> On Oct 5, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Stan S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I can’t remember seeing this in the past but it has to have happened
> previously.
>
> A few minutes into the first story during NBC Nightly News tonight, Lester
> Holt said, “we have some new information on this story and we’ll pause to let
> stations join us.” Then they played the NBC News Special Report billboard.
>
> Obviously this was for NBC stations that don’t play Nightly News at 6:30pm
> ET. I suppose there’s not a second feed where they wouldn’t have to play
> “Special Report” for stations already in a news report.
>
> Thoughts?
Yes, it's definitely happened before (in similar fashion across all the
networks), probably going back as far as the early days of network radio.
There's also the case on the other end where the anchor explains that some
stations are leaving the special report, but they'll be continuing for others
(because it's time for the late local news in one time zone, for example).
Affiliates monitor NBC's main Eastern feed for special reports, so that's where
they're going to run the special report graphics (and that's where affiliates
are going to switch for the special report broadcast). I'm not sure how they'd
coordinate things in a way where "NBC Nightly News" viewers wouldn't have to
see the special report intro... and they'd be seeing Lester Holt sit silent for
a few seconds and then having to re-introduce himself anyway.
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