NBC Nightside

*NBC Nightside*
NBC Nightside
Presented by	Campbell Brown; Tom Donovan; Bruce Hall; Sara James; Kim Hindrew; Antonio Mora; Tom Miller; Tonya Strong
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	7
Production
Production locations	NBC News Channel, Charlotte, North Carolina
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	1 hour 90 minutes (live, followed by rebroadcast)
Production company	NBC News Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	November 4, 1991 –; September 20, 1998
Related
	NBC News Overnight (1982–1983)

NBC Nightside (also known as NBC News Nightside) is an American overnight rolling newscast on NBC, that aired from 1991 to 1998. The program was produced in three half-hour segments. It usually aired live seven nights a week, and was fed to NBC stations beginning at 2:00 a.m. ET Sunday through Friday (immediately following Later) and 2:30 a.m. ET on Saturdays (after Friday Night Videos), and looped until the next morning, with NBC News at Sunrise following it out on weekdays.

History

The program premiered on November 4, 1991, and was NBC's second attempt at a late night news program after NBC News Overnight, which ran for seventeen months from 1982 to 1983.^[1]

Nightside differed from its two competitors – CBS' Up to the Minute and ABC's World News Now, which are both based in New York City – in that rather than being broadcast from the headquarters of NBC News itself in New York, it was instead based out of the Charlotte, North Carolina facilities of NBC News Channel,^[1] the network's newsfeed service providing customized reports and video of national news to NBC's owned-and-operated stations and network affiliates, and which was based in studios connected to those of Charlotte's NBC affiliate WCNC-TV. Nightside also aired Saturday and Sunday mornings, whereas ABC and CBS's shows did not.

Some of Nightside's many anchors went on to national success, including Antonio Mora and Campbell Brown. Former NBC News president Steve Capus once served as a senior producer for the program.

Despite financial profitability of the show and decent ratings, it was canceled by the network in 1998 and aired its last telecast on September 20 of that year, with NBC filling the overnight timeslot beginning two days later with NBC All Night, a block consisting of repeats of the network's late night and daytime talk shows.

Currently, the timeslot is the home to

LX programming after Saturday Night Live and a Meet the Press replay late Sunday night/Monday morning. Conversely, Early Today, which formerly started two hours before Today

during Nightside, now first records at 3:30 a.m. Eastern, as local morning newscasts have encroached early morning to start at 4 a.m. local time.

Anchors

The program's anchors included:

Campbell Brown
Tom Donovan^[2]
Bruce Hall
Sara James^[3]
Kim Hindrew^[2]
Hilary Lane
Antonio Mora^[4]
Tom Miller^[2]
Tonya Strong

References

^ ^a ^b McDougal, Dennis (November 4, 1991). "NBC, ABC: It's Never Too Late for News". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "We Have Good News and Bad News". Entertainment Weekly. June 18, 1993. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
^ Du Brow, Rick (November 17, 1992). "Today a Rare Bright Spot at NBC". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
^ Benson, Jim (May 26, 1993). "KTTV, KTLA to join the battle for early risers". Variety. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[McDougal-1] McDougal, Dennis (November 4, 1991). "NBC, ABC: It's Never Too Late for News". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[EW-2] "We Have Good News and Bad News". Entertainment Weekly. June 18, 1993. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[3] Du Brow, Rick (November 17, 1992). "Today a Rare Bright Spot at NBC". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[4] Benson, Jim (May 26, 1993). "KTTV, KTLA to join the battle for early risers". Variety. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

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