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Brian Williams & Dan Patrick Considered For Alex Trebek Replacement On ‘Jeopardy’, Matt Lauer & Anderson Cooper Also In Mix

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 1:23pm PDTTags: Anderson Cooper, Brian Williams, Dan Patrick, Jeopardy!, Matt Lauer
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Sony Pictures TV is casting a wide net in its search for a successor to Alex Trebek as host of one of the studio’s top properties, veteran game show Jeopardy!. I have learned that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and NBC Sports personality Dan Patrick are among those approached by the studio, along with embattled Today show co-host Matt Lauer and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. I hear all four have had exploratory conversations with Sony TV, though the studio is not actively pursuing anyone at the moment.

Sony TV’s succession plan for Jeopardy! became a hot topic today after the NY Post reported on Lauer and Cooper being in the mix for the job. With the exception of Patrick, who has presented at the Super Bowl and during the Summer Olympics, Jeopardy! would mark a step up in the ratings department for any of the candidates. Yesterday, Jeopardy! was the No. 1 program on any network among households in the nation’s top market, New York, where Williams, Lauer and Cooper are based. Jeopardy! averaged a 10.0 household rating, edging CBS’ primetime blockbuster The Big Bang Theory (9.1). Lauer’s Today drew less that a third of that, a 2.9 rating. Of course, hosting a syndicated game show, which often films a whole season worth of episodes in a stretch of a couple of months, could be a second job for a top anchor as proven by Meredith Vieira, who juggled hosting Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with her duties on The View and then Today. READ MORE »

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David Letterman & Brian Williams Rip Karl Rove: Video

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 4:15pm PSTTags: Brian Williams, Election Night 2012, Late Show with David Letterman

NBC News anchor Brian Williams went on CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman tonight to talk about last night’s election coverage — the polls, the results and Karl Rove’s reaction to Fox News Channel calling the race for Barack Obama. Here’s a preview:

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VIDEO: Brian Williams Vs. NBC Fire Drill

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 2:30pm PSTTags: Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News

You have to give Brian Williams credit for his the-show-must-go-on effort when his opening on last night’s NBC Nightly News was interrupted by a fire alarm inside the newscast’s new studio. Luckily for East Coast viewers, the story on the American Airlines bankruptcy called for a toss to reporter Tom … Read More »

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TV Promo: ‘Rock Center With Brian Williams’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 11:16am PDTTags: Brian Williams, NBC, NBC News, Rock Center With Brian Williams

NBC’s primetime newsmagazine Rock Center With Brian Williams, which is set to premiere on Halloween, is getting the word out via some short promos. This one introduces the show’s contributors — and one who didn’t quite make the cut. Williams has always been good at letting his sense of humor … Read More »

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Ted Koppel Joins NBC’s ‘Rock Center’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 10:59am PDTTags: Brian Williams, NBC, NBC News, Rock Center With Brian Williams, Steve Capus

October 13, 2011 – New York, NY – NBC News today announced that Ted Koppel, the legendary and highly respected broadcast journalist, has joined “Rock Center with Brian Williams” as a special correspondent. Koppel will bring his award-winning reporting to the new broadcast, led by Brian Williams, and premiering on Monday, October 31 at 10pm. The announcement was made today by Steve Capus, President of NBC News.

“We’re truly honored to have Ted join ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’ as a special correspondent,” said Capus. “A pioneer of broadcast journalism, Ted has touched every major news event spanning nearly 5 decades, and not only does he bring a tremendous amount of experience to the broadcast, he is a tireless advocate for quality journalism, and is one of our profession’s premier storytellers.”

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Meredith Vieira Joins Brian Williams’ NBC Primetime Newsmagazine

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 3:03pm PDTTags: 2012 London Olympics, Brian Williams, Meredith Vieira, NBC Nightly News, Rock Center With Brian Williams, Today

Meredith Vieira, who announced in May that she was retiring from her job as Today co-host and signed off in June, isn’t settled into her rocking chair just yet. NBC News said today that Vieira has been named … Read More »

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What Will Harry Smith Do At NBC’s Mysterious Primetime Newscast?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday July 11, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Brian Williams, Brian Williams newsmagazine, CBS News, CBS The Early Show Shakeup, Chris Wragge, David Rhodes CBS News, Erica Hill, Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, NBC News, The Early Show

NBC didn’t spill any secrets about the unnamed hourlong prime time news program that Brian Williams is developing when it announced today that former CBS News anchor Harry Smith will join the team as “one of the correspondents.” The … Read More »

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NBC Eyeing Brian Williams In Primetime?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: Brian Williams, NBC, NBC News, Upfront

NBC is developing a prime-time newsmagazine series with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams as host, according to a published report, and it could be announced as early as Monday during the network’s upfront presentation in New York. The Wall … Read More »

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Jeff Zucker Roasted By Former And Soon-To-Be-Former NBC Colleagues

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 1, 2010 @ 3:44pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Brian Williams, Jeff Zucker, Katie Couric, Lorne Michaels, Mark Feuerstein, NBCU Jeff Zucker, Steve Burke NBC Universal, TV
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Katie Couric, Alec Baldwin, Brian Williams, Mark Feuerstein and Lorne Michaels took turns roasting outgoing CEO of NBC Universal Jeff Zucker at the Center for Communication’s annual Frank Stanton award luncheon at the Pierre Hotel in New York today. According to news reports, … Read More »

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