NBC News
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| Division of: | NBC |
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| Key people: |
Steve Burke (President & CEO of NBCUniversal) Deborah Turness (President of NBC News) Andrew Lack (Chairman of NBCUniversal News Group) |
| Founded: | February 21, 1940 |
| Headquarters: | Studio 3A/B, NBC News News Room Comcast Building 30 Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Major Bureaus: | International Headquarters, Studio 3A/B, NBC News News Room 30 Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York, New York West Coast Headquarters, Universal City, California Governmental Affairs Headquarters Washington, D.C. European Headquarters London, UK Asia Pacific Headquarters Singapore, Hong Kong |
| Area served: | Worldwide |
| Broadcast programs: |
Dateline NBC Early Today Meet the Press NBC Nightly News Today Weekend Today MSNBC |
| Owner: | Comcast |
| Parent: | NBCUniversal |
| Website: | www |
NBC News is a division of the American broadcast network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal News Group, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, in turn a subsidiary of Comcast. The group's various operations report to the president of NBC News, Deborah Turness.
NBC News aired the first news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC's headquarters in New York City.
The division presides over America's number-one-rated newscast,NBC Nightly News, and the longest-running television series in American history, Meet The Press. NBC News also offers 70 years of rare historic footage from the NBCUniversal Archives online.
NBC News operates a 24-hour cable news network known as MSNBC, which includes the organization's flagship daytime news operation, MSNBC Live. The cable network shares staff and editorial control with NBC News.
The first American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940, anchored by Lowell Thomas and airing weeknights at 6:45 p.m. In June 1940, NBC, through its flagship station in New York City, W2XBS (renamed commercial WNBT in 1941, now WNBC) operating on channel one, televised 30¼ hours of coverage of the Republican National Convention live and direct from Philadelphia. The station used a series of relays from Philadelphia to New York and on to upper New York State, for rebroadcast on W2XB in Schenectady (now WRGB), making this among the first "network" programs of NBC Television. Due to wartime restrictions, there were no live telecasts of the 1944 conventions, although films of the events were reportedly shown over WNBT the next day.
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