Matt Lauer in New York. NBC's "Today" show has been one of the most stable and successful programs in the history of television over the past 15 years. Now it faces the possibility of a major makeover. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

    NBC's `Today' show faces transitions

    NBC's "Today" show has been one of the most stable and successful programs in the history of television over the past 15 years. Now it faces the possibility of a major makeover.


  • **FILE** Keith Olbermann (Associated Press)

    Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC, ends 'Countdown'

    Keith Olbermann was MSNBC's most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time. Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job. Friday night, it snapped.


  • FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, Keith Olbermann attends the "Defying Inequality" Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York. MSNBC says Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

    MSNBC's Olbermann back on air after suspension

    Keith Olbermann returned to MSNBC on Tuesday after a two-day suspension for violating a network rule on political donations that he said was "probably not legal," seeming to relish the attention.


  • The last in a convoy of U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles leave Iraq at the Khabari border crossing into Kuwait, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces.  (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

    Coverage of Iraq exit shows networks' differences

    Nowhere was the difference between the cable news networks on starker display than in prime-time coverage on the night the last American combat brigade left Iraq following a war that started seven years and five months ago.


  • FILE - In this May 26, 2010 publicity image released by CNN, CNN's Anderson Cooper, right, inspects the oil spill during a tour with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, background left, of the contaminated areas in Blind Bay, La. (AP Photo/CNN, Shaul Schwarz)

    Oil spill coverage shifting into new phase

    The cap that has stopped oil from gushing uncontrollably into the Gulf of Mexico inevitably means that news cameras will begin drifting away from the disaster scene _ a relief to some, a fear to others.


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